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Living Antarctica, Traditional Games, Alentejo Cookery, Sewing Traditions, Art in Mozambique and 500 Years of Camões: these are some of the themes for IN2PAST’s participation in the European Heritage Days 2024 – Heritage of Routes, Networks and Connections, with presentations, workhops, get-togethers (‘tertúlias’), seminars, demonstrations, round tables and musical moments. These Heritage Days are celebrated on September 20th to the 22nd all over Europe, Portugal included. IN2PAST is present with activities co-organised by the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), two of our seven research units.
On the morning of September 20th, we invite you on a trip to Antarctica, to discover the rich cultural heritage of the frozen continent. It will be a video plunge into the daily lives of the research teams of project ALIGHT – Antarctic Living Heritage, coordinated by Gerusa Radicchi and moderated by Vera Lazzaretti, CRIA – Iscte / IN2PAST researchers. It starts at 10 am in the J. J. Laginha Auditorium, Ed. 1, Iscte, in Lisbon.
Also on Friday, and in partnership with the Polytechnic Institute of Beja (IPBeja), CRIA / IN2PAST brings us the get-together (‘tertúlia’) ‘Playing and Learning’, an exploration of games and play as part of lifelong learning, at 10 am in the School of Education (ESEB) at IPBeja, in the city of Beja; and the Alentejo Food Workshop, at 5:30 pm, in the tavern-restaurant A Pipa, also in Beja, a lecture and tasting of traditional Alentejo cuisine.
On Saturday, September 21st, at 10 am, ESEB/ IPBeja hosts the get-together ‘‘The Permitted and the Forbidden’, a discussion on food taboos and cultural diversity. Still on Saturday, HERCULES – University of Évora researcher Catarina Miguel talks about ‘Aromas Itinerarium Salutis: the European Cultural Route for the Study and Safeguarding of Historic Pharmacies and Medicinal Gardens’, at 3:30 pm, in the Routes, Networks and Connections Panel held at the Frei Manuel do Cenáculo National Museum, in Évora.
And then on Sunday, September 22nd, IN2PAST returns to Lisbon for ‘Evolving Bandim: The intertwined world’, at the National Costume Museum (Museu Nacional do Traje), with its fantastic garden (the Monteiro-Mor Botanical Park).
Co-organised by the museum and Cooperativa Bandim, a collective of women from 21 countries, based in Lisbon, which crosses different sewing traditions to create contemporary collections of original textile products, with the collaboration of CRIA / IN2PAST, the activity runs from 10 am until 5 pm, with an exhibition of different Bandim Collections, a demonstration of some of techniques used (artist showcase), and a photographic exhibition of Bandim collections and activities, all in the main courtyard of the museum.
From 3 pm until 5 pm, the programme is completed by a round table entitled ‘Networks and connections. The Bandim project’, with presentation by Dóris Santos, IHA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST researcher and Director of the National Costume Museum, followed by interventions on background by José Mapril and Sónia Vespeira de Almeida (CRIA – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), a presentation of the Bandim project by Milene Pereira and Nasrin Monalisa (members of the board of Bandim), testimonies, questions & answers, and a final musical moment with Monisha Sur (Bangladesh).
On Wednesday September 25th, the conference ‘A Museum for Art in Mozambique’ takes place at the Lisbon Geographical Society (Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa), in downtown Lisbon, from 3 to 4 pm, co-organised by IHC – Universidade de Évora / IN2PAST and the Lisbon Geographical Society (LGS). The speaker is Alda Costa, from Eduardo Mondlane University, and you can attend online, via Zoom. There is also a bibliographical exhibition on the subject of museums in Mozambique, with copies belonging to the LGS Library.
On Saturday, September 28th, from 3 to 4:30 pm, we invite you to the conference and exhibition ‘IdentiCidade: Urban Art in Maputo and the aesthetic and political transformations in the urban form of the former Lourenço Marques’, at the Portuguese Academy of Ex-Libris (Academia Portuguesa de Ex-Libris), in Lisbon, co-organised with IHC – University of Évora. The exhibition ‘Mozambique, charm and art in ex-libris’, organised by Segismundo R. Pinto, will be followed by the conference by Alda Costa.
Already held at LGS, on September 17h, the seminar ‘500 Years of Camões’ evoked the 500th anniversary of the birth of Portuguese major poet and literary figure Luís de Camões, presenting the influence of his life and work on different forms of artistic production in Portugal. This seminar, accompanied by an ex-libris exhibition and an exhibition of easel painting by painter and sculptor Luís Vieira-Baptista, was co-organised by IHC / IN2PAST, the LGS’s Heritage Studies Section, and the Portuguese Academy of Ex-Libris, as part of the 2024 edition of the European Heritage Days.
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IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory is funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. under reference LA/P/0132/2020 (DOI 10.54499/LA/P/0132/2020)
