{"id":9840,"date":"2024-11-04T22:57:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centrohistoria.getcode.business\/imperial-dynamics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T10:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T10:32:27","slug":"building-and-connecting-empires-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/building-and-connecting-empires-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Building and Connecting Empires"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9840\" class=\"elementor elementor-9840 elementor-9822\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-646c61ae e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"646c61ae\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c331f85 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c331f85\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The main objectives of the Building and Connecting Empires Research Group are: to promote in-depth knowledge and understanding of the nature of interaction and transfer between different political models and practices and social and cultural contexts, with a focus on global, transnational and comparative history; to document and discuss the complexities of empire-building and its enduring patterns, as well as the dynamics of domination, cooperation, resistance, conflict, and integration.<\/p>\n<p>The activities to be promoted by the Group will be integrated into the following thematic strands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spaces of encounter, integration and conflict: based on social, cultural, religious and political approaches in Africa, Asia and America;<\/li>\n<li>Representations of empires: focusing on their forms of interpretation (in letters, maps, travel narratives, for example) in their multiple dimensions;<\/li>\n<li>Interconnections on a global scale: resulting from the dynamics of contact between different cultural and geographical realities, affecting the circulation of knowledge, ideas, products, goods and people;<\/li>\n<li>Ocean voyages: in their different components (nautical, shipbuilding, routes, shipwrecks, battles, privateering and piracy).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to conferences and national and international congresses, the IG has created a &#8220;Laboratory of Ideas&#8221; whose main objective is to promote debate on historical research issues within the Group&#8217;s thematic areas, to encourage the development of research projects that are in their infancy and to publicize the research taking place at the University of Lisbon History Center.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main objectives of the Building and Connecting Empires Research Group are: to promote in-depth knowledge and understanding of the nature of interaction and transfer between different political models and practices and social and cultural contexts, with a focus on global, transnational and comparative history; to document and discuss the complexities of empire-building and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meeting-cultures-and-societies","category-research-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22989,"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions\/22989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chul.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}