The Municipality of Famalicão, through the Bernardino Machado Museum, is holding another edition of the
Autumn Encounters conference on 17 and 18 November at the Cupertino de Miranda Foundation, which this year will discuss the social question during the Dictatorship, from 1926 to 1974.
The theme and the historical analysis have parallels in the present day and it is precisely in the context of the "acceleration of social inequalities fuelled by the unexpected acuteness of the war between Ukraine and Russia and its calamitous and painful international consequences, especially in terms of migration and global food shortages," emphasises Norberto Cunha, the Museum's Scientific Coordinator.
The Autumn Meetings bring together more than a dozen professors, historians and researchers from various Portuguese universities who are leading figures in the study and approach of the subject, giving this meeting a prominent place in the Portuguese cultural panorama, with a particular focus on academia.
It's worth remembering that the Autumn Meetings have been held since 1988 and have debated and promoted reflection on numerous themes in Portuguese history and society, such as "Portuguese Agriculture", "The First Republic in Portuguese Municipalities", "Elections" and "War and Peace between Nations" or, in the latest edition, "Norm and deviation in the dictatorship (1926 - 1974)".
Registration is free, with a Certificate of Participation and can be made until 4pm on 16 November on the website of the Bernardino Machado Museum, at www.bernardinomachado.org.
Programme
Friday, 17
09h30 – Opening
Mário Passos, Mayor
Norberto Ferreira da Cunha, Scientific Coordinator of the Bernardino Machado Museum
10h00 – The social question in the Dictatorship (1926-1974)
Fernando Rosas, IHC - NOVA FCSH
10h30 - Co-operativism and mutualism in the context of the corporate social order (1933-1974)
Álvaro Garrido, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20)
11h00 - Debate | Break
11h30 - Emigration policies of the New State
Yvette dos Santos, IHC - NOVA FCSH
12h00 - The New State and the health of the poor
Ana Paula Gato, School of Health of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal
12h30 – Debate
14h30 - Portuguese Catholic Action: from social to political Catholicism (1959-1974)
Paulo Fontes, Portuguese Catholic University, Centre for the Study of Religious History
15h00 - Memories of domestic labour in the New State
Inês Brazão, IHC - NOVA FCSH
15h30 - Debate | Break
16h00 - The strikes during the New State
João Madeira, IHC - NOVA FCSH
16h30 - The evolution of social protection at the end of the Estado Novo: from the 1962 welfare reform to 25 April 1974
André Luis Marques Costa, Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon
17h00 - Debate | Conclusion
Saturday, 18
10h00 - Social housing policies of the New State
Luís Vicente Baptista, Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais - NOVA FCSH
10h30 - Labour struggles in the Ave Basin against the dictatorship (1956-1974)
José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro, CICS.NOVA.UMinho and Textile Industry Museum of the Ave Basin
11h00 - Debate | Break
11h30 - The social and labour legislation of the New State
Luís Bigotte Chorão, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20)
12h00 - The late construction of the Welfare State in Portugal: The failure of the corporatist welfare state (1933-1974)
António Rafael Amaro, Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS20)
12h30 - Debate | Closing
