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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jorge Flores

Citation names

  • Flores, Jorge

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
611B-AC0E-B07E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4895-1759

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/07
Concluded
História (Título de Agregado)
Major in História dos Descobrimentos e da Expansão Portuguesa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2005
Concluded
História (Doutoramento)
Major in História dos Descobrimentos e da Expansão Portuguesa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
1992
Concluded
História (Mestrado integrado)
Major in História dos Descobrimentos e da Expansão Portuguesa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
1982 - 1986
Concluded
História (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/09/01 - Current Invited Coordinator Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2010/09/01 - 2019/08/31 Full Professor (University Teacher) European University Institute, Italy
European University Institute, Italy
2007/09/01 - 2010/07/31 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Brown University, United States
Brown University, United States
2005 - 2007 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal
2004/09/01 - 2006/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Brown University, United States
Brown University, United States
2001 - 2005 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Ciências Sociais Políticas e do Território, Portugal
1994 - 2003 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Lusíada de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
1989/11 - 1994/08 Assistant (University Teacher) City University of Macau, Macau SAR China
City University of Macau, Macau SAR China
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2017 - 2019 Microhistory and Global History
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Arts and Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Flores, Jorge. Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World. Philadelphia, United States: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2024.
    In press
  2. Flores, Jorge. Unwanted Neighbours: The Mughals, the Portuguese, and Their Frontier Zones. Nova Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. 2018.
    Published
  3. Flores, Jorge. The Mughal Padshah: A Jesuit Treatise on Emperor Jahangir's Court and Household. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 2016.
    Published
  4. Flores, Jorge. Nas Margens do Hindustão: o estado da Índia e a expansão mongol ca. 1570-1640. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra (IUC). 2015.
    Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-0977-5
  5. Flores, Jorge. A Taprobana e a Ponte de Rama: Estudos sobre os Portugueses em Ceilão e na Índia do Sul. Macau: IPOR. 2004.
    Published
  6. Flores, Jorge. Os olhos do rei: Desenhos e descrições portuguesas da ilha de Ceilão (1624. 1638). Lisbon: CNCDP. 2001.
    Published
  7. Flores, Jorge. Os Portugueses e o Mar de Ceilão: Trato, diplomacia e guerra (1498-1543). Lisbon: Cosmos. 1998.
Book chapter
  1. Flores, Jorge. "Accidental Crossings, World Orders and the “Iberian Archive” in the Seventeenth- Century China Sea". In Philippine Confluence: Iberian, Chinese and Islamic Currents, C. 1500-1800. Amesterdão: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
    Published
  2. Flores, Jorge. "Colonial societies in Asia". In Fernando BOUZA, Pedro CARDIM and Antonio FEROS (eds), The Iberian world : 1450–1820, 393-415. New York: Routledge, 2019.
    Published
  3. Flores, Jorge. "Between Madrid and Ophir : Erédia, a deceiful discoverer?". In Miriam ELIAV-FELDON and Tamar HERZIG (eds), Dissimulation and deceit in early modern Europe, 184-210. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
    Published
  4. Flores, Jorge. "The Iberian empires, 1400-1800". In Jerry H. BENTLEY, Sanjay SUBRAHMANYAM and Merry WIESNER-HANKS (eds), The Cambridge world history. Volume 6 : The construction of a global world, 1400-1800 CE. Part I: Foundations,, 271-296. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
    Published
  5. Flores, Jorge. "Le Língua cosmopolite : le monde social des interprètes hindous de Goa au XVIIe siècle". In Ines ZUPANOV, Corinne LEFÈVRE and Jorge FLORES (eds), Cosmopolitismes en Asie du Sud : sources, itinéraires, langues (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles), 225-250. Paris: EHESS, collection Purusartha, no. 33, 2015.
    Published
  6. Flores, Jorge. "Floating Franks : the Portuguese and their Empire as seen from early modern Asia". In Robert ALDRICH and Kirsten MCKENZIE (eds), The Routledge history of Western empires, 33-45. Routledge, 2014.
    Published
  7. Flores, Jorge. "The Portuguese: An Introduction". In John Clifford Holt (ed.), The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 152-188. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Flores, Jorge. Rudi MATTHEE and Jorge FLORES (eds), Kishvar-i Purtighal, Khalij-i Fars va Iran-i ¿afavi. Teerão, Iran: Bunyad-i Iran'shinasi. 2020.
    Published • Editor
  2. Flores, Jorge. COSMOPOLITISMES EN ASIE DU SUD Sources, itinéraires, langues (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle). Paris: Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales. 2015.
    Published • 10.4000/books.editionsehess.22987 • Editor
  3. Flores, Jorge. Portugal, The Persian Gulf and Safavid Persia. Leuven: Peeters, Acta Iranica 52. 2011.
    Published • Editor
  4. Flores, Jorge. Raízes do Privilégio: mobilidade social no mundo ibérico do Antigo Regime. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Civilização Brasileira. 2011.
    Published • Editor
  5. Flores, Jorge. Re-Exploring the Links: History and Constructed Histories Between Portugal and Sri Lanka. Wiesbaden: Harrassovitz Verlag, col.- Maritime Asia 18. 2007.
    Published • Editor
  6. Flores, Jorge. Goa and the Great Mughal. London: Calouste Gulbenkian Fondation & Scala Publishers. 2004.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Flores, Jorge; Cardim, Pedro. "An imperial formation joins a composite polity: the Portuguese Empire and the information system of the Hispanic Monarchy (1580-1640)". European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 30 4 (2023): 600-623. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13507486.2023.2201257.
    Published • 10.1080/13507486.2023.2201257
  2. Flores, Jorge. "Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa, by Ângela Barreto Xavier". The English Historical Review 138 590-591 (2023): 331-333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead136.
    Published • 10.1093/ehr/cead136
  3. Vilar, Hermínia Vasconcelos; Flores, Jorge; Araújo, António. "A oportunidade e os limites de uma história global de Portugal: mesa-redonda". Ler História 78 (2021): 277-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/lerhistoria.8255.
    10.4000/lerhistoria.8255
  4. Flores, Jorge. "As monarquias ibéricas e os seus impérios: comparações e conexões, globalidade e globalização". Cuadernos de Historia Moderna 46 1 (2021): 327-336. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/chmo.75794.
    Published • 10.5209/chmo.75794
  5. Flores, Jorge. "Marathi voices, Portuguese words, Brahman's pen (and thoughts). On fragments of peninsular India in a colonial archive". Quaderni Storici 56 2 (2021): 341-377.
    Published
  6. Flores, Jorge; Marcocci, Giuseppe. "Killing Images: Iconoclasm and the Art of Political Insult in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Portuguese India". Itinerario 42 3 (2018): 461-489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115318000621.
    Published • 10.1017/s0165115318000621
  7. Flores, Jorge. "The Mogor as Venomous Hydra: Forging the Mughal-Portuguese Frontier". Journal of Early Modern History 19 6 (2015): 539-562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342475.
    Published • 10.1163/15700658-12342475
  8. Flores, Jorge. "The Sea and the World of theMutasaddi: A profile of port officials from Mughal Gujarat (c. 1600–1650)". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 21 1 (2011): 55-71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s135618631000057x.
    10.1017/s135618631000057x
  9. Flores, Jorge. "Distant Wonders: The Strange and the Marvelous between Mughal India and Habsburg Iberia in the Early Seventeenth Century". Comparative Studies in Society and History 49 3 (2007): 553-581. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s001041750700062x.
    Published • 10.1017/s001041750700062x
  10. Flores, Jorge. "I will do as my father did. Portuguese and other European Views of Mughal Succession Crises". e-Journal of Portuguese History 3 2 (2005):
    Open access • Published
  11. Subrahmanyam, Sanjay; Flores, Jorge. "The Shadow Sultan: Succession and Imposture in the Mughal Empire, 1628-1640". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 47 1 (2004): 80-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852004323069402.
    Published • 10.1163/156852004323069402
Online resource
  1. Flores, Jorge. A schemer's plan to create a Portuguese Calcutta (1784). 2023. https://www.capasia.eu/aschemersplan/.
  2. Flores, Jorge. 1704: Forging Macau 2.0 in Cambodia. 2023. https://www.capasia.eu/1704-forging-macau-2-0-in-cambodia/.

Other

Other output
  1. Os Construtores do Oriente Português por Jorge Flores. Coordenação da produção e edição de catálogos de exposições pela Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração dos Descobrimentos Portugueses (CNCDP). 1998. Cunha, Mafalda Soares da; Flores, Jorge.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2017 - Current The Apocalypsis Nova and early modern prophetic discourse
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2018 - 2023/04/21 Être reconnu Chrétien. Caciques et principales face à la christianisation des sociétés indigènes dans la Vice-royauté du Pérou, 1540-1780
Supervisor of Elfie Guyau
História e Civilização (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2016 - 2022 Holding the Empire at Bay : the elites of Salvador da Bahia and the Hispanic monarchy in Brazil (1581-1640)
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2016 - 2020 Inside the island of Manila : mobility and friction in an eighteenth-century hinterland
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2015 - 2020 Le monde au bout des doigts : François Le Large, le globe de Coronelli et les cultures géographiques dans la France de Louis XIV
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2014 - 2019 Pashas and Nobles: Pawel Benoe and Ottoman-Polish Encounters in the eighteenth century
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2012 - 2017 Nature in Draft: Images and Overseas Natural History in the Work of Charles Plumier (1646-1704)
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2012 - 2016 The Enclosure of Movement: Safe-Conduct and the Politics of Mobility in the Holy Roman Empire
Supervisor
History and Civiization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2011 - 2016 Juan Rena and the Construction of the Hispanic Monarchy (1500-1540)
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2010 - 2016 A Mughal Munshi at Work: Conflicts and Emotions in Musta’Idd Han’s Ma’asir-i ‘Alamgiri. A Narratological Investigation
Supervisor
History and Civilization (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2010 - 2015 A State of Corruption: Fraud and the Birth of British Customs Taxation, c. 1551-1590
Supervisor
History and Civilisation (PhD)
2010 - 2014 The Iberian Union, the Persian Gulf, and the Portuguese Overseas Empire, 1600-1625: A History of Global Interactions
Supervisor
History and Civilisation (PhD)
European University Institute, Italy
2010 - 2014 Entre Cristãos e Especiarias: forme, significati ed esiti dell'espansione lusitana nella regione del Mar Rosso (1497-1580)
Co-supervisor
History (PhD)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/08 As Franjas do ecúmeno islâmico ante os adoradores da Cruz: Os dilemas da talassocracia portuguesa para as sociedades muçulmanas ao redor do Mar Arábico (1498-1538)
(Thesis) Main arguer
Gabriel Mathias Soares (PhD)
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2023/08/14 Rhetorical Strategies in the Iberian Missionary Discourse (1580-1640): A Comparative Study of Jesuit Cultural Translation
(Thesis) Main arguer
Dominik Cisárik (PhD)
Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Slovakia
2016/06 Francis Ros, S.J., and the Method of Accommodation Among the Christians of St Thomas of Malabar (1584-1624)
(Thesis) Main arguer
Antony Mecherry Cherian (PhD)
Pontificia Università Gregoriana Facoltà di Storia e Beni Culturali della Chiesa, Italy

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021 - 2023 Membro da comissão científica da exposição "The Portuguese in The Gulf, 1507-1650: An Interlinked History" (e respectivo catálogo), Sharjah (Emirados Árabes Unidos), Novembro 2023
Member
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023 - 2023 xxxx Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization Funding entity
2021 - 2023 Membro de comissão de acompanhamento do Global History and Culture Centre (GHCC), Universidade de Warwick, durante of triénio 2021-2023
Evaluator
Universidade de Warwick - Global History and Culture Centre, United Kingdom

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2018 - 2019 Interactive Bureaucracies in West Africa: Actors, Norms and Networks in the First Globalization (1500-1900) Rémi Dewière
2017 - 2018 Translating Time, Constructing the World: From Mexico to the Eastern Mediterranean Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (Ph. D. EHESS, Paris & SUM/SNS, Pisa)
2016 - 2017 Hispanophobia in the 16th and 17th Centuries Jonathan Greenwood (PhD Johns Hopkins University)
2015 - 2016 Early Modern Euro-Asian Diplomatic Encounters Guido van Meersbergen (Ph. D. University College London)
2013 - 2014 Global Reformation: Protestant and Catholic Tensions in the East Anne McGinness (Ph. D. University of Notre Dame)
2012 - 2013 Experiences of Africans in the Atlantic World Kalle Kananoja (Ph. D. Åbo Akademi University, Helsinki)
2011 - 2012 Ideological origins of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire Lauri Tähtinen (Ph. D. Cambridge University)
2010 - 2011 Cultural and Social History of Science in eighteenth-century Britain and France. Transnational and connected history Sarah Easterby-Smith (Ph. D. University of Warwick)