The Worlds of History. New Perspectives and Debates (2024/2025)

The CHSC’s Annual Research Seminar – The worlds of History. New perspectives and debates – is held four times a year. The Seminar holds talks with guest historians of exceptional international standing, encourages thinking on new approaches to History in different eras and time periods, and challenges younger generations with innovative research fields, unveiling new horizons and stimulating critical discussion.

Organising Committee: José Pedro Paiva | Maria Antónia Lopes | Jaime Ricardo Gouveia | Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos

1^st session: Fernando Catroga (CHSC-UC): O ocaso do eurocentrismo

Date: September 20th, 2024 | 2:30 pm

Venue: Sala D. João III | AUC

2^nd session: Jorge Flores (Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology, Lisbon): Navios de papel: a Ásia marítima como arquivo (1500-1800)

Date: December 6th, 2024 | 2:30 pm

Venue: Sala D. João III | AUC

3^rd session: Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, EUA): The Collision of Slaving Systems in Early Modern Spain’s Atlantic Mediterranean

Date: March 14th, 2025 | 2:30 pm

Venue: Anf. III da FLUC

4^th session: Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow): Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death to the Early Sixteenth Century: New Ideas, New Questions

Date: April 4th, 2025 | 2:30 pm

Venue: Anf. III da FLUC