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Crossing Boundaries: Europe Encounters New WorldsAn International Conference in Celebration of the Quincentenary of Cabrals Voyage to BrazilUniversity of Coimbra, Portugal, May 26-29, 1999
P R O G R A M Sponsored by: Mediterranean Studies Association Luso-American Development Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Wednesday, May 26, 1999 Joanina Library 6:00 Opening Session Benjamin F. Taggie, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, MSA Executive Secretary Plenary Lecture João Marinho dos Santos, Instituto de História da Expansão Ultramarina, University of Coimbra, "A integração do Brasil no Império Colonial Português" 8:00 Reception Cocktail reception in the Senado room hosted by Fernando Manuel da Silva Rebelo, Magnífico Reitor da Universidade de Coimbra. Thursday, May 27, 1999 College of Letters 9:00 - 11:00 1A. Books Follow the Conqueror: Interpretation and Adaptation of the Classical Theater in the Portuguese and Spanish Colonies
1B. Medieval History I Chair: JoAnn McNamara, Hunter College 1C. A vida colonial brasileira
11:30 - 1:30 2A. On the Boundaries of Image and Text
2B. The Testimony of European Encounters: Interpreting the Evidence
2C. Considerações sobre o colonialismo brasileiro
1:30 - 3:00 Lunch (on your own) 3:00 - 5:00 3A. Literature and Culture I
3B. Modern Spain
3C. Medieval History II 3D. Língua e Literatura da Expansão
Friday, May 28, 1999 9:00 - 11:00 4A. Early Modern History I
4B. Responding to the Old World: French Protestants in the New World
4C. Modern History 4D. Interpretação e Pensamento sobre Temas Brasileiros Chair: TBA 11:30 - 1:30 5A. Cultural Studies Chair: Patricia Pogal, Moorehouse College 1. Rebecca Leuchak, Roger Williams University, "For Gods Sake Get Me to the Church on Time: Mediterranean Images of the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas of Becket" 2. Ligia Pinheiro, Wittenberg University, "Italian Influences on Dance in Portugal and Brazil" 3. Jody Brotherston, Louisiana Tech University, "Crossing Boundaries: An Iberian Model for the New Orleans Cabildo" 4. Allan M. Hing, Atlanta College of Art, "Contemporary Museums in the Iberian Peninsula" 5B. The Portuguese Overseas Expansion Chair: George Winius, Leiden University 1. David Abulafia, University of Cambridge, "Medieval meets Neolithic: First Encounters in the Canaries" 2. Markus Vink, SUNY at Fredonia, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Christian Paravas, a Portuguese Client-Community in 17th-Century Southeast India" 3. R. Po-chia Hsia, New York University, "Conversion and Commerce: Crossing Boundaries in Two Chinese Views of Macao of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 5C. Literature and Culture II Chair: Diana Glad, Spelman College 1. Rene P. Garay, City College-Graduate School, City University of New York, "Epic and Gender: Os Lusíadas of Luis Vaz de Camões" 2. Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University, "Shakespeares Mediterranean: The Tempest and the Experience of Home" 3. M. Angelica Lopes, University of South Carolina, "Voyages and Oswaldo Franca Juniors Novel, Jorge, um brasileiro" 4. Eric Sellin, Tulane University, "The Maghrebian Francophone Writers Love-Hate Relationship with the French Language" 5D. História Social na Expansão e no Brasil Chair: TBA 1. José d'Encarnação, Universidade de Coimbra, "História Antiga no Brasil" 2. Maria José Azevedo Santos, Universidade de Coimbra, "A difusão social da escrita no tempo dos descobrimentos" 3. Irene Vaquinhas, Universidade de Coimbra, "Fora galego: um caso de anti-lusitanismo no Pará na década de Setenta no século XIX" 1:30 - 3:00 Lunch (on your own) 3:00 - 5:00 6A. The Contemporary World Chair: Jeanie Bukowski, Bradley University 1. John Naylon, Keele University, "Barcelona Logistics Center: A New Strategy for Exploiting the European Single Market" 2. João Paulo Cerdeira Bento, University of Beira Interior, "The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: Trade and Energy Interdependence" 3. Michael A. Baum, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and André Freire, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, "Cleavage Structures, Political Parties, and the Referendum Vote: An Analysis of the 1998 Regionalization Referendum in Portugal" Discussant: Jeanie Bukowski 6B. Cabral and the Expansion Chair: Ivana Elbl, Trent University 1. George Winius, Leiden University, "Cabrals Dual Role in Portuguese Expasion" 2. Christopher Lund, Brigham Young University, "Angelo Trevisans View of Cabral: His 1501 Letter to Venice" 3. Eric R. Dursteler, Brigham Young University, "Reverberations of the Voyages of Discovery in Venice, ca. 1501" 4. Ivana Elbl, "The Court and the Overseas Expansion in the Fortunes of the Cabral Family" 6C. Interpretações correntes de história luso-brasileira Chair: TBA 1. M. de Ascensão Ferreira Apolónio, Universidade São Marcos, "Uma nova relação dos portugueses com Portugal em navegações de Sophia de Mello Reyner" 2. Fátima Regina Fernandes, Universidade Federal do Paraná, "Condicialismos socio-políticos da expansão ultramarina-- a nobreza e o rei frente ao Atlântico" 3. Hélio R. S. Silva, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, "O espírito cabralino no século XX: descobrir o Brasil" 4. Pedro Machado Gonçalves Dias, Universidade de Coimbra, "Obras de arquitectura do engenheiro Silva Pais no sul do Brasil" 7:00 Reception Quinta das Lágrimas, Sala das Flores sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Association, the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University. Saturday, May 29, 1999 9:00 - 11:00 7A. Identity, Nationalism, and the Masses in Spain Chair: Francisco Garcia-Serrano, St. Louis University-Madrid Campus 1. Antonio Cazorla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, "A Forged Nation: The Limits of Political and Social Consent in Franco's Spain (1937-1953)" 2. Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University, "From Slaves to Spaniards: The Republican Vision of Empire, Spain and Cuba, 1868-1895" 3. Francisco Garcia-Serrano, "Lo Castellano: Reconsidering Castilian Identity and Nationalism in Medieval Iberia" Commentator: Julio de la Cueva, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 7B. Narrating Iberian Empires Chair: Phyllis Peres, University of Maryland 1. Carmen Benito-Vessels, University of Maryland, "Let Me Tell You How It Really Happened: Los ystorias y los fechos como fueron in the Gran conquista de Ultramar" 2. Eyda Merediz, University of Maryland, "Imperial Triangulation: The Portuguese and Spanish Narrate the Canary Islands" 3. Phyllis Peres, "Nation, Empire and the Portuguese Culture of Travel" 7C. Renaissance and Early Modern History Chair: David Estrada, University of Barcelona 1. Thomas Dandelet, Princeton University, "The Spanish Myth of Rome in the Renaissance" 2. W. Keith Percival, University of Kansas, "A Portuguese Humanists Critique of Erasmus Praise of Folly: The Antimoria of Aires Barbosa" 3. Frances Luttikhuizen and Emma Martinell, University of Barcelona, "The Age of Geographic Discovery, or the Age of Linguistic Discovery?" 4. Carmen Nocentelli-Truett, Stanford University, "Consuming Cannibals: Léry, Montaigne, and Communal Identities in Sixteenth-Century France" 7D. Temas da Expansão Portuguesa
11:30 - 1:30 8A. Nuns, Art, Music, and Bones Chair: Liana De Girolami Cheney, University of Massachusetts Lowell 1. Colleen R. Baade, Duke University, "Tañerá y cantará y barrerá: Obligations and Remuneration of Nun Musicians in Early Modern Spain" 2. Mindy Nancarrow Taggard, University of Alabama, "Spanish Nuns as Artists: Some Research Guidelines and Considerations" 3. Richard Raspa, Wayne State University, "Gazing at the Dead: Crossing Boundaries in Portugals Capelas de Ossos" 8B. Early Modern History II Chair: Bill Donovan, Loyola College in Maryland 1. Paul S. Vickery, Oral Roberts University, "Bartolome de las Casas: Prophet for a New World" 2. Bill Donovan, "The Mesa do Bem Comum and the Politics of Portuguese Atlantic Commerce, 1700-1755" 3. Timothy Walker, Boston University, "Cures from the Colonies: The Influence of Medicines and Medical Techniques from Portugal Ultramar in Enlightenment-Era Lisbon" 8C. Religion and Culture Chair: Frances Luttikhuizen, University of Barcelona 1. David Estrada, University of Barcelona, "The Spanish Reformation" 2. John P. Doyle, Saint Louis University, "A Seventeenth-Century Coimbra Theologian on the Truth of the Eucharistic Consecration" 3. William Monter, Northwestern University, "The Vatican, The Jubilee, and The Inquisition" 8D. O Brasil nos Tempos mais Recentes Chair: TBA 1. Paulo Alexandre Marques Lopes, "O ouro e os diamantes em Minas Gerais no século XVIII" 2. Ana Cristina Araújo, Universidade de Coimbra, "Sob o signo da natureza e do ouro vermelho: a política de explorações científicas no Brasil, durante o século XVIII" 3. José Manuel Azevedo e Silva, Universidade de Coimbra, "Aspectos da Política Pombalina na Amazónia" |