Historian, author and professor Dr Teotonio R de Souza will speak at the Goa Book Club on FRIDAY August 22, 2014 at 5 pm at Broadway Book Centre, Ashirwad Building, 18th June Road.
This talk will be held in the 'My Texts, My Times' series, where the author will focus on some of the books he authored, the challenges he faced while doing so, and offer suggestions to those interested in the field of historical research on Goa. The programme is open to all, but an RSVP via SMS to 9822122436 mentioning names of those who plan to attend in required in advance. Teotónio de Souza (born on 18 February 1947) is a Goan historian and the founder-director of the Goa-based Xavier Centre of Historical Research, at Alto Porvorim. Based in Portugal since 1995, Souza heads the Department of History in the Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias. He has been a fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History since 1983, and of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa since 2000. Souza has written his PhD thesis, published as Medieval Goa (Delhi, Concept, 1979; Lisbon, Estampa 1994; Goa-Goa,1556 and Broadway 2009) challenges the view that Portuguese rule in South Asia resulted in a period of golden rule in Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- FN P +91-832-2409490 M +91-9822122436 http://goa1556.in