This summer Goa's most eminent academic speakers will hold forth in London at the Global Goans Convention, 2011.
· Dr Teotonio R. de Souza, eminent historian and the founder-director of Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa. Based in Porgual since 1995, he heads the Department of History at the Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon. A Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History since 1983. Also Fellow of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa since 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotonio_R._de_Souza · Damodar R. SarDesai, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/people/person.asp?Facultystaff_ID=353 · Clifford Pereira, Historical-Geographer, leading authority on Bombay-Africans, author of View from Shooters' Hill, guest curator with several leading museums in London and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, UK. http://www.cliffordpereira.com/page4.html · Jason K Fernandes is a graduate of the prestigious National Law School, Bangalore, India, holds a Masters Degree in Sociology of Law, IISJ, Spain and is currently pursuing his Phd with the ISCTE, Lisbon. To find out more about the programme and register, visit: http://www.goauk.com/blog/2011/03/22/2011-global-goan-convention-london-22-25-july/ Selma Carvalho Member of the organising committee Global Goans Convention, London, 2011
