This 1st Seminar on Advanced Studies in Contemporary History aims to promote debate on health policies, institutions, and agents in Portugal and Brazil in the contemporary period through the presentation and discussion of research projects by Portuguese and Brazilian doctoral students. Diseases and epidemics, institutions and spaces, education, and public health will be some of the topics discussed among senior and junior researchers who have researched these topics.

 

Presentations:

Tânia Ferreira – Paths and challenges of research on health concerns in the city of Porto (1834-1918)

Célia Oliveira – Under the sign of the blue plague: human vulnerability in the context of cholera outbreaks in nineteenth-century Porto

Rosineide Alves – The medicalization of childbirth in Portugal: medical knowledge and hospital practices in Braga, between 1870 and 1945

Maria João Pires – For assistance, research, and medical education: the construction of teaching hospitals during the Estado Novo (New State)

Beatriz Virgínia Gomes Belmiro – Black childhood at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Salvador: health and illness (1850-1879)

Anelita Costa – Public policies and local challenges in the Recôncavo Baiano region

Sílvia Pinto – Cholera in Guimarães: echoes of the epidemic in the local press (1850-1900)

Maria Maia – Psychiatric Spaces in Portugal. Approximation: Space as a Key to Reading

 

The Advanced Studies Seminars in Contemporary History are intended for all doctoral students in Contemporary History, serving as spaces for thematic sharing and discussion of methodological issues.