History of the Present. The formation of the contemporary world (2023/2024)
Bringing together several generations of leading researchers, the seminar History(s) of the Present. The formation of the contemporary world aims to give voice to research on various fundamental topics in contemporary historiography and focusing on different geographies, which seeks to understand history in its global, international and transnational articulations, revealing its varied and significant role in shaping the present.
Scientific Coordination: Hugo Gonçalves Dores | Ana Guardião | Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo | José Pedro Monteiro
1st session: Bradley Simpson (University of Connecticut): Self-determination: a global history
Date: 28 September 2023 | 5 pm – 6:30 pm (GMT)
Venue: Anf. III | FLUC
To attend online, please send an email to: historias.do.presente2022@gmail.com
2nd session: Meredith Terretta (University of Ottawa): How the UN Trusteeship Council might have shaped a substantive decolonization – And why it didn’t
Date: 25 October 2023 | 5 pm – 6:30 pm (GMT)
To attend online, please send an email to: historias.do.presente2022@gmail.com
3rd session: Martin Thomas (University of Exeter): New Histories of Decolonization: A World remade?
Date: 22 November 2023 | 2:30 pm (GMT)
Venue: D. João III Room | AUC
4th session: Alanna O’Malley (University of Leiden): Undertermined Self-Determination at the Committee of 24. The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South
Date: 7 December 2023 | 2 pm (GMT)
To attend online, please send an email to: historias.do.presente2022@gmail.com
5th session: Sabrine Kott (University of Geneva): Organizing the world. An Alternative History of the Cold War
Date: 15 February 2024 | 2 pm (GMT)
Venue: D. João III Room | AUC
6th session: Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh): Eric Hobsbawm’s total history
Date: 11 March 2024 | 11 am (GMT)
Venue: Anf. VI | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra
7th session: Glenda Sluga (European University Institute): From the Planetary to the Global and other lost histories of the 20th century
Date: 22 April 2024 | 11 am (GMT)
Venue: Anf. IV | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra