Jorge Flores

 

 

Tel. [+39] 055 4685 594/362

Fax [+39] 055 4685 203

 

Email : jorge.flores@eui.eu

Secretary Francesca Elia

 

Office Limonaia - Villa Schifanoia

 

EUI HEC Department

Via Boccaccio 121

50133 Florence - Italy

 

 

 

Fields of Research

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. His main field of expertise is the European expansion in Asia 1500-1800 (especially South Asia), and 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. 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.

 

Current Seminars at EUI

Global History: Themes and Approaches (with Prof. A Romano) - Fall Term 2010/2011

Travels, Books, Audiences and Empires (1400-1800) - Spring Term 2010/2011

Current Research Projects

Prof. Flores is presently completing a book titled “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.

While in Florence, he will work on a project tentatively titled “Portuguese Empire and Eurasian Cosmopolitanism, 1500-1700”. 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”.