The José Medeiros Ferreira Lecture, which marks the beginning of the academic year of the PhD in History at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, is organised by the IHC and will have as its guest speaker our Visiting Scholar, Sue Onslow, from King's College London.
On 12 September, at a meeting of the IHC’s Scientific Committee, it was unanimously decided to send a letter to the publisher #Routledge expressing its position on the withdrawal of the chapter “The Walls Spoke When No One Else Would”, from the book "Sexual Misconduct in Academia", edited by Erin Pritchard and Delyth Edwards (2023).
📺 O Xurxo Ayán ha vuelto a G24 para una nueva temporada de Zig Zag.
Ayer, habló del proyecto #PALCOS, en curso en #Galicia, que estudia la arqueología y arquitectura de los escenarios de las fiestas de pueblo "para lograr unha mellor compresión da relación entre forma, tamaño e localización destas estruturas e a evolución da festa e das orquestras e formacións musicais que participan nelas."
On the morning of 29 September, Sue Onslow, IHC’s 2023 Visiting Scholar, will presente a seminnar on her experience as an #OralHistory practitioner, namely interviewing actors in the Zimbabwe independence process.
Here are a few pictures from last week's international conference "Deciphering Censorship" at the National Library of Portugal.
The conference was organized in the framework of the project "Censorship(s):an analytic model of censorial processes" and arose from the need to differentiate between boycotts and censorship, because they do not emerge from the same places in the power system.
🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.
📖 In the journal Culture. Society. Economy. Politics, Leonor Sá published a paper where she presents three interdisciplinary and community-serving projects carried out by the Portuguese Judiciary Police Museum, all related to the protection of #CulturalHeritage.
📰 El diario El Mundo dedicó dos páginas de su edición nacional al proyecto de arqueología de los prostíbulos, que están desarrollando Xurxo Ayán y Carlos Otero.
Some pictures from the opening of the exhibition on the Portuguese and Spanish forced workers in the Third Reich, at the University of Paris 8, yesterday.
This is an output of the European research project #FORCED and it portrays the life stories of men and women from the Iberian Peninsula who were forced to work by the National Socialist regime, despite the neutral status of Spain and Portugal.
🗣 The call for papers for the #Commoning congress is ongoing.
The online congress will focus on the practice of commoning throughout history with the primary objective to present innovative research informed by critical interculturality.
The team of project REWIND invites you to register for the workshop “In search of the gender signal: introduction to stylometric approaches”, which we will host on 18 September.
Conducted by Helena Bermúdez Sabel, it will explore stylometric methods to tease out gender makers in literary corpora in Romance languages.
🗣 Reminder: the call for papers for the 5th conference of the International Network for Theory of History is underway, with the theme "History & Responsibility: Doing History in Times of Conflicting Political Demands".
It will take place at the National Library of Portugal.