Ideas, Practices and Criss-Crossings of the Lusophone Self in the Early Modern Period

7 and 8 December 2021

Organisation by Chair of Cultural and Social Change, Institute for European Studies and History, Faculty of Humanities, Technical University Chemnitz.

Instituto Camoes.

Contact: Joana Serrado - joana.serrado@phil.tu-chemnitz.de

Phone: 01590-6642066

Weblink: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2354518997

Meeting ID: 235 451 8997

This workshop brings together scholars from different fields of study (philosophy, anthropology, literature, social history and cultural studies), working on some off-the beaten track topics from the Lusophone World and/or the Early Modern period. Over these two days, we will discuss several dimensions of the Self - a Lusophone self, namely, discourses of freedom, expressions of autonomy, production of knowledge, and the imaginary of bodies. This will be done:

1) In constructions of freedom through the abolitionist discourses in Europe and the Atlantic Triangle.

2) Through gender, ethniticity and religious vectors in the configurations of autonomy in private, public and spiritual life in Lusophone West Africa, India, Europe and Spanish America.

3) By reflecting upon the theories and methodologies that cross and criss-cross knowledge within the Portuguese-speaking world between 1500 and 1800. 

The workshop is a kick-off meeting for an international research project on the intellectual legacy of religious women and their practices of knowledge in the Lusophone world.