ABOUT CHAM

The Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM) was created in 1996 and is an inter-university research unit affiliated with the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade dos Açores. CHAM currently consists of more than 212 associated scholars, including 71 full-time researchers, 24 of these are post-doctoral fellows from Portugal, Brazil, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, and the United States. CHAM´s scholars work on interdisciplinary topics related to European expansion, colonialism, and comparative and global histories from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Special emphasis is placed on the history of Portuguese contact with diverse world regions since the early modern period.

CONCEPT

Since the fifteenth century, an extended geographical, natural, scientific and political reality has posed a continuous challenge to the ways in which the world has been understood historically. And misunderstood. The aim of this conference is to address the processes of interpretation, both explicit and implicit, recognized and obscured, that were initiated by European Expansion. Imperial spaces, whether governed by the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English, French or other Europeans, set the stage for contact, confrontation, and conflict in colonized spaces such as Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, India, or Martinique where regimes of translation, circulation, and resistance emerged. How many implicit misunderstandings or tacit silences characterized human interactions in the face of a new, shared, and connected reality?

In recent years concepts such as the 'first globalization', 'global history' and 'world history', have attempted to connect these multiple realities. But how have these approaches been understood and put into practice? And what challenges do they pose to scholars today? Intellectual production has been prolific and this is an opportune moment to reflect upon these questions, and assess what has been achieved and what strides are yet to be made.

ORGANIZATION

Executive Committee
Nandini Chaturvedula, Maria João Ferreira, Jessica Hallett, Saúl Martínez Bermejo, Paulo Teodoro de Matos

Scientific Committee
Manan Ahmed (Columbia University), Tamar Herzog (Stanford University), Cátia Antunes (Universiteit Leiden), Juan Marchena (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Maxine Berg (University of Warwick), Avelino de Freitas Menezes (CHAM - UNL/UAç), Maria Fernanda Bicalho (Universidade Federal Fluminense), Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand), Pedro Cardim (CHAM - UNL/UAç), Roderich Ptak (Universität München), Nandini Chaturvedula (CHAM - UNL/UAç), Gaetano Sabatini (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Joaquín Córdoba (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), Stuart Schwartz (Yale University), João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (CHAM - UNL/UAç), Nuno Senos (CHAM - UNL/UAç), Jorge Flores (European University Institute), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles).

CHAM Staff
Alexandra Canaveira de Campos, Paula Monteiro, Carla Veloso

Student Staff
Lara Bule, Filipa Coutinho, Rodrigo Rivera

Web design and management
Carla Veloso, NomadIT

Graphic design
Saúl Martínez Bermejo

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following for their generous support of this event: Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnología (FCT), Fundação Jorge Álvares, Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD), Fundação Oriente, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, El Corte Inglés.

Publishers
Several publishers have given this event their support by advertising in this programme. With thanks to Cambridge University Press, Liverpool University Press and Luso-Brasilian Review.



Please see the link below for more information about Panels, Roundtables and Participants.

Organização

CHAM / NOVA FCSH - UAc

Conference programme and book of abstracts (.pdf)
CHAM International Conference (Web)