Jorge Flores
Professor of History of European Colonial
and Post-Colonial Systems
Vasco da Gama Chair
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 594 / 427
Fax [+39] 055 4685 203
Email Jorge.Flores@eui.eu
Secretary Roberta Saccon
Postal address: Department of History and Civilization | Via Boccaccio 121 | 50133 Florence | Italy
Villa Schifanoia - Office Limonaia - For appointments please contact: Roberta Saccon
Fields of Research
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Prof. Flores's research focuses on the history of the Portuguese empire during the early modern period. He is particularly interested in the interaction between the Portuguese society and extra-European cultures, as well as in the formation of cross-cultural images and representations.
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His main field of expertise is the European expansion in Asia 1500-1800 (especially South Asia), and he often works with Portuguese and other Western materials of the period to approach the history of the region.
Languages
Portuguese, English, French and Spanish
Current Research Projects
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Prof. Flores is presently completing a book entitled “Between Intelligence and Ethnography: Portuguese Perceptions of the Mughal Empire, ca. 1570-1670”, which explores relevant articulations between political and cultural history where the construction of European images of the Indo-Persian World is concerned.
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While in Florence, he will work on a project tentatively entitled “Portuguese Empire and Eurasian Cosmopolitanism, 1500-1700”.
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He is also currently involved in a number of collective projects, namely as coordinator of Red Columnaria’s research node “Lettered Empires. Cartographies of Writing in the Iberian Overseas World, c. 1400-1800”.
Selected Recent Publications
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Jorge Flores, The Inverted Mirror. Asian Images of the Europeans, 1500-1800, Lisbon: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, 2007.
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Jorge Flores,ed., Re-exploring the Links: History and Constructed Histories Between Portugal and Sri Lanka, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007.
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Jorge Flores & Rudi Matthee, eds., Portugal, the Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia, Leuven: Peeters (forthcoming, June 2011).