National Library of Lisbon, September 26-27, 2022
The conference Public Rituals and Alterity in the Portuguese Empire (1450-1822) explores the articulation between ritual practices and notions of difference.
See the programme here.
The conference is part of the project “Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empire” (RITUALS, www.rituaispublicos.wordpress.com). Besides digitizing narratives of public rituals in the Portuguese empire between 1498 and 1822 and making them available online, RITUALS is dedicated to exploring various dimensions of rituals (e.g. public ceremonies, festivals, processions): the spaces of rituals; the political, social, and cultural imaginaries found in these rituals (and their narratives); the comparison between public rituals dominant in the Portuguese empire and those that occur in other contexts. The concept of alterity is here understood in a broad sense, encompassing ethnic, religious, social, political and cultural alterity and other forms of difference (for example, the changes introduced in rituals across time and space).