Professor Fernando Catroga presents a paper titled “A História: para que serve em tempo de crise?” (“History: Why Do We Need It in a Time of Crisis?”) on October 7 at 6:00 PM. The event will take place at the Sala de Reservados of the Angra do Heroísmo Public Library and Regional Archive (BPARAH).
This will be the first conference of the Conversas de Outono (Autumn Talks) which will be held during October and early November.
Fernando Catroga is a Full Professor at the School of Humanities of the University of Coimbra where for many years he has developed a distinguished work in the field of the History of Ideas, of which he is an expert and one of the most representative and respected names in Portugal today.
Director of the Revista de História das Ideias (Journal of History of Ideas), Fernando Catroga was an active collaborator of the História de Portugal (History of Portugal), coordinated by Professor José Mattoso, for which he wrote the following entries: As Maçonarias Liberais e a Política; Romantismo Literatura e História; Nacionalistas e Iberistas; Os Caminhos Polémicos da Geração Nova; Morte Romântica e Religiosidade Cívica; Cientismo Político e Anticlericalismo. He has equally collaborated in História da História em Portugal. Séc. XIX-XX (History of Portugal, 19-20th Centuries) with Luís Reis Torgal and J. M. Amado Mendes, and he is the author of Memória, História e Historiografia (2001); Antero de Quental. História, Socialismo e Política (2001); Nação. Mito e Rito (2005); O Republicanismo em Portugal. Da Formação ao 5 de Outubro de 1910, 2 vols. (2000); Os Passos do Homem como Restolho do Tempo. Memória e Fim do Fim da História (2011), among other publications.
An expert in crises and used to the analysis of the great movements of ideas that originate these crises, as well as of the ideas that appear during crises, Fernando Catroga will kick off the Autumn Talks at the BPARAH, presenting a global framework to understand the problem of crises, having in mind the one that we are currently living in not only in Portugal but also in Europe.