
Práticas da História No. 9
Jan 18, 2020 | 2019, Editions, Práticas da História

Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past
- 2019
- Number 9
- ISSN: 2183-590X
- Theme: António Hespanha. Making and unmaking history
Editorial:
The void left by António Hespanha’s recent passing (1945-2019) has been filled with obituaries in international academic journals, alongside a range of articles in the Portuguese press at the time of his death. The collective that has directed the journal Practices of History would like to start by saying that his death leaves us saddened and poorer. Ever since this journal first started, António Hespanha has helped us more than generously. He was part of the journal’s scientific board and wrote article reviews. He was a regular speaker or member of the audience at events we organised. He brought to the pages of this journal a new version of one of his most relevant theoretical essays (his seminal text on categories) and, at our request, wrote a testimony about his experience at the head of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries. The highlight of our first issue’s launch event, which took place at the National Library in Lisbon, was a live inter-view with António Hespanha, in a room full of colleagues and students who were there to benefit from the experience of someone who turned his erudition into a way of arousing the curiosity of others, rather than a burden to weigh on the ignorance of others. The audio recording of this interview, conducted by the historian Luís Trindade in 2015, is now available on the journal’s website.
The idea of organising a dossier around the work of António Hespanha does not stem solely from the esteem in which he is held. Even if Theory of History and Historiography were not among his key areas of interest, Hespanha wrote a handful of seminal essays on issues that challenge the practice of the discipline and the historian’s craft in general. Moreover, many of his works, while dealing with specific subjects (from legal history to the history of the state, passing through the his-tory of the empire), are suffused with a self-reflexivity that testifies to a strong theoretical vocation, as if making History and undoing History were part of one and the same intellectual task, to gloss over the motto that presided over Penélope, an academic journal founded in 1988 and of which António Hespanha was the director. As to how this materialized and unfolded in Hespanha’s own trajectory, this is a question for a future research program in the field of the history of the discipline. In this editorial, it is certainly not possible to define the contours of such a programme, which may come to consider issues as diverse as Hespanha’s encounter with Foucauldian framework, his enthusiasm for the possibilities that information technology opened up for empirical research, the tension between his criticism of history as a discourse to appease the present and the assumption of leading positions in the Portuguese state’s official memory policy of in the 1990s; or even, in the last decade, the implications of the rise of so-called neoliberalism in his approach to the question of the state.
For our part, we merely want to suggest that the scientific concerns that led Hespanha to gauge the possibilities and limits of the knowledge produced by historians were often combined with a civic concern that led him to reflect on the political advantages and disadvantages of the discipline of history for our life in common. Among such combinations, one may serve as an exemplary instance: his intervention in one of the debates surrounding the publication of arguably his most important book: As Vésperas do Leviathan. Instituições e Poder Político. Portugal, séc. XVIII. In one of those discussions, he wrote:
«one of the main objectives of my work as an historian of power is to counter the form of chronocentrism which consists of projecting onto the past our categories for the understanding of power, by taking as natural and timeless the current categories through which we understand power relations. Such an epistemological operation has several consequences, undesirable ones, as far as I’m concerned. One of them is of an historiographic nature, resulting in a disregard for the idea of «rupture», historical distance, to which the current theory of history pays so much attention. Another consequence is of a political-ideological nature, since the elevation of the concept of «state» to a timeless category – and, in parallel, of the state political organization to a final, eschatological achievement, prepared by the appearance of still imperfect «state» forms (such as the «medieval state» or the «modern state») – leads to a «naturalization» of current political forms and their legitimization as the omega of the evolution of power systems».
Around the same years, moreover, in the essay «The emergence of history», published in the aforementioned Penélope, the historiographic and political-ideological unfolding of the epistemological operation carried out in As Vésperas de Leviathan would gain a generic formulation, with Hespanha defining the historian’s discourse «as a political act», but qualifying such a statement with the notion that such politicalness had nothing to do «with the «militant» history or the «citizen» history of twenty or thirty years ago». To quote him once again:
«Twenty or thirty years ago, the office of the historian had a militant sense because history, conceived as a science, wanted to be able to capture the «social laws» that regulated the historical process and ensured a freer and more humane future. To make history was to document, with the plasticity and accessibility that the historical account guarantees, that which, without it, could only be apprehended in tedious manuals of social theory. Thus, a kind of «popular front» was formed in which history (like [neo-realist] literature), under the direction of social theory, guaranteed the formation of a «social block» that included even those [disciplines] who, in terms of «pure and simple» theory, did not have the inclination to take part. So historiography was political because of its content. But, in its form, in its epistemological reference (the Truth), it was above politics as much as mathematics.»
The dossier «António Hespanha – fazer e desfazer a história» gathers six contributions by historians, social scientists and legal scholars. Some of the texts offer testimony about the meeting of their respective authors with both the work of António Hespanha and his academic persona, while also revealing the way in which the latter’s viewpoints occupied historiographic fields other than the Portuguese one. The texts by the historians Tamar Herzog and Mónica Duarte Dantas are an example of this, in the first case outlining a panoramic view of the main contributions of Hespanha’s work to a new legal history; in the second, allowing us a glimpse into the repercussion of Hespanha’s work among Brazilian historians. The testimony of the Spanish historian Bartolomé Clavero, in turn, summons, from the outset, the complicity between readings and experience that sustained the intellectual parallels that are often established between the historiographic path of both Clavero and Hespanha, informing us along the way about the impact of the latter’s work in Spanish historiography, where, in fact, his doctoral thesis was first published as a book.
The dossier brings together three other contributions. The philosopher Giovanni Damele takes into account the importance that the study of argumentation and legal rhetoric took on in the historiographic practice of Hespanha, while emphasising the civic principles that guided this orientation, which, one may add, also had significant re-percussions in teaching initiatives developed by Hespanha within the Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon. The contributions of historian Tomás Vallera and sociologist Tiago Ribeiro follow the readings of Hespanha that both authors developed within the framework of their respective doctoral researches. In both cases, Hespanha’s work was pushed to terrains or chronologies that he visited less regularly of his own accord. Vallera, who defended his doctoral thesis in 2019, tells us of his attempt to draw up a history of the «police» as a genealogy of the modern school. Ribeiro, for his part, investigates the ways in which the conceptualization of sexuality operates in the reciprocal influence of the law and of “psy” disciplines and knowledges as sources of justice and truth.
The present issue of Practices of History begins, however, with our usual section of articles, on the margins of the dossier around Hespanha. In the first article, «Deus Vult? Crusade apologists, historians and ‘abortive rituals’ in the 1999 reconciliation walk to Jerusalem», published against the background of the celebration of the 900th anniversary of the First Crusade (1095-1099) and its repercussions, the historian Mike Horswell claims the need for historians to consider what these collective memorialistic practices tell us about the present meanings of a given past, rather than simply checking and validating what in today’s celebrations will or will not conform to yesterday’s reality. The second article, ‘Liberty dreamt in Stone: The (Neo)Medieval City of San Marino’, by the historian Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, brings us, in a comparative key, a first overview of the medieval practices developed in San Marino from the mid-19th century until the end of the fascism years. Finally, we publish an article by historian Ricardo Noronha, «Neoliberalism and the historians», at the cross-roads between the History of Political Ideas, the History of Economic Thought and the Theory of History, which pays close attention to the historiographic reflections developed in the early days of neoliberalism by authors such as Friedrich Hayek, Karl Popper, T.S. Ashton, Walter Eucken, Ludwig von Mises and Milton Friedman.
To close this issue, we include an interview with historian Edward Alpers in which he discusses his personal trajectory and his work in African contexts of national liberation and post-independence, as well as his efforts in the consolidation of the field of studies on the Indian Ocean World. The interview was conducted by historian Felipe Barradas Correia Castro Bastos. Finally, as usual, the journal also contains a review section.
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Seminar cycle, integrated in the Advanced Studies Platform of the IHC, where ongoing research work is discussed in a critical and constructive way. Seminário de Teses de Doutoramento do
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Seminar cycle, integrated in the Advanced Studies Platform of the IHC, where ongoing research work is discussed in a critical and constructive way.
Seminário de Teses de Doutoramento do IHC
Ciclo 2022/2023
Coordenação: Joana Beato Ribeiro, Joana Matias, Pamela Peres Cabreira, Rebeca Ávila, Rita Lucas Narra, Bruno Zorek, Pedro Martins e Rita Luís.
O seminário reúne numa das quarta-feiras de cada mês, entre as 10h e as 12h.
Em cada sessão serão discutidas duas investigações de doutoramento em curso, com apresentações de 10 minutos, seguidas pelos comentários de dois/duas discussants por apresentação (um doutorando/a e um investigador/a doutorado do IHC) e uma discussão colectiva construtiva. Os participantes fornecerão previamente um texto, que poderá ser: (i) uma proposta de investigação submetida à FCT ou ao IHC para obtenção de bolsa, (ii) o trabalho final de curso apresentado no final da parte lectiva do doutoramento, (iii) um capítulo da futura tese de doutoramento, (iv) a introdução ou conclusão da mesma.
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Quem desejar receber os textos e os links para cada sessão deverá solicitá-los ao Pedro Martins através do email pedromartins@fcsh.unl.pt.
PROGRAMA 2022/2023
Sessão #1 | 26 de Outubro de 2022
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Comentário de Sofia Lisboa e Raquel Ribeiro
Ricardo Mignorance – “Arquivos de Governação Colonial e Pós-Colonial: percursos e histórico de custódia entre Portugal e Brasil durante os séculos XIX e XX“
Comentário de Bruna Santiago e Bruno Zorek
Sessão #2 | 14 de Dezembro de 2022
Catarina Teixeira – “O ‘Museu de Anatomia’ da Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa (1825-1970): a biografia de um acervo invisível“
Comentário de Joana Beato Ribeiro e Ângela Salgueiro
Sessão #3 | 18 de Janeiro de 2023
Daniel Freire Santos – “Vou à bola! Culturas Adeptas, Economia Política e Estado na História do Futebol em Portugal (1910-2020)“
Comentário de Gil Gonçalves e Rahul Kumar
Maria Manuela Gomes – “A Fotografia de Amador e de Salão em Portugal, através da Secção de Fotografia do Grupo Desportivo da C.U.F. (1951-1963)“
Comentário de Paulo Catrica
Sessão #4 | 15 de Fevereiro de 2023
Joaquim Melon Simões – “O Conselho de Saúde Pública e as políticas sanitárias oitocentistas (1837-1868)“
Comentário de Pedro Mota Tavares
João Luís Sequeira – “Humanizar a arqueologia industrial – Desigualdade, identidade e conflito na fábrica e as inter-relações no património arqueológico industrial do Século XX“
Comentário de João Pedro Santos e Xurxo Ayán Vila
Sessão #5 | 22 de Março de 2023 [In-person session]
José Augusto Pereira – “O império Português e as Migrações: o caso de Cabo Verde e S. Tomé e Príncipe entre 1930 e 1974”
Comentário de Leonor Pires Martins e Marta Macedo
Maria José Oliveira – “A emigração económica portuguesa na Guerra Civil de Espanha. Galiza e Astúrias. 1936-1945: combatentes pela República, vítimas do Franquismo”
Comentário de Rui Aballe Vieira e Marta Silva
Sessão #6 | 19 de Abril de 2022
Tomás Diel Melícias – “Por bem ou por Mao: o pensamento maoísta na construção política da União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (1966 – 1975)”
Comentário de Rebeca Ávila e Rui Lopes
Paulo Jorge – “A resistência ao Estado Novo no concelho de Almada (1961-1974)”
Comentário de Ana Sofia Ferreira
Sessão #7 | 17de Maio de 2023
Inês José – “Alimentar na Guerra e na Paz: os impactos económicos e sociais da escassez (1914–1929)”
Comentário de Pedro Mota Tavares e Miguel Carmo
Jorge Mano Torres – “O Instituto Nacional do Trabalho e Previdência (INTP) e o Corporativismo Português (1933-1974): As Delegações de Braga e Covilhã”
Comentário de Elisa Lopes da Silva
Sessão #8 | 21 de Junho de 2023
Joana Beato Ribeiro – “Identidade(s) científica(s): o património documental de Fernando da Silva Correia (1893-1966)”
Comentário de Joana Matias e Quintino Lopes
João Amendoeira Peixoto – “Medicina e Património cultural em Tomar: o caso do Dr. José Vieira da Silva Guimarães”
Sessão #9 | 19 de Junho de 2023
Sofia Lisboa – “O Museu Nacional Resistência e Liberdade (Peniche) e a Memória da Violência Política do Século XX: Estudo Comparado entre Portugal, a África do Sul e o Chile”
Comentário de Miguel Filipe Silva e Giulia Strippoli
Inês Ferreira de Almeida – “Corpos Femininos, Presos Políticos: A Violência Policial face às Mulheres na Resistência ao Regime Fascista”
Comentário de Pamela Peres Cabreira e Elisabetta Girotto
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(Quarta-feira) 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH and University of Évora

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Inauguration of the exhibition depicting the stories of men and women from the Iberian Peninsula who were forced labourers under the National Socialist regime. Travailleurs Portugais et Espagnols dans
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Inauguration of the exhibition depicting the stories of men and women from the Iberian Peninsula who were forced labourers under the National Socialist regime.
Travailleurs Portugais et Espagnols dans le IIIe Reich (1940-1945)
A exposição “Travailleurs Portugais et Espagnols dans le IIIe Reich (1940-1945)” retrata as histórias de vida de homens e mulheres, originários da Península Ibérica, que foram constrangidos a trabalhar pelo regime Nacional-Socialista, apesar do estatuto de neutralidade de Espanha e de Portugal.
Durante a II Guerra Mundial, a Alemanha nazi explorou milhões de estrangeiros. Prisioneiros de guerra, prisioneiros de campos de concentração e trabalhadores civis foram forçados a trabalhar no Reich ou nos territórios ocupados. Os portugueses e espanhóis também integraram os contingentes de trabalhadores oriundos de França.
A exposição é organizada no âmbito do projeto “FORCED — Portuguese and Spanish Forced Labourers Under National Socialism: History, Memory and Citizenship”, coordenado por Cláudia Ninhos. Este projecto resulta de uma parceria entre instituições académicas e da sociedade civil de Portugal, Espanha, França e Alemanha, tendo sido financiado pela Comissão Europeia, no âmbito do programa de financiamento Europe for Citizens.
A inauguração terá lugar na Universidade de Paris 8, no dia 22 de Março, e será seguida por uma mesa-redonda que irá debater a relação entre memórias dolorosas e cidadania. A discussão contará com a participação diversos convidados, sendo de destacar a participação do Secretário de Estado da Memória Democrática (Espanha), Fernando Martínez Lopez, e do Presidente da Assembleia da República (Portugal), Augusto Santos Silva.
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(Quarta-feira) 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Several Institutions

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In-person and open session of the History and Image Workshop, with a presentation by Lívia Apa on Bruna Polimeni. Contar uma revolução: Bruna Polimeni, Cabral,
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In-person and open session of the History and Image Workshop, with a presentation by Lívia Apa on Bruna Polimeni.
Contar uma revolução: Bruna Polimeni, Cabral, a Guiné e outros sonhos
A intervenção tem como objectivo apresentar o trabalho da fotógrafa italiana Bruna Polimeni na Guiné Bissau, tentando tecer um diálogo entre a sua experiência ao lado de Amílcar Cabral e a rica rede de solidariedade anticolonial criada em Itália entre finais dos anos 60 e o início dos anos 70, que envolve diversos actores e diferentes dinâmicas de práticas terceiro-mundistas.
Apresentação de: Lívia Apa, africanista de formação, desenvolve actividade de pesquisa na área dos estudos literários e culturais dos países de língua oficial portuguesa. Trabalha actualmente sobre cinema africano e o pensamento decolonial produzido no continente africano. Leccionou na Unior de Nápoles, onde criou a Cátedra Camões Margarida Cardoso. Participou em várias publicações em volume e em revistas italianas e estrangeiras, tendo publicado, em 2010, a monografia Abitare la lingua, sobre a situação linguística em Angola. Organizou, junto com os poetas Mária Alexandre Daskálos e Arlindo Barbeitos a antologia Poesia Africana de Língua Portuguesa, editada pela Academia Brasileira das Letras. Traduziu para italiano, entre outros, Florbela Espanca, Mário Cesariny, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho, Mia Couto, Luís Carlos Patraquim, Ondjaki e Ana Luísa Amaral. Em 2020, organizou com Paulo de Medeiros, pela editora Routledge, o livro Contemporary Lusophone African Film.
Moderação de Catarina Laranjeiro (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
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Imagem: A fotógrafa Bruna Amico fazendo a reportagem da I° Assembleia Nacional Popular da Guiné-Bissau
(Fonte: Casa Comum / Fundação Mário Soares e Maria Barroso).
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(Quarta-feira) 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanitiescomunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26C - 1069-061 Lisbon
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