The Centre for Overseas History (CHAM) is an interuniversitary research unit of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, of the New University of Lisbon and of Azores University, financed by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

CHAM develops research related to the History of the Discoveries and the Portuguese Expansion, as well as the Portuguese presence around the world, with a special focus in the period between the origins of the Overseas Expansion and the Independence of Brazil (1822), with an interdisciplinary perspective and incorporating comparative history, paying particular attention to the history of the regions with which Portugal maintained contacts.

CHAM is currently monitoring the excavation of the 16th/17th century shipyard discovered in Praça D. Luís - Lisbon

12º Curso de Verão Luso-Austríaco |
12º Österreichisch-Portugiesisches
6 to 19 July 2012

International Conference
A Primeira Diocese Global: História, Cultura e Espiritualidades
Call for papers 31 until May 2013

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Main office
Avenida de Berna, 26 C, 1069-061 Lisbon
Room 2.19 - I&D Building
Email:cham@fcsh.unl.pt
Phone: +351 217972151
Fax: +351 217908308
Office hours: 9am-5.30pm | Lunch: 12.30-2.00pm

Azores Branch
Universidade of Azores
Rua da Mãe de Deus, Apartado 1422
9501-855 Ponta Delgada
Email: cham@uac.pt
Phone: +351 29665057
Fax: +351 296650126