Congresso da Sociedade Internacional para o Estudo do Humor Luso-Hispânico, que reafirma a importância do humor como ferramenta intelectual e cultural capaz de devolver complexidade à experiência humana. [NOVAS DATAS]

O Riso Contra-ataca. O Humor num Mundo Virado do Avesso

XXII Congresso da Sociedade Internacional para o Estudo do Humor Luso-Hispânico

Após as edições realizadas em Paris, em 2022, sob a indagação Humor em crise?, e em Lille, em 2024, com a provocação O fim do humor?, o XXII Congresso da Sociedade Internacional para o Estudo do Humor Luso-Hispânico (ISLHHS) propõe uma inflexão significativa no percurso temático dos últimos anos. A edição de 2026 pretende afirmar que o humor não só resistiu às múltiplas crises que marcaram a contemporaneidade, como permanece ativo, pertinente e em constante renovação. Sob o título O Riso Contra-ataca. O Humor num Mundo Virado do Avesso, o congresso assume que o riso continua a representar um recurso decisivo de lucidez e crítica em contextos de instabilidade e desordem.

Esta proposta configura-se como uma pausa irónica e reflexiva, uma tentativa de recuperar o fôlego e reafirmar a vitalidade do humor enquanto forma de resistência. Rir, nesse contexto, equivale a um gesto de resiliência simbólica diante da gravidade dos acontecimentos que atravessam o presente. A programação do evento abrangerá contribuições de investigadores/as das mais diversas áreas do conhecimento, como História, Literatura, Linguística, Artes Gráficas, Direito, Sociologia, Psicologia, Educação, Antropologia, Filosofia ou Comunicação, com o intuito de examinar as múltiplas linguagens e suportes em que o humor se manifesta e opera como força de desestabilização de discursos hegemónicos, contestação de fanatismos e reativação do pensamento crítico.

Num cenário global frequentemente descrito como caótico e fragmentado, o humor mantém-se como uma forma activa de leitura e intervenção. Nesse espírito, o XXII Congresso reafirma a importância do humor como ferramenta intelectual e cultural capaz de devolver complexidade à experiência humana.

O congresso contará com a participação do escritor e investigador Rui Zink como palestrante.

>> Programa do congresso (PDF) <<

O Congresso da ISLHHS de 2026 terá lugar no Colégio Almada Negreiros da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, no centro de Lisboa. As sessões de trabalho decorrerão ao longo de três dias, de quarta-feira, dia 3, a sexta-feira, dia 5 de Junho de 2026, sendo o dia de sábado, 6 de Junho, dedicado a um programa social a anunciar. O Congresso incluirá uma recepção aos/às participantes, pausas para café, o jantar do congresso e o serão dedicado ao humor.

A participação no Congresso (presencial ou online) está aberta aos membros da ISLHHS.

No final do Congresso será anunciado o modo de publicação de uma seleção de comunicações apresentadas (de acordo com o processo de revisão de pares dupla cega).

Contacto:
Para qualquer informação sobre o congresso contactar para o e-mail xxiicongressohumor@gmail.com

Comissão Organizadora

João Pedro Ferreira, CHAM, vice-president ISLHHS
Paulo Jorge Fernandes, IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST
Thaís Leão Vieira, UFMT
Dorothée Chouitem, Sorbonne Université

“Pai Nosso – Os últimos dias de Salazar”

Com Elisa Lopes da Silva, António Costa Pinto e José Filipe Costa

Sessão especial, onde Elisa Lopes da Silva (historiadora integrada no IHC) e António Costa Pinto (investigador aposentado do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa) irão conversar com José Filipe Costa (realizador), a seguir à sessão de “Pai Nosso – Os últimos dias de Salazar”.

Em colaboração com o Cinema Ideal.

Seminário de investigação que procura alargar o campo dos estudos sobre o petróleo para além das narrativas, geografias e fronteiras disciplinares estabelecidas, dando maior destaque às perspetivas do Sul Global e de outros locais de extracção e resistência.

Mind the Gap III:

Unearthing Petromodernity: Oil Studies in the Anthropocene

Online Research Seminar

The rise of fossil fuels has been central to the political, economic, cultural, and material transformations of the past two centuries, yet the forms of power, knowledge, and life enabled by carbon energy often remain analytically invisible. As we confront the converging crises of the Anthropocene, the need to rethink the centrality of fossil fuels to modern life has never been more urgent.

At a moment when toxic landscapes, resource frontiers, and environmental inequality reveal the uneven geographies of fossil modernity, the humanities and social sciences are reorienting analytical attention toward the energetic foundations of modern life. From pipelines and refineries to plastics and everyday petrochemical products, the material properties of oil have fundamentally shaped modern infrastructures and forms of life. What forms of political and social power are created through fossil fuel industries? How have fossil fuels shaped modern societies, their economic models, governmental regimes, everyday lives? How have they contributed to uneven global geographies rooted in colonialism and capitalism? What kinds of transitions to post-carbon futures are possible?

Bringing together approaches from history, anthropology, political ecology, and geography, we seek to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.

🔗 Free registration here

📎 Download full programme (PDF)

Programme:

Every fortnight we will meet online to discuss an article or book chapter circulated in advance. The sessions will start with a 20–30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The sessions will take place on Mondays at 2PM.

We will explore key concepts such as petro-culture, carbon democracy, extractivism, fossil capital, energy regimes, and transition imaginaries, examining how energy dependence shapes modern subjectivities, infrastructures, economies, and ecological futures. The texts will be shared with participants in advance.

Everyone is welcome.

To register, please fill out the online form. After registering you will receive the readings and access information ahead of each session.

For more information, please write to unearthingpetromodernity@proton.me.

30 March  |  Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Selected chapter TBA (Verso, 2011)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Focus: How fossil fuels structured democratic politics, labour power and modern governance

13 April  |  Adam Hanieh, “Petrochemical Empire: The Geo-Politics of Fossil-Fuelled Production“ New Left Review (139)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Global production networks, the Gulf region and the restructuring of capitalism through petrochemicals

27 April  |  Carola Hein (ed.), Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Chapter 8: Peyerl, D. “Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology” (Routledge, 2022)
Henrique Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Infrastructure, territorial development and the spatial materiality of oil

11 May  |  Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Selected chapter TBA (Oxford University Pres, 2014)
Raquel Ribeiro (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Focus: Oil, media, culture, and everyday life in twentieth-century society

25 May  |  Appel, Mason & Watts (Eds.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Introduction: “Oil Talk” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Anthropological and political-economic perspectives on oil extraction and everyday life

8 June  |  Alice Mah, Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Chapter 2: “Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations” (Duke University Press, 2023)
João Pedro Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Environmental justice, pollution, and grassroots activism around petrochemical industries

22 June  |  Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Introduction and Chapter 1. “Crude Bargains” (University of California Press, 2023)
Anita Buhin (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil economies, intimacy, and social relations in offshore extraction zones

6 July  |  Tim Di Muzio & Matt Dow, “Global capitalism and oil“ in Handbook on Oil and International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA), Amedeo Policante & Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil in international relations, financialization and the structure of global capitalism

Organisation:

Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

Cristina Marques faz a defesa pública da Tese de Doutoramento “O Instituto Superior Técnico e a Internacionalização Escolas Universitárias – Política Científica e Práticas Laboratoriais (1945-1974)”.

Provas de Doutoramento em História e Filosofia da Ciência na Universidade de Évora.

Júri
Paulo Simões Rodrigues (Universidade de Évora) — Presidente
Alvaro Ribagorda (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) — Vogal
Ana Simões (Universidade de Lisboa) — Vogal
Quintino Lopes (Universidade de Évora) — Orientador
Ângela Salgueiro (Universidade de Évora) — Vogal
Luís Trindade (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) — Vogal

Jacqueline S. Silva faz a defesa pública da Tese de Doutoramento “De Instituto de Antropologia a Museu Câmara Cascudo: Trajetórias científicas no Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil (1950-2010)”.

Provas de Doutoramento em História e Filosofia da Ciência na Universidade de Évora.

Júri
Laurinda Abreu (Universidade de Évora) — Presidente
Elisabete Pereira (Universidade de Évora) — Orientadora
Marilia Xavier Curry (Universidade de São Paulo) — Vogal
Susana Simões Martins (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) — Vogal
Luís Miguel Nunes Carolino (Iscte) — Vogal
Sara Albuquerque (Universidade de Évora) — Vogal

Seminário de investigação que procura alargar o campo dos estudos sobre o petróleo para além das narrativas, geografias e fronteiras disciplinares estabelecidas, dando maior destaque às perspetivas do Sul Global e de outros locais de extracção e resistência.

Mind the Gap III:

Unearthing Petromodernity: Oil Studies in the Anthropocene

Online Research Seminar

The rise of fossil fuels has been central to the political, economic, cultural, and material transformations of the past two centuries, yet the forms of power, knowledge, and life enabled by carbon energy often remain analytically invisible. As we confront the converging crises of the Anthropocene, the need to rethink the centrality of fossil fuels to modern life has never been more urgent.

At a moment when toxic landscapes, resource frontiers, and environmental inequality reveal the uneven geographies of fossil modernity, the humanities and social sciences are reorienting analytical attention toward the energetic foundations of modern life. From pipelines and refineries to plastics and everyday petrochemical products, the material properties of oil have fundamentally shaped modern infrastructures and forms of life. What forms of political and social power are created through fossil fuel industries? How have fossil fuels shaped modern societies, their economic models, governmental regimes, everyday lives? How have they contributed to uneven global geographies rooted in colonialism and capitalism? What kinds of transitions to post-carbon futures are possible?

Bringing together approaches from history, anthropology, political ecology, and geography, we seek to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.

🔗 Free registration here

📎 Download full programme (PDF)

Programme:

Every fortnight we will meet online to discuss an article or book chapter circulated in advance. The sessions will start with a 20–30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The sessions will take place on Mondays at 2PM.

We will explore key concepts such as petro-culture, carbon democracy, extractivism, fossil capital, energy regimes, and transition imaginaries, examining how energy dependence shapes modern subjectivities, infrastructures, economies, and ecological futures. The texts will be shared with participants in advance.

Everyone is welcome.

To register, please fill out the online form. After registering you will receive the readings and access information ahead of each session.

For more information, please write to unearthingpetromodernity@proton.me.

30 March  |  Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Selected chapter TBA (Verso, 2011)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Focus: How fossil fuels structured democratic politics, labour power and modern governance

13 April  |  Adam Hanieh, “Petrochemical Empire: The Geo-Politics of Fossil-Fuelled Production“ New Left Review (139)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Global production networks, the Gulf region and the restructuring of capitalism through petrochemicals

27 April  |  Carola Hein (ed.), Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Chapter 8: Peyerl, D. “Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology” (Routledge, 2022)
Henrique Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Infrastructure, territorial development and the spatial materiality of oil

11 May  |  Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Selected chapter TBA (Oxford University Pres, 2014)
Raquel Ribeiro (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Focus: Oil, media, culture, and everyday life in twentieth-century society

25 May  |  Appel, Mason & Watts (Eds.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Introduction: “Oil Talk” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Anthropological and political-economic perspectives on oil extraction and everyday life

8 June  |  Alice Mah, Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Chapter 2: “Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations” (Duke University Press, 2023)
João Pedro Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Environmental justice, pollution, and grassroots activism around petrochemical industries

22 June  |  Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Introduction and Chapter 1. “Crude Bargains” (University of California Press, 2023)
Anita Buhin (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil economies, intimacy, and social relations in offshore extraction zones

6 July  |  Tim Di Muzio & Matt Dow, “Global capitalism and oil“ in Handbook on Oil and International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA), Amedeo Policante & Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil in international relations, financialization and the structure of global capitalism

Organisation:

Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)