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Portugal in touch with Africa. Between Europe and Asia in modern Epoch, multiplicity of experiments and put in writing of stories
Organised by HERVÉ PENNEC (NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, Donatecarcenter.com-Aix) and THOMAS VERNET (University Paris 1, Donatecarcenter.com-PARIS)
Donatecarcenter.com-PARIS / Centres Malher, 9, street Malher 75004 Paris room Person, 2nd floor, site Paris / Centre Malher / 9, street Malher, 4th Paris.
Calendar 2009
On Thursday, November 6th, on 2008 10 h-12 h
For this exceptional session, organised in collaboration with Philippe Beaujard (NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, Donatecarcenter.com-Paris), we accept Sanjay Subrahmanyam, specialist of the Portuguese empire of Asia and of the Indian subcontinent, and artisan of notion of’ " linked history " (connected history).
Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Professor, UCLA), "linked Stories and imperial history in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries".
Presentation
The objective of this seminar is to return over the period of XVITH - XVIIITH century from the history of Africa and notably on what is called "Portuguese" presence . For a long time, historiography was especially interested in period said about discoveries (at the XVth end - at the Beginning of the XVIth centuries), glorious instant of this Iberian expansion, abandoning the long and nutritious time the idea of a precocious and progressive decline. It will be a question therefore of re-questioning categories, words and applied concepts and of reflecting considered areas on their pertinence according to epochs and. It indeed appears essential to highlight the specificity of each of the actors and to underline the multiplicity of experiments so as to modify the at least monolithic vision of the "Portugueses" in Africa (especially on the eastern coast) and their relations with "Africain" interlocutors who were not besides always Africa.
Besides the fact that the topic of "meeting" between Portugal and Africa puts down the whole series of questions (about which Africa it is ; which types of meetings as it is noticed ; in which length it fans out and according to which modalities ; what was the impact and what does there remain ?), this historical relation registers in a larger movement which puts Africa in a political and diplomatic game with Europe, but also with Asia. It is therefore in an optics resolutely specialist in comparative linguistics that reflexion will be able to become rich of similar problems put down on other continents, especially for the Asia.
Because it is essential for constitution and validation of a knowledge, the question of sources and of bet in writing of history will be in the middle of this reflexion.
The ambition of this research seminar is to put around the table of the confirmed researchers and beginners so that each could feed, from his experience of ground, an original reflexion and a debate, driving to the déconstruction of some categories and to the installation of an approach and renewed knowledges. It is therefore around some research tracks that we want to unite a concerned public.
In the same rubric :
- The transmission of the colonial State in Africa
- Local declensions of heritage
- Societies and kingdoms of the regions of the Nile in the Horn of Africa. New fields, new questions (ANR « Horn of Africa »)
- Not Africain and Africain diasporas in Africa
- War and society in the contemporary Arab world : the faces of the combatant
- Populations, territories and powers in Niger
- History of the social transformations into Africa
