Europalia | International Arts Festival

Programme (subject to modification):

09:30 – 10:00
welcome of participants with coffee

10:00
Dra. Iris Kantor, Departamento de História,Universidade de São Paulo-Brasil
The first maps made after the arrival of the Europeans in the New World.

11:30 – 12:30
Martijn Storms, MA, Universiteistbibliotheek Leiden
The Marcgraf/Blaeu map of Dutch Brazil

12.30 – 14:30
Aperitif and lunch

14:30 
Prof. Dr. Raymond Buve, Universiteit Leiden
A journey through Dutch Brazil from the attack  by Piet Heijn on Salvador in 1624 to the siege of Mauritsstad by the Portuguese

15:00
Coffeebreak

15:30 – 16:15
Dr. Ben Teensma, Universiteit Leiden
Progressive general knowledge about Brazil, 1600- 1650 as cumulated in the surviving Dutch WIC-rutters from 1629, 1637 and circa 1648

16:30
End of the conference
 

ShareThis