Conference “Crossing Histories and Ethnographies” – Lisbon – ICS-UL 1-2 July 2013 Conference POSTER click here Conference PROGRAM click here On 1-2 July 2013, it will take place at the Institute of Social of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) and at Cinemateca Portuguesa, the closing international conference of our project. Participants will include Elizabeth Traube as keynote speaker, Claudine Friedberg and David Hicks as special speakers; and will offer papers by Gonçalo Antunes, Judith Bovensiepen, Rui Feijó, Andrew McWilliam, Ricardo […]

NEW BIOGRAPHY OF RUY CINATTI Poet, engineer, botanist, ethnologist, Ruy Cinatti was one of the most remarkable and eclectic Portuguese writers on the cultures and landscapes of Timor Leste in the twentieth-century. Click HERE to read historian Cláudia Castelo’s extensively researched biographical sketch of Ruy Cinatti, as part of our Online Dictionary of Biographies. Image credits: Ruy Cinatti in Timor. Espólio de Ruy Cinatti na Biblioteca Universitária João Paulo II, Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Disponível em: http://www.snpcultura.org/fotografias/ruy_cinatti/23.jpg

CONFERENCES ON TIMOR LESTE – 2012 In 2012 and early 2013 the team has been involved in the organization of three symposia about the history and anthropology of Timor Leste. You can read about the events in the section “Conferences” of our website or download the conference programmes below. Image: Postcard Timor c. 1966. Fonte: IICT. TIMOR LESTE: MEMÓRIAS E HISTÓRIAS DA ANTROPOLOGIA Auditorio da Universidade Nacional de Timor Lorosa’e (UNTL) Dili, 4 August 2012 DOWNLOAD the conference program here. […]

TIMOR LESTE: 10 ANOS DE ESTUDOS E TESES. REFLETIR E DEVOLVER Biblioteca – Espaço Por Timor Lisbon, 17 & 18 May 2012 Timor Leste has received growing attention from Portuguese scholars since the referendum of 1999. At Portuguese universities, a number of humanities’ and social sciences’ works were produced in the course of the last ten years, including many Master and PhD theses. Many of these, however, have not been published, and thus they have little or no impact beyond […]

On this website you will find the open-access online publication of the papers presented at the Symposium Timor: Scientific Missions and Colonial Anthropology held at the Overseas Historical Archives, Lisbon, on 24 and 25 May 2011. The conference proceedings include papers by Portuguese and Timorese scholars who work on the anthropology and history of science in East Timor, during the Portuguese colonial period. Authors include Cláudia Castelo, Fernando Figueiredo, Manuel Lobato, Vítor Rosado Marques, Maria do Rosário Martins, Ana Cristina […]