The Conference “Whistling at ease. Adventures of history through 20th century culture”, taught by Luís Trindade, closes the Cycle of Conferences on Historical Research Methodologies. This cycle was developed within the scope of the Curricular Unit “Research Methodologies in History”, of the 1st year of the Master’s Degree in History.
The conference will take place from 2pm to 4pm, in person, in the Sala de Atos, at ICS, Gualtar Campus, at the University of Minho.

 

The Conference Cycle is organized and supported by the History Department/Master’s Degree of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho, in collaboration with Lab2PT/IN2PAST, under the coordination of Fátima Moura Ferreira.

 

Free admission.

 

Image: Print screen of a scene of Belarmino’s movie

 

Biographical note:

Luís Trindade is a Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon / IN2PAST — Associated Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory. Previously, he was professor of Portuguese and European studies at Birkbeck, University of London (between 2007 and 2019), and of contemporary history at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, between 2020 and 2023. In the 2006-2007 academic year, he was a researcher postdoctoral fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

At Birkbeck he was a board member of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. He was also coordinator of the Research Group on Cultures Identities and Power and the Thematic Line Modern Mediations at IHC, as well as vice-coordinator of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century at the University of Coimbra.

Published The Strange Case of Portuguese Nationalism. Salazarism between politics and literature (2008), Narratives in Motion. Journalism and modernist events in 1920s Portugal (2016) and Silêncio Aflito. Portuguese society through popular music (from the 40s to the 70s) (2022). He has developed research in the areas of nationalism, Marxism, cinema and other aspects of popular culture in Portugal in the 20th century.