Permanent Seminars

  • UNIVERSITIES. Networks and Identities: the History of Universities as a historiographical field?
    2022 - 2023

    This seminar, held four times a year, is intended to raise discussion and interrogations on the subject of universities from a glocal perspective. It encourages dialogue about the interconnections between educational institutions in Europe; their role in building identities and reflecting on the other(s); their relevance as epicenters and promoters of cultural and intellectual movements in Europe and beyond.

    Organising committee: Isabel Ferreira Mota | Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos | Carlos Alves | José Luís Barbosa

    1st session: conference by Hermenegildo Fernandes (U. Lisboa, CHUL)

    Title: De onde vem e para onde vai a História da Universidade na Europa?

    Date: 23 June 2023, 2:30pm (GMT)

    Venue: D. João III Room (AUC)

    Videoconference: Colibri.Zoom (ID: 933 5324 6483)

    Moderation: Maria Helena da Cruz Coelho (U. Coimbra, CHSC)

    Scientific comment: José Francisco Meirinhos (U. Porto, IFUP)

  • CHSC Young researchers’ forum
    2020 - 2021
    Fórum de Jovens Investigadores do CHSC - 1.ª Sessão
    Fórum de Jovens Investigadores do CHSC - 1.ª Sessão

    A discussion and networking forum involving Master’s and PhD students, as well as early-career integrated researchers and collaborators within the CHSC, it encompasses monthly meetings for the presentation of research projects, drafts of dissertations and theses, articles and research papers to be presented, and historiographical debate over significant scientific works (books and articles). Additionally, the forum hosts workshops on the use of digital tools for research.

    Organising committee: Ana Maria Correia | Ana Rita Rocha | Cristóvão Mata | Roger Lee de Jesus

  • The Worlds of History. New perspectives and debates 2021/2022
    2021 - 2022

    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: Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam): At the edge: Europe in the fifteenth century

    Date: 29 October 2021 | 2.30 pm

    Venue: Anf. III | FLUC

    2nd session: Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile (Université de Paris): Micro-história numa escala global: a escrava Páscoa no Atlântico português do século XVII

    Date: 12 November 2021 | 2.30 pm

    Venue: Anf. III | FLUC

    3rd session: Sebastian Conrad (Freie Universität-Berlin): European history after the global turn

    Date: 11 March 2022 | 2.30 pm

    Venue: Anf. III | FLUC

    4th session: Andrew Thompson (Oxford University): Development’s Domain: Newly-Expanding Empire

    Date: 27 May 2022 | 2.30 pm

    Venue: Anf. III | FLUC

  • Summer school: What survives after death? Parish communities and death commemoration strategies in the medieval city
    2022 - 2023

    Organization: Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos | Ana Isabel Ribeiro

    Venue: Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra

    Date: between 17 June and 16 July 2022

    Audience: primary and secondary school teachers; students in higher education; holders of scholarships from the COMMEMORtis project; all those interested in Medieval Studies

    More information: https://commemortis.wixsite.com/my-site/post/curso-de-ver%C3%A3o

  • Workshop: Edição electrónica de textos: o Livro da Noa
    2022 - 2023
  • Universities: Networks and Identities – Reforms
    2022 - 2023

    This seminar, held four times a year, is intended to raise discussion and interrogations on the subject of universities from a glocal perspective. It encourages dialogue about the interconnections between educational institutions in Europe; their role in building identities and reflecting on the other(s); their relevance as epicenters and promoters of cultural and intellectual movements in Europe and beyond.

    Organising committee: Isabel Ferreira Mota | Maria Amélia Álvaro de Campos | Carlos Alves | José Luís Barbosa

    1st session: conference byCynthia Klestinec (Miami University, OH)

    Title: Reforms and the Study of Medicine: the case of University of Padua, before 1600

    Date: 8 April 2022, 3:30pm (Lisbon time)

    Moderation: Armando Norte (CH-ULisboa)

    Scientific comment: Alessandra Celati (U. Verona)

    2nd session: conference by Ana Cristina Araújo (U. Coimbra, CHSC)

    Title: Planos e redes internacionais da Reforma Pombalina da Universidade

    Date: 2 May 2022, 2:30pm (Lisbon time)

    Moderation: Dina Alves (U. Coimbra, CHSC)

    Scientific comment: Fernando Taveira da Fonseca (U. Coimbra, CHSC)

    3rd session: conference by Tom Holert (Harun Farocki Institut, Berlin)

    Title: Architectures of Human Capital. On the Theory Planning, Design, Usage and Contestation of the Built Environments of University Reform in the 1960s and 1970s

    Date: 11 November 2022, 2:30pm (Lisbon time)

    Moderation: Luís Trindade (U. Coimbra, CEIS20)

    Scientific comment: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (U. Coimbra, CES/CHSC)

    4th session: conference by Carlos Alves (U. Coimbra, CHSC)

    Title: As universidades de Coimbra e Salamanca na terceira vaga de reformas universitárias: mudança e continuidade

    Date: 2 December 2022, 2:30pm (Lisbon time)

    Venue: D. João III Room | University of Coimbra Archive

    Moderation: Margarida Neto (U. Coimbra, CHSC)

    Scientific comment: Fátima Nunes (IHC-U. Évora, IN2PAST)

  • Workshop COMMEMORtis
    2022 - 2023
  • The Worlds of History. New perspectives and debates 2022/2023
    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