Calendar

Visiting the IEM

The Institute for Medieval Studies has as one of its main goals that of internationalization, increasing scientific and academic exchange and networking with national and international research centers of scientific excellence that share similar goals as IEM in the field of Medieval Studies. In fulfilling this mission, the Institute annually welcomes several foreign researchers who […]

Cycle “Family archives & history research”

IEM - Institute of Medieval Studies, CHAM - Humanities Center, IHC - Institute of Contemporary History join to organize the cycle "Family Archives & Research in History". Focusing on the potentialities and challenges that archives represent for the writing of History, both from the perspective of historians and archivists, this cycle is divided in three […]

International Meeting “Ecclesia in chronicis: A geopolítica dos eclesiásticos através das crónicas no contexto da Guerra dos Cem Anos (1337-1453)”

The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM) promotes the organization of the International Meeting "Ecclesia in Chronicis: The geopolitics of ecclesiastics through the chronicles in the context of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)", which will take place on September 11, 2017, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA […]

International Conference “Loci Sepulcrales. Pantheons and other places of memory and burial in the Middle Ages”

This International conference will be devoted to Medieval Pantheons. The main aim is to promote a broad and innovative debate on the concept of “pantheon” throughout the Middle Ages, as well as their underlying intentions. It is also intended to address the specificity of themes that are intertwined with the construction, ornamentation and everyday uses […]

Splendid Encounters 6: Correspondence and Information Exchange in Diplomacy (1300-1750)

After visiting Bath, Budapest, Florence, Prague and Warsaw, the Splendid Encounters conference series marks its sixth edition in Lisbon. IEM and CHAM are thus associated with the Premodern Diplomats Network, an international network of undisputed expression in the panorama of interdisciplinary studies on diplomacy, its practices and players. For the first time embracing the pre-modern […]

Autumn School 2017

The Institute for Medieval Studies (IEM – NOVA FCSH) promotes, with the Municipality of Castelo de Vide an Autumn School for Master’s and Ph.D. students in medieval studies, that will take place during the 2nd and the 3rd of October 2017 in Castelo de Vide. It is intended that students can enhance their knowledge and skills […]

Conference «Urban Vacant Land and Wasteland 1000-2010», by Peter Clark

Professor Peter Clark (Univ. Helsinki) will be in Lisbon to give a lecture with the theme "Urban Vacant Land and Wasteland 1000-2010". This is a joint organization between the IEM - Institute of Medieval Studies and CHAM - Humanities Center, which will take place on October 9, 17:30, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and […]

Interdisciplinary Conference on Iberian Manuscripts

The Interdisciplinary Conference on Iberian Manuscripts brings together scholars with a long-standing record of research on Iberian manuscripts, and experts from institutions such as libraries, archives and museums where the manuscripts are currently kept and their preservation, conservation and eventual restoration usually take place. The Conference’s main goal is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on Iberian manuscripts among […]

Conference: “Pensar e ler o espaço. Formas de espacialidade, história e metodologia (séc. XII-XVI)”, by Angelo Cattaneo

Space has established itself as a useful analytical category for understanding mentalities from a historical, cultural, aesthetic and political perspective. 'Space' can be real or imagined. It can indicate a specific physical location or embody abstract issues of cosmology, cosmogaphy, politics, linguistics, art, and religion. From all these perspectives, 'space' is not just a geographical […]