WHAT: JEWS AND "NEW CHRISTIANS" IN PORTUGUESE ASIA, 1500-1500: LECTURE BY DR. SANJAY SUBRAHMAYAN SCHOLAR AT THE JOHN W. KLUGE CENTER AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
WHERE: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Thomas Jefferson Building, Room 113, Washington, DC. WHEN: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 AT NOON PROGRAM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The first Portuguese voyage to India in 1497 coincided with the Portuguese attempt to forcibly convert its Jewish residents in their kingdom. Some of these Jews and "New Christians" (cristãos-novos), moved between Iberia and Portuguese Asia via the Cape route and the Ottoman Empire. The financial and intellectual resources of these individuals and communities were crucial to many of the successful ventures of the Portuguese. The lecture will focus on of a series of individuals such as Garcia da Orta, Jacome de Olivares, António Bocarro and Samuel Castiel. PROGRAM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT THE KLUGE CENTER AT 202-707-3302. Dr. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi Chair of Indian History, at UCLA. Educated at the University of Delhi and the Delhi School of Economics, the first decade of his career was spent (with brief interruptions) teaching economic history and comparative economic development at the Delhi School of Economics, where he was named Professor of Economic History (1993-95). Thereafter, Subrahmanyam taught at Paris from 1995 to 2002 as Directeur d'études in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, holding a position on the economic and social history of early modern India and the Indian Ocean world. In 2002, Subrahmanyam was appointed as the first holder of the newly created Chair in Indian History and Culture at the University of Oxford, a position he held for two years before moving to his present chair. From July 2005 to June 2011, he served as founding Director of UCLA's Center for India and South Asia<http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/>. In UCLA, Sanjay Subrahmanyam teaches courses on medieval and early modern South Asian and Indian Ocean history; the history of European expansion, the comparative history of early modern empires, and world history. He advises graduate students on Indian history, the history of the Iberian empires, and more generally on forms of "connected histories". He is also Joint Managing Editor of the Indian Economic and Social History Review, besides serving on the boards of a number of other journals in the US, UK, France, Portugal, and elsewhere. He is currently on the editorial board of the multi-volume Cambridge History of the World, and will edit Volume VI (in 2 parts). He is presently a John W. Kluge Scholar at the Library of Congress.
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