The Instituto de Cristianismo Contemporâneo is promoting a monthly conference throughout this academic year, in partnership with the Master's Degree in Science of Religions at Universidade Lusófona, under the general theme ‘Christian Faith and
Society: roots-pathways-contemporaneity’, with the intervention of academics who are specialists in various areas of research.
The conference will take place one Thursday a month, from 9pm to 10pm, online, free of charge and open to students, researchers and anyone interested, who will be able to access it via a Zoom link that will be made available when it is publicised.
The first session took place on 14 November 2024, and was dedicated to the theme ‘The Catholic Church in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939: between persecution and perpetration’, with the speaker being Professor Rúben Leitão Serém, from the University of Nottingham, UK.
The speaker
Rúben Leitão Serém has been Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Nottingham since 2019. His first monograph, Conspiracy, coup d'état and civil war in Seville (Sussex Academic Press, 2017), investigates the Spanish civil war (1936-1939), fascist mythology and its legacy and memory in southern Spain. His most recent publication addresses the use of hunger as a weapon of war during the same conflict (‘Muerte y miseria en la “ciudad de Dios”’ in Del Arco Blanco (ed), Los años del hambre, 2020). He is currently writing a second monograph on Portuguese involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Other professional interests include: the reverberations of the collective memory of Iberian dictatorships in the contemporary political landscape and the link between neoliberalism and the extreme right.
Coordination: Prof. José Brissos-Lino, PhD
The next session is scheduled for 19 December.