Open Lectures
History of Asia: Themes and Perspectives

[Portuguese version]

Professor Doutor Luís Filipe Barreto (FLUL/CH-ULisboa)

School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Room C215, DEA)

1st Semester 2024-2025 (First Lecture: September 17, 2024)

Tuesdays from 4PM to 6PM

Organisation | Centre for History of the University of Lisbon

Free Entry (Lectures in Portuguese)

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The open lecture series "History of Asia: Themes and Perspectives" will be taught by Professor Luís Filipe Barreto throughout the 1st Semester of 2023-2024 in room C215 of the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (Tuesdays from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm). The lectures are open to all interested parties, and no prior registration is required.

General Programme

Introduction: From the condition of History / Geo-History

1. Asia: On the History of a Typology
2. Maritime Asia: China, India, Islam. Connections, Knowledge, Powers (9th-15th centuries)

General Bibliography

• Beaujard, Phlippe, Les Mondes de L`Ocean Indien, 2 vols. (Paris: A. Colin, 2012). English translation: The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Duara, Prasenjit, ed. Asia Redux: Conceptualizing a Region for Ours Times (Singapore: ISEAS, 2013).
• Formichi, Chiara. Islam and Asia: A History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
• Goody, Jack. The Eurasian Miracle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
• Matsuda, Matt K. Pacific Worlds: A History of Seas, Peoples and Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• Murphey, R. and K. Stapleton. A History of Asia (London Routledge, 2019). 1.ª  ed. 1992
• Wang Hui. The Politics of Imagining Asia (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011)