The Cultural History Cycle takes place between April and May 2025, comprising a set of open classes developed in collaboration between the Master’s Degree in History and the History Department of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Minho and Lab2PT/IN2PAST, under the coordination of Fátima Moura Ferreira.

The second open class is entitled “Making the history of material culture: concepts, practices and representations” and will be taught by Joana Sequeira.

Biography:

Joana Sequeira is an Assistant Researcher at the Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory (Lab2PT) at the University of Minho, working in the associated laboratory IN2PAST.

She holds a degree in History (2006) from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, where she continued her doctoral studies in History, which were carried out in co-supervision with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris (2008-2012). Her doctoral thesis, focused on textile production in Portugal in the late Middle Ages, was part of the field of economic history.

Since then, she has expanded her lines of research, always focusing on the Middle Ages. In addition to studies on textile production, trade and consumption, she has worked on topics related to Luso-Tuscan trade networks, trade in the Mediterranean, professional crafts and regulations, mercantile and urban accounting and material culture.

Free entry.