​We live in a world of growing debate about the meaning of Democracy. The rise of extreme right-wing parties around the world and the urgent need to discuss liberal democracies place our generations in a key historical moment. It seems to be up also to historians to rethink what we can understand through democratic participation in a collective effort, looking at the past through new points of view.

This event proposes a discussion of the forms of democratic participation encountered by the people of the urban world of the late Middle Ages (XIVth to XVIth centuries). Here lived and worked different social groups, distinguished by their economic and professional status, but also by their greater or lesser capacity to intervene in the management of the res publica.

​For this purpose, we will host a roundtable discussion followed by a conference. In these events, we will count on the participation of 4 keynote speakers - distinguished historians within the European historiography on these themes - and 8 lecturers who will propose their papers.
 
The Call for Papers for The Voices of the People. Democratic participation in European Urban Centers in the Late Middle Ages is open to all researchers who study the Middle Ages from various perspectives: history, art history, archaeology, philosophy, literature, and sociology...

The conference will take place on the 25th and the 26th of May 2023 in the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. Each proposal will be evaluated by a scientific committee and the results will be announced by the end of March 2023.

All proposals should fall within one of the following thematic strands:

• Urban local government in late medieval Europe;
• The local governing elites;
• The political participation (formal or informal) of other social groups - the role of artisans/peasants/marginals;
• The role of women and/or ethnic-religious minorities in the management of urban community life;
• Administrative reforms on local power in the late Middle Ages;
• Movements/Moments of contestation/revolt in Europe of the late Middle Ages;
• The capacity of collective organization in medieval urban centers - confraternities and/or guilds;
• Defining concepts.

​Please, send your proposal by accessing the following link: Call for Papers - The Voices of the People

​The deadline for submission of proposals is 12th of February 2023 (Extended deadline). Each participant will be allowed a 20 minutes presentation followed by a discussion. The working languages are English (preferably), Portuguese, Castilian, and French.

Organized by Marco Alexandre Ribeiro and the Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies Research Group.

Scientific Committee
Ana Maria Rodrigues (CH-ULisboa, Court Studies and Diplomacy Research Group)
Armando Norte (CH-ULisboa, Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies Research Group)
Covadonga Valdaliso Casanova (CH-ULisboa, Uses of the Past Research Group)
Filipa Roldão(CH-ULisboa, Building and Connecting Empires Research Group, Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies Research Group)
Hermenegildo Fernandes (CH-ULisboa, Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies Research Group, Uses of the Past Research Group)
Manuela Santos Silva (CH-ULisboa, Court Studies and Diplomacy Research Group, Uses of the Past Research Group)

The International Colloquium Tutankhamun and Carter: Assessing the impact of a major archaeological find will be held in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, on the 16th and 17th February 2023. It will be a presential event but it will be also available on online streaming.

The event takes place as part of the cultural programme organized during the exhibition Faraós Superstars, held in the Temporary Galleries of the Foundation between 25th November 2022 and 6th March 2023.

The Colloquium aims at gathering scholars interested in the study of Egyptian collections and their recent history, with a particular focus on the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter’s career, and his enrolment with art collectors.

This meeting is organized by the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, on the occasion of the 1st Centenary of the opening of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. To attend the event in person, registration must be submitted until the 10th February 2023 to [email protected]. Given the limited seats, it is advisable to assure an early registration.

The event will be available in live streaming. The link will be provided in due time.

The importance of the Gender category for the analysis of History is nowadays unquestionable. Since the last decades of the 20th century the term has been used for historians to enlighten different perspectives of Women History, the differences between men and women, and a plural variety of research about queer identities. However, the relations between Gender or Women History and the Political History may still be underestimated.

As Morant i Ariño (2012) has pointed out, scholars have condemned the suggestion of using Gender in studies about war, diplomacy, Politics and others. Taking this into account, the Seminar History and Gender: Women under authoritarian regimes seeks to discuss how women’s lives may have been affected by dictatorships, the resistance movements, citizenship concepts and any other aspects related with the constraint of civil rights. Also, who were the women who supported those regimes? How did they engage in their propaganda?

The main idea is to debate how the ideologies of the regimes were translated into real Politics and their consequences. The Seminar is interested in works of any geography, but mainly focused on the 20th century. We encourage proposals about Women’s History, but also History of Childhood, Queer identities, and Gender Politics.

If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract (in Portuguese, Spanish or English) with no longer than 300 words with a short bio to the e-mail [email protected] until December 30th. The Seminar will be held online on January 31st.

 Organization
Elisa Fauth
Grupo de Investigação Usos do Passado | Uses of the Past Research Group

Support
LHSP - Laboratório de História Social e Política | Laboratory of Political and Social History
DHM - Rede de Investigação Direitas, História e Memória | Research Network Rights, History and Memory
UFJF - Programa de Pós-doutoramento em História | Graduate Program in History

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Resumo:
Manuel Salamanca Lopez, Professor Titular de Paleografia e Diplomática e Director do curso de Mestrado em Património Histórico Escrito da Faculdad de Geografia y Historia da Universidad Complutense de Madrid, visita-nos pela terceira vez para nos falar agora de Prácticas documentales en la Hispanoamérica colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII). Em três seminários a realizar nos dias 13, 14 e 15 de dezembro de 2022, apenas on-line, incidirá sobre o ambiente cultural da administração hispano-americana colonial, de um ponto de vista global e interdisciplinar, juntando aspetos históricos, gráficos e documentais.

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