The Municipality of Loulé and the IHC were awarded the 2nd Honourable Mention of the Municipal Award “Aristides de Sousa Mendes and other Portuguese Saviours – Holocaust, Universal Values, Humanism and Justice”, in the category Shaping the Future on Living Memories and Experiences, with the project “Portuguese Forced Labourers in the Third Reich and Louletanos in the Nazi Concentration System”.
The Award, whose attribution ceremony took place yesterday at the Palácio Galveias Library, “recognizes the local authorities that, on their own initiative or in conjunction with civil society, promoted initiatives of high merit and public interest”. In this first edition, 42 applications were presented in the five categories, whose winners were:
- Social and Community Cohesion: Municipal Council of Immigrants — Integration and Interculturality, Municipality of Braga;
- Arts, Heritage and Other Cultural Domains: House of Jewish History in Elvas — Recreation of the Medieval Synagogue, Municipality of Elvas;
- Making it Happen: In the suitcases we leave our heart…, Municipality of Vila Nova de Poiares and the Schools of Vila Nova de Poiares;
- Differentiation, Innovation, Creativity: Cerveira-Tomiño — A Naturally Common and Truly European Space, Municipality of Vila Nova de Cerveira;
- Shaping the Future on Living Memories and Experiences: Vilar Formoso Fronteira de Paz — Memorial to Refugees and Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Municipality of Almeida.
Picture: Delivery of Honourable Mention diplomas by Augusto Santos Silva (Minister of State and Foreign Affairs) to Vítor Aleixo (President of Loulé’s City Council) and António Carvalho (Director of the National Archaeology Museum, Associates Researcher at IHC and member of the project).
Other news
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Eight new research contracts were awarded to the IHC. -
José Miguel Ferreira's thesis received an Honourable Mention from the Victor Sá Award for Contemporary History -
Leonor Areal's film-essay was awarded an honourable mention in the Caminhos do Cinema Português festival. -
The exhibition dedicated to the history and legacies of Amílcar Cabral inaugurated in Bissau. -
The IHC will be taking part with free activities in Évora, Lisbon, and Figueira da Foz. -
The book Entre o Império e a NATO, by Daniel Marcos, received the 2022 National Defence Prize -
Leonor Areal claims to have found images of Fernando Pessoa in a film from 1913. -
Rita Luís has been invited to join EMHIS, a research network for European media historians. -
The project will bring together articles from historians and social scientists from different universities. -
Best Film Dealing with Cultural and Traditional Practices as well as Intangible Cultural Heritage -
In September the Creole Connections/Conexiones Creoles platform was launched -
On 13 October the IHC paid tribute to the first Emeritus Researchers -
Fogo no Lodo, directed by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca, will premiere at Doclisboa -
Sakiru Adebayo, winner of the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022, will be in Lisbon next week. -
The journals Aniki and HoST have been accepted by the Scopus platform. -
British historian Sue Onslow is the third IHC Visiting Scholar -
The exhibition on the life story of Stefan Rozenfeld will open on 21 September -
The IHC's Scientific Committee decided unanimously to send a letter to the publisher Routledge -
The IHC will participare in the first NOVA FCSH Research and Innovation Day -
The new Governing Bodies and Coordinators of the IHC's Research Groups were elected in General Assembly.
