The closing session of project VINCULUM, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to IHC – NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST researcher Maria de Lurdes Rosa, will take place on 23 February 2026, at 3 p.m. (Lisbon time) at NOVA FCSH – School of Social and Human Sciences, Av. de Berna, in Lisbon.

Physicists Vítor Cardoso and Henrique Leitão, both winners of ERC Advanced Grants, are invited guest speakers, in a session that will be attended by the Rector of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Paulo Pereira, and NOVA FCSH’s Dean, Alexandra Curvelo.

The documentary VINCULUM: um caminho de investigação científica / a journey of scientific research will premiere and the science communication programme ‘Manter Vínculos com a História: Passados Longos para um Presente Consciente’ (‘Keeping Entails with History: Long Pasts for a Conscious Present’) will be presented.  This programme is to be developed from 2026 onwards, in the framework of IHC/IN2PAST.

Vítor Cardoso is a researcher and professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, and he runs the STRONG Group/Center of Gravity (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark). Henrique Leitão is a Principal Investigator at CIUHCT and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science – Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Pro-Rector of ULisboa and member of IN2PAST’s Internal Evaluation Committee.

The primary focus of VINCULUM (https://doi.org/10.3030/819734), a five-year project with funding of over €1.5 million, was the of study entailment, a legal institution that framed kinship structures and organized heritage transmission in premodern southern Europe societies, namely explaining how entailment became possible, how it functioned, and why it lasted for so many centuries.

If you wish to take part in this closing session, please confirm your presence until February 19 to vinculum@fcsh.unl.pt. If you cannot attend, it is possible to follow the event remotely via Zoom, with continuous transmission, here.