Carlos Henrique Gonçalves Conceição Junior

Carlos Henrique Gonçalves Conceição Junior is a historian at the University of São Paulo specializing in the Jesuit missions of colonial South America. His course "Jesuit missions in the Guarani territories: history" examines the remarkable period from 1609 to 1800, when these missions flourished across territories that now span Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. His research explores how approximately 100,000 Guarani lived across thirty mission towns spanning 150,000 square miles, creating a unique social and cultural space where indigenous traditions merged with colonial structures