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
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