Inheritance and Dynamics of Administrative-Territorial Structures: from Medieval Europe to the Present

NOVEMBER 4 and 5, 2025

Place: Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), Transdisciplinary Research Center “Culture, Space and Memory” (CITCEM)

Program

4-11-2025

09h00 – Reception

09h30 – Opening Session

Paula Pinto Costa (Director of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto)
Inês Amorim (Scientific Coordinator of CITCEM; Congress Organizing Committee)

10h00 – Round table “Borders and administration – contributions to an Atlas of the Territory”

Moderator: Inês Amorim (CITCEM/FLUP)
Participation: Sara Pinto (CITCEM/FLUP)
Daniel Marques (CITCEM/FLUP)
César Guedes (CITCEM/FLUP)
Filipe Conceição (CITCEM/FLUP)

11h00 – Coffee break

11h15 – Powers and Institutions – spaces for culture

Gustavo Hernández Sánchez (University of Salamanca) – El poder del claustro: La Universidad de Salamanca y el Consejo Real de Castilla en el periodo de Restauración portuguesa. 1640-1668
Álvaro Rodríguez Martín (Department of Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History, University of Salamanca) – University Jurisdictions in the Hispanic Monarchy. A look at the case of Salamanca in the Modern Age

12:30 p.m. – Debate

13h00 – Lunch

14h30 – Emerging spaces and territories

Miguel Garcia Fernández (M3-Investigación Instituto de Estudos Galegos Padre Sarmiento. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – Xunta de Galicia) – Territorial organization and powers in contact in the lands of Caldelas and Trives during the Lower Middle Ages
Daniel Chapela Durán (USC-IEGPS) – The territorial configuration of Morrazo in the Middle Ages: limits and evolution through the medieval documentation of Santiago de Ermelo, San Xoán de Poio and Santa María de Oseira
Mariel Pérez (Universidad de Buenos Aires – CONICET) – Contested spaces, territories in formation: episcopal jurisdiction, social structures and the construction of the diocese in the Castellano-Leonese region (10th-12th centuries)

15h45 – Debate

16h15 – Coffee break

16h30 – Norms and rituals of power

Jesús Tadeo Solero Perea (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) – The government of Castile in Philip II’s time between juntas and privanzas
Marta Caniego Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (doctoral student) – Succession in the Ottoman Empire during the Modern Era, an institutional approach

17:30 – Debate

5-11-2025

09h30 – Without Borders: culture and environment – how to manage?

João Novais Tavares (CITCEM/FLUP/PCIP) – Between regimes and reforms: public institutions and the management of cultural heritage in Portugal (1900-2025)
Ana Isabel Lopes (CITCEM) – Governing nature? Institutional perspectives on environmental governance and territory in Northwest Portugal (17th-19th centuries)

10:30 a.m. – Debate

11h00 – Coffee break

11h30 – Imagined territorial borders

Luís Miguel Moreira (Department of Geography, University of Minho. Center for Geographical Studies, IGOT-University of Lisbon) – (Re)configuring the Territory: administrative maps as a tool of Power
Melanie Mélinda Dias Lopes (CITCEM) – Women and Borders: Administrative Dynamics and Clandestine Emigration Networks during the Estado Novo (New State)

12:30 p.m. – Debate

13h00 – Closing Session

14h30 – Fieldwork The River as a Border – from the Cathedral to Afurada – floatable territories

Organization:

Transdisciplinary Research Center “Culture, Space and Memory” (CITCEM) – Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP) https://citcem.org/

Scientific Committee:

• Ana M. Coll (Univ. Illes Balears)
• Inês Amorim (coord. CITCEM – FLUP)
• Juan M. Trillo Santamaría (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela)
• Miguel García Fernandez (M3-Investigación Instituto de Estudos Galegos Padre Sarmiento; CSIC – Xunta de Galicia)
• Nuria González Alonso (CIESE Fundación Comillas)
• Rubén Camilo Lois (director of the Galicia Development Institute)
• Sara Pinto (CITCEM – FLUP)

Organizing Committee:

• Carla Sequeira (coordinator of the People, Markets and Policies research group, CITCEM/FLUP)
• Inês Amorim (coord. CITCEM/FLUP)