The Americas before 1900 Working Group is pleased to welcome
Andréa Doré (Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil)
for a discussion of her paper:
Abstract: In some Portuguese maps of the New World produced during the Iberian Union (1580-1640), the Potosí mines of the Viceroyalty of Peru occupy a central place. Political and economic issues were involved in this way of mapping the Iberian dominions, including the shift of Portuguese interests from the Indian to the Atlantic Ocean. Based on travel accounts, maps and geography treatises, this project analyzes the different traditions in the representation of South America until we can clearly talk about a Spanish and a Portuguese America. A first conclusion is that the visual construction of the continent was the result of ambivalence, in which the expectations projected onto its territory played a very important role.
Andréa Doré is Professor of Modern History and Theory of History at the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil). She has published articles on the Portuguese presence in Asia and the book Sitiados. Os cercos às fortalezas portuguesas na Índia 1498-1622 (São Paulo, 2010). This year, she is a visiting scholar in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and a Fellow of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
To obtain a copy of the paper and to RSVP for a box lunch, please contact Lisa Voigt (voigt.25@osu.edu). Lunch will be available beginning at 12:45. Discussion will begin at 1:00 pm and conclude around 2:00 pm.
