“Uncovering the unknown past. Contentcreation and science communication for history and cultural and local tourism”

This program aims to enable students to produce historically based cultural content through equipping them with the tools necessary for communicating science from history and archives within the framework of cultural and local tourism. Throughout the six modules of this course, students receive interdisciplinary training in the field of history, archives, cultural content creation and communications science. They also enter into contact with companies dedicated to producing cultural content and cultural and local tourism. The training program is developed in cooperation with the ERC project VINCULUM dedicated to studying the phenomena interlinking Southern Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries.

Modules:
1st Semester – Historical Contexts / Archival Research / Local History
2nd Semester – Historical Cultural Contents / Communicating Science / Cultural Entrepreneurship

Professors: Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa, Alice Borges Gago, Filipa Lopes, Miguel Metelo de Seixas, António Camões Gouveia. Featuring the participation of: João Galvão Teles and Lourenço Correia de Matos (LMT Consultores), Inês Ribeiro and Raquel Policarpo (Time Travellers) and Helena Mantas (SCML).

Classes take place in an online format on Thursdays from 6pm to 9pm, from 30 September 2021 to 12 May 2022.

This course is accredited by CCPFC.

Registration for this long term open course (2 semesters) is open until 28.09.2021.