International conference “Portuguese Orientalism(s)”
Dates: November 22-24, 2018
Venue: Room B3, School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (November 22 and 24)
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (November 23).
The aim of this conference is to foster the knowledge about Portuguese Orientalism(s) regarding the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It takes as point of departure the Portuguese presence and written production within the International Congresses of Orientalists. These events took place at intervals from 1873 to 1973 and functioned as sites of sociability aimed at the creation of a scientific and academic community primarily based in Europe by stimulating the traffic of people and ideas, that is, knowledge production, sharing, and networking. Based on the case study of the Portuguese participation in those congresses, the conference on Portuguese Orientalism(s) seeks to promote debate about the existence, or not, of a discipline of Orientalism in Portugal and to provide evidence of a Portuguese orientalist intelligentsia that was part of a transnational community of Oriental Studies.
Keynote Speakers
Ângela Barreto Xavier (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa)
Bryan S. Turner (Australian Catholic University and University of Potsdam)
Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (ENS-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Organizing committee
Marta Pacheco Pinto
Catarina Nunes de Almeida
Catarina Severino
Scientific committee
David Brookshaw (University of Bristol)
Filipa Lowndes Vicente (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa)
Jean-Pierre Dubost (Université Blaise Pascal)
Kenneth David Jackson (University of Yale)
Paulo Franchetti (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Rosa Maria Pérez (ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa)
TECOP research project
More information available on the website of the event.
Activity organised within the funded project TECOP. TEXTS AND CONTEXTS OF PORTUGUESE ORIENTALISM – THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES OF ORIENTALISTS (1873-1973) (PTDC/CPC-CMP/0398/2014).