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Mapping Portuguese Orientalism: The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973). Introduction to a Research Project
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The International Congresses of Orientalists (1873-1973) are part of a European transnational space of symbolic goods. These congresses took place at intervals from 1873 to 1973 and were sites of sociability aimed at the creation of an intellectual and scientific/academic community primarily based in Europe by stimulating the traffic of people and ideas, that is, knowledge production, sharing, and networking. The present article aims to introduce and describe a nationally funded research project on the Portuguese participation in the International Congresses of Orientalists. The purpose is not only to present the project’s subject matter (part two), but also to briefly define both theoretical and methodological approaches as well as procedures that are subject to revision as the project progresses (parts three and four). The article proposes routes of discussion and puts forward research expectations and hypotheses about Portuguese orientalism. It concludes by summarizing the overall goals of the project, which seeks to provide evidence of a Portuguese orientalist intelligentsia that was part of a transnational community of oriental studies and participated in the international debate about orientalism, and ultimately to put it on that map of symbolic exchanges.
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International Congresses of Orientalists Portuguese orientalism Portuguese participation Portugal