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Lisbon, 28-29 March 2018 | Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
28-03-2018, Wednesday
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09:30 Opening session
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10:00 1st session:
Ana Paula Avelar, UAb; CHAM, FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
e CEC, CH Universidade de Lisboa
Safavid Iran topoi in Portuguese travel writing
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Carla Alferes Pinto, CHAM, FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Afonso de Albuquerque and Shah Ismail gift-exchange. Artifícios, artistic objects, and material culture
Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Culinary taste: European travelers, Persian dishes and dishes
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13:00 Lunch
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14:30 2nd session:
José Alberto Tavim, Centro de História, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
The transit of Iberian Jews through Safavid Iran
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Isaac Donoso, Universidad de Alicante
Persia seen from Manila in the early modern age
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 3rd Session
Luis Gil, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
El memorial de Juan Mendez de Vasconcelos sobre la ‘carreira da Índia’
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Dejanirah Couto, EPHE, Paris
Caravans and caravanserais: Les beautez de la Perse of André Daulier Deslandes (1663-1666)
29-03-2018, Thursday
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09:30 4th session:
Alain Servantie, Independent researcher, Brussels
The mission of Gianni Balbi to Iran (1530)
Rui Manuel Loureiro, CHAM, FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
João de Barros and Safavid Persia: Impressions of an armchair traveler
11:00 5th session:
Halima Naimova, Independent researcher, Lisbon
Pedro Teixeira (XVI/XVII) – Persia for readers: quest for the original source
Anastazja Grudnicka, University College London
Rethinking the Oriental ‘Other’: Imagining Safavid Persia in Sir Anthony Shirley: his Relations of his Travels into Persia (1613)
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13:00 Lunch
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14:30 6th session:
João Teles e Cunha, IEO/FCSH-UCP; CHAM, FCSH Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
On whose footsteps? D. Álvaro da Costa and the Iranian part of his travelogue
Pedro Marques, Direção-Geral de Educação & UNIARQ, Universidade de Lisboa
Impressions of Safavid Iran on the Itinerário of Frei Gaspar de São Bernardino
José Cutillas Ferrer, Universidad de Alicante
Round trip to Asia. The story of Gutierre de Monroy and Pedro de Paredes
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 7th Session
Michele Bernardini, Universitá degli Studi di Napoli l’Orientale
Gemelli Careri's Persia. Some notes
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Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Safavid Travel Writing: The Dutch Contribution
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18:30 Closing session
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