Seminar, October 22

The Workshop in Early Modern History

Pedro Cardim  (Universidade Nova, Lisbon)

“To obey from afar. Salvador da Bahia’s City Council and the Governance of the Portuguese Atlantic during the Seventeenth Century.”

October 22, 5pm

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​Robinson Hall, Basement seminar room.

Co-sponsored by the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literature.

This presentation studies the way seventeenth-century Salvador da Bahia’s city council interacted with the Portuguese court, positioning itself as the responsible body for governing all Portuguese Atlantic non-European territories, i.e. not restricting itself to Bahia alone, yet also revealing a sense of attachment to the Americas.

Pedro Cardim is Associate Professor of History at the New University of Lisbon, and is currently a visiting professor at NYU.  He is a board member of CHAM – The Portuguese Center for Global History (New University of Lisbon).