[Brazil@Harvard] Tomorrow: Early Modern History Workshop: Salvador da Bahia’s City Council and the Governance of the Portuguese Atlantic

The Workshop in Early Modern History To Obey from Afar: Salvador da Bahia’s City Council and the Governance of the Portuguese Atlantic during the Seventeenth Century Pedro Cardim Associate Professor of History at the New University of Lisbon; Visiting Professor, New York University; Board Member, CHAM – The Portuguese Center for Global History (New University of Lisbon). Tomorrow, October 22, 5:00 p.m. Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room This presentation studies the way seventeenth-century Salvador da Bahia’s city council interacted with the Portuguese court, positioning itself as the responsible body for governing all Portuguese Atlantic non-European territories, i.e. not restricting itself to Bahia alone, yet also revealing a sense of attachment to the Americas. Contact: Tamar Herzog, therzog(a)fas.harvard.edu Co-sponsored by the Robert C. Smith, Jr. Fund for Portuguese Studies, Department of Romance Languages and Literature [cid:image001.jpg@01CFED15.6612FBD0]