October 26-27, 2023 - Internacional Conference Foreigners and Lisbon in the 15th and 16th centuries

Scientific Coordination and participation in Internacional Conference Foreigners and Lisbon in the 15th and 16th centuries, organized by IEM - Institute of Medieval Studies of NOVA FCSH and Department of Cultural Heritage of Lisbon City Council, in Campus de Campolide, Lisboa.

Programme | Book of Abstracts | Posters 

Presentation

Muslim captives in Lisbon in the sixteen century

Edite Martins Alberto

November 6-11, 2022 – 8^th Seminar The Faial and the Azorean Periphery in the 15^th to 20^th centuries

Participation in the 8th Seminar The Faial and the Azorean Periphery in the 15th to 20th centuries, organized by Núcleo Cultural da Horta, Câmara Municipal da Horta and CHAM-Centro de  Humanidades da NOVA FCSH, in city of Horta, Faial, Azores.

Program

Abstracts published in: VIII Colóquio O Faial e a Periferia Açoriana nos Séculos XV a XX - Resumos. Horta: Edição da Comissão Organizadora, 2022.

Presentation:

Edite Martins Alberto

October 13-14, 2022 – Conference Constructing the Other and the Self, Representations of Identity and Otherness in the Middle Ages

Participation in the International Conference Constructing the Other and the Self. Representations of Identity and Otherness in the Middle Ages, organized by Institute for Medieval Studies of NOVA FCSH, in Lisbon.

Program |  Abstracts

Presentation:

"To leave captivity so for redemption as by ransom of one another ..." - the alfaqueques on the borders between Christians and Muslims

October 6-8, 2022 – Gaspar Frutuoso: Different Looks, New Debates.  Congress commemorating the 500th aniversary of his birth

Participation in the Congress Commemorating the 500th aniversary of Gaspar Frutuoso birth: Different Looks, New Debates, organized by CHAM Açores of Azores University and Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada, in Ponta Delgada and Ribeira Grande, S. Miguel, Azores.

Program

Presentation:

The Batle of Ksar El-Kebir in the work of Gaspar Frutuoso

Edite Martins Alberto

September 30, 2022 - Noite Europeia dos Investigadores - MUHNAC

The Noite Europeia dos Investigadores (NEI) has as main objective to bring scientific research closer to citizens through facilitating communication platforms adjusted to the general public. The theme of the 2022 edition of NEI was SCIEVER - SCIENCE FOR ALL - Inclusion and Sustainability | SCIENCE FOR EVERYONE - Inclusion and Sustainability.

In 2022, the NEI took place on September 30, from 17:00 to 24:00. In Lisbon, it took place at MUHNAC - National Museum of Natural History and Science and at Jardim do Príncipe Real. The program was mixed, with a version with face-to-face activities and a parallel program entirely online.

The MOVING CITY project participated with the action entitled “Revisiting the Battle of Alcácer Quibir 444 years later” and counted, in addition to the presence of most of its researchers, with the participation of members of ARCAHP - Association of Recreators and Collectors of Historical Weapons of Portugal that recreated the military of D. Sebastião's army.

In addition to the presentation of the project and the provision of information and materials for teachers and elementary school students, it was possible to contact and try out replicas of weapons used in the battle of Alcácer Quibir.

September 27-29, 2022 – 9^th International Congress Military Monuments

Participation with two communications at the 9^th International Congress Military Monuments – The fortified landscape: new research perspectives and value, organized by PortugueseAssociation of Friends of Castles, in Lisbon.

Program

Presentations:

From Arzila to Ksar El-Kebir: Itinerary of a moving military city

Edite Alberto and Luís Costa e Sousa

The captive architects: emergence of the European fortification in Morocco at the end of the 16th century

Luís Costa e Sousa

June 20-21, 2022 - Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa

Participation with two papers in the International Conference Away from Home: Ideas, Emotions, Imagens and Writings on Homesickness in the Mediterranean World (1492-1923), organized by COST Action PIMo (CA18140) - People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean(1492-1923)

Program and Abstract

Presentations:

Away from home in Morocco lands: contribution to the study of prisoners of the battle of Ksar El-Kebir, Edite Alberto and Luís Costa e Sousa

The renegades journey at work with the privateers of Algiers, Tiago Machado de Castro and Edite Albert

March 31, 2022 - Workshop On-line  MAGALLANES_ICC

Participation in the online workshop “The History of the Algarve and the First Globalization - State of the Question", organized by the historical research component of the project MAGALLANES_ICC, 31 March 2022

Presentation:

Prisioneiros no Norte de África: contributo para o estudo cativos algarvios (séculos XVI-XVIII) [Prisoners in North Africa: contribution to the study of Algarvian captives (16th-18th centuries)], Edite Alberto