CITCEM & SPAE | making2018en

CITCEM - Transdisciplinary "Culture, Space and Memory" Research Centre (FCT Reference: uID 04059) is a non-profit R&D Unit without legal personality, recognised and financed by FCT, based at the Faculty of Arts, of Oporto University. While its purpose is to promote research in the field of the Humanities, in particular in the areas of History, Archaeology, Art History, Cultural and Literary Studies, Museology, and Historical Demography, it also covers other areas of the Social Sciences.

Created in 2007 by the merger of several previous research units and joined by many other researchers, CITCEM took on the challenge of becoming a transdisciplinary research platform capable of promoting advanced education, the internationalisation of research and the dissemination of knowledge in its thematic areas.

CITCEM gathers today more than four hundred researchers from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), organised into research groups.

The general objectives of CITCEM are:

To develop research projects in the various thematic areas covered by its lines of research;

To develop scientific exchange and cooperation with national and foreign counterpart institutions;

To promote interdisciplinary dialogue and the implementation of multidisciplinary studies in the scientific fields covered by its various lines of research;

To ensure the dissemination of its works to the scientific community and to the general public, through seminars, congresses, conference cycles, education courses and/or publications in monographic or series editions;

To encourage research and support students’ activities, in particular post-graduate students, integrating them in the scientific areas covered;

To promote cultural cooperation activities with a view to enhancing the territory, culture and heritage.

It is also noteworthy for its autonomous publishing activity, with "CEM / Cultura, Espaço & Memoria" magazines (with 7 issues edited since 2010) and "Via Spiritus" (8 edited since 2009) and hundreds of books. In addition, publications are published in partnership with other entities. Its current scientific coordination is led by Amelia Polónia.

SOME NOTES ABOUT CITCEM

SOME NOTES ABOUT SPAE

Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology (SPAE)

SPAE, a non-profit cultural and scientific association was initially founded in Porto in 1918, by a group of personalities from Portuguese academic life, among which shall be highlighted the personality of Prof. Mendes Corrêa, who was a professor at that University. But we could also mention Aarão de Lacerda father, Luís Viegas, Bento Carqueja, Abel Salazar, among many others from all over the country. The aims of the association - which was born and grew up in the shadow of the University of Porto - were to carry out investigations and debates around all the themes that anthropology of the early twentieth century encompassed, in a multidisciplinary spirit. The SPAE publishes the oldest, regular and well-known Portuguese journal of the discipline, the annual "Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia" (TAE), with several tens of edited volumes, having passed to digital, free access format from 2012 onwards. Mendes Corrêa, person who dedicated his life to multiple activities, was later replaced as the head of SPAE by Prof. Santos Júnior, also of the University of Porto, until the second half of the 1980s. It was then that a group of younger members proceeded to an update of SPAE, carrying out many well-known activities, and preserving a significant scientific heritage, basically constituted by a valuable library, which in 2016 has been donated to the University of Porto, institution that has the means to take care of it and put it to the service of researchers. In 2015, SPAE started its activity from new headquarters belonging to the University of Porto, located at Coronel Pacheco Square, Porto; they are still in course of organization, including the archive. SPAE continues the publication of the above-mentioned journal TAE (now online as referred) and the regular realization of conferences. And so we came to 2018 and to the Centenary of the association, which is once again engaged in a new revitalization. With the logistic support of other institutions of the city of Porto, we intend to carry out a series of scientific initiatives that can actually produce added scientific value. And this is what we are already doing.