12.12.2023
Researcher Sidh Losa Mendiratta has won a Senior Researcher Fellowship awarded by the Society of Architectural Historians to present his paper at the 77th Annual International Conference, to be held in April 2024 in Albuquerque, USA. LINK
29.01.2024
Research Fellow Carlota Oliveira successfully defended his MA dissertation (scientific supervisors: Marta Peters Oliveira and Sidh Losa Mendiratta), achieving the classification of 20 marks (out of 20).
6.12.2023
The Task Group “Contested Memories and Spaces” of the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University, coordinated by researchers Sidh Losa Mendiratta, Antonieta Reis Leite, Giuseppina Raggi and Catarina Marado, organised with PORTofCALL the Seminar “Cultural Encounters and Contested Heritage”, with presentations by researcher Ana Brett and research fellows Igor Outeiro, Carlota Oliveira and Mónica Silva. Researcher Julia Hegewald was the moderator of the event’s first session. LINK
22.11.2023
Researcher Sidh Losa Mendiratta was awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for his project ID-SCAPES “Building Identity: Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in India and Bangladesh” to be implemented between 2024-2029. LINK
22.11.2023
Research Fellow Igor Outeiro successfully defended his MA dissertation (scientific supervisors: Marta Peters Oliveira and Sidh Losa Mendiratta), achieving the classification of 20 marks (out of 20).
1.10.2023
Researcher Ana Brett was awarded a PhD grant by the Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal (FCT) for her thesis project “Além de Velha Goa: Cartografias da Ilha de Tiswadi” (scientific supervisors: Sidh Losa Mendiratta and Alice Santiago Faria).
14-15.09.2023
Researcher Giuseppe Resta participated in the Scientific Workshop of the PULSE project, Università di Genova, Genova, Italy. LINK
30.08.2023
Researcher Sidh Losa Mendiratta was the academic respondent of the “Panel 1. The Space of Catholicism” during the international conference “Asian Catholic Materialities” organised by the Initiative for the Study of Asian Catholics coordinated by Michel Chambon, Asia Research Institute, Singapore University, Singapore. LINK
15.07.2023
Researcher Sidh Losa Mendiratta hosted the panel “P3. Building Identity: Religious Architecture and Sacral Landscapes of Christian Minorities in South Asia” at the VI CHAM International Conference “Heritage for a Common Future. Futures for a Common Heritage” in Lisbon, Portugal, with presentations by researchers Antonieta Reis Leite, Giuseppe Resta and Ana Brett. LINK
13.04.2023
Researchers Marta Oliveira and Sidh Losa Mendiratta hosted the panel “PS08. Port of Call: The Indian Ocean’s Early Modern Landscapes and Heritage” at the 76th Annual International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, in Montréal, Canada. LINK
18-20.07.2022
Researcher Giuseppe Resta was the coordinator of the international workshop “The City and the Myth”, funded by the EU COST Action “Writing Urban Places”, Yeditepe University, Istanbul and Canakkale. LINK
9.06.2022
Researcher Giuseppe Resta was guest lecturer in Bilgi University, Istanbul with the presentation “New ways of thinking about and experiencing urban places”. LINK