Rui Lopes has been selected for an Assistant Professor position in the Department of History at Birkbeck, University of London, a position he will hold for the next two years.
As part of this collaboration between the IHC researcher and the British university, Rui Lopes will teach a course entitled “Imagining the Cold War: popular culture and the making of contemporary Europe”, exploring several of the topics he has been researching in recent years, in particular the role of cinema, television, and comics in how the Cold War was viewed.
Rui Lopes completed his PhD in International History at the London School of Economics and has been a researcher at the IHC since 2008. He will remain connected to the IHC, where he will continue to coordinate the Thematic Line Modern Mediations: Art, Technology, and Communication.
Picture: Rui Lopes at the kick-off meeting of IN2PAST (Credit: Diana Barbosa)
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25 September, 1.º de Maio Square, from 5 to 10PM -
Rui Lopes is the new President of the Board of Directors -
'Armando de Lacerda Wing' opens on 17 September -
Under the theme ‘The Public History of Difficult Pasts’ -
"Ceci n’est Pas Francisco" is at MNAC and will extend to CCCV -
The Inscription I of the Church of Machico will serve as the theme for a series of cultural events -
He is one of the curators of the exhibition "Olhares Críticos no Arquivo Colonial – Sombras e Memórias" -
He will take part in the event ‘Desconstruir o Colonialismo: Entre Tradição e Revolução’ -
‘It is very important to keep the history of democracy in Portugal very much in the public consciousness’ -
The exhibition Eye(s) Open opened at the Eye Filmuseum -
Members of the FILMASPORA project team were in Praia for the Project’s First Workshop on Radical Creative Writing -
The Laboratoire des Études Romanes at Paris 8 University hosts the IHC researcher -
Between 2 and 31 March, at the Portuguese Cinematheque -
She is now a Visiting Researcher at CAST, University of Bologna -
Following elections held on 15 December 2025, the new governing bodies took office for the 2026-2028 term -
Applications are open until 16 February
