{"id":992,"date":"2023-07-21T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/?p=992"},"modified":"2023-12-11T15:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:35:14","slug":"switzerland-and-brazil-in-the-19th-century-historical-connections-and-agencies-in-the-study-of-colonialism-in-global-perspective-a-conference-with-izabel-barros-and-andre-nicacio-lima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/switzerland-and-brazil-in-the-19th-century-historical-connections-and-agencies-in-the-study-of-colonialism-in-global-perspective-a-conference-with-izabel-barros-and-andre-nicacio-lima\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Brazil in the 19th century : historical connections and agencies in the study of colonialism in global perspective \u2014 a conference with Izabel Barros and Andr\u00e9 Nicacio Lima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"letter-spacing:0.2px\">Izabel Barros and Andr\u00e9 Nicacio Lima presented on 20 July at the 32nd National Congress of History in S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds, Brazil, the preliminary results of their joint research on Swiss-Brazilian relations during the period of slavery. Their presentation was entitled: &#8220;Switzerland and Brazil in the 19th century: historical connections and agencies in the study of colonialism in global perspective&#8221;. While Izabel spoke about the fate of enslaved men, women and children on a Swiss-owned plantation in Bahia, Andr\u00e9 examined how members of the Swiss mercantile elite pursued their economic interests through interaction with the political and economic elite in Brazil who, in turn, used the presence of Swiss and other continental European elites for their policies of &#8216;civilisation&#8217; and &#8216;whitening&#8217; of a predominantly black and indigenous Brazilian society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0002-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1001\" style=\"width:372px;height:233px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0002-edited.jpg 900w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0002-edited-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0002-edited-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andr\u00e9 Nicacio Lima and Izabel Barros at the National Congress of History in S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds, Brazil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0004-1-e1689956334320-1024x894.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-996\" style=\"width:289px;height:252px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0004-1-e1689956334320-1024x894.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0004-1-e1689956334320-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0004-1-e1689956334320-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/files\/2023\/07\/IMG-20230720-WA0004-1-e1689956334320.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Izabel Barros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Izabel Barros and Andr\u00e9 Nicacio Lima presented on 20 July at the 32nd National Congress of History in S\u00e3o Lu\u00eds, Brazil, the preliminary results of their joint research on Swiss-Brazilian relations during the period of slavery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002442,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[9,35],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-conferences","category-uncategorized","tag-conference","tag-izabel-barros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/collaborativehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}