Sumários
Mass Culture and Youth Movements
27 Outubro 2026, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: The “American way of life” spreads across Europe. The spreading of advertisement and consumption directed at the Youth. Conservative Europe: gender, sexuality and the policing of morals. Youth movements: teenager consumption, youthful rebelliousness and anti-establishment sentiment. Art and popular music in the 1960s. From cultures for the youth, to youth culture. Text: Heilbronner, O. “From a Culture for Youth to a Culture of Youth: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Western Youth Cultures”. Contemporary European History. 2008;17(4):575-591. doi:10.1017/S0960777308004724 Film: A Hard Day’s Night, Richard Lester, 1964 (The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night 1964 1080p BluRay HD).
Mass Culture and Youth Movements
27 Outubro 2026, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: The “American way of life” spreads across Europe. The spreading of advertisement and consumption directed at the Youth. Conservative Europe: gender, sexuality and the policing of morals. Youth movements: teenager consumption, youthful rebelliousness and anti-establishment sentiment. Art and popular music in the 1960s. From cultures for the youth, to youth culture. Text: Heilbronner, O. “From a Culture for Youth to a Culture of Youth: Recent Trends in the Historiography of Western Youth Cultures”. Contemporary European History. 2008;17(4):575-591. doi:10.1017/S0960777308004724 Film: A Hard Day’s Night, Richard Lester, 1964 (The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night 1964 1080p BluRay HD).
The Golden Age of European Growth
20 Outubro 2026, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: Characteristics of economic growth in Europe between 1945 and 1973. Eastern Europe: industrialization and stagnation. Economic globalization and international commerce from a European point of view. Social transformations in post-war Europe: population growth, domesticity, gender issues and migrations from the periphery. Material culture and mass consumption: the growth of the middle classes. Welfare capitalism and inequality in Europe. Text: Judt, Tony. “The age of Affluence”, in T. Judt, Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945. London: Pimlico, 2007 (1st edition, 2005), pp.324-359, Film: The Changing Face of Europe, Jacques B. Brunius, Humphrey Jennings, Kay Mander, 1951 (The Changing Face of Europe (Somewhere to Live)
The Golden Age of European Growth
20 Outubro 2026, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: Characteristics of economic growth in Europe between 1945 and 1973. Eastern Europe: industrialization and stagnation. Economic globalization and international commerce from a European point of view. Social transformations in post-war Europe: population growth, domesticity, gender issues and migrations from the periphery. Material culture and mass consumption: the growth of the middle classes. Welfare capitalism and inequality in Europe. Text: Judt, Tony. “The age of Affluence”, in T. Judt, Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945. London: Pimlico, 2007 (1st edition, 2005), pp.324-359, Film: The Changing Face of Europe, Jacques B. Brunius, Humphrey Jennings, Kay Mander, 1951 (The Changing Face of Europe (Somewhere to Live)
Decolonization process
13 Outubro 2026, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Examine the end of colonial European empires, a chapter within the history of Imperialism. Discuss the dilemma of postwar empire: could an imperial regime adopt a more democratic form of governance, a more nuanced concept of sovereignty, and still remain imperial? Question how did European societies experience both decolonization processes and post-colonial realities? Analise how the USSR and the United States acted in relation both to western European states and to the spaces opened up by declining empires.