Building and Connecting Empires

Coordinator: Ângela Domingues

Co-coordinators: Maria Manuel Torrão

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.

The activities to be promoted by the Group will be integrated into the following thematic strands:

Spaces of encounter, integration, and conflict: based on social, cultural, religious, and political approaches in Africa, Asia, and the Americas;
Representations of empires: focusing on their forms of interpretation (e.g., in letters, maps, travel narratives) in their multiple dimensions;
Global interconnections: resulting from the dynamics of contact between different cultural and geographical realities, focusing on the movement of knowledge, ideas, products, goods, and people;
Ocean voyages: in their various components (nautical, shipbuilding, routes, shipwrecks, battles, corsairs, and piracy).

In addition to conferences, national and international congresses, this RG has conceived an “Ideas Lab” whose main objective is to promote the debate on the problems of historical research in the thematic areas of the group, to stimulate the development of research projects at an early stage, and to disseminate the research carried out at the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon.

Research Projects

Mapping Endings, Visualizing New Beginnings: Apocalyptic Expectations and Religious Tolerance and Toleration in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World (CEECIND/00139/2017)
SLAVESRELIGION – Slaves of Religion: Paternalism and Resistance, Brazil; European Research Executive Agency, Programme HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) (Grant agreement 101065425 SLAVESRELIGION)
SLAFNET – Slavery in Africa: a dialogue between Europe and Africa (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2016, 734596/SLAFNET)

Research Networks

Researchers

Researchers

BARRENTO, António
BORGES, Marco Oliveira
CANAS, Ana
CANAS, António Costa
CASTELO, Cláudia
CORREIA, Pedro Lage
COSTA, Robson Pedrosa
CRUZ, Maria Leonor García da
DOMINGUES, Ângela
LOBATO, Manuel
MATOS, Jorge Semedo
NASCIMENTO, Augusto
PAULA, Glória de Santana
REKVIG, Gunnar
RODRIGUES, Eugénia
RODRIGUES, José Damião
ROQUE, Ana Cristina
SOUSA, Lúcio de
TORRÃO, Maria Manuel
VALDEZ, Ana Travassos
VENTURA, Maria da Graça

Research Assistants

BARROSO, Gustavo
FERNANDES, Valter Mendes
GAMA, Paulo
LISBOA JÚNIOR, Luiz Américo
MARTINS, José António
MENDES DA SILVA, Inês
NEVES, Bruno Gonçalves
NGALA, Juelma Matos
OLIVEIRA, Tiago Tavares
TAVARES, Nireide Pereira

Affiliated Researchers

AFONSO, António Jorge
AMORIM, Maria Adelina
ARANDA PÉREZ, Francisco José
AVELAR, Ana Paula
BARNABÉ GIL, David
BARROSO, Maria do Sameiro
BITTENCOURT, Marcelo
CARMO, Filipe do
CHAMBEL, Magdalena Bialoborska
CHAMBOULEYRON, Rafael Ivan
CORRÊA, Helidacy Maria Muniz
COUTO, José
FRADE, Florbela Veiga
FRANCISCO, Filipe do Carmo
GUTIÉRREZ LLORET, Rosa Ana
HERNÁNDEZ SUÁREZ, Sergio
MAGALHÃES, Justino de
MANSO, Maria de Deus Beites
MARZANO, Andrea
MÁS-GALVAÑ, Cayetano
MENDES, José Maria
NEVES, Guilherme Pereira das
NEVES, Lúcia Bastos Pereira das
REIS, Adriana Dantas
SANTOS, Fabiano Vilaça dos
SINGH, Shiv Kuhmar
TAVARES, Célia
VARGAS ARANA, Paola
VEIGA, Paula
VIOTTI, Ana Carolina