The International Scene

In August Dr. Timothy Coates extended the department’s scholarly reach to Latin America.  He lectured at the Universidade Tuiuti in Curitiba, Brazil on “The Punishment of Exile to Luanda, Angola, 1880-1932.”

At the State University of São Paulo at their branch campus in Franca, Brazil he also gave a talk at a conference on “Images of the West During the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries.” His subject was “Convicts and Orphans, Now Ten Years Later.”

 While there he also provided a workshop for graduate students on “Conducting Research in Portuguese Archives and Libraries.”  All the foregoing were presented in Portuguese.

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