The 6th International Seminar for Doctoral Students: Challenges of History will be held on March 19th and 20th, 2026, starting at 9:00 AM.

The event will take place in the Auditorium of the ICS (building 15), on the Gualtar campus (Braga) of the University of Minho.

 

This year’s edition will feature 25 presentations by doctoral researchers from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, and Portugal, distributed across seven sessions, to discuss historiographical challenges from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The program also includes two inauguration conferences for the two days of work: on March 19th, the conference “How to conceive the History of dioceses whose archives have disappeared? Methodologies of the scarcity of sources”, by José Pedro Paiva (University of Coimbra), and on March 20th, the conference given by Fernanda Rollo (NOVA FCSH) “Work does not justify…Current landscapes of contemporary history”.

 

Access is free and open to the public. This event is organized by doctoral students from the Department of History and collaborating members of Lab2PT at the University of Minho.

If you wish to register for the event to obtain a certificate of participation, you must complete this form by 8 pm on March 18th.

 

Promoting institutions:

Lab2PT/IN2PAST

História Social ao Norte

 

Full program: Programa SIDH