Portugal and Its Culture in the Age of Colonial Expansion

Portugal and Its Culture in the Age of Colonial Expansion

12:00 - Greetings

 Raanan Rein, Vice President, Tel Aviv University

 Ana Marques, Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, Portugal

12:15- 13:45 - Session II Portugal and the Jewish/Converso Diasporas

Chair:  Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv University)

José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim (Universidade de Lisboa),

Galut and Empire: “Redemption signs” (15th-17th Centuries)

Claude (Dov) Stuczynski (Bar-Ilan University),

Converso Identities between Literature and Politics: Francisco Rodrigues Lobo and the Visit of King Philip III (II) to Lisbon (1619) 

16:00-18:30 - Session II Portuguese Exploration and Cultural Production

Chair: Miriam Eliav-Feldon (Tel Aviv University)

Angelo Cattaneo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa),

Portuguese Sources and the European Construction of Asian Geography, Religions and Languages (1500-1650)

Cristina Osswald (CITCEM - Universidade do Porto),

Artistic Discourses within the Portuguese Colonial Empire (16th - 18th Centuries)

Leonardo Cohen Shabot (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev),

The Literary Work of Portuguese Jesuits in Ethiopia in the Early Seventeenth Century

Open to the public

The event will be held in English