Professor Jorge Flores
Coordinator Researcher
University of Lisbon
jmflores@fc.ul.pt; jorge.flores@eui.eu
Professor Jorge Flores will be a TORCH International Fellow in the Faculty of History during the month of May 2022. A major specialist in the social and cultural history of the early modern Portuguese empire in Asia, with a special focus on Mughal India, Sri Lanka, and the Malay Peninsula, Jorge Flores is the author of many publications, including the recent book Unwanted Neighbors: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and Their Frontier Zones (OUP, 2018). His future plans include a project about pictorial forms of political dissent and insult in Portuguese India, as well as a volume on Iberian Asia for Routledge.
Jorge will be hosted as a TORCH International Fellow by Professor Giuseppe Marcocci. During his stay, Jorge will collaborate with Giuseppe on the co-editorship of a special issue on the visual and written archive of dissent in the early modern Iberian world. They will also explore the possibility of putting together major national and international applications for funding for projects dealing with images and power in the Iberian empires and trans-imperial communication across the early modern world, with a special attention to Asia.
The programme of Jorge’s fellowship also includes a number of scientific events:
Tuesday of Week 2 (3 May), 2-4 pm: A Masterclass with Jorge Flores: Iberian Asia & Global History | Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad, Exeter College
Friday of week 3 (13 May), 3-4.30 pm: Jorge Flores (University of Lisbon) & Giuseppe Marcocci (University of Oxford), Hands-on Talk ‘The Archive of Visual and Written Dissent in the Early Modern Iberian World’ | Kloppenburg Room, Cohen Quad, Exeter College
Friday of Week 4 (20 May), 5.30-9 pm: Screening of the Film Silence (2016) by Martin Scorsese | FitzHugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad, Exeter College | The film will be introduced by Professor Jorge Flores and will be followed by a standing dinner
Wednesday of Week 5 (25 May), 4.30-6 pm: ‘The Boxer Codex: An Illustrated Manuscript from Late Sixteenth Century Iberian Asia’: A Special Session of the Reading Group on Iberian History (Medieval & Early Modern) | Maddicott Room, Cohen Quad, Exeter College
Friday & Saturday of Week 5 (27-28 May): International Conference ‘What Was Iberian Asia? New Perspectives on Spanish and Portuguese Exploration, 1500-1700’ | FitzHugh Auditorium, Cohen Quad, Exeter College
