International Seminars on Indo-Portuguese History

International Seminars on Indo-Portuguese History

International Seminars on Indo-Portuguese History or ISIPH, refers to a series of seminars, initiated by Rev. J.C. Alfonso sj, former director of the Heras Institute in Bombay in December 1978.

Earlier seminars

The International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History (ISIPH), which started in 1978 and has since then taken place in Goa (1978, 1983, 1994, 2003), Lisbon (1980, 1985), Cochin (1989), Macau (1991), Angra do Heroismo (1996), New Delhi (1998), and Salvador da Bahia (2000), all centres of influence linked with Portuguese history, described variously as its "expansion" or "colonialism".

2006 event

An [http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/engl/ship_e_2.htm announcement] from the [http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/ Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar] available online as of September 2006, says the latest International Seminar on Indo-Portuguese History is being held in October 2006.

Challenges of European competition to the Portuguese Estado da Índia

[http://cham.fcsh.unl.pt/ Centro de Historia de Alem-Mar] invited researchers to submit proposals for papers for ISIPH's twelfth session, in Lisbon, from October 23-27, 2006. "This year’s seminar, the twelfth in the series, seeks to explore the challenges of European competition to the Portuguese Estado da Índia," said the organisers.

Organisers of this event said up to 20 papers would be selected from those submitted to the Scientific Commission of the ISIPH. Abstracts and papers are usually submitted in Portuguese or in English, and sessions are held in those two languages.

ubthemes for ISIPH-12

Subthemes for the 2006 event, titled "The Estado da Índia and the European Challenge" include Empires: strategies and trade, Asian reactions to European competition, Agents and adventurers, The missions: between evangelisation and imperial designs, and Cultural and Artistic representations: cities, emporia and knowledge.

cientific Commission, 2006

This event's Scientific Commission comprises Maria Augusta Lima Cruz (Univ. do Minho); Artur Teodoro de Matos (Univ. Católica Portuguesa); Luís Filipe Thomaz (Univ. Católica Portuguesa); Inácio Guerreiro; Teotónio R. de Souza (Univ. Lusófona); Luís Filipe Barreto (Univ. Lisboa); Jorge Flores (Univ. Aveiro/Brown Univ.); Walter Rossa (Univ. Coimbra); Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Univ. California); Dejanirah Couto (Univ. Paris VII); Juan Gil (Univ. de Sevilla); Om Prakash (Delhi School of Economics); and Leonard Blussé (Univ. Leiden/Univ. Harvard).

Its organising committee is made up of João Paulo Oliveira e Costa (Univ. Nova Lisboa); Vítor Gaspar Rodrigues (IICT); Susana Münch Miranda (Univ. Nova Lisboa); Zoltán Biedermann (CHAM); André Teixeira (CHAM); André Murteira (CHAM); Andreia Martins de Carvalho (CHAM); and Silvana Pires (CHAM).


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