Some good news to share. We are still resolving a few digital infrastructure issues, but we are nearly there, and I am very excited about this. We have built the MAPE Engine, which is already running locally on our Institute’s server, and with a bit of luck, it will soon be available to everyone at ai.ihpan.edu.pl .  The data is based on the collection of Conselho Ultramarino from Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino de Lisboa. Instead of relying solely on rigid classifications or e

In my recent conversation with journalist João Céu e Silva, we discussed how traces of marginalized lives remain present in Portuguese cities, even if they are not always easy to see. We talked about street names in Lisbon, overlooked figures in paintings, and the subtle ways the past endures in urban spaces, asking what it means to notice these presences. We also reflected on mobility within the Portuguese Empire and how many marginalized individuals moved across imperial sp

Together with Dagmara Szczepańska and Magda Walczuk, we delivered a workshop as part of efforts to prepare Polish public institutions to receive and work with migrants from Latin America. We sincerely thank the Marshal’s Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Pomorskie Welcome Center for their support and cooperation. The meeting addressed social, economic and political context of Latin America, structural violence, inequalities, and migration processes to provide a bas

At the end of November 2025, I traveled to Vienna to participate in the workshop “Administrieren. Techniken, Praktiken und Materialien im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert,” organized by Joseph Löffler, Michaela Hohkamp and Attila Magyar: the University of Vienna, Leibniz University Hannover, and the Center for Regional History in Brixen. I spoke about a topic that has been central to my work for some time: how historians’ expertise is evolving in the age of artificial intelligence. My

I completed the one-year Rising Managers Academy (RMA), a program designed to strengthen research leadership, project management, and grant writing skills for mid-career and early-stage researchers. RMA was part of the EU H2020 (952601) ERA Chairs WELCOME2 project at the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and provided important training in research coordination, communication, negotiation, and team development. I am grateful for t

Together with Anna Horeczy, we were pleased to host our Italian colleagues from the project “Lessons from Disasters”: Geltrude Macrì, Isabella Cecchini, and Idamaria Fusco at our Institute as part of the Polish-Italian research project “Lessons from Disasters.” Their visit included a study programme made possible thanks to the kind support of the Museum of Warsaw and the Łazienki Palace, as well as Piotr Skowroński, to whom we extend our sincere thanks. We also organized a se

From left: Agata Błoch, Guillem Martos Oms and Irene María Vicente Martín, Barcelona 2025. We participated in the International Archives Congress, ICA Barcelona 27 – 30 octobre 2025, “Knowing Pasts, Creating Futures.” This global event brought together archivists, historians, digital humanists, and professionals to reflect on how archival practices shape our understanding of the past and help build more inclusive futures. I was especially pleased to organize our roundtable, "

In early October, together with Dr. Anna Horeczy, I spent a week in Naples as part of the CNR–Polish Academy of Sciences bilateral project I co-coordinate with Dr. Idamaria Fusco: Lessons from Crises and Disasters: The Role of Information Flows between Individuals, Communities, Institutions (16th–19th c.). Our goal was to deepen scientific collaboration and conduct archival research on information flows during crises in Europe from the 16th to the 19th century. The first days

This study discusses the intersection between Black/African Digital Humanities, and computational methods, including natural language processing (NLP) and generative artificial intelligence (AI). We have structured the narrative around four critical themes: biases in colonial archives; postcolonial digitization; linguistic and representational inequalities in Lusophone digital content; and technical limitations of AI models when applied to the archival records from Portuguese

Location Poland Subject Fields Archaeology, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Maritime History / Studies,...

Workshop leaflet: On 30 September 2025, a specialist workshop was held in Warsaw for members of the Mazovian and Pomeranian Teams for Combating Human Trafficking. The meeting, organized by the Department of Public Order of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration (MSWiA) , aimed to deepen knowledge about the cultural conditions of Latin America—a region from which the largest number of human trafficking victims in Poland originate. The workshop, entitled “Violence as a

On Thursday, September 25, my book Marginalizados (published by Edições Parsifal) was launched at FNAC, in the heart of Lisbon’s historic...

I am pleased to share that my book Marginalizados  has just arrived in bookstores across Portugal, published by Edições Parsifal. I am...

Our latest article has been published in Digital Humanities Quarterly: " Unveiling the Critical Nexus of Data Preprocessing and...

Zapraszamy na wydarzenie z cyklu „Przeobrażenia. Nienaturalna historia kryzysów środowiskowych” , który w 2025 roku jest...

IAI, Berlin In June, I had the opportunity to do a research stay at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) in Berlin , a unique,...

We are pleased to announce that our research “ Inteligência Artificial e Pesquisa Arquivística: Motor 'MAPE' para a história digital de...

If you're preparing a proposal for the MINIATURA competition organized by the National Science Centre (NCN) and your project touches on...

We are happy to share that our project "Lessons from Crises and Disasters: The Role of Information Flows between Individuals,...

The study of the extensive and unstructured correspondence of the Portuguese Empire (1610–1833), archived in the Arquivo Histórico...