The application period for the new Postgraduate Diploma in Arquivistica Histórica (Historical Archivistics) is now open. The first phase runs from 1st February to 31st March and the second from 31st May to 30th June.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Historical Archivistics, which will be both face-to-face and online, provides theoretical and practical training in an innovative and emerging area of study that promotes an interdisciplinary approach between History, Information Science and Archival Science. The course’s central aim is to endow students with the tools to understand archives – in their dual sense of memory institutions and documentary collections – as complex social, political and cultural constructions that are organically linked to the historical evolution of their producing entities.
This program seeks to establish create a common field of studies, innovative and unparalleled in other higher education institutions in Portugal, drawing on three areas that are and have been affirmed as particular strengths of NOVA FCSH: History, Information Management and Curating and Historical Archivistics. This field of studies enables the filling of an increasingly critical gap in training dedicated to archival studies while rejecting any return to a traditional vision of this knowledge: instead relating it to Information Science, while valuing the contributions of the Social Sciences and Humanities, in particular History. On the other hand, this field is particularly beneficial for trainees arriving from the History area, where archival literacy is under-represented as a specialist training field.
It should also be noted that the option to include Archival Science in the multidisciplinary matrix of this program aligns with the most recent international trends, where “Archival Science”, under the Anglo-Saxon matrix, constitutes a field undergoing robust development, with directions as important as the relationship between archives and human rights, archives and gender and ethnic equality, archives and democracy, archives and identity – and with the important characteristic that, in all these fields, the historical perspective is highly valued.