CHAM – Centre for the Humanities is an inter-university research unit of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) and of the University of the Azores (UAç), funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

In recent years, CHAM became one of the largest Humanities research units in Portugal. Its international collaborative environment welcomes researchers from several fields (Archaeology, Art History, Heritage, Literature, Philosophy, History of Ideas) and from different areas of historical research (Economic, Social, Cultural, Religious, Political, Scientific, History of Books and Reading Practices), who work on different geographical areas and historical periods (from Antiquity to the Modern and Contemporary periods).

CHAM’s mission and values are:

. To foster the legacy of the Humanities as a formative element in higher-education institutions and in the foundation of contemporary democratic societies.

. To promote original and systematic research into the historicity of human representations and actions, through specialised teams and programs, following the principle of multidisciplinary.

. To promote advanced academic training in the fields of historical, archaeological, philosophical, political, literary, philological, and artistic studies.

. To disseminate knowledge in open dialogue with society at large, within the framework of critical and international scientific debates.

CHAM’s strategic project for 2025-2029 aims to delve into how the Human and Humanity have been represented, reconstructed and reimagined across diverse historical periods and cultural contexts. Through a transdisciplinary approach, this project challenges conventional interpretations of the Humanities by broadening the scope to issues such as the role of power in knowledge construction, the processes of classification that perpetuate exclusion and subordination, and the complex questions surrounding identity, alterity, and otherness.

CHAM – Centre for the Humanities is funded by the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal), I. P. - UID/HIS/04666/2013, UID/HIS/04666/2019; UID/04666/2020: UIDB/04666/2020 - https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04666/2020 and UIDP/04666/2020 - https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDP/04666/2020.