Plano estratégico |
Strategic project |
Connecting Societies
The primary mission of the CH-ULisboa is to observe and inquire societies through a connective and comparative approach that furthers and deepens our understanding of the Past.
Communities throughout history and the Human experience and achievements they encompass should not be analysed under the weight of their supposed motionless and isolated geniality. Such an assessment excludes the human capacity to adapt, adjust, and innovate, often in response to historical change and connection to the broader world of interconnected histories. Here, the interplay of both societies and individuals offers the documented realisation of their movements and representation of their perspectives. History frequently shows how societies, always in flux and both expansive and inflective in their motions, are not to be understood only about themselves, but instead as connected and to the broader global stage.
The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon fully embraces this perspective through its strategic programme for the 2018-2022 quinquennium. Furthermore, the Research Unit and the proposals submitted within this programme, advocate the view that Portugal and Lisbon are viewpoints particularly prone for conducting historical research and contemplation along those methodological and historiographical premises. Moreover, this programme follows the already built capacity and developed skills and expertise within the Centre, whose research tends towards a methodological framework that favours the inquiry of interactions and particular subjects that display and question them.
These fields of enquiry continue to be shown in the already active research groups – Uses of the Past, Building and Connecting Empires, Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies, Court Studies and Diplomacy, and Military History – but key issues will broaden further the unit’s ongoing efforts. Environmental history, a field which has been playing a growing role within the Centre, will be formalised with the development of a dedicated research group in 2019. The study of Tourism and Leisure throughout history and across geographies, a subject given to societal encounters and interactions, will be developed through an informal working group. The CH-ULisboa also intends to renew the field of Maritime History, a deep-rooted area of expertise of the Centre, as the approach that often unifies the connected worlds under survey. Finally, Lisbon, a long-lasting multicultural community, ever connecting the Iberian Peninsula to various distant regions and acting as the junction of cultures and societies, is a prime case-study for the Centre’s proposed approach. Lisbon as a site often enable the observation of the intersecting societies, groups, and individuals at a global scale from a local, though connected, perspective.
Further research is expected to favour relationships between societies and their connectedness, particularly concerning the geographically ample interactions they convey. Three research lines, transversal to the research groups, aiming to advance and steer this approach: Mediterranean Studies – reflecting the historical relationships of the Iberian Peninsula within the Mediterranean World and its diversity; African and Atlantic Studies – considering the intertwining of African, American, and European histories on the construction of the Atlantic World; and Asian and Euro-Asian Studies – furthering our knowledge of the regions and societies bordered by the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The strategic programme also anticipates the reinforcement of the Unit’s participation within scientific networks, as well as in establishing international partnerships. Further, the Centre will continue to adopt the recommendations and procedures concerning the Open Science directives, mostly through sustained investment in Digital Humanities resources and skills. These initiatives are to be intertwined with the projects currently being developed, including the availability through Open Access of essential bibliography edited by the CH-ULisboa and the publications of its researchers. Lastly, the publishing initiatives of the Research Unit will continue to abide by the best editorial practices of scientific reviewing and Open Access publishing. In fact, the strategic programme of the Centre aims to transition these efforts through a new Open Access, peer-reviewed flagship book series – Lisbon Historical Studies.
Communities throughout history and the Human experience and achievements they encompass should not be analysed under the weight of their supposed motionless and isolated geniality. Such an assessment excludes the human capacity to adapt, adjust, and innovate, often in response to historical change and connection to the broader world of interconnected histories. Here, the interplay of both societies and individuals offers the documented realisation of their movements and representation of their perspectives. History frequently shows how societies, always in flux and both expansive and inflective in their motions, are not to be understood only about themselves, but instead as connected and to the broader global stage.
The Centre for History of the University of Lisbon fully embraces this perspective through its strategic programme for the 2018-2022 quinquennium. Furthermore, the Research Unit and the proposals submitted within this programme, advocate the view that Portugal and Lisbon are viewpoints particularly prone for conducting historical research and contemplation along those methodological and historiographical premises. Moreover, this programme follows the already built capacity and developed skills and expertise within the Centre, whose research tends towards a methodological framework that favours the inquiry of interactions and particular subjects that display and question them.
These fields of enquiry continue to be shown in the already active research groups – Uses of the Past, Building and Connecting Empires, Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies, Court Studies and Diplomacy, and Military History – but key issues will broaden further the unit’s ongoing efforts. Environmental history, a field which has been playing a growing role within the Centre, will be formalised with the development of a dedicated research group in 2019. The study of Tourism and Leisure throughout history and across geographies, a subject given to societal encounters and interactions, will be developed through an informal working group. The CH-ULisboa also intends to renew the field of Maritime History, a deep-rooted area of expertise of the Centre, as the approach that often unifies the connected worlds under survey. Finally, Lisbon, a long-lasting multicultural community, ever connecting the Iberian Peninsula to various distant regions and acting as the junction of cultures and societies, is a prime case-study for the Centre’s proposed approach. Lisbon as a site often enable the observation of the intersecting societies, groups, and individuals at a global scale from a local, though connected, perspective.
Further research is expected to favour relationships between societies and their connectedness, particularly concerning the geographically ample interactions they convey. Three research lines, transversal to the research groups, aiming to advance and steer this approach: Mediterranean Studies – reflecting the historical relationships of the Iberian Peninsula within the Mediterranean World and its diversity; African and Atlantic Studies – considering the intertwining of African, American, and European histories on the construction of the Atlantic World; and Asian and Euro-Asian Studies – furthering our knowledge of the regions and societies bordered by the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The strategic programme also anticipates the reinforcement of the Unit’s participation within scientific networks, as well as in establishing international partnerships. Further, the Centre will continue to adopt the recommendations and procedures concerning the Open Science directives, mostly through sustained investment in Digital Humanities resources and skills. These initiatives are to be intertwined with the projects currently being developed, including the availability through Open Access of essential bibliography edited by the CH-ULisboa and the publications of its researchers. Lastly, the publishing initiatives of the Research Unit will continue to abide by the best editorial practices of scientific reviewing and Open Access publishing. In fact, the strategic programme of the Centre aims to transition these efforts through a new Open Access, peer-reviewed flagship book series – Lisbon Historical Studies.
