Period of Residency: 03/01/2007 to 12/10/2007
Professor Júnia Ferreira Furtado holds a degree in History from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1983), a Master’s degree in Social History from the University of São Paulo (1991) and a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (1996). She carried out postdoctoral studies at Princeton University (2000), where she was also a visiting professor (2001), and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Sciences Sociales / Sorbonne / France (2008). She received the Joaquim Nabuco Chair at Stanford University, where she was a visiting researcher between April and June 2012. She is currently Full Professor in Modern History at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, linked to the Department and Graduate Program in History. She coordinates an international agreement with the University of Paris III / Sorbonne and with the Department of History at the New University of Lisbon. He has experience in the area of Modern History, with an emphasis on History of Colonial Brazil, working mainly on the following topics: Minas Gerais, colony, cartography, diamonds, slavery, gender relations and power relations, with several books published, with emphasis on Chica da Silva and the diamond contractor: the other side of the myth (Companhia das Letras and Cambridge University Press).
THE ORACLES OF ILLUMINIST GEOGRAPHY: DOM LUÍS DA CUNHA E D’ANVILLE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF CARTOGRAPHY ABOUT BRAZIL
The project aims to investigate the collaboration established between Dom Luís da Cunha and Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D’Anville for the production of Carte de l’Amérique Méridionale. The development of the multiple themes to be faced in this research only becomes possible when all the relevant questions are analyzed and examined in the light of the boundaries that are established between History, Cultural and Political History, Geography, Geopolitics, History of Science, Cartography, History of Cartography and Diplomacy.