The Worlds of History. New perspectives and debates (2023/2024)
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: Peter Fibiger Bang (SAXO Institute – Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History, Copenhagen): Beyond the Wilsonian Moment – Empire and the Rethinking of World History
Date: 27 October 2023 | 2:30 pm
Venue: Anf. III | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra
2nd session: Sabrina Corbellini (University of Groningen): Geographies of Religious Reading in Fifteenth-Century Europe: Books, Readers and Space
Date: 24 November 2023 | 2:30 pm
Venue: D. João III Room | Archive of the University of Coimbra
3rd session: Miki Sugiura (University of Hosei, Tokyo): The Categories at Work in Global History of Clothing
Date: 23 February 2024 | 2:30 pm
Venue: Anf. III | FLUC
4th session: James Poskett (University of Warwick): The Scientific Revolution as Global History, 1200-1800
Date: 15 March 2024 | 2:30 pm
Venue: Anf. III | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra