Rector's Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street
Charlotte de Castelnau-L’Estoile is Professor of Brazilian History at Sorbonne University in Paris. She specialises in colonial Catholicism and slavery in colonial societies in America, particularly in Brazil. She has written extensively on Jesuit and Capuchin missionaries, as well as on enslaved people of African descent and indigenous peoples. Her books include Les ouvriers d'une vigne stérile: Les jésuites et la conversion des Indiens au Brésil (1580-1620) (Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, 2000), Un catholicisme colonial: Le mariage des Indiens et des esclaves au Brésil (PUF, 2019) and Páscoa et ses deux maris: Une esclave entre Angola, Brésil et Portugal au XVIIe siècle (PUF, 2019)
