#  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).