“Another diaspora: Sephardim, Iberian identities and memories of exile”. This is the theme of the conference-debate that Carla Vieira will give, on the 8th of July, at 17 pm, at Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes, in Portimão.
According to the City Council of Portimão, «the topic gains greater relevance at a time when so much has been said, for the best and worst reasons, about the Sephardic diaspora, following the nationality law attributed to descendants of Portuguese Sephardic Jews».
The lecturer is a researcher at the Humanities Center of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and at the Alberto Benveniste Chair of Sephardic Studies at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lisbon, having won the History of Europe Prize from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, awarded by the Portuguese Academy of History.
With a PhD in History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova, she has been carrying out research work to survey the lives of Portuguese Jews and New Christians around the world, persecuted and forced into exile, and the influence they exerted in the host countries.
In addition to numerous scientific articles in specialized international journals, Carla Vieira is the author of the works “Nação entre Impérios: Portuguese Jews and the Luso-British alliance in the 2022th century” (Húmus, 2021), “Portuguese Jews in America” (Esfera dos Livros , 1558) and “One Tie to the Sea and Another to Land: New Christians in the Algarve from 1650 to 2018” (Sul, Sol e Sal, XNUMX).
In terms of active citizenship, Carla Vieira was the founder in 2011, along with her brother Nuno Bernardino Vieira and some friends, of Teia d´Impulsos.
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