Category: Notícias

With profound sadness, the Alberto Benveniste Chair of Sephardic Studies joins the expressions of sorrow for the passing of Professor António Borges Coelho, Emeritus Full Professor of the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon and member of CESAB’s Scientific Committee, whose projects he always followed with…

02 June 2025 – FLULUn recorrido por la vida y obra de Joseph Penso de Vega por Fernando Pancorbo (SNSF / Universität Basel) Synopsis It’s not always convenient to separate author and work, especially when it comes to a writer who dedicated much of his time to finding a balance between his commitment to his…

The VII Colóquio Internacional Diálogos Luso-Sefarditas will be held from 4 to 6 June 2025. The call for papers is open until 30 April. More information on the website

Publication of the book Os Gravames dos Cristãos-Novos A valuable work by the late Professor Herman P. Salomon was recently published, with the collaboration of João-Félix Almeida and António Guimarães Pinto, the latter translating and critically analysing the Latin parts. Os Gravames dos Cristãos-Novos corresponds to an important 17th century document that mirrors the troubled…

On the 28th and 29th of November, the 6th Colóquio Internacional Diálogos Luso-Sefarditas was held at the João Mendes Rosa Art Gallery of the Museu da Guarda, as part of the programme to celebrate the 825th anniversary of the city of Guarda.  Theevent was jointly organised by the Câmara Municipal da Guarda, Centro de História da Sociedade e da Cultura of the Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas of the Universidade de Aveiro, and the Cátedra…

Carla Vieira, researcher at CESAB and CHAM – NOVA FCSH, is currently a visiting scholar at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is part of the 2024 Fellowship programme on “Jews and Health”, in which she is researching David Nassy (1747-1806) as a member of the…

On July 19, 2024, the public presentation of the book The Trial of Catarina de Orta by the Goa Inquisition (1568-1569), published by Under the Peepal Tree, took place at the headquarters of the Orient Foundation in Pangim (Goa, India). The book, by researchers Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço, Susana Bastos Mateus and Carla Vieira, is an…

Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Auditório | 28 de Junho, 17h30 O novo volume da Colecção Usque da CESAB traz-nos a edição crítica da obra-prima de Garcia de Orta, a cargo de Rui Manuel Loureiro e Teresa Nobre de Carvalho. O livro será apresentado por Luís Filipe Barreto.

Cuauhtémoc Villamar (National University of Singapore), “Participación de los cristianos nuevos portugueses en el inicio del Galeón de Manila. De la rivalidad a la cooperación”

Conferência “É preciso um leitor ideal diante da história das crianças judias de Órion, de Mário Cláudio?” de Roberta Guimarães Franco (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)