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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Following the 2014 and 2015 editions, the Institute for Medieval Studies, the Center of History of Aquém and Além Mar, the Institute of Contemporary History and the Institute of History of Art are now coming together to organize the III International Workshop Changes and Continuities (MeC3). This initiative, which encompasses these four research units of […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Institute for Medieval Studies of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) and the City Council of Castelo de Vide are organizing on October 5-7, 2017, the II International Medieval Days of the Middle Ages, this year under the theme of "Space and Power in Medieval […]

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 […]

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 […]

Initiated by Prof. Luís Krus in 2002, these Colloquia are intended to be a space for discussion and interdisciplinary reflection on the study of the city of Lisbon during the medieval centuries. The commemorative evocation of the conquests of Lisbon in 1147 and of Alcácer do Sal in 1217 is the pretext for a wider […]

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 […]