Pedro Aires Oliveira
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Comparative Political History – Regimes, Transitions, Colonialism, and Memory
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Biography
Pedro Aires Oliveira is an Associate Professor at the History Department of NOVA FCSH and full researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History.
His main research topics are International History and Portuguese colonialism and decolonization on which he has published several articles in academic journals (Portuguese Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, European Contemporary History, among others), as well as a number of books, including the monograph which adapts his PhD thesis on Britain and Portugal’s late colonial period and decolonization (Mário Soares Foundation Prize, 2007).
He has extensive experience as supervisor of MA and PhD students, and has curated historical exhibitions on the cultural impact of the Great War (2017) and the centenary of the League of Nations (2020). He is a member of the steering committee of MA program History in the Public Sphere.
Research fields
- International history
- Colonialism and decolonization
- Portuguese foreign relations
- Anglo-Portuguese relations
Selected publications
- Oliveira, Pedro Aires & Bruno Cardoso Reis. “The Power and Limits of Culture Myths in Portugal’s search for a post-imperial role,” The International History Review 40 (2018): 631-653. [link]
- Costa, João Paulo Oliveira e, José Damião Rodrigues & Pedro Aires Oliveira. História da expansão e do império Português. Lisbon: Esfera dos Livros, 2014. [link]
- Oliveira, Pedro Aires. “Live and Let Live: Britain and Portugal’s imperial endgame (1945-1975),” Portuguese Studies 29 (2013): 209-226. [link]
- Oliveira, Pedro Aires. Os Despojos da Aliança. A Grã-Bretanha e a questão colonial portuguesa, 1945-1975. Lisbon: Tinta da China, 2007. [link]
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “”Tell me how it was”: Public policies and child labor in Portugal and the Portuguese colonies” — Coordinated by Pedro Goulart (ISCSP-ULisboa) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/IIM-ECO/5303/2014). 2014-2017 [link]
- Coordinator of the project “Memória Oral da Diplomacia Portuguesa” — Developed by the Associação dos Amigos do Arquivo Histórico-Diplomático do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Instituto Diplomático and the Institute of Contemporary History, and funded by the Fundo para as Relações Internacionais do MNE. 2012- [link]
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InDigit: Elisabete Pereira co-coordinates IN2PAST exploratory project
Jul 26, 2024
The results of IN2PAST’s third call for exploratory projects have been revealed and InDigit was approved for funding
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Jul 25, 2024
The film-essay written and directed by Rui Lopes premiered at Fidelidade Arte, in Lisbon
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Jul 18, 2024
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