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A new book club focused entirely on writing about Goa
First meeting: November 18, 2010 @ 5pm @ Broadway, 18th June Road, Panaji
Details at: http://ttt-goa.notlong.com or SMS 9822122436
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HISTORY HOUR
XAVIER CENTRE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Cordially invites you to a talk and discussion on
Baptizing the New World: European toponims in the Colonial Americas
by
Prof. Angel Delgado
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
Alto Porvorim
Monday, 22nd November 2010
5. 30 pm
Tel: 2417772 ; 2414971
[email protected]
Prof Delgado is engaged in a major interdisciplinary research project on
toponims (name places) of the colonial Americas, a study that surveys the
English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch traditions of giving names to
cities, countries, physical geography such as rivers, mountains, gulfs, etc.
This is quite an engaging subject that should be of interest to both students
and professors of any field.
Prof Angel Delgado, from Barcelona, obtained his Ph. D. in Comparative
Literature from the University of Texas, Austin and then became professor of
Literature at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana USA from 1983. His field
of expertise is Spanish Golden Age and European Renaissance literature, and
Colonial Studies of the Americas. He is author of two critical editions of
texts (Hernan Cortes' Letters and Bernal Diaz' History of the Conquest of New
Spain, (2009). He retired recently and moved to Barcelona where he continues
his research as in independent scholar. He is an Associate Member of GRISO.
