X Conference on the History of Historiography “Freedom, Liberties: History, Historiography and Social and Human Sciences” CITCEM Auditorium – FLUP, Floor 0 | Porto, December 3rd, 2024

Program

09H45 – Opening by Inês Amorim (Coordinator of CITCEM, FLUP) & Nuno Bessa Moreira (ULP- CUP, CITCEM). 10H00 Opening lecture – Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro (ICS; FLUL) [Videoconferência].

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Curriculum Summary: Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro is a Full Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and an Invited Full Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He has a PhD in Modern History from the FCSH of Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a degree in History from ISCTE. A guest lecturer at universities in France, Spain and Brazil, he has given numerous presentations and conferences in different countries. He has coordinated several international research projects, including Political communication in the Portuguese intercontinental monarchy (1580-1808): Reino, Atlântico e Brasil, publishing as (co-editor) Um reino e as suas repúblicas no Atlântico: comunicações políticas entre Portugal, Brasil e Angola nos séculos XVII e XVIII (Rio de Janeiro, 2017). He has published more than two hundred titles, including co-authoring the best-selling História de Portugal (8th ed., 2nd reprint, 2019), coordinating volume 2 of História da Vida Privada em Portugal (2011), and co-editing Poder y movilidad social en la Península Ibérica (siglos XV-XIX) (Madrid, 2006), História Social Contemporânea. Portugal 1808-2000 (Lisbon, 2020) and Political Thought in Portugal and its Empire, c. 1500-1800(Cambridge U.P., 2021).

11:00 a.m. – Session 1 – Communications | Moderator: João Torres Lima (CITCEM) “Diplomatic immunity in the Afonsinas Ordinances: the historical-legal influences on Portuguese Medieval Law“, by Duarte de Babo Marinho (CITCEM).

Synopsis: In recent years, Portuguese historiography has devoted its attention to the study of medieval diplomacy, exploring a wide variety of themes. Among these approaches we can highlight travel, funding, networks of contacts, the socio-economic characteristics of ambassadors, espionage in the service of diplomacy, among other issues. However, there is one essential aspect that still needs more in-depth analysis: diplomatic immunity. Although this legal institute was neither a medieval creation nor limited to that historical period, it has played a crucial role in diplomatic practice.

Surprisingly, both historical and legal studies – including those more focused on the History of Public International Law – have not dealt with diplomatic immunity in any depth. The lack of detailed research into this institute represents a significant gap in the understanding of medieval Portuguese diplomatic practices, compromising the perception of the power dynamics and international relations of that time.

However, due to the complexity of the subject, there are many aspects and nuances that we will not be able to explore in this communication. Although this text offers a substantial analysis, it is not without its incompleteness. In fact, we don’t intend to be exhaustive. For this reason, we should see it as a starting point for future research to deepen our understanding of the important legal institute of diplomatic immunity. So, in this context, I intend to focus on a specific case from the Portuguese medieval legal reality: a rule found in Book III of the Afonsinas Ordinances, which explicitly mentions who may or may not be summoned to court, including ambassadors present in Portugal.

For this analysis, I will highlight aspects such as the branch of law to which the rule belongs, the author of the legislative initiative, its relationship with the law in force at the time, as well as the legal, philosophical, religious and political traditions involved.

Curriculum Summary: Duarte de Babo Marinho, PhD in History, postgraduate in History, International Relations and Cooperation (Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto) and law graduate (Faculty of Law of the University of Porto). He has dedicated his research to the study of diplomacy, espionage and medieval elites, as well as themes related to political rhetoric and international relations in the 19th century. He is a collaborator at CITCEM and a researcher at CIJVS.

“Between the first Press Law and the first Constitution [1821-1822]“, by Eurico Gomes Dias (ISCPSI-ICPOL).

Synopsis: With the outbreak of the Liberal Revolution of August 24, 1820, a new political paradigm was established in Portuguese society and a new chapter in Portugal’s contemporary history was definitively opened. However, the affirmation of the new liberal regime stemming from this pivotal event was slow to take hold, mainly due to the power vacuum with the Crown absent in Brazilian lands. Among the countless factors and reasons that produced the new political situation, we should highlight the explosion of the periodical written press, the consolidation of public opinion and the emergence of a new law dedicated to the press, as well as a multitude of political initiatives stemming from the work of the Constituent Courts [1820-1821]. In this sense, we consider it appropriate to review historiographically the contributions of a first Press Law [12 de Julho de 1821] – which allowed almost indiscriminate free publication of a whole plethora of political-ideological documents, including the most infamous diatribes – but whose debate and exchange of ideas would consolidate the promulgation of our first Constitution [23 de Setembro de 1822]. However, both pieces of legislation were abolished in the course of the political events that followed, ending the first liberal experiment advocated by Vintismo [1820-1823].

Curriculum Summary: Assistant Professor with Aggregation at IUM [Instituto Universitário Militar] and at ISCPSI [Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna], and integrated researcher at ICPOL – the Research Center of the same Institute -, and collaborating researcher at CEPESE [Center for Population, Economy and Society Studies], at CHSC [Centro de História da Sociedade e Cultura], at CIDIUM-IUM [Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento do Instituto Universitário Militar], etc. Corresponding Academician of the APH – Portuguese Academy of History; Corresponding Member of the Scientific Council of the CPHM – Portuguese Commission of Military History; and Fellow Member of the RHS – Royal Historical Society, London.

“History, Historiography and Freedom in an article by Jacques Rancière“, by Nuno Bessa Moreira (Lusófona University, CITCEM) & Francisco Azevedo Mendes (UM-Lab2PT).

Synopsis: This communication analyzes an article that takes up an interview given by Jacques Rancière to the magazine Urdimento, published in 2010, in order to try to understand the historiographical thought it contains, in order to identify some of the author’s political ideas and his position on Freedom as a concept and reality, comparing them with the vision that the French philosopher had shown in Les Noms de l’Histoire: Essai de Poétique du Savoir, from 1992, and published in Portuguese translation in 2014.

Nuno Bessa Moreira graduated in History from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto in 1999. He completed his master’s degree in Modern History, with a thesis on Cardinal D. Henrique (1539-1578), in 2004. In February 2013, he took public exams for his PhD in History, under the supervision of Professor Armando Luís de Carvalho Homem, on the Revista de História (1912/1928), a periodical directed by Fidelino de Figueiredo. He completed, in 2016, the National Defense Course, having defended his final research paper in public examinations.

Francisco Azevedo Mendes is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Minho. Researcher at Lab2PT. He has a PhD in Theory and Methods. He has developed studies in the fields of History Theory and Contemporary History

12.30 p.m. Conference – “The reconstitution of International Society and the end of the Liberal International Order”, by Rui Albuquerque (UL-CUP). Presentation by Lurdes Macedo.

Rui Albuquerque has a degree in Law, a Master’s and a PhD in Political Science and International Relations. As a researcher he has worked mainly on the History of Ideas, the Enlightenment and liberal Constitutionalism, Roman Law and the historical evolution of Portuguese Law. He is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Universidade Lusófona – Centro Universitário do Porto, of which he is deputy director. He is the author of several books and scientific articles published in Portuguese and international journals.

13:30 – Lunch.

15.30 Conference – “Philosophy and the struggle for history in West Germany“, by Sérgio da Mata (UFOP, Brazil) [Videoconferência] | Presentation by Nuno Bessa Moreira.

Synopsis: Although many philosophers are interested in history, few of them are interested in historians and historiography. Throughout the second half of the last century, West Germany showed signs of contradicting this trend. In my lecture, I try to reconstruct some of those rare moments when philosophers and historians put themselves on a relatively equal footing and influenced each other. To this end, I focus on two groups whose influence at the time was undeniably great: the Frankfurt School and the School of Joachim Ritter. How did the disputes between them spill over into the field of historiography itself, extending to reflections on the teaching of history, the theory of historical knowledge and the politics of memory in the Federal Republic?

Curriculum Summary: Sérgio da Mata is an associate professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Cologne, with a thesis that was awarded summa cum laude. He worked as a guest researcher at the Max Weber Institute for Social Science and Cultural Science Studies at the University of Erfurt (2008). Between 2009 and 2010, he carried out a post-doctoral internship at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of the University of Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder). In addition to several works on the history of religions, the history of ideas and the theory of history, he has published “Realism and reality in Max Weber” (in The Oxford Handbook of Max Weber, 2019) and the book The Weberian fascination. The origins of Max Weber’s work (ediPUCRS, 2020). He is currently preparing an intellectual history of the School of Joachim Ritter.

16:30 – Session 2 – Communications | Moderator: Nuno Bessa Moreira. “Craveirinha, o Save e outras histórias sem maiúscula“, by Francisco Topa (FLUP, CITCEM).

Synopsis: There are several poems by José Craveirinha whose starting point is an event reported, more or less prominently, by the press. Comparing the poems with the journalistic coverage of the events in question, there is often a kind of dialogue in counterpoint, with the poet providing a subjective and lyrical view of the case, on the one hand, and using it for a more general and abstract view, above the circumstances, on the other. Another observable aspect of this type of composition has to do with the use of a critical tone, with a clear political incidence, although without assuming a pamphlet-like drift. The paper will deal with some of these stories that history would end up not recording.

Francisco Topa (b. Porto, 1966) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto and a member of CITCEM. He teaches in the areas of Brazilian Literature and Culture, Textual Criticism, African Literatures and Oral and Marginal Literatures. Since 2019, he has been responsible for the Agostinho Neto Chair at FLUP and, since 2023, director of the Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies. He has been a visiting professor at several Brazilian and European universities. His research has focused on Brazilian and Portuguese literatures, African literatures and some areas of oral and marginal literature. Among the 260 or so works he has published, 29 of which are in book form, we can highlight the following volumes, all from 2023: Mal-amados ou sequestrados? (Brazilian authors and texts from the Six and Seven Hundreds); “Nesta turbulenta terra” (Studies in Angolan literature); África nossa, Áfricas deles (Readings from Morocco, Cape Verde and Mozambique); “Coisas que não levam a nada” (Portuguese readings of Brazilian literature).

“Jorge de Sena: freedom of thought and defense of diversity“, by Lurdes Macedo (UL-CUP, CICANT).

Synopsis Jorge de Sena (1919-1978), one of the most multifaceted Portuguese intellectuals of the 20th century, left a legacy which, according to certain authors (Santos, 2019; Baltrusch, 2019), deserves to be explored in greater depth in order to ascertain the extent of his contribution to the heritage of Portuguese language culture. An author outlawed by the Salazar regime and by some of his peers, with a vast body of work produced between Portugal, Brazil and the United States, he demonstrated his freedom of thought from an early age, refusing to sacrifice it to literary currents, political affiliations or social patronage. If, on the one hand, this freedom was incompatible with his stay in a dictatorial country, on the other, it allowed him to make innovative proposals for his time. An exploratory mapping of these proposals, made between 1942 and 1977, was the subject of reading, analysis and consequent interpretation. Firstly, it can be seen that, even during the dictatorial period, Sena never ceased to express his freedom of thought in the writings he signed, the interviews he gave and the speeches he delivered. Next, we can see that the common denominator of these proposals is the defense of diversity.

Curriculum Summary: She has a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho since 2013 and is an Assistant Professor at the Lusófona Porto University, where she teaches Public Relations. She is an FCT post-doctoral researcher at CECS. She was a member of the research team for the project “Narrativas identitárias e memória social: a (re)construção da lusofonia em contextos interculturais” (CECS-UM), co-editor of the Anuário Internacional de Comunicação Lusófona, in 2010 and 2011, and of the e-book Interfaces da Lusofonia (2014). She was a guest lecturer at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu between 2009 and 2012.

“Hans Asperger and the Echoes of Stigma: A Reflection on Freedoms“, by Adry Neves (Colégio das Artes-UC, PhD student).

Synopsis: This paper proposes a critical analysis of the historical and social implications of Hans Asperger’s work and the stigmas associated with autism. The study addresses the controversy surrounding Asperger’s legacy, including the elimination of his name from the diagnostic classification, and reflects on how stigmas and prejudices persist even with scientific and social advances. From a historiographical perspective, the work explores the concept of freedom in two dimensions: the freedom to exist as an autistic person in a society that often dehumanizes differences, and the epistemological freedom to rethink historical narratives in the light of new discoveries. Finally, it raises questions about the impact of diagnostic classifications on the construction of prejudice, proposing a reflection on the fundamental freedoms that still need to be won by autistic people.

Curriculum Summary: Degree in Dramatic Arts – Actor Training from the Lusófona University of Porto. Awaiting public exams for a Master’s Degree in Fine and Intermediate Arts at FBAUP. PhD student at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra.

18H00 Closing Conference – “History, Memory and Ideology. An ever-present theme “, by Luís Reis Torgal (FLUC, CEIS 2O) [Videoconferência]. | Presentation by Duarte de Babo Marinho.

Organization: Nuno Bessa Moreira, Duarte de Babo Marinho, Eurico Gomes Dias, João Torres Lima, Francisco Azevedo Mendes & CITCEM. Hybrid system (face-to-face and videoconference)

https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/93872619922