Language

Portuguese

Featured Items

Diario ecclesiastico para os Bispados do Rio de Janeiro, S. Paulo, e Marianna

1808

Detail of gold JCB stamp on black binding.

Principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nation

Edward Wright

1598

Detail from book cover shows flower pattern with red details.

Descripçaõ da arvore assucareira

Hipolito Jose da Costa

1800

Detail of a hand colored manuscript map shows flags and place names along a coastal region.

[Early representation of Newfoundland, Lower California, the Amazon, and the Ladrones]

António Pereira

circa 1546

An image of the map '“Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae'

Collections Up Close

Jan van Linschoten, “Delineatio Omnium Orarum Totius Australis Partis Americae …” in Itinerario, voyage ofte schipvaert…, Amsterdam: Cornelius Claesz, 1596

November 22, 2021

Fellow's Talk

Baleação e Escravidão: Conexões Atlânticas entre New England, África e Brasil. Séculos XVIII e XIX (in Portuguese)

Wednesday, September 22 at 1:00pm

A map showing the Americas and a constellation over them

Constellations: Reimagining Celestial Histories in the Early Americas

November 2020 - August 2021

image of terrestrial sphere including Africa, Asia, and the Americas

Lecture on the African-European Encounter to Kick Off New JCB Initiative (and 75th Anniversary Meeting)

August 23, 2019

Lecture

Fado: A Portuguese Genre from its Afro-Brazilian Roots to World Music

Monday, March 2 at 5:30pm

Lecture

Women as Intermediaries in Portuguese Overseas Empire

Wednesday, February 17 at 4:00pm

Workshop

Negros da Terra translation workshop

Monday, August 29 at 12:00am

Panel

History of Medicine in the Portuguese Atlantic

Monday, October 31 at 4:00pm