In 2025, the IHC supported applications for four different PhD Research Scholarships calls, the final results of which we can now reveal: eight new scholarships were awarded to the institute.

In the EUTOPIA PhD co-tutelle programme call, Manuel Canudo won a scholarship to “study Portuguese travellers who temporarily visited the Soviet Union, focusing on their written travel narratives”. In the Doutor – AP call, launched by FCT for Portuguese civil servants, Cristina Gouveia had her project on the history of the Portuguese children’s and youth press approved. Working from the National Library of Portugal, Cristina will explore the period marking the beginning and end of the magazines O Mosquito and Cavaleiro Andante (1936-1962).

Also funded by FCT, in the Call for PhD Studentships, under the Specific Line of Application in a Non-academic Environment, Sandra Pereira and Silvano Silva had their projects approved, both framed within the IN2PAST Associated Laboratory. In partnership with CCDR Alentejo, Sandra Pereira will focus her research on industrial heritage in Alentejo, specifically on its revitalisation as a way of enhancing collective memory and promoting sustainability. Silvano Silva will work together with Évora 2027 to demonstrate how the University of Évora, through the ‘enhancement of built heritage, has created an architectural network that crosses the city, transforming it into an integrated urban campus’.

Finally, four scholarships were awarded to the IHC under the FCT’s Regular Line of Application. Catarina Cota will investigate the circulation of foreign artists in Portugal between 1945 and 1974, namely ‘the factors that motivated these artists to come, their interactions with the Portuguese artistic milieu, and the regime’s strategies to control, censor, or exploit their presence.’ Leopoldina Fekayamãle will study the processes of constructing the memory of peace in Angola after the civil war, investigating ‘the policies of memorialising peace in Angola and the multiple dynamics related to this process’. Mariana Passos’ project, on the other hand, ‘aims to analyse the posthumous acquisition, re-enactment, documentation, and remembrance of performance-based cultural expressions produced by Julião Sarmento (1948-2021), which are in the process of being collected by the Serralves Museum’. Finally, Rui Mateus will analyse and historically contextualise epistolary practices directed at various powers during the Portuguese Revolution, considering letters as a form of relevant political action, as they give us access to a discourse that differs from that of the elites and pamphleteers, being more personal.

Congratulations to all!