Speakers

With a degree in History (FLUC) and a Librarian-Archivist qualification (FLUC), she was a Senior Technician at the Coimbra University Archives (AUC) from 1983 until 2023. She works on the archival treatment of various collections: Colleges of the Society of Jesus, Coimbra Episcopal Miter, Coimbra Peace Courts, Coimbra British Conservatory, Coimbra Royal Hospital, St Lazarus Hospital, University of Coimbra, Pontifical and Royal College of St Peter, etc. At AUC, she has produced themed exhibitions and their respective catalogues, with more than 30 exhibitions, including, for its originality, Papéis como Arte and Arte em Papel (2020). She has collaborated on exhibitions outside the AUC, selecting documents and writing texts for catalogues: The University of Coimbra and Brazil (2012), From South to Sun: the University of Coimbra and China (2013), BiblioAlimentaria (2018), The University of Coimbra and the independence of Brazil (2022). She is also dedicated to researching the history of papermaking and watermarks, and has published several works. She has given presentations at conferences, congresses and meetings. She regularly publishes articles in the AUC Bulletin, of which she was coordinator from 1992 to 1997. Between 1991 and 1994, she was the coordinator of the Inventory of Movable Cultural Heritage: Archival Assets, promoted by the Secretary of State for Culture (for the district of Coimbra), which aimed to inventory parish, municipal and Misericordia collections.

He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he has held various positions over the years, and a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the University of Coimbra. He has carried out research into classical literatures, the Latin of Christian authors, medieval Latin philology (having supervised master's and doctoral theses in this area), Christian and medieval studies, religious studies, Renaissance Latin, Portuguese literature, ecdotics and the didactics of classical languages. Within these areas, he has published dozens of titles, including works, articles in scientific journals, book chapters and scientific translations. He has taken part in various scientific projects, coordinating some of them. He is a member of several national and international academic and scientific societies.

She has a PhD in Classical Studies, specialising in Novilatin Literature, from the University of Coimbra. She is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the same university and a member of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies. She has devoted her research to the study and translation of neo-Latin texts produced in the pedagogical context of Jesuit colleges and missions, in genres as diverse as epic poetry and oratorical prose.

Celeste Pedro works at the intersection of design, philology, and digital humanities.

She began her academic career with a master's degree in Design and Intermedia from the University of Barcelona (2007), with a project on dictionary layout. She completed her doctoral programme at ID+ - Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FCT scholarship 2013-2018), with a thesis on the first printers at the University of Coimbra and the printed culture of the early Modern Age. In 2020/21, she had a postdoctoral contract in the project ‘From Data to Wisdom. Philosophising Data Visualisations in the Middle Ages and Early Modernity (13th-17th Century)’ at the Institute of Philosophy (University of Porto), where she developed critical studies on visual rhetoric and digital ontologies for databases (IIIF for near and distant reading). More recently (2022/23), also with a research grant, he developed a project dedicated to medieval astronomical diagrams, for which he created a critical methodology of ‘visual stemmatics’. In 2024, he was the principal investigator of the short-term project ‘The Midnight Rotating Tree,’ which aimed to explore the expression and transmission of knowledge through diagrams, throughout history and today, in a research context.

Helena Costa Toipa holds a degree in Humanities from the Portuguese Catholic University (1986), a master's degree in Classical Studies (Novilatina Literature) from the University of Coimbra (1991) and a PhD in Classical Studies (Novilatina Literature) from the Portuguese Catholic University (2001), with a thesis entitled The work of Pedro João Perpinhão in Portugal ‘ad maiorem Dei gloriam’. She has taught at the Portuguese Catholic University and in primary and secondary schools. She is a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (CECH), where she developed a postdoctoral project on the theme The cult of Queen Saint Isabel in Coimbra in the 16th century and the celebrations in her honour at the College of Arts: the work of Pedro Perpinhão, S.J., and where she continues her research in the field of Novilatina Literature and Renaissance studies. His research has focused on the role of the Society of Jesus in Portugal in the 16th century, in particular that of one of its illustrious professors and orators, Pedro Perpinhão, and on the evolution of the cult of Queen Saint Isabel. He has published works, namely articles in specialist journals.

José Abreu graduated from the Porto Conservatory of Music with a degree in transverse flute and has a doctorate in Musicology from the University of Surrey, UK. He is a researcher at the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies at the University of Coimbra, where he has developed and supervised multiple research projects on musical sources from the 16th to the 18th centuries preserved in Portuguese archives and libraries. With Paulo Estudante, he created the project ‘Mundos e Fundos | Mundos Metodológicos e Interpretativos dos Fundos Musicais’. He is also a member of the international research group Lexique Musical de la Renaissance, based at the Centre d'Études Supèrieures de la Renaissance (Tours, France) and the project ‘Tratados musicales en español’ based at the University of Salamanca. His field of research focuses on the Portuguese musical heritage prior to the 18th century, his main interests being the study of musical sources, musical reconstruction, compositional processes and techniques, the social and cultural contextualisation of European musical practice and the critical edition of music from this period.

Luís Rêpas holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of Coimbra, and his thesis was awarded the “A. de Almeida Fernandes Prize” (Portuguese Medieval History). He is a researcher at CHSC (UC) and a collaborator at IEM (NOVA FCSH). His research has focused mainly on the history of monasticism, nobility, women and written culture. His historiographical work also includes his master's thesis, entitled Quando a Nobreza Traja de Branco: The Cistercian community of Arouca during the abbacy of D. Luca Rodrigues (1286-1299), published in 2003, and a series of articles and book chapters on Cistercian convents and their communities, on liturgical manuscripts from Cistercian houses, as well as on palaeography, diplomatics and sigillography.

He conducted his postdoctoral research as part of the project Books, rituals and space in a Cistercian nunnery: living, reading and praying in Lorvão in the 13th to 16th centuries, funded by the FCT. Since 2022, he has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra.

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra in the area of Classical Studies. She dedicates her research to Neo-Latin Studies, Jesuit Studies and Renaissance Humanism. Her scientific output includes the first translation of the Ratio Studiorum in Portugal, co-coordinating the project to edit and translate the Conimbricense Jesuit Aristotelian Course and the publication of ‘Miguel Venegas and the earliest Jesuit theatre’ (Brill, 2019), which won her the annual FLUC International Publications Prize.

Lecturer in Music Studies. Director of the 1st cycle course in Artistic Studies. Member of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies (CECH) at the University of Coimbra, coordinating the research project ‘Mundos e Fundos. Methodological and Interpretative Worlds of Musical Backgrounds’ (CECH). ‘Member of the international research groups Lexique Musical de la Renaissance’ (CERS, U. Lorraine), “Tratados Musicales en Español | TraMusE” (U. Salamanca), and ’Contrapunto. The Renaissance Musical Work: Foundations, repertoires and practices’ (U. Valladolid). Currently, he is particularly focused on co-coordinating three ongoing projects: ‘Restoration of the fountains of the University of Coimbra’ (since 2019), ‘Seeing and (or)seeing the past. Spatial and acoustic reconstruction of Coimbra's Old Cathedral in the 16th century’ (since 2020) and ’Bridging Musical Heritage. Shaping creativity today by reconnecting cultures from the past’ (since 2022). His main research interests currently centre around (1) the study of sources, in particular those belonging to the Portuguese musical heritage prior to the 19th century; (2) the philology of the musical document, (3) the social and cultural contextualisation of European musical practice prior to the 19th century, (4) musical practices (namely instrumental) in the Catholic liturgical space.

Rosa Simões has a degree in History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, where she completed a specialisation course in Documentary Sciences and a master's degree in Information Science, with a dissertation entitled A Printing Workshop in Sixteenth-Century Europe: the Giunta of Lyon. Study of two examples of this workshop existing in Portugal. She is a PhD student in Modern History at the same institution, developing her thesis Circuits and Materiality of the Printed Book: Lyon – Portugal (1501-1640). Her research focuses on the history of books and typography, with an emphasis on materiality, production processes and the circulation of printed matter in Modern Europe. She is a member of the Sammelband 15-16 research group and has participated as a speaker at international conferences.

He holds a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra and is an associate professor in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the same university. At this university he currently teaches Palaeography and Diplomatics, and in the past he has also taught Codicology, Introduction to Sigillography, Bibliographic and Documentary Heritage, among other subjects, particularly in the areas of Medieval Portuguese History, Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, and Local History and Cultural Heritage. Her doctoral thesis focused on the documentary production of the chancellery of the Monastery of Santa Cruz de Coimbra in the 12th to 14th centuries. He published the Guia de Estudos da Sigilografia Portuguesa (2nd ed., FLUC, 2013), with dozens of published works, in medieval and modern chronologies, on topics such as documentary forms, royal, ecclesiastical and municipal chancelleries, municipal charters and the editing of sources. He is a member of the CHSC, a collaborator of the CEHR of the Portuguese Catholic University and a corresponding academic of the Portuguese Academy of History, and a member of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique. He was coordinator of the Fragmed project - Corpus Portugaliae Fragmentorum. As a guest lecturer, he has taught courses in palaeography and diplomatics at the Federal Universities of Goiás and Paraná and at the University of Brasília.