CHAM - Centre for the Humanities (CHAM)

CHAM – Centre for the Humanities is an inter-University research unit of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and of the Universidade dos Açores, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia.

In recent years, CHAM has become one of the largest Portuguese research units within the Humanities. In a multi-cultural and collaborative environment, CHAM brings together researchers with training on different periods (from Antiquity to the Modern and Contemporary periods), several disciplinary fields ( Archaeology, Art History, Heritage, Literature, Philosophy and History of Ideas), and areas of History (Economic, Social, Cultural, Religious, Political, Scientific, History of Books and Reading Practices), as well as specialists in the history of different geographical areas.