Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies
Coordinator: Carlos Almeida
Co-coordinators: Armando Norte, Filipa Roldão, Inês Lourinho, and Rui Rocha
The Cultural Encounters and Intersecting Societies Research Group studies the cultural, social, and political dynamics generated by historical experiences of cultural encounters. Starting from the Mediterranean and the Iberian Peninsula, it aims to study intersection as a cultural practice in the different continents and territories where it occurs, covering a long chronological period from Antiquity to the Contemporary World. It analyses how social practices and discourses, as well as political instruments, contribute to the definition of identities. In addition, research covers the contexts of encounters generated by European expansion in the fifteenth century and recognises the role of local cosmologies in their relation to Jewish, Christian, and Islamic worldviews in the construction of contact societies and languages. Three thematic research strands are privileged:
- Religiousness: religious horizons;
- Written culture: production, circulation, and transmission of texts;
- Material culture: meanings, use and circulation of objects.
As part of its scientific dissemination, this Research Group, in addition to organising conferences, and national and international congresses, is committed to regularly organising two cycles of seminars with different objectives and aimed at different audiences:
- Test Tubes - History in the Laboratory;
- Seminars on the History of Africa.
Research Projects
- African Ivories in the Atlantic World: a reassessment of Luso-African ivories (PTDC/EPHPAT/1810/2014)
- Œconomia Studii. Funding, management and resources of the Portuguese university: a comparative analysis (13th-16th centuries) (PTDC/EPHHIS/3154/2014)
- iForal. Portuguese municipal charters in the Middle Ages: an historical and linguistic approach in the digital era (PTDC/HAR-HIS/5065/2020).
- CRYPTO-BOOKS. Re-enacting the Portuguese royal libraries in the late middle-ages and early modern period. A new approach to Portuguese literary court culture and its intersections with Europe (CEECIND/06890/2022).
- BODY&SOUL. Representations of the body and of the soul in Portuguese medieval art and literature. The imaginary of Western civilization in the making. (UIDB/04311/2020)
Research Networks (selection)
- AIRN - African Ivories Research Network.
- Héloïse -European Network on Digital Academic History.
- RIBEA - Rede Ibérica de Estudos Africanos.
Researchers
Researchers
ALMEIDA, Carlos
CANTINHO, Maria Manuela
CARVALHO, Alberto Duarte
FERNANDES, Hermenegildo
FERNANDES, Moisés Silva
HORTA, José da Silva
LEITÃO, Ana Santos
LOURINHO, Inês
NORTE, Armando
NUNES, Sofia Vasconcelos
PEDRO, Susana Tavares
RAMOS, José Augusto
ROLDÃO, Filipa
SÁ-NOGUEIRA, Bernardo de
SILVA, Manuel Fialho
TAVIM, José Alberto R. S.
Research Assistants
BARATA, António Themudo
BEATO, Sofia Cardetas
CALDEIRA, Beatriz Alves
ESTÁCIO, Ana Patrícia
FERREIRA, Liliana Miranda
GONÇALVES, Pedro Alexandre
HORTA, Martim Aires
LEITÃO, André de Oliveira
LOPES, Sofia Afonso
MATOS, Paulo
OLIVEIRA, Fábio Emanuel
PEDROSA, Maria
RAMOS, Gonçalo Matos
RIBEIRO, Marco Alexandre
ROCHA, Rui M.
SANTANA, Ricardo Alexandre
SANTOS, Isabel Costa
ULOMBE, Gabriel
Affiliated Researchers
ANDRADE, Marcos Ferreira de
CARAMELO, Francisco
COUVANEIRO, João
DEWULF, Jeroen
FERREIRA, Ricardo Alexandre
GALHANO, João Paulo
GIESING, Cornelia
GOMES, René Lommez
GONÇALVES, Luís
GONÇALVES, Rafael
GUERRA, Amílcar
HASSANIEN, Badr
HOFMANN, Philipp
LEITÃO, Ana Rita B.
LEITE, Ana Mafalda
MARK, Peter
MARQUES, Alexandre B. L.
MATA, Inocência
MIRANDA, Ana
MOREYRA, Cecilia Edith
NORAS, José Raimundo
MOTA, Thiago Henrique
NÓVOA, James Nelson
NUNES, Natália
QUIRINO, Priscilla Pinheiro
SANTOS, José Miguel Pinto dos
SANTOS, Vanicléia Silva
TAVARES, Ana Paula
