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THE RUTTER PROJECT

Final Workshop

 

Venue: Academia das Ciências, R. Academia das Ciências 19, 1200-032 Lisboa.

Date: May 22-24, 2025

Participation in the event is free, but seats are limited and registration is mandatory.

Please, register here by 15 of May.

Program

22 May

9:00-9:15         Registration

9:15-9:30         Henrique Leitão – Opening

9:30-9:45          Silvana Munzi – RUTTER in Numbers

9:45-10:30        Henrique Leitão – 6 Years of RUTTER

10:30-11:00      José María Moreno Madrid – Twisting Mathematics. Andrés García de Céspedes’ Hydrographia and the ‘Property’ of the Moluccas

11:00-11:30      Coffee break

11:30-12:15      Luana Giurgevich – Between Imagination and Records: Nautical Rutters as a New Tool of Oceanic Memory

12:15-14:30      Lunch

14:30-15:15      Nuno Vila-Santa – Trading Nautical Knowledge between Portugal, Spain and England: the Career of “Traitorous” Pilot Bartolomeu Baião (1564-1572)

15:15-16:00      David Salomoni – The Geography Textbook as a Result of Oceanic Exploration, 15th-16th Century

16:00-16:30      Coffee Break

16:30-17:00      Carmo Lacerda – The Oceanic Pilot in the Eyes of Pedro de Medina

 

Book launch

17:15-18:30     A longitude do Mundo. Viagens oceânicas, cosmografia matemática e a construção de uma Terra global by José María Moreno Madrid e Henrique Leitão. Presented by Prof. João Filipe Queiró and Dr. Luisa Braz de Oliveira.

18:30-19:15      Porto d’Honra

 

23 May

9:30-10:15        Angela Schottenhammer – The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver & Silks: What Can We Learn About its Structure  and Impact?

10:15-11:00      Juan Acevedo – Comparative Anatomy of Indian Ocean Arabic Nautical Handbooks

11:00-11:30      Coffee break

11:30-12:00      Inês Bénard – Nautical Distances in the Indian Ocean: Al-Mahrī’s Account on the Tirfā and the Zām

12:00-12:45      Razieh Mousavi – Navigational Debates on North Star Observation in 16th–17th-Century Persian Literature

12:45-14:45      Lunch

14:45-15:30      Luís Campos Ribeiro – Nautical Astrology in Practice (Part I): Performance and Practicalities in the Astrological Consultation

15:30-16:15      Jakub Ochocinski  – Nautical Astrology in Practice (Part II). Colonialism and Commerce: Narratives of Seafaring in Eighteenth-Century North America

16:15-16:45      Coffee Break

16:45-17:30      Luís Tirapicos – Symphony for Two Phantom Globes

17:30-18:15      Francisco Malta Romeiras – The European Overseas Expansion and the Origins of Modernity, 1450–1800

 

24 May

9:30-10:15        Joaquim Alves Gaspar – The Early Modern Nautical Chart as an Instrument for Navigation

10:15-10:45      Sîma Krtalic – Hidden Circles and Broken Borders: the Framing of Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Nautical Cartography

10:45-11:30      Angelo Cattaneo – Connecting and Disconnecting Worlds: Recentering Global Sea Routes on Japan in Early Modernity

11:30-12:00      Coffee break

12:00-12:45      Pablo de Felipe – The Geographical Revolution of 1500, a Forgotten Scientific Revolution  Before Copernicus?

12:45-13:15      Joana Lima – Beyond the Horizon: The Impact of Early Modern Oceanic Voyages on the Production of Planetary Space

13:15-13:30     Comandante José Manuel Malhão Pereira – Final Remarks

13:30                Closing

 

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