The Worlds of History. New perspectives and debates (2022/2023)

The Worlds of History. New perspectives and debates (2022/2023)

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

1st session: Cécile Fromont (Yale University, USA): Penned by Encounter: Central Africans, Capuchin Friars, and their images in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

Date: 21 October 2022 | 2:30pm

Venue: Anf. VI | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra

2nd session: Markus Friedrich (University of Hamburg): Archives, Families, Genealogy. Towards a history of pre-modern family knowledge

Date: 18 November 2022 | 2:30pm

Venue: Anf. III | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra

3rd session: Laura Lee Downs (European University Institute, Florence): “Enemy peoples now joined in brotherhood”: Gender, social action and nationalist politics in the Upper Adriatic borderland, 1919-1950

Date: 10 March 2023 | 2:30pm

Venue: Anf. III | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra

4th session: Patrick Boucheron (Collège de France, Paris): Histoire nationale, histoire globale: faut-il choisir?

Date: 21 April 2023 | 2:30pm

Venue: Anf. III | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra