Uses of the Past

Coordinator: Sérgio Campos Matos

Co-coordinator: Covadonga Valdaliso

The Uses of the Past Research Group brings together researchers and lecturers from a range of chronologies – from Ancient History to Contemporary History – who are interested in studying the processes of constructing social memories and historiographies in relation to political cultures in different contexts. Historical cultures are considered from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the long-term to more limited and precise time frames. This group takes a very broad approach to the concepts of historical memory and social memory, with a view to the following thematic strands:

• Historiographies, historians, historical representations;
• Individual and collective memories (from the local to the global);
• Receptions of the past, politics of memory and forgetting;
• The environment, relations between humans and non-humans in a transdisciplinary perspective.

It also aims at a broad critical reflection on the relationship between the present, the past, and the future, the multiple writings of history and the different ways of using the past in different periods and geographies.

The contributions of the RG stimulate a research that involves transnational transfers. They encourage a reflexive theoretical stance and challenge the practice of history in different areas of the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon.

The Research Group works in partnership with the National Library of Portugal (BNP) and several international groups and projects. The Dictionary of Portuguese Historians and the publication of electronic editions of historiographical texts through EGPA (Escritório Galego-Português Antigo) are permanent initiatives of the RG.

Projectos de investigação:

• DUNES. Sea, Sand and People European Research Council (ERC) - European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (Grant agreement no. 802918)
• NEArcheo. Antiguidades do Próximo Oriente em Portugal: Política e diplomacia na recepção do Lote VIII de Bab el-Gassus e da carga do Cheruskia
• EGYPOPCULT. “Ich mache mir die (ägyptische) Welt wie sie mir gefällt” ARANHIS.
• Archivum Annalisticum Hispanum. Uma base de dados para o estudo dos analis medievais hispânicos

Redes de investigação

• Vatican Coffin Project
• Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval (AHLM)
• BRASPOR

Researchers

Researchers

BARRETO, Luís Filipe
COSME, João
FERNÁNDEZ PICHEL, Abraham I.
FREITAS, Joana Gaspar de
LEAL, Ernesto Castro
LEAL, Manuel
LIMA, Ana Paula dos Santos
LOUSADA, Maria Alexandre
MATOS, Sérgio Campos
NORAS, José Miguel
PROTÁSIO, Daniel Estudante
REIS, Maria de Fátima
RODRIGUES, Nuno Simões
ROSA, Maria de Fátima
SAMPATH, D.M.R.
SOUSA, Rogério
VALDALISO, Covadonga
VINA, Michael Angel

Research Assistants

BRANCO, João
BRITO, Ricardo de
COSTA, Joana Pinto Salvador
CUNHA, Inês Bicudo
DIAS, José Viegas
FAUTH, Elisa
FERREIRA, Sandra
FERNANDES, Filipe Marques
FRANCISCO, Rosário Belo
GONÇALVES, Bruno Laranjeira
LOURO, Andreia Fontenete
MADEIRA, Catarina
MORGADO, André
PEREIRA, Carlos
RIBEIRO, Isabel Moreira
SANTOS, Gonçalo Guerreiro
SILVA, Maria Teresa Lopes da
SOUSA, José Guedes de
TAVARES, Daniel
TEIXEIRA, André Caracol
TUDOR, Mihaela
VALÉRIO, João Paulo
VIOLA, Afonso da Cunha

Affiliated Researchers

ALMEIDA, Andreia da Silva
ARAÚJO, Christophe
ASSIS, Arthur Alfaix
BENÍTEZ GUERRERO, Carmen
CASSINO, Carmine
CHENG, Christina Miu Bing
DUARTE, Maria João Raminhos
ESCHENBRENNER-DIEMER, Gersande
FERNANDES, António Horta
GARCÍA PEREDA, Ignacio
GOMES, George
LEITE, Rita Mendonça
LUÍS, João Gime
MARTINS, Pedro
MEDEIROS, Nuno
MIGUÉLEZ, Alicia
PAZ, Ana Luísa
PICHEL GOTÉRREZ, Ricardo
PIMENTA-SILVA, Miguel
RINA SIMÓN, César
ROCA VERNET, Jordi
RUFINO, Carolina
SALES, José das Candeias
SERRANO, Gisella Amorim
SILVA, Cristiana Lucas