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• 28 fév 2016

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Representation

  Penetrable / Traversable / Habitable

  Exploring spatial environments by women artists in the 1960s and 1970s

  This conference aims to create a forum for discussing, in a cross-cultural perspective, spatial environments realized by women artists in the 1960s and 1970s. The heterogeneous qualities of these environments, their very diverse functioning, different aesthetic as well as cultural and political inscriptions, suggest the need to expand and rethink Pérez-Oramas´ distinction. In this sense and in the context of feminist art historical scholarship this conference seeks to encourage the articulation of new exploratory categories potentially capable of apprehending the works´ singularities as well as questioning the common threads that could connect them to other practices.

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• 31 jan 2016

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Thought

  Utopia(s): worlds and frontiers of the imaginary

  Second International Multidisciplinary Congress Proportion Harmonies Identities (PHI) 2016

  Five hundred years ago, on the 20^th October, Thomas More published the princeps edition of Utopia. To celebrate this event, The Research Centre in Architecture, Urban Landscape and Design (CIAUD) of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon (FA-ULisboa), The Histoy Centre for Global History (CHAM) of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Universidade dos Açores (FCSH-UNL- UA) invite researchers from different areas cultures to gather in Lisbon, the October 20^th to 22^nd, 2016, for the International and Multidisciplinary Congress Proportion Harmonies Identities 2016 – Utopia(s): Worlds and the Frontiers of the Imagination.

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• 31 déc 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Africa

  Resistance and Empire, new approaches and comparisons

  Since the early twentieth century, the notion of resistance became common currency in colonial language and anti-colonial ideologies to refer to military, political, and other forms of countering the authority of the colonizing institutions and agents in the colonies. After World War II and the boom of decolonization, it became an important tool in the critical and conceptual analysis of colonialism as a relationship of domination and opposition. Consequently, a wealth of studies was produced that focused on the ways though which indigenous people actively opposed, rebelled, or contested – militarily, politically, symbolically, culturally – the colonizing presence of Europeans. In the 1990s-2000s the validity of taking on “resistance” as a privileged concept and empirical topic was criticized for reducing the colonial phenomenon to a simplistic dichotomy – and since it appeared to have lost much of its early vitality in historical and anthropological research on empires and colonialism. Yet, since decolonization, ideas of “liberation” and anti-colonial resistance did not lose their significance as powerful tropes in retrospective nationalist readings of the birth of post- colonial nation-states. More recently, across the social sciences, “resistance” as a concept and a research trope seems to be revived, and a trans-disciplinary field of ‘resistance studies’ appears to come into emergence. What it means to study “resistance” both conceptually and comparatively in colonial and imperial history today?

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• 10 nov 2015

  Lisbon

  Miscellaneous information - Economy

  E se o envelhecimento não fosse um problema?

   

  O projeto UAW – “United at Work” é um projeto de experimentação social cujo principal objetivo é analisar a oportunidade, importância e adequabilidade de promover projetos de empreendedorismo intergeracional como forma de combater o problema emergente na sociedade portuguesa do desemprego jovem e sénior altamente qualificado, promovendo ao mesmo tempo o trabalho de criação conjunta de projetos empresariais. Esta experiência tem em consideração a complementaridade das qualidades humanas e profissionais, do conhecimento e da experiência de jovens e de seniores e tem por base o pressuposto da alteração fundamental verificada no mercado de trabalho, com o aumento da incerteza e da natureza temporária de muitos empregos, e da relevância e eficiência do empreendedorismo como instrumento para promover o autoemprego em relação aos desempregados altamente qualificados.

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• 21 oct 2015

  Lisbon

  Study days - Urban studies

  Metodologias visuais na investigação: Contributos para a compreensão dos territórios periurbanos na AML

  Partindo da apresentação e discussão de alguns dos resultados obtidos no âmbito do projecto de investigação PERIURBAN, centrado na discussão de cenários para a sustentabilidade dos territórios periurbanos na área metropolitana de Lisboa, pretende-se com este seminário  discutir o potencial da utilização das metodologias e abordagens visuais na pesquisa em ciências sociais. São focados e discutidos os desafios e problemas concretos sentidos no processo de pesquisa, desenvolvido num contexto multidisciplinar, bem como as metodologias concretas aplicadas e os principais resultados obtidos, enquadrando esta experiência noutras que têm vindo a ser desenvolvidas no âmbito deste grupo de investigação. 

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• 30 oct 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Middle Ages

  Legal mobility and artistic, intellectual and cultural practices in Europe and in the Middle Ages (13th-15th century)

  Medieval Europe in Motion 3

  L’objectif principal de ce nouveau colloque, en continuité thématique avec les deux éditions précédentes, est d’analyser les phénomènes de circulation et de mobilité des élites lettrées (clercs, universitaires, praticiens), des enlumineurs, des manuscrits, des textes, des modèles artistiques et des idées liés à la pratique du droit dans le territoire européen avec une attention particulière pour les contrées méridionales (péninsule Ibérique, France du Midi et Italie).

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• 20 jui 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  The Paradigmatic City: Origins, Avatars, Frontiers

  Ao longo da história da civilização, as cidades oferecem-nos paradigmas. Elas personificam formas ideais de vida social; surgem como capitais de impérios, mas também como centros de uma identidade nacional, cultural e religiosa; são focos de desenvolvimento económico e político. Todas estas formas se revestem de particular interesse para este congresso. Muitas cidades podem ser consideradas paradigmáticas: Atenas ou Roma, na Antiguidade Clássica; Veneza e Florença, como reflexo das dinâmicas transformações do Renascimento; Londres, Paris e Berlim, como capitais da Modernidade; Nova Iorque, Rio de Janeiro, Tóquio ou Xangai, como epítomes das novas metrópoles em franco crescimento.

   

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• 16 mai 2015

  Lisbon

  Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

  Ética, ambiente e antropologia: até onde podemos ir na investigação em ciências sociais?

  III Fórum APA

  Existirão limites éticos nas práticas dos antropólogos? Reconhecem-se áreas de actuação e intervenção distintas assim como contextos interdisciplinares que, cada vez mais, marcam as experiências dos antropólogos. Muitos deles, ou quase sempre, são arenas políticas onde se confrontam saberes competitivos, num mundo que não é só de indivíduos humanos, de vivos, do aqui e do agora.

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• 30 jui 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Work on screen: social memories and identities through cinema

  Since the early 20^th century, work in contemporary societies has suffered several processes of change, which, in the context of the current economic and employment crisis, demand equating the structuring of social identities that are built and modified through work. During this period, cinema has been a privileged vehicle for the creation and dissemination of representations on work and, therefore, the shaping of social memories. This international and multidisciplinary seminar aims at gathering and discussing contributions that analyse the social processes involved in the formation of work identities and representations through cinema. It welcomes papers that highlight the main continuities and discontinuities of work memory narratives from the early 20^th century to the present days, based on the analysis of specific films or bodies of films (both documentaries and fictions) and their reception.

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• 26 avr 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Glazed Ceramics in Architectural Heritage

  Glaze Arch 2015

  Glazed ceramics are used in architecture since at least the 6th century BC, as the magnificent Ishtar Gate, partially reconstructed in the Berlin Pergamon Museum, testifies. Glazed tiles decorated with intricate geometric patterns and Arabic writing were for centuries, and still are, in widespread use in the Islamic countries and for westerners remain one of the most recognizable and constant marks of the beauty of mosques. From their origin in the Middle East and flourishing in the Islamic world, glazed tiles spread to Spain and Portugal, to Italy, the Low Countries and most of Europe. Modern majolica was perfected in Italy during the 15th century and saw an early architectural integration in the works of Luca Della Robbia. A representative work is the vault of the Capilla del Cardinal del Portugallo in the church of San Miniato al Monte (Florence) where the tondi protrude from a covering of patterned glazed tiles, curiously of the same pattern as later used in façade glazed tiles manufactured in Lisbon in the 19th century.

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• 02 mar 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Tropical Medicine and Global Health in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

  Second Luso-Brazilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine

  The Luso-Brazilian Meetings on the History of Tropical Medicine have always sought to strike a balance between historiographical reflections, which help develop a broader comparative analysis, and case-studies examining different national, colonial, post-colonial, international and global contexts. We will continue to favor both approaches at the 1st meeting. The bulk of historiographical research has explored the period in the post-World War II. This meeting will work with a broader focus by examining the roles played by countries like Portugal, Brazil and Spain, and their connections with imperial and post-colonial research and practice.

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• 27 mar 2015

  28 mar 2015

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Representation

  Rehabilitation and Re-use of Modern Movement Architecture

  Seminar gathering in Lisbon international experts in architecture rehabilitation and urbanism of the Modern Movement. The seminar organized by Docomomo International will take place at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, on the 27th of March. In the last decades, the architectural heritage of the Modern Movement appeared more at risk than during any other period. At the end of the 1980s, many modern masterpieces had already been demolished or had changed beyond recognition. This seminar about Rehabilitation and Re-use of the Modern Movement Architecture aims at bringing together inspiring viewpoints about this global problem.

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• 13 fév 2015

  Lisbon

  Study days - Middle Ages

  The study of manufactured objects in medieval archaeology and the study of illuminated manuscripts

  Methodologies compared

  O objetivo deste workshop é comparar, por meio da análise de alguns casos específicos, os métodos científicos utilizados no estudo dos manuscritos iluminados (história da arte) e dos artefactos encontrados no âmbito da arqueologia medieval. Em ambas as áreas os contextos de criação e utilização dos objectos são fundamentais para a sua caracterização e compreensão. A partir de casos específicos tentar-se-á traçar semelhanças e diferenças nos métodos de análise que caracterizam as duas disciplinas históricas. Deste modo pretende-se compreender em que medida é possível adaptar e aplicar metodologias diversas de modo a obter um conhecimento mais profundo do objecto e do seu contexto.

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• 28 fév 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Migrations in the midst of instability: practices, discourses and representations

  The conference aims to revisit emigration until nowadays and will focus on contexts of instability and processes of political, economic and social change, regardless of the overall volume of exits, in order to identify peculiarities and similarities between different moments.

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• 31 mar 2015

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - Epistemology and methodology

  Digital Humanities in Portugal: building bridges and breaking barriers in the digital age

  Discussion about the role of the Humanities in academia and society has a long history. The confluence of this debate with the changes brought about by digital technology is not new either: one cannot speak of "new technologies" for the Humanities when many researchers turned to digital methods at least four decades ago, in disciplines as diverse as Linguistics, History or Literary Studies. The Conference “Digital Humanities in Portugal” aims precisely to stimulate these intersections, opening up a forum for discussion and sharing of research results or ongoing projects in this field of knowledge.

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• 04 mar 2015

  06 mar 2015

  05 mar 2015

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Europe

  Medieval Manuscripts in Motion 2015

  This International Conference aims to follow up the initiative "Medieval Europe in Motion: the circulation of artists, images, patterns and ideas, from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast", held in Lisbon in 2013 and organized by the Institute for Medieval Studies of the Nova University Lisbon.With the aim of creating academic, scientific and organizational synergies, this second edition will be organized in collaboration with two other international institutions, the University of Cantabria and the University of León. The main scientific of the event, as it was the previous conference, is to analyse the phenomenon of circulation, motion and mobility of people, forms and ideas during the Middle Ages. This time, however, the kind of works under consideration will be illuminated manuscripts. This three-day Conference aims thus to conduct a critical and constructive revision of research on Iberian Book Illumination in the Middle Ages, proposing new questions to be discussed.

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• 15 déc 2014

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Schengen: people, borders and mobility

  In the era of globalization, which benefits the implementation of policies of both stimulus or repression for the movement of people, academics have been fostering discussion around topics and concepts related with migration, borders and mobility. This epistemological basis enables us to apprehend the complexity of the European area and invites us to examine the boundaries or lack of it that separate territories. The conference also seeks to analyze the changes in the concepts of border and border control; to understand how residents in the Schengen Area – “native” or immigrants – build their national and transnational identity; to assess the evolution of mobility within the Schengen Area, which in turn allows us to perceive the relations between regions, states and individuals and to explain the various impacts of the Schengen agreements in the territories, people and societies and their border experiences.

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• 19 déc 2014

  Lisbon

  Call for papers - History

  Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges

  Censorship in the dynamics of cultural exchanges in early modern times

  This panel is about a technology in the early modern ideological and textual control. It debates upon the censorship corrective procedures. In the framework of reception studies and communication theories, censorship as a whole is both a medium and a source of noise and perturbation of the message. It is considered as an obstacle and a positive element to its development. The phenomena about negotiation between intellectual and material producers of knowledge (works of Raz-Krakotzkin, Jostock) lead to reflect on the interactions between the actors of politics of control. These often vary due to local, chronological, political and religious circumstances. But censorship studies tend to localize the fields of investigation.

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• 20 oct 2014

  21 oct 2014

  Lisbon

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  O culto medieval de São Vicente

  Textos, imagens, problemas

  Trata-se de uma iniciativa do Instituto de Estudos Medievais da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade de Lisboa, que terá lugar em Lisboa, nas instalações da Faculdade na Avenida de Berna, nos dias 20 e 21 de Outubro de 2014, organizada em quatro sessões («O culto de São Vicente na Península Ibérica», «O culto a São Vicente no Mosteiro de São Vicente de Fora», «O culto a São Vicente na Sé de Lisboa» e «Novos horizontes devocionais»), com comunicações a cargo de reputados investigadores de diversas universidades, nacionais e estrangeiras, que apresentarão as contribuições mais significativas e abrangentes para a compreensão do culto de São Vicente.

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• 08 sep 2014

  09 sep 2014

  10 sep 2014

  Alcântara

  Conference, symposium - History

  The governance of the Atlantic ports (XIVth-XXIth century)

  Policies and economic dynamics

  Ports and port cities have stood out over time as important categories of historical analysis. The study of port systems and the internal dynamics of European ports, side by side with navigation circuits and international commerce has generated a vast literature.In the contexts of the first and the second globalization processes it is essential to develop crossing studies to place ports within globally articulated networks. The relationships between European, African and American Atlantic seaports are fundamental to the understanding of overall dynamics related to the economy, population, policy and culture. A wide European historiography confirms the importance of the seaport spaces and dynamics. This tends to be reinforced with innovative contributions, focused for the last decades upon port systems analysis. 

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