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

Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Gilman Building, lecture hall 133,

Tel Aviv University

Open to the public

The event will be held in English