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CESAB is proud to partner with CIDEHUS (University of Évora) and CEHR (Portuguese Catholic University) in organizing the International Seminar History of the Inquisitions, an initiative of the International Group for the History of the Inquisitions. Following a first meeting held in Santiago de Chile in 2019, dedicated to the theme “Holy Office and Colonial…

CESAB, in partnership with the Centre of Religious History Studies of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, is organizing the workshop “Challenges of Religious Expansion in the Early Modern Period.” Coordinated by CESAB researcher Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço and Professor Patricia Souza de Faria (Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro), the workshop will take place at the…

Online event | 27 January 2026, 6:00 p.m. (Lisbon time) To mark the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the Alberto Benveniste Chair of Sephardic Studies is hosting a conversation with Anne Bénoliel Defréville, author of Sefardim. L’épopée d’une famille juive durant 3 000 ans. Sefardim. L’épopée d’une famille juive durant…

The Monsoon Project has, since April 2025, involved students from the History course at the Federal University of Viçosa in research on the presence of New Christians in the State of India. The group, which has the local cooperation of Professor Angelo Adriano Faria de Assis, is analyzing documentation produced between the 16th and 18th…

The project “Monsoons – New Christians, Jews and other individuals prosecuted for Judaism in the Goa Inquisition (1561–1812)” has a new logo! Inspired by the compass rose designs of old Portuguese cartography, the logo evokes the diaspora of the New Christians across different parts of the world and, in particular, toward routes east of the…

Researcher Carla Vieira will take part in the seminar “Atlantic Voices in ColonialNewport: Rethinking Trade, Religion, and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic”on October 29, in Newport, Rhode Island. This seminar will discuss the role ofPortuguese and Spanish as minority languages in colonial Newport and asvehicles for the integration of this port city into mercantile…

Researcher Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço took part in the international conference “Roman Congregations in the Early Modern World: New Research and Perspectives on the Holy Office and Propaganda Fide”, which took place in Naples from September 16 to 18. The conference discussed the importance of the formation and history of archival collections for the study of…

Researcher Susana Bastos Mateus took part on June 4–5, 2025, in the international workshop Shaping Colonial Normativities: Law, Land and Villages in Goa (16th–19th Centuries), held at Leibnizhaus in Hanover as part of the project IberLAND. Beyond Property: Law and Land in the Iberian World (1510–1850). For more information: https://iberland.eu/events/workshop-shaping-colonial-normativities/