A Época do 2º Visconde de Santarém - nascido em Lisboa em 1791 e falecido em Paris em 1856 - conheceu profundas transformações a nível das sensibilidades artísticas, literárias e culturais, em vários domínios do conhecimento científico e alterações fracturantes de regimes políticos, com a transição, por vezes brutal, do Antigo Regime para o do Liberalismo europeu e sul-americano. A Europa influenciou e foi influenciada, observou e foi observada por um reino geograficamente periférico, mas onde as convulsões internas andaram a par de movimentos culturais e científicos, académicos e periodísticos muito ricos e diversos. Em Portugal e fora dele, vários autores escreveram sobre o passado nacional e fizeram de elo de ligação entre os universos da governação, das estratégias ultramarinas e do discurso científico sobre os descobrimentos e a cartografia, por um lado, e das cortes tradicionais e da história das relações diplomáticas, por outro. Inserido numa rede transeuropeia de sociedades científicas, o 2º Visconde de Santarém dialogou com interlocutores de renome, nacionais e internacionais, tendo deixado uma marca indelével no seu tempo, que importa entender no contexto, nas sociabilidades, nos diálogos críticos entre autores ena mentalidade da época. O Colóquio pretende reunir especialistas da História Política e Diplomática, da História da Arte, da História Cultural e da Historiografia, bem como da História da Geografia e da Cartografia, para em conjunto debaterem e lançarem novas hipóteses de estudo e investigação sobre o legado e o impacto científico, cultural e político do Visconde no seu século. Para, em conjunto, debaterem e lançarem novas hipótese de estudo e de investigação sobre os antecedentes, contextos culturais e redes de sociabilidade que enquadram a Época do 2º Visconde de Santarém e que com ele coexistem, noutras culturas científicas europeias, numa análise e perspectiva comparativas.
The 2nd Viscount of Santarém– born Lisbon 1791; died Paris 1856 – lived during a time that witnessed many profound changes in artistic, literary and cultural sensibilities in various fields of scientific knowledge as well as many divisive alterations to political regimes with the transition, at times brutal, from the Ancien Régime to European and Latin American Liberalism. Europe influenced, and was influenced by, observed, and was observed by a geographically peripheral kingdom, Portugal, where internal upheavals occurred alongside very rich and diverse cultural, scientific, academic and journalistic movements. Various authors within Portugal and outside wrote about its national past and established a link between the realms of governance, overseas strategy and the scientific discourse of the Discoveries and cartography on one hand, and the traditional courts and the history of diplomatic relations on the other. Being part of a trans-European network of scientific societies, the 2nd Viscount of Santarém maintained a dialogue with renowned national and international scholars. He left an indelible mark on his time, which should be understood within its context, and on the sociabilities, the critical dialogues between authors and the mentality of the age. The Colloquium seeks to bring together specialists in the fields of Political and Diplomatic History, History of Art, Cultural History, Historiography, the History of Geography and the History of Cartography in order to discuss and open up new areas of study and research about the backgrounds, cultural contexts and sociability networks which frame the Time of the 2nd Viscount of Santarém and with which he coexisted, into other scientific European cultures, through a comparative analysis and perspective.
The 2nd Viscount of Santarém– born Lisbon 1791; died Paris 1856 – lived during a time that witnessed many profound changes in artistic, literary and cultural sensibilities in various fields of scientific knowledge as well as many divisive alterations to political regimes with the transition, at times brutal, from the Ancien Régime to European and Latin American Liberalism. Europe influenced, and was influenced by, observed, and was observed by a geographically peripheral kingdom, Portugal, where internal upheavals occurred alongside very rich and diverse cultural, scientific, academic and journalistic movements. Various authors within Portugal and outside wrote about its national past and established a link between the realms of governance, overseas strategy and the scientific discourse of the Discoveries and cartography on one hand, and the traditional courts and the history of diplomatic relations on the other. Being part of a trans-European network of scientific societies, the 2nd Viscount of Santarém maintained a dialogue with renowned national and international scholars. He left an indelible mark on his time, which should be understood within its context, and on the sociabilities, the critical dialogues between authors and the mentality of the age. The Colloquium seeks to bring together specialists in the fields of Political and Diplomatic History, History of Art, Cultural History, Historiography, the History of Geography and the History of Cartography in order to discuss and open up new areas of study and research about the backgrounds, cultural contexts and sociability networks which frame the Time of the 2nd Viscount of Santarém and with which he coexisted, into other scientific European cultures, through a comparative analysis and perspective.