The Project "Convents and Monasteries of Portugal (1096-1910): spatialities and temporalities" is currently underway within the UCP-CEHR and with the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Inspired by other initiatives underway in Europe, the CONVEMOS Project aims to stimulate and relaunch research on the religious orders and congregations that existed in Portugal, identifying the respective institutions in space and time, and highlighting the material and immaterial heritage they bequeathed to us, in some cases still existing, in others only in vestiges.

The use of new technological means in the Humanities is a reality that has been consolidating and the project is part of the Digital Humanities movement, proposing in theory and in practice, through a relational database, to bring knowledge about convents and monasteries of Portugal to an interested public, from academics to tourists.
In this phase of the Project, the database is being finalized in its potentialities, with data about the convents of the Orders of Preachers and the Cartuxa. The objective of this 2nd Meeting is to present the results of the Project and to contribute to the debate on the legacy and heritage of regular religious institutions. Thus, national and international experts will participate, some of whom will present other similar projects at national and European scale, and the CONVEMOS database will be presented by members of the team. 

Program

10h00 - Opening
Paulo F. de Oliveira Fontes, Director of the UCP-CEHR
Fernanda Maria Guedes de Campos, Coordinator of the CONVEMOS project
Representation still to be confirmed, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

10h30-13h00 - Lectures
Moderated by João Luís Inglês Fontes (IEM-NOVA FCSH; UCP-CEHR) and Fernanda Maria Guedes de Campos (CHAM-NOVA FCSH; UCP-CEHR)

10h30 - The value of the heritage of religious communities as a source for history
Carlos Moreira Azevedo (UCP-CEHR)

11h15 - Pause

11h30 - Monastic Wales
Janet E. Burton (University of Wales Trinity Saint David - Lampeter)
Karen Stöber (University of Lleida, Catalunya)

12h15 - LxConventos. From the sacred city to the lay city
Hélia Silva (IHA-NOVA FCSH; Cultural Heritage Department /CML)
Rita Pignatelli Mégre (Cultural Heritage Department /CML)

14h30-15h15 - Conference
Moderator: Maria Filomena Andrade (UCP-CEHR; IEM-NOVA FCSH)

14h30 - Dialogues with Modernity: The Portuguese Province of the Order of Preachers - from research to exhibition
João Luís Marques (CEAU-FAUP; UCP-CEHR)

15h15 - Presentation of the CONVEMOS database
Daniel Alves (IHC-NOVA FCSH)
Daniel Giebels (CHSC-UC; UCP-CEHR)

16h00 - Break

16h15 - Panel "CONVEMOS - Itineraries with a future
Moderator: António Camões Gouveia (CHAM-NOVA FCSH; UCP-CEHR)
Jorge Umbelino (ESHTE; CiTUR)
Walter Rossa (UNESCO Chair in Intercultural Dialogue in Heritage of Portuguese Influence)
Fernanda Maria Guedes de Campos (CHAM-NOVA FCSH; UCP-CEHR)
Rolando Volzone (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL)

17h30 - Closing Session

Poster 

Program

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On November 15, between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., the 11th session of the 2021 cycle of the Religious History Seminar will take place, under the theme "A Obra da Rua em África: Projeto, memória e legado" ("The Work of the Street in Africa: Project, Memory and Legacy").

The online session will feature Luís Leal (UCP-CEHR).

The Religious History Seminar 2021 cycle, organized in partnership with the Cabido Portucalense and with the support of CITCEM of the Universidade do Porto, consists of 12 sessions on a monthly basis between February and December 2021 (bi-monthly in June and October and with an interruption in August).

Check the program of the Religious History Seminar 2021 cycle here.

The 2nd session of the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History will take place on December 2, at 6pm, under the theme "Pèlerinage et dévotion à Saint Jacques de Compostelle".

Adeline Rucquoi, from the Centre de Recherches Historiques de L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, will participate in this online session.

In the year 2021/2022, and in coordination with PEREGRINATIO. Research Network for the study of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages in Portugal, the Seminar will have "Shrines, relics and pilgrimages" as its general theme. The sessions will take place on the first Thursday of each month, at 6pm, via computer and are open to all those interested.

Consult the website for more information.

On March 17, at 5 p.m., the 5th session of the International Seminar on Medieval Religious History takes place, under the theme "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life".

The online session features the participation of Anthony Bale (Birkbeck, University of London).

In the year 2021/2022, and in articulation with PEREGRINATIO. Research Network for the Study of Pilgrimage in the Middle Ages Portugal, the Seminar will have "Shrines, Relics and Pilgrimages" as its general theme. The sessions will take place on the first Thursday of each month, at 6 p.m., and are open to all those interested.

More information available here.

Zoom Session

The Network of Archives of Religious Institutions (RAIR) of the Center for Studies in Religious History (CEHR) will hold the 4th meeting dedicated to the theme "Local Archives, Global Archives" on April 29th, at 2:30 pm, gathering the institutions that form the network, researchers and archive professionals, as well as all those interested in the topic. 

The program will be moderated by Maria Inácia Rezola and attended by D. José Tolentino Mendonça (Vatican Apostolic Archive | Vatican Apostolic Library), who will speak on "The mission of archives in the Global Era", as well as researchers Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço and Rita Mendonça Leite.

This meeting, with free registration, will be held in person and in virtual format.

REGISTRATION

The Centre of Religious History Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa organises the Colloquium "Crossed glances: Crossed glances: constructions of the Other in the Religions of the Ancient World" from 26 to 28 October.

The first two days of the event will take place in the Sala de Exposições at the headquarters of the UCP, in Lisbon. On the 28th, the colloquium will take place in Room EA112 at the Porto Regional Centre.

Aiming to contribute to a deeper knowledge of religion in the ancient world, from the Egyptian religion, through the religious traditions of Ancient Greece and the Roman world, to ancient Christianity, this Colloquium also intends to discuss the problem of the Other, in its multiplicity, and how it is constantly constructed discursively and through social and religious practices that, on the one hand, lead to profound transformations in the community that observes and, on the other, provoke reactions in what is observed.

This initiative is also a training course accredited by the Scientific and Pedagogical Council for Continuous Training for professors of all recruitment groups.
 

Check the Programme | Register here 

Watch the sessions:

• Days 26 and 27
• Day 28

The Centre for Religious History Studies is organising the Seminar "The Bible and the War on Muslims: Visions from Avis and the Vision of Rome" on 20 March.

This session is part of the Religious History Seminar: "Deus vult? Christians and war, from the Middle Ages to the present day" which aims to be a space where researchers from various backgrounds have the opportunity to give (greater) visibility to their research projects (already carried out and/or in progress), sharing the fruits of their work and opening new perspectives for the study of Religious History.

As a multidisciplinary Seminar with a wide-ranging theme, it counts on the participation not only of CEHR researchers and collaborators, but also of the general public interested in its themes.

The present cycle, organised in partnership with the Cabido Portucalense and with the support of the CITCEM of the University of Porto, consists of 13 sessions, between February and December 2023 (with an interruption in August), according to the programme announced below.

The sessions are free of charge (although prior registration is required).

Registration and further information Centre for the Study of Religious History | lleal@ucp.pt

PROGRAMME

The sixth session of the seminar "Citizenship, democracy and reformism" on the subject "In Portugal God rules and below God rules Doctor Oliveira Salazar": society and power in the petitions of the Portuguese to the Presidency of the Council" will take place on May 11 at 5 p.m.

The session will be attended by Duncan Alastair Simpson.

The seminar takes place in a face-to-face format and online.

Link to Zoom.

The Centre for Religious History Studies is organising the Seminar "Religious History Seminar: "What could praying and fighting mean for the knights of the military orders in the Modern Age?" on 17 April.

This session is part of the Religious History Seminar: "Deus vult? Christians and war, from the Middle Ages to the present day" which aims to be a space where researchers from various backgrounds have the opportunity to give (greater) visibility to their research projects (already carried out and/or in progress), sharing the fruits of their work and opening new perspectives for the study of Religious History.

As a multidisciplinary Seminar with a wide-ranging theme, it counts on the participation not only of CEHR researchers and collaborators, but also of the general public interested in its themes.

The present cycle, organised in partnership with the Cabido Portucalense and with the support of the CITCEM of the University of Porto, consists of 13 sessions, between February and December 2023 (with an interruption in August), according to the programme announced below.

The sessions are free of charge (although prior registration is required).

Registration and further information Centre for the Study of Religious History | lleal@ucp.pt

PROGRAMME