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.

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.

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.

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.