Conferência que procura desafiar o revisionismo histórico, amplificar vozes marginalizadas e promover diálogos transnacionais sobre reconciliação, responsabilização e justiça restaurativa.

The Public History of Difficult Pasts

8th International Conference on Public History

IFPH 2026

The 8th International Conference on Public History, organised by the International Federation for Public History, IFPH, will take place in Lisbon from September 7 to 11, 2026. It will be hosted by IN2PAST – the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, a transdisciplinary consortium of seven research centres, at the Almada Negreiros College on the Campolide Campus of NOVA University Lisbon.

In a time of escalating attacks by right-wing movements on memory, diversity, human rights, democracy, and history itself, the IFPH reaffirms its commitment to fostering critical engagement with the ways societies confront, interpret, and relate to their difficult pasts and challenging presents. The IFPH strongly condemns book banning, the censorship of historical narratives, the surveillance of students and educators, the targeting of sites of remembrance, and the imposition of ideological agendas — particularly right-wing distortions — that not only threaten academic freedom but undermine the very principles upon which public history is built. Against this backdrop, the conference seeks to challenge historical revisionism and silencing, to amplify marginalised voices and memories, and to promote transnational dialogues on reconciliation, accountability, and restorative justice.

Public History has long addressed global historical processes such as colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and the genocide of Indigenous peoples, as well as phenomena that emerge in multiple contexts, including armed conflicts and dictatorships. It embodies both a political and ethical commitment to examining how difficult pasts have been lived and remembered by different communities and individuals, ensuring that their perspectives are acknowledged and respected. At the same time, engaging with these histories through Public History raises significant challenges. Sharing authority with specific communities and amplifying marginalised narratives may unintentionally silence other voices, while also presenting complex ethical dilemmas. Furthermore, Public History operates within the public sphere, engaging diverse audiences and navigating competing representations of the past in an era increasingly marked by the political instrumentalisation of history and the spread of revisionist and denialist discourses.

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🔗 Free registration HERE.

Call for contributions

This conference seeks to challenge historical revisionism, amplify marginalised voices, and foster transnational dialogues on reconciliation, accountability, and restorative justice. We invite contributions that explore:

Historical Contexts and Global Processes

• • Colonialism and its enduring legacies
  • The transatlantic slave trade and its commemorations
  • Indigenous genocide and cultural destruction
  • Armed conflicts, civil wars, and their aftermath
  • Dictatorships, authoritarianism, and state violence
  • Mass atrocities and crimes against humanity

Contemporary Challenges and Methodological Innovations

• • Countering historical denial and revisionism
  • Navigating contested memories and competing narratives
  • Sharing authority with affected communities
  • Ethical dilemmas in representing traumatic pasts
  • Digital humanities, media, and social networks
  • Museum practices and memorial sites
  • Archives, and archival activism
  • Educational approaches to sensitive histories

Voices and Perspectives

• • Survivor testimonies and intergenerational trauma
  • Community-based historical projects
  • Oral history and marginalised narratives
  • Gender, sexuality, and intersectional approaches
  • Youth engagement with difficult pasts
  • Transnational and comparative perspectives

Justice and Reconciliation

• • Truth commissions and transitional justice
  • Reparations and historical redress
  • Memorialisation and commemoration practices
  • Restorative justice approaches
  • Healing and collective memory
  • Building inclusive historical narratives

Calendar

Opening of the Call for Presentations: 30 September 2025
Deadline for Application: 30 November 7 December 2025 [new deadline]
Deadline for reviewers to do their reviews: 31 January 2026
Call for posters: January 2026
Results of the Call for Presentations will be announced by March 2026
Programme of the conference shall be available around June 2026
Deadline for registration for on-site attendance: August 2026
Conference: 7-11 September 2026

Submission of proposals

🔗 Submit your panel proposal HERE.
🔗 Submit your paper proposal HERE.
🔗 Submit your Working Group proposal HERE.

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O Grupo de Leitura RESONANCE é um encontro mensal da comunidade académica mais ampla do projeto RESONANCE, dedicado à reflexão sobre um texto ou livro importantes.

RESONANCE Reading Group

Session #6: Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988), by Jacopo Galimberti

The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979). This group meets in person at NOVA FCSH or online, during lunchtime on a weekday. Each participant brings their own lunch, and for in-person sessions, coffee and biscuits are kindly provided by the project.

The sixth session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on Chapter 7 of the book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988). The chapter – Art against Housework: The Gruppo Immagine and the Wages for Housework Campaign – brings together discussions on social reproduction vis-à-vis informal networks of solidarity across feminist art practice ecologies in the 1970s. This is a key text to explore the infrastructural dynamics of these movements with a close reading of artistic production at the crux of the Operaismo and Autonomia movements. This reading group is going to be led by Hélia Marçal (IHA, NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) and will count with the author’s participation.

You can hear Jacopo presenting the book here, and in an e-flux podcast episode with Andreas Petrossiants here. This event will be conducted in English but we will do our best to facilitate translation into English if needed.

This session integrates RESONANCE’s Autumn Seminar, which also includes the RESONANCE Autumn Lecture, which will be delivered by Jacopo Galimberti. Galimberti will present his latest research at the Salão Nobre of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, on September 9 at 18.00. The session – titled Hopeful Monsters: Operaismo, Autonomia, and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Subjectivity – seeks to trace the representation of revolutionary subjectivity, focusing on the figure of the monster as depicted in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.

You can register for the Reading Group by emailing the RESONANCE project team at resonance.fcsh.unl@gmail.com and to receive a PDF copy of the chapter.

More information about the RESONANCE project here.

The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).

RESONANCE Autumn Seminar, with Jacopo Galimberti, that seeks to trace the representation of revolutionary subjectivity, focusing on the figure of the monster as depicted in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. 

Hopeful Monsters:

Operaismo, Autonomia, and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Subjectivity

Jacopo Galimberti (Università Iuav di Venezia)

In the context of the RESONANCE project and the IHA’s Permanent Seminar, Jacopo Galimberti will deliver a seminar featuring his latest research at the Salão Nobre of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, on September 9 at 18.00. The session – titled Hopeful Monsters: Operaismo, Autonomia, and the Reconfiguration of Revolutionary Subjectivity – seeks to trace the representation of revolutionary subjectivity, focusing on the figure of the monster as depicted in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s. Galimberti will explore these hopeful monsters as a visual reflection on the political taxonomies of the twentieth century, tracing, in the process, the characteristics of a revolutionary subjectivity. This author’s approach relates to the RESONANCE project’s research on revolutionary intersubjectivity and its materialisations across timescapes.

The talk will be delivered in English.

This session integrates RESONANCE’s Autumn Seminar, which also includes the RESONANCE Reading Group, which will take place on September 9 at noon, and will count with Galimberti’s participation. The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. The sixth session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on Chapter 7 of the book Images of Class: Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988).

More information about the RESONANCE project here.

The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).

A 8.ª edição do IWHSCR vai dar especial destaque à fonética experimental como um campo emergente na intersecção entre as ciências humanas, as ciências médicas e a engenharia, que registou um rápido desenvolvimento ao longo do século XX.

8th International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research

(IWHSCR)

Following its launch in Dresden in 2015, and subsequent editions in Helsinki (2017), Vienna (2019), Prague (2021), Porto (2022), Budapest (2024), and Paris (2025), the 8th edition of the IWHSCR will be organised by members of the PHONLAB project (2022.06811.PTDC), in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.

This edition will place a special emphasis on experimental phonetics as an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, medical sciences, and engineering, which underwent rapid development throughout the twentieth century. Particular attention will be given to the role of institutions, internationally engaged scientific actors, and the creation of innovative scientific spaces, technologies, and techniques.

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Keynote speakers:

Ana Simões is full professor of History of Science at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and member of the Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), which she (co-)coordinated from 2007 to 2019. She is the President-elect of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (2025–2029) – a division of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST) – and was previously the President of the European Society for the History of Science (2018–2020). She has written extensively on the history of quantum chemistry, and aspects of history of science in Portugal, 18th to 20th centuries, including popularisation of science and science and the city, framed by a historiographical reflection on the circulation of science including non-central places. She is a founding member of the international network Science and Technology in the European Periphery. She is member of several national and EU projects, editorial boards, scientific advisory boards and scientific societies.

Bernd Möbius studied phonetics, linguistics and sociology at the University of Bonn, where he also received his PhD degree in 1992. He was a member of technical staff (senior researcher) at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, from 1993 to 1998, and Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Stuttgart from 1999 to 2011. After being Acting chair of Phonetics and Speech Communication at the University of Bonn (2007-2010), he was Full Professor of Phonetics and Phonology in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University from 2011 to 2025, where he is now a Senior Professor. A central theme of his research is to integrate phonetic knowledge in speech technology. He has worked extensively on text-to-speech synthesis and speech prosody, and recent work has focused on experimental methods and computational simulations to study aspects of speech production, perception and acquisition.

Call for papers

Contributions addressing this focus are welcome, as are submissions on any topics related to the historical aspects of speech communication research. Submissions must not exceed 10 pages (including references) and must follow the guidelines provided HERE. The proceedings will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation by TUDpress and will also be made available electronically in the ISCA archive.

Full paper submissions should be sent to the following email address: phonlab.project@gmail.com

Important dates:

Manuscript submission: 15 May 2026
Notification of acceptance: 1 June 2026
Registration: 30 June 2026
Revised manuscript submission: 1 July 2026

Organising Committee:

Albano Figueiredo, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
Ângela Salgueiro, University of Évora and IHC / IN2PAST
Jürgen Trouvain, Saarland University
Quintino Lopes, University of Évora and IHC / IN2PAST

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Curso que visa compreender como o fogo e as crises ecológicas contemporâneas afetam os debates nas humanidades e nas ciências. Inscrições até 15 de Setembro.

Curso “História, Ambiente e Conhecimento no Antropoceno – edição especial Fogo”

No âmbito do projeto Ecologias Insubmissas no Antropoceno coordenado pela Fiocruz (Rio Janeiro) e, em Portugal, pelo CIUHCT – NOVA FCT, realiza-se em setembro/outubro uma nova edição do curso História, Ambiente e Conhecimento no Antropoceno, dedicado ao tema do FOGO. Num total de cinco aulas online, a organização desta edição juntou investigadores do IHC que trabalharam no projeto FIREUSES – Paisagens de Fogo.

Segunda edição da Conferência Anual do Instituto de História Contemporânea que promove a relação entre Grupos de Investigação e divulga a investigação do IHC para um público amplo.

II Conferência Anual do Instituto de História Contemporânea

A Conferência Anual do IHC é um evento de dois dias, composta por vários painéis partilhados por membros dos diferentes Grupos de Investigação do Instituto. O objectivo é encontrar e desenvolver relações (a nível temático, conceptual e metodológico) entre investigadores/as e investigações de diferentes áreas, abrindo novos campos interdisciplinares e no interior da historiografia. Para além disso, a Conferência Anual procura ainda dar a conhecer o trabalho desenvolvido no IHC a um público mais vasto, desde projectos embrionários a investigações em curso, passando por exposições e outras iniciativas.

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