NEI 2024 in Evora aftermath
© HERCULES Laboratory – University of Évora / IN2PAST HERCULES – UÉvora / IN2PAST in charge of local organisation Challenging citizens in Évora: the aftermath of NEI 2024 The European Researchers’ Night in the European Capital of Culture 2027 30/09/2024 (updated 1/10/2024) ‘Challenge yourself with us!’ was one of the mottos chosen by the HERCULES […]
‘Decante’: wine as Évora’s transdisciplinary heritage

Developed during IN2PAST’s 1st Doctoral School ‘Decante’: wine as Évora’s transdisciplinary heritage An In2Future Boot Camp project 30/09/2024 *Decante (‘Decant’) is a play on words with the phrases ‘decanting wine’ and ‘cante alentejano’, the polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal, declared by UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity This video is the result of the […]
Information systematisation for the Kamayurá collection

Information systematisation for the Kamayurá collection Identifying, organising, digitising images… and adding context InDigit exploratory project kicks off in September 20/09/2024 Systematising the information regarding the Kamayurá collection kept at the Portuguese National Museum of Ethnology (NME), in Lisbon, is one of the first tasks for project ‘InDigit: The indigenous peoples of the South American […]
ERC Advanced Grant awarded to CRIA’s Helena Machado
Sociologist is international reference ERC Advanced Grant awarded to CRIA’s Helena Machado 2.4 million euros to study facial recognition technologies 17/09/2024 The global impacts of facial recognition technologies will be at the heart of CRIA – University of Minho / IN2PAST researcher Helena Machado’s research over the next five years. Her new project, ‘Facial Recognition […]
Project Van Goyen final video

IN2PAST presents… Unlocking the secrets of eight small Van Goyen´s paintings Exploratory project final video available on a screen near you 12/09/2024 Why did a team of six researchers decide to submit Jan van Goyen’s paintings to dendrochronological dating* and X-ray computed tomography? Among other in situ imaging techniques and complementary microanalysis techniques… And how […]
ERC Starting Grant awarded to IHC’s Arturo Zoffmann
© NOVA FCSH Only five projects selected in Portugal ERC Starting Grant awarded to IHC’s Arturo Zoffmann 1.5 million euros to study ‘the constitutional road to dictatorships’ 10/09/2024 Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez, IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST researcher, has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to begin an ambitious five-year comparative […]
Meet our new holders of a PhD Studentship in a Non-academic Environment
With IN2PAST as academic host institution Meet our new holders of a PhD Studentship in a Non-academic Environment 2024 Call by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia 27/08/2024 IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory shall welcome at least three new PhD Studentship holders under the 2024 Call for PhD Studentships – Specific Line of Application in […]
Studentship for PhD project on tapestry as resistance to visual ephemerality
Academic hosting by IN2PAST Studentship for PhD project on tapestry as resistance to visual ephemerality FCT BDANA 2024 Call 27/08/2024 ‘The Gesture- Pause: Tapestry as Resistance to Visual Ephemerality in Contemporary Society’ (‘O Gesto-Pausa: A Tapeçaria como Resistência à Efemeridade Visual na Sociedade Contemporânea’) is the title of the project that earned Emanuela Constância Boccia […]
Studentship for PhD project on the political elites of Covilhã in the 20th century
Academic hosting by IN2PAST Studentship for PhD project on the political elites of Covilhã in the 20th century FCT BDANA 2024 Call 27/08/2024 A son of the Portuguese city of Covilhã, Manuel Carapito da Conceição (IHC – University of Évora / IN2PAST) chose to analyse the social movements of the governing elites of the ‘factory […]
Studentship for PhD project ‘Exhibitions, colonial collections and their (in)visibilities (1884-1940)’
Academic hosting by IN2PAST Studentship for PhD project ‘Exhibitions, colonial collections and their (in)visibilities (1884-1940)’ FCT BDANA 2024 Call 27/08/2024 Do ethnographic objects of transnational origin reveal more about Portuguese colonial history and the perpetuation of institutional violence than they do about their cultural contexts of origin? This is the hypothesis to be explored by […]