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IACCARINO UBALDO
Ricercatori/trici a t. d. ex art.24 c.3
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Ubaldo Iaccarino (雅保多)
Assistant Professor (RTD-b), Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
E-mail: ubaldo.iaccarino@unior.it
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4813-0544
FIELDS OF EXPERTISE AND MAIN RESEARCH AREAS
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History of Southeast Asia; History of East Asia
Early Modern Philippine History
History of the Spanish presence in East Asia and Southeast Asia (16th-17th centuries)
History of Christianity in East Asia and Southeast Asia (16th-17th centuries)
Japanese Maritime History (Sengoku to Early Tokugawa periods)
Chinese Maritime History (Late-Ming dynasty)
Cross-Cultural Trade; Interconnected Histories; Commercial Diplomacy
EDUCATION
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2014 July 8. Ph.D. in History.
Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).
Department of Humanities, Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History (IUHJVV).
Final mark: full marks and honours (Sobresaliente Cum Laude).
2005 May 2
Laurea (including both B.A. and M.A. degrees) in Asian Studies (Lingue e civiltà orientali).
“L’Orientale” University of Napoli (Naples, Italy). Department of Asian Studies.
Final mark: full marks and honours (110 e lode).
AWARDS AND HONORS
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Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor (Professore di seconda fascia) in history of East Asia and Southeast Asia (Scientific/Disciplinary Sector: 10/N3, Culture dell’Asia Centrale e Orientale). ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes).
Doctor Europaeus (European Ph.D. certificate) label, obtained from the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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2022 October to present
Assistant Professor (Ricercatore, RTD-b) at the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, "L'Orientale" University of Napoli.
2021 April-2021 December
Postdoctoral Researcher (博士後研究員) at the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部補助人文社會科學研究中心) at National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學). Republic of China (Taiwan). Title of the Research Project: “Nihonmachi Revisited: The Japanese Trade in the Philippines and Taiwan from an Intra-Asian and Trans-Pacific Perspective (16th-17th Centuries)”.
2019 January-2020 December
Postdoctoral Researcher (博士後研究員) at the Institute of Taiwan History (臺灣史研究所) of Academia Sinica (中央研究院). Republic of China (R.O.C., Taiwan). Title of the Research Project: “The Value of ‘Wild’ Hermosa: The Role of Taiwan in the Hispano-Japanese relations of the Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth Centuries”.
2015 May-2019 May
Research Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies (Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo) of “L’Orientale” University of Napoli. Scientific/Disciplinary Sector: L-OR 23 (History of East Asia and Southeast Asia). Title of the Research Project: “Il Sudest Asiatico come crocevia tra l’Asia Orientale e gli oceani Pacifico e Indiano. Il ruolo internazionale delle Filippine nella prospettiva storica” [Southeast Asia at the crossroads of East Asia and the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The international role of the Philippines from an historical perspective]
COURSES (Main Teachings)
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History of South-East Asia (Storia del Sud-Est Asiatico). Undergraduate Course (B.A. level).
Cross-Culturality and Transnational Networks in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Interculturalità e reti transnazionali dell’Asia Sudorientale premoderna). Graduate Course (M.A. level).
FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDINGS
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS AND FUNDINGS
2016 October-2017 April
Fellowship from the Japan Foundation (国際交流基金).
“Japanese-Language Program for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields” (文化・学術専門家日本語研修). Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai (国際交流基金関西国際センター), Osaka (Japan).
Purpose: improvement of the Japanese-language ability to conduct research in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research activity: historiographical and bibliographical research in the National Diet Library (国立国会図書館) of Kyoto-Osaka-Nara (Kansai-kan, 関西館), the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto (国際日本文化研究センター), the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture (長崎歴史文化博物館), the Kobe City Museum (神戸市立博物館), the Sakai City Museum (堺市博物館), and the National Diet Library in Tokyo.
Achievement: written report (レポート) on the diplomatic and commercial relations between Japan and the Philippines, entitled “Kinsei Nihon to Firipin no kōryū kankei: 16-17 seiki ni okeru Nissei bōeki to gaikō wo minaosu” 近世日本とフィリピンの交流関係：十六・十七世紀における西貿易と外交を見直す [Early Modern Relations between Japan and the Philippines: A Reconsideration of the Hispano-Japanese Trade and Diplomacy of the 16th and 17th Centuries].
2011 September-November
COFRE funding (for research activities) from the Jaume Vicens i Vives Institute of History (IUHJVV) and the Institute of Culture (IUC) of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain). Allocated amount: 1,500 EUR.
Purpose: research in the Spanish national archives in Seville (Archivo General de Indias) and Madrid (Real Academia de la Historia, and Biblioteca Nacional de España).
Results: collection, transcription, and analysis of manuscript sources in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese language, from the following archival fonds: Audiencia de Filipinas, Audiencia de México, Patronato real, Contaduría, Indiferente general and Mapas y planos (General Archives of the Indies); Cortes and Muñoz (Royal Academy of History); Manuscritos, Incunables y Raros (National Library of Spain).
2011 June-August
Fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (中華民國科技部) and the Taipei Representative Office in France (Bureau de Représentation de Taipei en France, 駐法國台北代表處). “Research and Practical Training Program in Taiwan”. Allocated amount: 50,000 NTD
Purpose: research in the special collections of the library of the National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學), former library of the Japanese Taihoku Imperial University.
Results: consultation of documentary sources on the early modern Japanese presence in Southeast Asia and the history of the Philippines (Sheerer Collection, concerning Filipino languages, history, geography and ethnology, and the Southeast Asian Studies Collection about the history of Island Southeast Asia).
2004 September-October
Funding from the CRUI Fundation (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE).
Purpose: research in the library and archive of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas (UST), in Manila (Philippines).
Results: consultation of manuscripts, codices, and printed books concerning the early modern history of the Philippines and the intra-Asian trade of the 16th and 17th centuries.
COLLABORATIVE ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
2020-2025
Participation as associated member in the international research project, “The Structure and Impact of Trans-Pacific Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver and Silks”, supported by the European Research Council. ERC Advanced Grant, 2020-2025 (Grant agreement ID: 833143). Allocated amount: 2,437,372 EUR. Website: https://crossroads-research.net/projects/erc-adg-transpacific/
2021-2023
Participation as a core team member in the international research project, “El Sudeste Asiático bajo la influencia ibérica en el mundo, 1581-1668” [Southeast Asia under the Iberian influence in the world, 1581-1668], supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (I+D+i Project) (PID2019-107430GB-I00). Allocated amount: 37,600 EUR. Director: Prof. José A. Martínez Torres, National Distance Education University (UNED). Codirector: Carlos Martínez Shaw, UNED. Website: https://souauih.wordpress.com
2019 to present
Contribution to the publication of the second volume of the series “Hokkien Historical Document Series” (閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊一), edited by Prof. Lee Yu-chung (李毓中) of the Department of History of National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學), in Taiwan. Archival research conducted at the Angelica Library in Rome concerning the Sino-Spanish dictionary wrote in Manila at the end of the 16th century by the Jesuit missionary Pedro Chirino.
2021 to present
Member of the international research team, “Global Diplomacy Network”, supported by the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University (Sweden), in collaboration with Kyūshū University (九州大学). Website: https://globaldiplomacynetwork.wordpress.com/blog/
PAST COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
2010–2017
Participation as external collaborator in the international research project, “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction” (MCRI, Major Collaborative Research Initiative), sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Allocated amount: 2,000,000 CAD. Director: Prof. Gwyn Campbell, McGill University. Codirector: Prof. Angela Schottenhammer, University of Salzburg (currently, Full Professor at the Department of History of KU Leuven). Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/iow-mcri/
2017–2019
Participation as a core team member in the international research project, “The Dynamism of Early Modern Asian Society as seen Through the Routes of Faith, Trade, and Migration” (信仰・交易と移動ルートに見る近世アジア社会のダイナミズム), supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会). Allocated amount: 4,850,001 JPY. Director: Prof. Shimada Ryūto (島田竜登), University of Tokyo.
2016–2019
Participation as external associated member in the international research project, “Monsoon Asia and Multicultural Exchange Project” (季風亞洲與多元文化計畫), supported by the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學人文社會研究中心), in Hsinchu (Taiwan), the Institute of Taiwan History of Academia Sinica (中央研究院臺灣史研究所), the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain), and the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Seville (Spain). Director: Prof. Huang Yi-long (黃一農) of Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學).
2017–2019
Participation in the activities of the international group of research of the Center for Macaology (澳門研究院) and the Research Center for the History and Culture of Hong Kong and Macao (港澳歷史文化研究中心) of Jinan University (暨南大學), and the Center for Macau Studies (澳門研究中心) of the University of Macau (澳門大學). Director prof. Ye Nong (葉農).
PUBLICATIONS
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MONOGRAPHS
Comercio y diplomacia entre Japón y Filipinas en la era Keichō (1596-1615) [Trade and Diplomacy between Japan and the Philippines during the Keichō Era (1596-1615)] (East Asian Maritime History, vol. 13) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017). ISBN: 978-3-447-10763-1
Storia del Sud-Est asiatico, dalle origini all’età contemporanea [History of Southeast Asia, from its origins to the contemporary age]. Work in Preparation.
Begging Diplomats from Lüsong. The Philippines, China, and Japan at the Turn of the 16th Century. Work in Preparation.
PALAEOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTIONS
Yesuhuishi Pang Diwo zhushu ji 耶穌會士龐迪我著述集 (Escritos de Diego de Pantoja S.J.), ed. by Ye Nong 葉農, Translations by Luo Huiling 羅慧玲, Jiang Wei 蔣薇, and Jin Guoping 金國平, Palaeographic transcriptions by Ubaldo Iaccarino (Ya Baoduo 雅保多) (Guangzhou: Guangdong People’s Publishing House 廣東人民出版社, 2019). ISBN: 9787218126647.
Yesuhuishi Xiong Sanba zhushu ji 耶穌會士熊三拔著述集 (Escritos de Sabatino de Ursis S.J.), ed. by Ye Nong 葉農. Palaeographic transcriptions by Ubaldo Iaccarino (Ya Baoduo 雅保多) and Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço. Translations by Jin Guoping 金國平 (Macao 澳門and Guangzhou廣州: Hall de Cultura文化公所 and Centre for Macau Studies of Jinan University暨南大學澳門研究院, 2022). ISBN: 978-99981-46-82-2.
ESSAYS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Guide to the Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum,” in Lee Yu-chung 李毓中 and Chen Tsung-jen 陳宗仁 (eds.), Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum 閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊四：華語—西班牙語辭典 (Tainan: National Taiwan Historical Museum 國立臺灣歷史博物館, 2022), pp. 3-24. Chinese Translation:《閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊四：華語—西班牙語辭典》導讀, in, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum 閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊四：華語—西班牙語辭典 (Tainan: National Museum of Taiwan History 國立臺灣歷史博物館, 2022), pp. 3-24.
“The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines and its Actors Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer. Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China (Leiden: Brill, 2022/2023), pp. In Press.
“Las Capitulaciones de 1610: cumbre y ruina de la diplomacia española en Japón (siglo XVII)” [The ‘Capitulations’ of 1610: Peak and Ruin of the Spanish diplomacy in Japan (17th Century)], in Lluís Valls and Reiko Tateiwa (eds.), España y Japón en un mundo cambiante — 変わりゆく世界におけるスペインと日本 (Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 2019), pp. 121-132. ISSN: 2435-4325.
“Mediating the Spanish Ambitions in China: Michele Ruggieri’s Involvement in the Missions of Pedro de Alfaro O.F.M. and Alonso Sánchez S.I. (1579-1583)”, in Davor Antonucci, Luisa Paternicò, and Xie Mingguang 謝明光 (eds.), Michele Ruggieri: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary at the Dawn of the Dialogue between China and Europe (Beijing: China Social Science Press 中国社会科学出版社, 2020). Forthcoming.
“Il passaggio del Galeone di Manila al largo delle coste del Giappone: rischio od opportunità?” [The sailing of the Manila Galleon off the coast of Japan: risk or opportunity?], in Teresa Ciapparoni la Rocca (ed.), Il Grande Viaggio. La missione giapponese del 1613 in Europa (Roma: Scienze e lettere, 2019), pp. 173-180. ISBN: 978-88-6687-154-5.
“Tokugawa Ieyasu’s ‘Spanish Policy’ and the Hispano-Japanese Agreements of Cooperation. Trade, Diplomacy, and Knowledge Exchange between Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines during the Keichō Era (1596-1615)”, in Patrizia Carioti, Ryūto Shimada, and Ubaldo Iaccarino (eds.), Sailing the Asian Seas (16th-18th Centuries) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020). Forthcoming.
“Conquistadors of the Celestial Empire: The Spanish Policy toward China at the End of the 16th Century”, in Robert Antony, and Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Beyond the Silk Roads. New Discourses on China’s Role in East Asian Maritime History (East Asian Maritime History, vol. 14) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017), pp. 77-98. ISBN: 978-3-447-10944-4.
“La Flota de Filipinas e il contrasto agli olandesi in Insulindia nella prima metà del secolo XVII: un caso di interazione «globale» tra Napoli, Madrid e Lisbona ai margini dell’«impero dove non tramonta mai il sole»” [The ‘Fleet of the Philippines’ and the fight against the Dutch in the Malay Archipelago in the first half of the 17th century: a case of ‘global’ interaction between Naples, Madrid and Lisbon at the edge of the ‘Empire on which the sun never sets’], in Rosaria de Marco (ed.), L’Orientalistica a Napoli (Napoli: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2017), pp. 343-354. ISBN: 978-88-96055.
“Il rapporto conflittuale tra Macao e Manila durante il Periodo delle Corone Unite: i casi di Cina e Giappone (secoli XVI-XVII)” [The Conflicting Relationship between Macau and Manila during the Iberian Union: the Cases of China and Japan (16th-17th Centuries)], in Rosaria de Marco (ed.), L’Orientalistica a Napoli (Napoli: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2017), pp. 245-258. ISBN: 978-88-96055.
“Spanish Diplomacy in the China Seas at the Turn of the 16th Century”, in Birgit Tremml-Werner, and Eberhard Crailsheim (eds.), Audienzen und Allianzen Interkulturelle Diplomatie in Asien und Europa vom 8. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Wien: Mandelbaum, 2015), pp. 90-107. ISBN: 978-3-85476-450-2.
“El papel del Galeón de Manila en el Japón de Tokugawa Ieyasu (1598-1616)” [The role of the Manila Galleon in Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Japan (1598-1616)], in Salvador Bernabéu Albert, and Carlos Martínez Shaw (eds.), Un océano de seda y plata: el universo económico del Galeón de Manila (Seville: Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas, 2013), pp. 133-154. ISBN: 978-84-00-09699-1.
“Prime relazioni ispano-giapponesi: dalla fondazione di Manila (1570) alla morte di Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598)” [First Hispano-Japanese relations: from the founding of Manila (1570) to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi], in Giorgio Amitrano, and Silvana De Maio (eds.), Nuove prospettive di ricerca sul Giappone, Proceedings of the 34th Conference of AISTUGIA (Napoli, 16th-18th of September 2010) (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2012), pp. 329-340. ISBN: 978-88-6719-006-5.
“La missione di Juan Pablo de Carrión contro il «pirata» giapponese Taifuza (1582)” [The Mission of Juan Pablo de Carrión against the Japanese ‘pirate’ Taifuza (1582)], in Franco Mazzei, and Patrizia Carioti (eds.), Oriente, Occidente e dintorni… Scritti in onore di Adolfo Tamburello, 5 vols. (Napoli: Università degli studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, 2009), vol. III, pp. 1353-1358. ISBN: 978-88-95044-66-8.
“Alessandro Valignano e la missione Cobo (1592)” [Alessandro Valignano and the Cobo Mission (1592)], in Adolfo Tamburello, Marisa Di Russo, and M. Anthony J. Üçerler, S.J., (eds.), Alessandro Valignano, S.I. Uomo del Rinascimento: Ponte tra Oriente e Occidente (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., 67), Proceedings of the International Conference of Chieti: 27-28 October 2007 (Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2008), pp. 129-143. ISBN: 978-88-7041-365-6.
“1609: l’affaire della «Nossa Senhora da Graça»” [1609: the incident of the ship ‘Nossa Senhora da Graça’], in Maria Luisa Cusati (ed.), Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Portogallo e Asia” (Napoli: 3-4 marzo 2006) (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2008), pp. 121-144 (CD-ROM). ISBN: 978-88-95044-47-7.
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Early Spanish Intruders in China: The 1579 Mission of Pedro de Alfaro, O.F.M., Reconsidered”, Journal of Jesuit Studies, E.J. Brill Publishers, 9/2 (2022) 245-262. ISSN: 2214-1324. e-ISSN: 2214-1332.
“Pedro Chirino, S.I., and the Sino-Spanish Dictionary (Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum) of the Angelica Library”, Journal of Monsoon Asia Studies (季風亞洲研究), 13 (2021) 1-27. ISSN: 2414-1259.
“Ragioni e reazioni anticristiane del tardo periodo Sengoku: i francescani nelle relazioni diplomatico-commerciali tra Giappone e Filippine (c. 1587-1614)” [Antichristian Reasons and Reactions of the Late Sengoku Period: The Franciscans in the Diplomatic and Trade Relations between Japan and the Philippines], Studi Francescani, 118/3-4 (2021) 363-387. ISSN: 0392-727X.
“El comercio chino en torno a Filipinas: redes interregionales y conexiones transnacionales a final de la época Ming (siglos XVI-XVII)” [Chinese Trade Revolving Around the Philippines: Interregional Networks and Transnational Connections at the End of the Ming Era (16th-17th Centuries)], Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 20 (2020) 217-238. ISSN: 1133-598X. e-ISSN: 2341-1112.
“The Macau-Manila Route under the Iberian Union”, Review of Culture. International Edition, Instituto Cultural de Macau, 60 (2019) 104-123. ISSN: 0872-4407.
“«The Centre of a Circle»: Manila’s Trade with East Asia and Southeast Asia at the Turn of the 16th Century”, Crossroads. Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, 16 (Oct. 2017) 99-120. Special Issue (The “Indo-Pacific” Crossroads: The Asian Waters as Conduits of Knowledge, People, Cargoes, and Technologies). ISSN: 2190-8796.
“Sangleyes, Japones, and Casados: An Overview of the Actors of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines Between the 16th and Early 17th Centuries”, Journal of Monsoon Asia Studies (季風亞洲研究), 4 (2017) 107-151. ISSN: 2414-1259.
“Merchants, Missionaries, and Marauders: Trade and Traffics between Kyūshū (Japan) and Luzon (Philippines) in the Late-16th and Early-17th centuries”, Crossroads. Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, 10 (2014) 155-196. ISSN: 2190-8796.
“The ‘Galleon System’ and Chinese Trade in Manila at the Turn of the 16th Century”, Ming Qing Yanjiu, 16 (2011) 93-127. ISSN: 1724-8574.
“L’incidente del galeone Espíritu Santo (1602): un nuovo San Felipe?” [The incident of the galleon Espíritu Santo (1602): a new San Felipe?], Il Giappone, 49 (2009) [2012], 5-19. ISSN: 0390-6647.
“Il Giappone e le Filippine spagnole, 1598-1603: le aperture di Tokugawa Ieyasu” [Japan and the Spanish Philippines, 1598-1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s overtures], Il Giappone, 48 (2008) [2009] 31-44. ISSN: 0390-6647.
“Manila as an International Entrepôt: Chinese and Japanese Trade with the Spanish Philippines at the Close of the 16th Century”, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies, 16 (2008) 71-81. ISSN: 0874-8438.
“Il Giappone e le Filippine spagnole, 1592-1594: la minaccia di Hideyoshi” [Japan and the Spanish Philippines, 1592-1594: Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s threat], Il Giappone, 46 (2006) [2008] 5-32. ISSN: 0390-6647.
“Il Giappone e le Filippine spagnole, 1571-1591: il primo intercorso” [Japan and the Spanish Philippines, 1571-1591: the first relations], Il Giappone, 45 (2005) [2007] 23-54. ISSN: 0390-6647.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Missionaries or Diplomats? The Role of the Mendicant Friars in the Hispano-Japanese Relations of the late-Sengoku Period (1582-1614 ca.)”. Paper presented at the International Symposium Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Sophia University (上智大学), on October 5, 2019.
“Dynamics and developments of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines at the turn of the Sixteenth Century”. Paper presented at the International Workshop, Cross-cultural Encounters and Trade in Early Modern Southeast Asian Port Cities (近代早期東南亞港市中的異文化交會與貿易), held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (人文社會科學研究中心), of Academia Sinica, 2019.
“The Boxer Codex: A Sino-Hispanic Source of Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth Century Philippines”. Paper presented at the International Symposium, The Book in Transition. The East and the West, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Keiō University (慶應義塾大学), on December 9, 2017.
“The Macao-Manila Route under the Iberian Union (1580-1640)”. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Macaology: Macaology and the Development of Macao 第五屆 “澳門學” 國際學術研討會: 澳門學與澳門發展, held in Guangzhou (China), at Jinan University (暨南大学), on November 24-26, 2017.
“Early Spanish Intruders in China: The Mission of Fr. Pedro de Alfaro O.F.M. of 1579”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Michele Ruggieri: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary at the Dawn of the Dialogue between China and Europe, held in Rome and Napoli (Italy), at “Sapienza” University of Rome and “L’Orientale” University of Napoli, on September 25-27, 2017.
“The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines and its Actors Between the 16th and 17th Centuries”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and beyond, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent), on July 3-4, 2017.
“Japanese Diplomatic Letters sent to Manila at the Turn of the 16th Century: A Comprehensive Overview”. Paper presented at the International Meeting, Xibanya suocang Taiwan yu Dongya shiliao shuweihua xiankuang yu zhanwang 西班牙所藏臺灣與東亞史料數位化現況與展望, held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院), on April 14, 2017.
“Sangleyes, Japones, and Casados: An Overview on the Actors of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the 16th and 17th Centuries”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Monsoon Asia: Spain and East Asia in Early Modern Era 季風亞洲：近代初期的西班牙與東亞, held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院), on June 20-21, 2016.
“Conquistadors of the Celestial Empire. The Spanish Policy toward China at the End of the Sixteenth Century”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Beyond the Silk Road: Asian Maritime History and Culture (絲路的延伸: 亞洲海洋歷史及文化), held in Shanghai (China) at the China Maritime Museum (中國航海博物館), on August 19-22, 2015.
“The Project of the ‘Nao del Japón’: Attempts of Cooperation between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Spaniards in Manila during the Keichō Era (1596-1615)”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Maritime East Asia in the Light of History, 16th-18th Century. Sources, Archives, Researches: Present Results and Future Perspectives, held in Naples and Procida, at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli, on September 30-October 2, 2013.
“‘The Center of a Circle’: Manila and its Overseas Trade at the beginning of the 17th Century”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries. Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent), on June 21-23, 2012.
NOTES, REPORTS, AND REVIEWS
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“Kinsei Nihon to Firipin no kōryū kankei: 16-17 seiki ni okeru Nissei bōeki to gaikō wo minaosu” 近世日本とフィリピンの交流関係：十六・十七世紀における日西貿易と外交を見直す [Early Modern Relations Between Japan and the Philippines: A Reconsideration of the Hispano-Japanese Commerce and Diplomacy of the 16th-17th Centuries], in Bunka-gakujutsu senmonka Nihongo kenshū rokkagetsu kōsu no shūryō repōto shū 文化・学術専門家日本語研修六ヶ月コースの修了レポート集, Kokusai Kōryū Kikin Kansai Kokusai Center 国際交流基金関西国際センター, Osaka, 2017, pp. 122-132.
“Le attività marittimo-commerciali di Cina e Giappone nei secoli XVI-XIX. A proposito di tre libri recenti” [On three recent books concerning China and Japan’s maritime trade activities of the 16th-19th centuries], AION, Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, LXXI (2011) 215-226. ISSN: 0393-3180.
“Acero toledano contra catanas. Los combates de Cagayán”, Desperta Ferro: Especiales, 15 (June 2018) 42-45. ISSN: 2255-4734.
[Review] “Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Tribute, Trade and Smuggling. Tributo, Comercio y Contrabando, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2014”, AION. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, LXXV (2015), pp. 234-236. ISSN: 0393-3180
[Review] “Zoltán Biedermann, The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India. Studies in the History of Diplomacy, Empire and Trade, 1500-1650, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014”, AION. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, LXXIV (2014), pp. 231-233. ISSN: 0393-3180
[Review] “Birgit Magdalena Tremml, When Political Economies Meet: Spain, China and Japan in Manila, ca. 1571-1644, Ph.D. dissertation”: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/5427.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
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2022
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal, Signos históricos, Metropolitan Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), Unit Iztapalapa (Mexico City), Mexico. ISSN: 1665-4420.
2020
Peer-reviewing for the publication of the Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA).
2020 to present
Scientific referee (peer reviewing) for the publishing house Routledge.
2020 to present
Scientific referee (peer reviewing) for the publishing house Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books).
2020 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal, Universitas Humanística, Pontifical Xavierian University, Colombia. ISSN: 2011-2734.
2018
Collaboration to the publishing of Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I (閩南‧西班牙歷史文獻叢刊一), ed. by Lee Yu-chung 李毓中, Chen Tsung-jen 陳宗仁, José Regalado Trota, and José Caño Ortigosa (Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018). ISBN: 9789866116742.
2017-2019
Participation in the meetings of the editorial office of the peer-reviewed journal Il Giappone. Studi e Ricerche, Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies of L’Orientale University of Napoli.
2017 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal Historia Mexicana, El Colegio de México, Mexico. ISSN: 0185-0172.
2017 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal Journal of Monsoon Asian Studies (季風亞洲研究), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. ISSN: 2414-1259.
2017 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal Temas americanistas, University of Seville, Spain. ISSN: 1988-7868.
2017
“Analytical Index”, in Dialogo sulla missione dei giapponesi alla curia romana e sulle cose osservate in Europa e durante tutto il viaggio, basato sul diario degli ambasciatori e tradotto in latino da Duarte de Sande, sacerdote della Compagnia di Gesù, edited by Marisa Di Russo (Biblioteca dell’«Archivum Romanicum», 450) (Firenze: Leo S. Olshki, 2016). ISBN: 978-88-222-6435-0.
2008
“Index of Names and Places”, in Alessandro Valignano, S.I.: Uomo del Rinascimento, ponte tra Oriente e Occidente, edited by Adolfo Tamburello, Marisa Di Russo, and M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.I. (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., 67) (Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2008). IBSN: 978-88-7041-365-6.
2007-2008
Editing work on the collection of essays Alessandro Valignano, S.I.: Uomo del Rinascimento, ponte tra Oriente e Occidente, edited by Adolfo Tamburello, Marisa Di Russo, and M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.I. (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., 67) (Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2008). IBSN: 978-88-7041-365-6.
2006-2008
Editing work on the collection of essays Oriente, Occidente e dintorni… Scritti in onore di Adolfo Tamburello, edited by Franco Mazzei and Patrizia Carioti (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, 2009), 5 vols. IBSN: 978-88-95044-66-8.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIA
2023 June 29
International Symposium, Circulations, transferts et environnment autour des mer d’Asie Orientale (1560-1740), Maison de l’Asie della École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris (France).
Speech: “Nihonmachi revisited. The Japanese residence in Manila between the 16th and 17th centuries.”
2023 March 14-15
International Symposium, Un Oriente Ibérico (1580-1668). Política, cultura y comercio en el comienzo de la globalización, Casa Asia, Madrid (Spain).
Speech: “El impacto de la misión Cobo sobre los conocimientos geográficos del Japón de final del siglo XVI.”
2023 February 17-18
AAS (Association of Asian Studies) Annual Conference. Boston, USA (Virtual Conference).
Speech: “Japan’s Perceptions and Representations of the Hispanic World in the Late 16th Century.”
2021 November 17
International Symposium, El Sudeste asiático bajo la influencia ibérica en el mundo, 1580-1668. Algunas perspectivas de estudio, at National Distance Education University (UNED). Department of Modern History (held online).
Speech: “La Pequeña Riukiu. Filipinas en las primeras cartas de Toyotomi Hideyoshi para Manila.”
2021 October 20-22
International Workshop, China in the 17th Century: Trauma, Transition and Global Transformations, at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli (Italy). Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies. Discussant for the panel, “The Silver Century: Global Traders”.
2021 October 4-6
International Symposium, Japón y el mundo hispano a través de la ruta transpacífica, at the Ibero-American University, Mexico. Department of International Studies (held online).
Speech: “El ‘globo de Cobo’: percepciones y representaciones del mundo hispano en el Japón de final de la época Sengoku.”
2021 August
12th ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) Online Conference, hosted by the University of Kyoto (Japan).
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2019 October 5
International Symposium Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Sophia University (上智大学). Organizers: Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Kirishitan Bunko of Sophia University.
Speech: “Missionaries or Diplomats? The Role of the Mendicant Friars in the Hispano-Japanese Relations of the late-Sengoku Period (1582-1614 ca.).”
2019 September 25
International Workshop Cross-cultural Encounters and Trade in Early Modern Southeast Asian Port Cities (近代早期東南亞港市中的異文化交會與貿易), held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (人文社會科學研究中心) of Academia Sinica. Organizer: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.
Speech: “Dynamics and developments of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines at the turn of the Sixteenth Century.”
2019 July 16-19
11th ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) Conference, held in Leiden (Netherlands) at the University of Leiden.
Speech: “Beware of the ‘Cat’s Eyes’! Spain’s Militaristic Approach to China and Its Consequences (Late-16th Century).”
2019 May 22-24
4th ItaSEAS (Italian Association of Southeast Asian Studies) International Conference, held in Procida (Italy) at the University of Napoli “L’Orientale”.
Speech: “Trade and Smuggling around the Philippines: Ports, Routes, and Networks (16th-17th Centuries).”
2018 October 27
International Workshop España y Japón en un mundo cambiante 「変わりゆく世界におけるスペインと日本」, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (京都外国語大学).
Speech: “Los acuerdos de cooperación hispano-japonesa de 1610 [The Hispano-Japanese agreements of 1610]”.
2018 June 30-July 1
22nd ASCJ (Asian Studies Conference Japan 日本アジア研究学会) International Conference, held in Tokyo (Japan) at the International Christian University (国際基督教大学).
Speech: “The Hispano-Japanese ‘Capitulations’ of 1610: Trade, Diplomacy, and Knowledge Exchange between Edo, Manila and Mexico in the Early 17th Century.”
2018 March 24
Workshop, Io sono Camillo Costanzo, italiano e sacerdote della Compagnia di Gesù, held in Bovalino (Italy).
Organizers: Catholic Diocese of Locri-Gerace, University of Napoli “Federico II”.
Speech: “La politica anticristiana dei primi shōgun Tokugawa (1603-1639)” [The Antichristian Policy of the First Tokugawa Shoguns (1603-1639)].
2018 March 12-14
International Workshop, Trade, Migration, Belief: Crossing Early Modern Asia, 16th-18th Centuries, held in Napoli (Italy), at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University; Tokyo University (東京大学).
Speech: “Trade networks around the Philippines in the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth centuries.”
2017 December 9
International Symposium, The Book in Transition. The East and the West, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Keiō University (慶應義塾大学).
Organizers: Keio University Global Research Institute (慶應義塾大学グローバルリサーチインスティテュート); Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (デジタルメディア・コンテンツ統合研究センター).
Speech: “The Boxer Codex: a Sino-Hispanic Source of Knowledge in the Late 16th Century Philippines.”
2017 November 24-26
Fifth International Conference on Macaology: Macaology and the Development of Macao 第五屆 “澳門學” 國際學術研討會: 澳門學與澳門發展, held in Guangzhou (China), at Jinan University (暨南大学).
Organizers: Jinan University (暨南大學); Social Sciences in China Press (中國社會科學雜誌社); Macao Foundation (澳門基金會); University of Macau (澳門大學); Macao Polytechnic Institute (澳門理工學院); Macau University of Science and Technology (澳門科技大學). Co-organizers: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社會科學院); Guangdong People’s Publishing House (廣東人民出版社).
Speech: “The Macao-Manila Route under the Iberian Union (1580-1640)”.
2017 September 25-27
International Conference, Michele Ruggieri: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary at the Dawn of the Dialogue between China and Europe, held in Rome and Napoli (Italy), at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome and “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organized and supported by: “Sapienza” University of Rome; “L’Orientale” University of Naples; Beijing Foreign Studies University; Confucius Institute.
Speech: “Early Spanish Intruders in China: The Mission of Fr. Pedro de Alfaro O.F.M. of 1579.”
2017 July 4-5
International Conference, Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and Beyond, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent).
Organizers: University of Salzburg; McGill University. Supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Speech: “The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines and its Actors Between the 16th and 17th Centuries.”
2017 April 14
International Meeting, Xibanya suocang Taiwan yu Dongya shiliao shuweihua xiankuang yu zhanwang 西班牙所藏臺灣與東亞史料數位化現況與展望, held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院).
Organizers: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學人文社會研究中心; Institute of Taiwan History of the Academia Sinica 中央研究院台灣史研究所; Archivo General de Indias of Seville.
Speech: “Japanese Diplomatic Letters sent to Manila at the Turn of the 16th Century: A Comprehensive Overview.”
2016 September 22-24
AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi) 40th Meeting, held in Torino, at the University of Turin.
Speech: “Gli accordi di cooperazione ispano-giapponese del primo Seicento: preludio alla missione Hasekura (Keichō shisetsu 慶長使節)” [the Hispano-Japanese agreements of cooperation of the early Seventeenth century: prelude to the Hasekura Mission (Keichō shisetsu)].
2016 June 20-21
International Conference Jifeng Yazhou: jindai chuqi de Xibanya yu Dongya 季風亞洲: 近代初期的西班牙與東亞 (Monsoon Asia: Spain and East Asia in Early Modern Era), held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院).
Organizers: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學人文社會研究中心; Institute of Taiwan History of the Academia Sinica 中央研究院台灣史研究所; “Pompeu Fabra” University of Barcelona (Spain).
Speech: “Sangleyes, Japones, and Casados. An Overview of the Actors of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the 16th and Early 17th Centuries.”
2015 August 19-22
International Conference, Beyond the Silk Road: Asian Maritime History and Culture (絲路的延伸: 亞洲海洋歷史及文化), held in Shanghai (China) at the China Maritime Museum (中國航海博物館).
Organizers: China Maritime Museum (中国航海博物馆); Macau University (澳门大学); Salzburg University; McGill University. Co-organizers: Committee of China Maritime Museums (中国博物馆协会航海博物馆专业委员会); Committee of Maritime History and Culture Research (中国航海学会航海历史与文化研究专业委员会).
Speech: “Conquistadors of the Celestial Empire. The Spanish Policy toward China at the End of the Sixteenth Century.”
2015 May 26-30
International Conference, The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Alternative Maritime Routes in the Development of a Global Economy, from the Late Prehistory to Modern Times (“Red Sea Project VII: the seventh international conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region and their environment”), held in Naples (Italy) at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA); Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO).
Speech: “Focusing on the Voyages of the Manila Galleon: the «Golden Triangle» between the Philippines, Japan, and Mexico.”
2015 May 4
International Conference, Riflessi europei della presenza portoghese in India e nell’Asia Orientale, held in Napoli (Italy), at the “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University of Naples.
Organizers: “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University; “L’Orientale” University; Association Italia-Portogallo.
Speech: “La Flota de Filipinas e il contrasto agli olandesi in Insulindia nella prima metà del secolo XVII: un caso di interazione ‘globale’ tra Napoli, Madrid e Lisbona ai margini dell’‘Impero dove non tramonta mai il sole’” [The ‘Fleet of the Philippines’ and the fight against the Dutch in the Malay Archipelago in the first half of the 17th century: a case of ‘global’ interaction between Naples, Madrid and Lisbon at the edge of the ‘Empire on which the sun never sets’].
2014 May 12-13
International Conference, Il Portogallo in Cina e in Giappone nei secoli XVI e XVII, held in Napoli (Italy), at the “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University of Naples.
Organizers: “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University; “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; Association Italia-Portogallo.
Speech: “Conflitti e rivalità asiatiche tra Spagna e Portogallo durante il periodo delle Corone Unite (1580-1640)” [Asian Conflicts and Rivalries between Spain and Portugal during the Iberian Union (1580-1640)].
2014 March 26-28
Symposium of the World History Association (WHA), Port Cities in World History, held in Barcelona (Spain) at the Pompeu Fabra University.
Panel Organizer. Title of the Panel: “The Port City of Manila as the Spanish Doorway to Asia: Philippine Trade and Diplomacy around the China Seas in the 16th and 17th Centuries”.
Speech: “A Bridgehead to the Asiatic Mainland: Spanish Manila’s Trade and Diplomacy in East Asia and Southeast Asia from its foundation (1571) to the Late-1590s.”
2014 February 6-7
4th Foro Español de Investigación en Asia-Pacífico (FEIAP), held in Granada (Spain) at the University of Granada.
Speech: “Las Filipinas como encrucijada entre China y Japón a caballo de los siglos XVI y XVII” [The Philippines at the crossroads of China and Japan between the 16th and 17th centuries].
2013 December 20-21
International Conference, Interkulturelle Diplomatie im historischen Vergleich, held in Vienna (Austria) at the University of Vienna.
Organizer: University of Vienna, Verein zur Förderung von Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte (VSIG).
Speech: “Spanish Diplomacy in the China Seas in the Late-16th and Early-17th Centuries.”
2013 September 30-October 2
International Conference Maritime East Asia in the Light of History, 16th-18th Centuries. Sources, Archives, Researches: Present Results and Future Perspectives, held in Naples and Procida, at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (東洋文化研究所) della Università di Tokyo (東京大学). Co-organizers: Xiamen University (厦門大学); Macau University (澳門大学). Supported by the Japan Foundation (国際交流基金).
Speech: “The Project of the ‘Nao del Japón’: Attempts of Cooperation between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Spaniards in Manila during the Keichō Era (1596-1615).”
2012 June 21-23
International Conference, Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries. Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent).
Organizers: Ghent University; McGill University.
Speech: “‘The Center of a Circle’: Manila and its Overseas Trade at the beginning of the 17th Century.”
2012 April 10-13
International Conference, El galeón de Manila, 1565-1815. Navegación, comercio e intercambios culturales, held in Seville and La Rábida (Spain), at the International University of Andalucía and the School of Hispano-American Studies.
Organizers: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA); International University of Andalucía.
Speech: “El papel del Galeón de Manila en el Japón de Tokugawa Ieyasu (1598-1616)” [The role of the Manila Galleon in Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Japan (1598-1616)].
2011 April 28-29
ItaSEAS (Associazione Italiana di Studi sul Sudest Asiatico) 2nd Meeting, held in Milan at “Bicocca” University of Milano.
Speech: “The Spanish Presence in the Philippines in the Second Half of the 16th Century: From Legazpi’s Mission (1565) to the ‘Manila Galleon’ (1593).”
2011 March 31-April 4
AAS-ICAS (Association for Asian Studies, and International Convention of Asian Scholars) International Meeting held in Honolulu, Hawai’i (USA).
Speech: “Shaping Japanese Foreign Policy: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Idea of the Manila-Uraga-Acapulco Triangle.”
2010 September 16-18
AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi) 34th Meeting, held in Naples at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Speech: “Prime relazioni ispano-giapponesi, dalla fondazione di Manila (1570) alla morte di Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598)” [First Hispano-Japanese relations, from the founding of Manila (1570) to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598)].
2007 September 11-15
EuroSEAS (European Association for Southeast Asian Studies) 5th International Meeting, held in Naples at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Speech: “The founding of Manila: Spanish policy toward China and Japan.”
2005 December 5-6
International Conference Portogallo e Asia held in Naples at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; Embassy of Portugal in Rome; Camões Institute; Association Italia-Portogallo.
Speech: “L’affaire della ‘Nossa Senhora da Graça’ (1609)” [the incident of the ship ‘Nossa Senhora da Graça’ (1609)].
PUBLIC LECTURES
2022 November 18
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Humanities.
Invited by Prof. Joan-Pau Rubiés and Dr. David Ruiz Martínez.
Speech: “Cross-Cultural Trade Networks in Early Modern East and Southeast Asia.”
2022 March 1
National Taiwan University (國立台灣大學). Taipei, Taiwan.
Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (科技部補助人文社會科學研究中心).
Invited by the Director of the Institute, Prof. He Ming-xiu 何明修.
Speech: “Trade and Piracy Around Taiwan. Focusing on the Luzon-Kyushu Route and its Actors (Late 16th Century).”
2021 December 16
École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO). Paris, France (online lecture).
Invited by Prof. Pierre-Yves Manguin, and Prof. Paola Calanca.
Speech: “Spanish Ships and Shipyards in the Early Modern Philippines.”
2021 April 29
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). Leuven, Belgium (online lecture)
Department of History.
ERC Advanced Grant, Transpacific Lecture Series.
Invited by Prof. Angela Schottenhammer.
Speech: “The Luzon-Kyushu Trade Route in the Late 16th Century: Smugglers and Pirates at a Crossroads.”
2020 November 24
National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學). Hsin-chu新竹, Taiwan.
Institute of History 歷史研究所.
Invited by Prof. Mau Chuan-hui and Prof. Lee Yu-chung.
Speech: “Spanish shipbuilding in Japan at the beginning of the 17th century.”
2020 November 18
Academia Sinica中央研究院. Taipei, Taiwan.
Institute of History and Philology歷史語言研究所, and EFEO Taipei Center. Taiwan
Invited by Prof. Chen Kuo-tung (IHP), and Dr. Frank Muyard (director of the EFEO Taipei Center).
Speech: “Traders, smugglers, and pirates in the shaping of the early modern Hispano-Japanese relations.”
2017 December 12
University of Tokyo (東京大学). Tokyo, Japan.
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology (人文社会系研究科).
Invited by Prof. Shimada Ryūto, and Prof. Morikawa Tomoko.
Speech: “Trade and Diplomacy between Japan and the Spanish Philippines at the Turn of the 16th Century (1582-1615).”
2015 April 15
University of Macau (澳門大學). Macau, China.
Department of History.
Invited by Prof. George Wei and Prof. António Vasconcelos de Saldanha.
Speech: “Trade and Conquest around Macau: The Spanish Presence in China and Japan and the Voyages of the ‘Great Ship’ (nau da prata) at the Turn of the 16th Century.”
2014 May 19
University of Macau (澳門大學). Macau, China.
Department of History.
Invited by Prof. António Vasconcelos de Saldanha.
Speech: “Spanish Diplomacy in East Asia at the Turn of the 16th Century.”
PARTICIPATIONS IN LECTURE SERIES
2016 June 8
“L’Orientale” University of Napoli. Naples (Italy).
Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies (Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo).
Lecture Series, World Philologies II: Ricerche sulla prassi filologica in Asia, Africa e Europa [World Philologies II: Researches on the Philological Praxis in Asia, Africa, and Europe], April-June 2016.
Speech: “Il Codice Boxer: un documento di intelligence nella Manila del XVI secolo” [The Boxer Codex: an Intelligence Document in 16th Century’s Manila].
2013 December 12
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona (Spain).
Faculty of Humanities (MA Degree in World History).
Lecture Series (Taula Redona), The East Asian ‘Mediterranean’: Empires, Diasporas, and Crossroads in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Speech: “Pros and Cons of the Hispano-Japanese Agreements between Rodrigo de Vivero and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1609-1610).”
2012 April 16
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona (Spain).
Institute of History Jaume Vicens i Vives (Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens i Vives).
Ph.D. Lecture Series, Seminarios de Doctorado en Historia, January-May 2012.
Speech: “Comercio y diplomacia entre Japón y Filipinas en la era Keichō (1596-1615)” [Trade and Diplomacy between Japan and the Philippines during the Keichō era (1596-1615)].
2011 May 12
Interdisciplinary Seminar L’Asia Orientale Marittima nella Storia [Maritime East Asia trough History], held in Napoli (Italy) at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici), May 10-12.
Speech: “La presenza spagnola in Asia Orientale nei secoli XVI-XVII” [The Spanish Presence in East Asia in the 16th and 17th Centuries].
Assistant Professor (RTD-b), Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
E-mail: ubaldo.iaccarino@unior.it
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4813-0544
FIELDS OF EXPERTISE AND MAIN RESEARCH AREAS
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History of Southeast Asia; History of East Asia
Early Modern Philippine History
History of the Spanish presence in East Asia and Southeast Asia (16th-17th centuries)
History of Christianity in East Asia and Southeast Asia (16th-17th centuries)
Japanese Maritime History (Sengoku to Early Tokugawa periods)
Chinese Maritime History (Late-Ming dynasty)
Cross-Cultural Trade; Interconnected Histories; Commercial Diplomacy
EDUCATION
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2014 July 8. Ph.D. in History.
Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona, Spain).
Department of Humanities, Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History (IUHJVV).
Final mark: full marks and honours (Sobresaliente Cum Laude).
2005 May 2
Laurea (including both B.A. and M.A. degrees) in Asian Studies (Lingue e civiltà orientali).
“L’Orientale” University of Napoli (Naples, Italy). Department of Asian Studies.
Final mark: full marks and honours (110 e lode).
AWARDS AND HONORS
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Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor (Professore di seconda fascia) in history of East Asia and Southeast Asia (Scientific/Disciplinary Sector: 10/N3, Culture dell’Asia Centrale e Orientale). ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes).
Doctor Europaeus (European Ph.D. certificate) label, obtained from the Pompeu Fabra University (Spain).
TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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2022 October to present
Assistant Professor (Ricercatore, RTD-b) at the Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, "L'Orientale" University of Napoli.
2021 April-2021 December
Postdoctoral Researcher (博士後研究員) at the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology (科技部補助人文社會科學研究中心) at National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學). Republic of China (Taiwan). Title of the Research Project: “Nihonmachi Revisited: The Japanese Trade in the Philippines and Taiwan from an Intra-Asian and Trans-Pacific Perspective (16th-17th Centuries)”.
2019 January-2020 December
Postdoctoral Researcher (博士後研究員) at the Institute of Taiwan History (臺灣史研究所) of Academia Sinica (中央研究院). Republic of China (R.O.C., Taiwan). Title of the Research Project: “The Value of ‘Wild’ Hermosa: The Role of Taiwan in the Hispano-Japanese relations of the Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth Centuries”.
2015 May-2019 May
Research Fellow (Assegnista di Ricerca) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies (Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo) of “L’Orientale” University of Napoli. Scientific/Disciplinary Sector: L-OR 23 (History of East Asia and Southeast Asia). Title of the Research Project: “Il Sudest Asiatico come crocevia tra l’Asia Orientale e gli oceani Pacifico e Indiano. Il ruolo internazionale delle Filippine nella prospettiva storica” [Southeast Asia at the crossroads of East Asia and the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The international role of the Philippines from an historical perspective]
COURSES (Main Teachings)
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History of South-East Asia (Storia del Sud-Est Asiatico). Undergraduate Course (B.A. level).
Cross-Culturality and Transnational Networks in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Interculturalità e reti transnazionali dell’Asia Sudorientale premoderna). Graduate Course (M.A. level).
FELLOWSHIPS AND FUNDINGS
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS AND FUNDINGS
2016 October-2017 April
Fellowship from the Japan Foundation (国際交流基金).
“Japanese-Language Program for Specialists in Cultural and Academic Fields” (文化・学術専門家日本語研修). Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai (国際交流基金関西国際センター), Osaka (Japan).
Purpose: improvement of the Japanese-language ability to conduct research in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research activity: historiographical and bibliographical research in the National Diet Library (国立国会図書館) of Kyoto-Osaka-Nara (Kansai-kan, 関西館), the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto (国際日本文化研究センター), the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture (長崎歴史文化博物館), the Kobe City Museum (神戸市立博物館), the Sakai City Museum (堺市博物館), and the National Diet Library in Tokyo.
Achievement: written report (レポート) on the diplomatic and commercial relations between Japan and the Philippines, entitled “Kinsei Nihon to Firipin no kōryū kankei: 16-17 seiki ni okeru Nissei bōeki to gaikō wo minaosu” 近世日本とフィリピンの交流関係：十六・十七世紀における西貿易と外交を見直す [Early Modern Relations between Japan and the Philippines: A Reconsideration of the Hispano-Japanese Trade and Diplomacy of the 16th and 17th Centuries].
2011 September-November
COFRE funding (for research activities) from the Jaume Vicens i Vives Institute of History (IUHJVV) and the Institute of Culture (IUC) of the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain). Allocated amount: 1,500 EUR.
Purpose: research in the Spanish national archives in Seville (Archivo General de Indias) and Madrid (Real Academia de la Historia, and Biblioteca Nacional de España).
Results: collection, transcription, and analysis of manuscript sources in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Chinese language, from the following archival fonds: Audiencia de Filipinas, Audiencia de México, Patronato real, Contaduría, Indiferente general and Mapas y planos (General Archives of the Indies); Cortes and Muñoz (Royal Academy of History); Manuscritos, Incunables y Raros (National Library of Spain).
2011 June-August
Fellowship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (中華民國科技部) and the Taipei Representative Office in France (Bureau de Représentation de Taipei en France, 駐法國台北代表處). “Research and Practical Training Program in Taiwan”. Allocated amount: 50,000 NTD
Purpose: research in the special collections of the library of the National Taiwan University (國立臺灣大學), former library of the Japanese Taihoku Imperial University.
Results: consultation of documentary sources on the early modern Japanese presence in Southeast Asia and the history of the Philippines (Sheerer Collection, concerning Filipino languages, history, geography and ethnology, and the Southeast Asian Studies Collection about the history of Island Southeast Asia).
2004 September-October
Funding from the CRUI Fundation (Conferenza dei Rettori delle Università Italiane) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE).
Purpose: research in the library and archive of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas (UST), in Manila (Philippines).
Results: consultation of manuscripts, codices, and printed books concerning the early modern history of the Philippines and the intra-Asian trade of the 16th and 17th centuries.
COLLABORATIVE ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS
2020-2025
Participation as associated member in the international research project, “The Structure and Impact of Trans-Pacific Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries: The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver and Silks”, supported by the European Research Council. ERC Advanced Grant, 2020-2025 (Grant agreement ID: 833143). Allocated amount: 2,437,372 EUR. Website: https://crossroads-research.net/projects/erc-adg-transpacific/
2021-2023
Participation as a core team member in the international research project, “El Sudeste Asiático bajo la influencia ibérica en el mundo, 1581-1668” [Southeast Asia under the Iberian influence in the world, 1581-1668], supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (I+D+i Project) (PID2019-107430GB-I00). Allocated amount: 37,600 EUR. Director: Prof. José A. Martínez Torres, National Distance Education University (UNED). Codirector: Carlos Martínez Shaw, UNED. Website: https://souauih.wordpress.com
2019 to present
Contribution to the publication of the second volume of the series “Hokkien Historical Document Series” (閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊一), edited by Prof. Lee Yu-chung (李毓中) of the Department of History of National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學), in Taiwan. Archival research conducted at the Angelica Library in Rome concerning the Sino-Spanish dictionary wrote in Manila at the end of the 16th century by the Jesuit missionary Pedro Chirino.
2021 to present
Member of the international research team, “Global Diplomacy Network”, supported by the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University (Sweden), in collaboration with Kyūshū University (九州大学). Website: https://globaldiplomacynetwork.wordpress.com/blog/
PAST COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
2010–2017
Participation as external collaborator in the international research project, “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction” (MCRI, Major Collaborative Research Initiative), sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Allocated amount: 2,000,000 CAD. Director: Prof. Gwyn Campbell, McGill University. Codirector: Prof. Angela Schottenhammer, University of Salzburg (currently, Full Professor at the Department of History of KU Leuven). Website: https://www.mcgill.ca/iow-mcri/
2017–2019
Participation as a core team member in the international research project, “The Dynamism of Early Modern Asian Society as seen Through the Routes of Faith, Trade, and Migration” (信仰・交易と移動ルートに見る近世アジア社会のダイナミズム), supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (日本学術振興会). Allocated amount: 4,850,001 JPY. Director: Prof. Shimada Ryūto (島田竜登), University of Tokyo.
2016–2019
Participation as external associated member in the international research project, “Monsoon Asia and Multicultural Exchange Project” (季風亞洲與多元文化計畫), supported by the Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學人文社會研究中心), in Hsinchu (Taiwan), the Institute of Taiwan History of Academia Sinica (中央研究院臺灣史研究所), the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (Spain), and the Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Seville (Spain). Director: Prof. Huang Yi-long (黃一農) of Taiwan’s National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學).
2017–2019
Participation in the activities of the international group of research of the Center for Macaology (澳門研究院) and the Research Center for the History and Culture of Hong Kong and Macao (港澳歷史文化研究中心) of Jinan University (暨南大學), and the Center for Macau Studies (澳門研究中心) of the University of Macau (澳門大學). Director prof. Ye Nong (葉農).
PUBLICATIONS
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MONOGRAPHS
Comercio y diplomacia entre Japón y Filipinas en la era Keichō (1596-1615) [Trade and Diplomacy between Japan and the Philippines during the Keichō Era (1596-1615)] (East Asian Maritime History, vol. 13) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017). ISBN: 978-3-447-10763-1
Storia del Sud-Est asiatico, dalle origini all’età contemporanea [History of Southeast Asia, from its origins to the contemporary age]. Work in Preparation.
Begging Diplomats from Lüsong. The Philippines, China, and Japan at the Turn of the 16th Century. Work in Preparation.
PALAEOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTIONS
Yesuhuishi Pang Diwo zhushu ji 耶穌會士龐迪我著述集 (Escritos de Diego de Pantoja S.J.), ed. by Ye Nong 葉農, Translations by Luo Huiling 羅慧玲, Jiang Wei 蔣薇, and Jin Guoping 金國平, Palaeographic transcriptions by Ubaldo Iaccarino (Ya Baoduo 雅保多) (Guangzhou: Guangdong People’s Publishing House 廣東人民出版社, 2019). ISBN: 9787218126647.
Yesuhuishi Xiong Sanba zhushu ji 耶穌會士熊三拔著述集 (Escritos de Sabatino de Ursis S.J.), ed. by Ye Nong 葉農. Palaeographic transcriptions by Ubaldo Iaccarino (Ya Baoduo 雅保多) and Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço. Translations by Jin Guoping 金國平 (Macao 澳門and Guangzhou廣州: Hall de Cultura文化公所 and Centre for Macau Studies of Jinan University暨南大學澳門研究院, 2022). ISBN: 978-99981-46-82-2.
ESSAYS AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Guide to the Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum,” in Lee Yu-chung 李毓中 and Chen Tsung-jen 陳宗仁 (eds.), Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum 閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊四：華語—西班牙語辭典 (Tainan: National Taiwan Historical Museum 國立臺灣歷史博物館, 2022), pp. 3-24. Chinese Translation:《閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊四：華語—西班牙語辭典》導讀, in, Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series IV: Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum 閩南—西班牙歷史文獻叢刊四：華語—西班牙語辭典 (Tainan: National Museum of Taiwan History 國立臺灣歷史博物館, 2022), pp. 3-24.
“The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines and its Actors Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, in Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer. Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China (Leiden: Brill, 2022/2023), pp. In Press.
“Las Capitulaciones de 1610: cumbre y ruina de la diplomacia española en Japón (siglo XVII)” [The ‘Capitulations’ of 1610: Peak and Ruin of the Spanish diplomacy in Japan (17th Century)], in Lluís Valls and Reiko Tateiwa (eds.), España y Japón en un mundo cambiante — 変わりゆく世界におけるスペインと日本 (Kyoto: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 2019), pp. 121-132. ISSN: 2435-4325.
“Mediating the Spanish Ambitions in China: Michele Ruggieri’s Involvement in the Missions of Pedro de Alfaro O.F.M. and Alonso Sánchez S.I. (1579-1583)”, in Davor Antonucci, Luisa Paternicò, and Xie Mingguang 謝明光 (eds.), Michele Ruggieri: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary at the Dawn of the Dialogue between China and Europe (Beijing: China Social Science Press 中国社会科学出版社, 2020). Forthcoming.
“Il passaggio del Galeone di Manila al largo delle coste del Giappone: rischio od opportunità?” [The sailing of the Manila Galleon off the coast of Japan: risk or opportunity?], in Teresa Ciapparoni la Rocca (ed.), Il Grande Viaggio. La missione giapponese del 1613 in Europa (Roma: Scienze e lettere, 2019), pp. 173-180. ISBN: 978-88-6687-154-5.
“Tokugawa Ieyasu’s ‘Spanish Policy’ and the Hispano-Japanese Agreements of Cooperation. Trade, Diplomacy, and Knowledge Exchange between Japan, Mexico, and the Philippines during the Keichō Era (1596-1615)”, in Patrizia Carioti, Ryūto Shimada, and Ubaldo Iaccarino (eds.), Sailing the Asian Seas (16th-18th Centuries) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020). Forthcoming.
“Conquistadors of the Celestial Empire: The Spanish Policy toward China at the End of the 16th Century”, in Robert Antony, and Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Beyond the Silk Roads. New Discourses on China’s Role in East Asian Maritime History (East Asian Maritime History, vol. 14) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017), pp. 77-98. ISBN: 978-3-447-10944-4.
“La Flota de Filipinas e il contrasto agli olandesi in Insulindia nella prima metà del secolo XVII: un caso di interazione «globale» tra Napoli, Madrid e Lisbona ai margini dell’«impero dove non tramonta mai il sole»” [The ‘Fleet of the Philippines’ and the fight against the Dutch in the Malay Archipelago in the first half of the 17th century: a case of ‘global’ interaction between Naples, Madrid and Lisbon at the edge of the ‘Empire on which the sun never sets’], in Rosaria de Marco (ed.), L’Orientalistica a Napoli (Napoli: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2017), pp. 343-354. ISBN: 978-88-96055.
“Il rapporto conflittuale tra Macao e Manila durante il Periodo delle Corone Unite: i casi di Cina e Giappone (secoli XVI-XVII)” [The Conflicting Relationship between Macau and Manila during the Iberian Union: the Cases of China and Japan (16th-17th Centuries)], in Rosaria de Marco (ed.), L’Orientalistica a Napoli (Napoli: Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2017), pp. 245-258. ISBN: 978-88-96055.
“Spanish Diplomacy in the China Seas at the Turn of the 16th Century”, in Birgit Tremml-Werner, and Eberhard Crailsheim (eds.), Audienzen und Allianzen Interkulturelle Diplomatie in Asien und Europa vom 8. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Wien: Mandelbaum, 2015), pp. 90-107. ISBN: 978-3-85476-450-2.
“El papel del Galeón de Manila en el Japón de Tokugawa Ieyasu (1598-1616)” [The role of the Manila Galleon in Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Japan (1598-1616)], in Salvador Bernabéu Albert, and Carlos Martínez Shaw (eds.), Un océano de seda y plata: el universo económico del Galeón de Manila (Seville: Consejo Superior Investigaciones Científicas, 2013), pp. 133-154. ISBN: 978-84-00-09699-1.
“Prime relazioni ispano-giapponesi: dalla fondazione di Manila (1570) alla morte di Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598)” [First Hispano-Japanese relations: from the founding of Manila (1570) to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi], in Giorgio Amitrano, and Silvana De Maio (eds.), Nuove prospettive di ricerca sul Giappone, Proceedings of the 34th Conference of AISTUGIA (Napoli, 16th-18th of September 2010) (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2012), pp. 329-340. ISBN: 978-88-6719-006-5.
“La missione di Juan Pablo de Carrión contro il «pirata» giapponese Taifuza (1582)” [The Mission of Juan Pablo de Carrión against the Japanese ‘pirate’ Taifuza (1582)], in Franco Mazzei, and Patrizia Carioti (eds.), Oriente, Occidente e dintorni… Scritti in onore di Adolfo Tamburello, 5 vols. (Napoli: Università degli studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, 2009), vol. III, pp. 1353-1358. ISBN: 978-88-95044-66-8.
“Alessandro Valignano e la missione Cobo (1592)” [Alessandro Valignano and the Cobo Mission (1592)], in Adolfo Tamburello, Marisa Di Russo, and M. Anthony J. Üçerler, S.J., (eds.), Alessandro Valignano, S.I. Uomo del Rinascimento: Ponte tra Oriente e Occidente (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., 67), Proceedings of the International Conference of Chieti: 27-28 October 2007 (Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2008), pp. 129-143. ISBN: 978-88-7041-365-6.
“1609: l’affaire della «Nossa Senhora da Graça»” [1609: the incident of the ship ‘Nossa Senhora da Graça’], in Maria Luisa Cusati (ed.), Atti del Convegno Internazionale “Portogallo e Asia” (Napoli: 3-4 marzo 2006) (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2008), pp. 121-144 (CD-ROM). ISBN: 978-88-95044-47-7.
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Early Spanish Intruders in China: The 1579 Mission of Pedro de Alfaro, O.F.M., Reconsidered”, Journal of Jesuit Studies, E.J. Brill Publishers, 9/2 (2022) 245-262. ISSN: 2214-1324. e-ISSN: 2214-1332.
“Pedro Chirino, S.I., and the Sino-Spanish Dictionary (Dictionarium Sino-Hispanicum) of the Angelica Library”, Journal of Monsoon Asia Studies (季風亞洲研究), 13 (2021) 1-27. ISSN: 2414-1259.
“Ragioni e reazioni anticristiane del tardo periodo Sengoku: i francescani nelle relazioni diplomatico-commerciali tra Giappone e Filippine (c. 1587-1614)” [Antichristian Reasons and Reactions of the Late Sengoku Period: The Franciscans in the Diplomatic and Trade Relations between Japan and the Philippines], Studi Francescani, 118/3-4 (2021) 363-387. ISSN: 0392-727X.
“El comercio chino en torno a Filipinas: redes interregionales y conexiones transnacionales a final de la época Ming (siglos XVI-XVII)” [Chinese Trade Revolving Around the Philippines: Interregional Networks and Transnational Connections at the End of the Ming Era (16th-17th Centuries)], Vegueta. Anuario de la Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 20 (2020) 217-238. ISSN: 1133-598X. e-ISSN: 2341-1112.
“The Macau-Manila Route under the Iberian Union”, Review of Culture. International Edition, Instituto Cultural de Macau, 60 (2019) 104-123. ISSN: 0872-4407.
“«The Centre of a Circle»: Manila’s Trade with East Asia and Southeast Asia at the Turn of the 16th Century”, Crossroads. Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, 16 (Oct. 2017) 99-120. Special Issue (The “Indo-Pacific” Crossroads: The Asian Waters as Conduits of Knowledge, People, Cargoes, and Technologies). ISSN: 2190-8796.
“Sangleyes, Japones, and Casados: An Overview of the Actors of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines Between the 16th and Early 17th Centuries”, Journal of Monsoon Asia Studies (季風亞洲研究), 4 (2017) 107-151. ISSN: 2414-1259.
“Merchants, Missionaries, and Marauders: Trade and Traffics between Kyūshū (Japan) and Luzon (Philippines) in the Late-16th and Early-17th centuries”, Crossroads. Studies on the History of Exchange Relations in the East Asian World, 10 (2014) 155-196. ISSN: 2190-8796.
“The ‘Galleon System’ and Chinese Trade in Manila at the Turn of the 16th Century”, Ming Qing Yanjiu, 16 (2011) 93-127. ISSN: 1724-8574.
“L’incidente del galeone Espíritu Santo (1602): un nuovo San Felipe?” [The incident of the galleon Espíritu Santo (1602): a new San Felipe?], Il Giappone, 49 (2009) [2012], 5-19. ISSN: 0390-6647.
“Il Giappone e le Filippine spagnole, 1598-1603: le aperture di Tokugawa Ieyasu” [Japan and the Spanish Philippines, 1598-1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s overtures], Il Giappone, 48 (2008) [2009] 31-44. ISSN: 0390-6647.
“Manila as an International Entrepôt: Chinese and Japanese Trade with the Spanish Philippines at the Close of the 16th Century”, Bulletin of Portuguese/Japanese Studies, 16 (2008) 71-81. ISSN: 0874-8438.
“Il Giappone e le Filippine spagnole, 1592-1594: la minaccia di Hideyoshi” [Japan and the Spanish Philippines, 1592-1594: Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s threat], Il Giappone, 46 (2006) [2008] 5-32. ISSN: 0390-6647.
“Il Giappone e le Filippine spagnole, 1571-1591: il primo intercorso” [Japan and the Spanish Philippines, 1571-1591: the first relations], Il Giappone, 45 (2005) [2007] 23-54. ISSN: 0390-6647.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Missionaries or Diplomats? The Role of the Mendicant Friars in the Hispano-Japanese Relations of the late-Sengoku Period (1582-1614 ca.)”. Paper presented at the International Symposium Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Sophia University (上智大学), on October 5, 2019.
“Dynamics and developments of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines at the turn of the Sixteenth Century”. Paper presented at the International Workshop, Cross-cultural Encounters and Trade in Early Modern Southeast Asian Port Cities (近代早期東南亞港市中的異文化交會與貿易), held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (人文社會科學研究中心), of Academia Sinica, 2019.
“The Boxer Codex: A Sino-Hispanic Source of Knowledge in the Late Sixteenth Century Philippines”. Paper presented at the International Symposium, The Book in Transition. The East and the West, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Keiō University (慶應義塾大学), on December 9, 2017.
“The Macao-Manila Route under the Iberian Union (1580-1640)”. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Macaology: Macaology and the Development of Macao 第五屆 “澳門學” 國際學術研討會: 澳門學與澳門發展, held in Guangzhou (China), at Jinan University (暨南大学), on November 24-26, 2017.
“Early Spanish Intruders in China: The Mission of Fr. Pedro de Alfaro O.F.M. of 1579”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Michele Ruggieri: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary at the Dawn of the Dialogue between China and Europe, held in Rome and Napoli (Italy), at “Sapienza” University of Rome and “L’Orientale” University of Napoli, on September 25-27, 2017.
“The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines and its Actors Between the 16th and 17th Centuries”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and beyond, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent), on July 3-4, 2017.
“Japanese Diplomatic Letters sent to Manila at the Turn of the 16th Century: A Comprehensive Overview”. Paper presented at the International Meeting, Xibanya suocang Taiwan yu Dongya shiliao shuweihua xiankuang yu zhanwang 西班牙所藏臺灣與東亞史料數位化現況與展望, held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院), on April 14, 2017.
“Sangleyes, Japones, and Casados: An Overview on the Actors of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the 16th and 17th Centuries”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Monsoon Asia: Spain and East Asia in Early Modern Era 季風亞洲：近代初期的西班牙與東亞, held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院), on June 20-21, 2016.
“Conquistadors of the Celestial Empire. The Spanish Policy toward China at the End of the Sixteenth Century”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Beyond the Silk Road: Asian Maritime History and Culture (絲路的延伸: 亞洲海洋歷史及文化), held in Shanghai (China) at the China Maritime Museum (中國航海博物館), on August 19-22, 2015.
“The Project of the ‘Nao del Japón’: Attempts of Cooperation between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Spaniards in Manila during the Keichō Era (1596-1615)”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Maritime East Asia in the Light of History, 16th-18th Century. Sources, Archives, Researches: Present Results and Future Perspectives, held in Naples and Procida, at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli, on September 30-October 2, 2013.
“‘The Center of a Circle’: Manila and its Overseas Trade at the beginning of the 17th Century”. Paper presented at the International Conference, Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries. Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent), on June 21-23, 2012.
NOTES, REPORTS, AND REVIEWS
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“Kinsei Nihon to Firipin no kōryū kankei: 16-17 seiki ni okeru Nissei bōeki to gaikō wo minaosu” 近世日本とフィリピンの交流関係：十六・十七世紀における日西貿易と外交を見直す [Early Modern Relations Between Japan and the Philippines: A Reconsideration of the Hispano-Japanese Commerce and Diplomacy of the 16th-17th Centuries], in Bunka-gakujutsu senmonka Nihongo kenshū rokkagetsu kōsu no shūryō repōto shū 文化・学術専門家日本語研修六ヶ月コースの修了レポート集, Kokusai Kōryū Kikin Kansai Kokusai Center 国際交流基金関西国際センター, Osaka, 2017, pp. 122-132.
“Le attività marittimo-commerciali di Cina e Giappone nei secoli XVI-XIX. A proposito di tre libri recenti” [On three recent books concerning China and Japan’s maritime trade activities of the 16th-19th centuries], AION, Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, LXXI (2011) 215-226. ISSN: 0393-3180.
“Acero toledano contra catanas. Los combates de Cagayán”, Desperta Ferro: Especiales, 15 (June 2018) 42-45. ISSN: 2255-4734.
[Review] “Angela Schottenhammer (ed.), Tribute, Trade and Smuggling. Tributo, Comercio y Contrabando, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2014”, AION. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, LXXV (2015), pp. 234-236. ISSN: 0393-3180
[Review] “Zoltán Biedermann, The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India. Studies in the History of Diplomacy, Empire and Trade, 1500-1650, Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2014”, AION. Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, LXXIV (2014), pp. 231-233. ISSN: 0393-3180
[Review] “Birgit Magdalena Tremml, When Political Economies Meet: Spain, China and Japan in Manila, ca. 1571-1644, Ph.D. dissertation”: http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/5427.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
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2022
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal, Signos históricos, Metropolitan Autonomous University (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana), Unit Iztapalapa (Mexico City), Mexico. ISSN: 1665-4420.
2020
Peer-reviewing for the publication of the Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA).
2020 to present
Scientific referee (peer reviewing) for the publishing house Routledge.
2020 to present
Scientific referee (peer reviewing) for the publishing house Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books).
2020 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal, Universitas Humanística, Pontifical Xavierian University, Colombia. ISSN: 2011-2734.
2018
Collaboration to the publishing of Hokkien Spanish Historical Document Series I (閩南‧西班牙歷史文獻叢刊一), ed. by Lee Yu-chung 李毓中, Chen Tsung-jen 陳宗仁, José Regalado Trota, and José Caño Ortigosa (Hsinchu: National Tsing Hua University Press, 2018). ISBN: 9789866116742.
2017-2019
Participation in the meetings of the editorial office of the peer-reviewed journal Il Giappone. Studi e Ricerche, Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies of L’Orientale University of Napoli.
2017 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal Historia Mexicana, El Colegio de México, Mexico. ISSN: 0185-0172.
2017 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal Journal of Monsoon Asian Studies (季風亞洲研究), National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. ISSN: 2414-1259.
2017 to present
Scientific referee for the peer-reviewed journal Temas americanistas, University of Seville, Spain. ISSN: 1988-7868.
2017
“Analytical Index”, in Dialogo sulla missione dei giapponesi alla curia romana e sulle cose osservate in Europa e durante tutto il viaggio, basato sul diario degli ambasciatori e tradotto in latino da Duarte de Sande, sacerdote della Compagnia di Gesù, edited by Marisa Di Russo (Biblioteca dell’«Archivum Romanicum», 450) (Firenze: Leo S. Olshki, 2016). ISBN: 978-88-222-6435-0.
2008
“Index of Names and Places”, in Alessandro Valignano, S.I.: Uomo del Rinascimento, ponte tra Oriente e Occidente, edited by Adolfo Tamburello, Marisa Di Russo, and M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.I. (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., 67) (Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2008). IBSN: 978-88-7041-365-6.
2007-2008
Editing work on the collection of essays Alessandro Valignano, S.I.: Uomo del Rinascimento, ponte tra Oriente e Occidente, edited by Adolfo Tamburello, Marisa Di Russo, and M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.I. (Bibliotheca Instituti Historici S.I., 67) (Roma: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2008). IBSN: 978-88-7041-365-6.
2006-2008
Editing work on the collection of essays Oriente, Occidente e dintorni… Scritti in onore di Adolfo Tamburello, edited by Franco Mazzei and Patrizia Carioti (Napoli: Università degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, 2009), 5 vols. IBSN: 978-88-95044-66-8.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
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CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIA
2023 June 29
International Symposium, Circulations, transferts et environnment autour des mer d’Asie Orientale (1560-1740), Maison de l’Asie della École française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Paris (France).
Speech: “Nihonmachi revisited. The Japanese residence in Manila between the 16th and 17th centuries.”
2023 March 14-15
International Symposium, Un Oriente Ibérico (1580-1668). Política, cultura y comercio en el comienzo de la globalización, Casa Asia, Madrid (Spain).
Speech: “El impacto de la misión Cobo sobre los conocimientos geográficos del Japón de final del siglo XVI.”
2023 February 17-18
AAS (Association of Asian Studies) Annual Conference. Boston, USA (Virtual Conference).
Speech: “Japan’s Perceptions and Representations of the Hispanic World in the Late 16th Century.”
2021 November 17
International Symposium, El Sudeste asiático bajo la influencia ibérica en el mundo, 1580-1668. Algunas perspectivas de estudio, at National Distance Education University (UNED). Department of Modern History (held online).
Speech: “La Pequeña Riukiu. Filipinas en las primeras cartas de Toyotomi Hideyoshi para Manila.”
2021 October 20-22
International Workshop, China in the 17th Century: Trauma, Transition and Global Transformations, at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli (Italy). Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies. Discussant for the panel, “The Silver Century: Global Traders”.
2021 October 4-6
International Symposium, Japón y el mundo hispano a través de la ruta transpacífica, at the Ibero-American University, Mexico. Department of International Studies (held online).
Speech: “El ‘globo de Cobo’: percepciones y representaciones del mundo hispano en el Japón de final de la época Sengoku.”
2021 August
12th ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) Online Conference, hosted by the University of Kyoto (Japan).
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2019 October 5
International Symposium Historical Legacies of Christianity in East Asia, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Sophia University (上智大学). Organizers: Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, in collaboration with the Kirishitan Bunko of Sophia University.
Speech: “Missionaries or Diplomats? The Role of the Mendicant Friars in the Hispano-Japanese Relations of the late-Sengoku Period (1582-1614 ca.).”
2019 September 25
International Workshop Cross-cultural Encounters and Trade in Early Modern Southeast Asian Port Cities (近代早期東南亞港市中的異文化交會與貿易), held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Research Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (人文社會科學研究中心) of Academia Sinica. Organizer: Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica.
Speech: “Dynamics and developments of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines at the turn of the Sixteenth Century.”
2019 July 16-19
11th ICAS (International Convention of Asian Scholars) Conference, held in Leiden (Netherlands) at the University of Leiden.
Speech: “Beware of the ‘Cat’s Eyes’! Spain’s Militaristic Approach to China and Its Consequences (Late-16th Century).”
2019 May 22-24
4th ItaSEAS (Italian Association of Southeast Asian Studies) International Conference, held in Procida (Italy) at the University of Napoli “L’Orientale”.
Speech: “Trade and Smuggling around the Philippines: Ports, Routes, and Networks (16th-17th Centuries).”
2018 October 27
International Workshop España y Japón en un mundo cambiante 「変わりゆく世界におけるスペインと日本」, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (京都外国語大学).
Speech: “Los acuerdos de cooperación hispano-japonesa de 1610 [The Hispano-Japanese agreements of 1610]”.
2018 June 30-July 1
22nd ASCJ (Asian Studies Conference Japan 日本アジア研究学会) International Conference, held in Tokyo (Japan) at the International Christian University (国際基督教大学).
Speech: “The Hispano-Japanese ‘Capitulations’ of 1610: Trade, Diplomacy, and Knowledge Exchange between Edo, Manila and Mexico in the Early 17th Century.”
2018 March 24
Workshop, Io sono Camillo Costanzo, italiano e sacerdote della Compagnia di Gesù, held in Bovalino (Italy).
Organizers: Catholic Diocese of Locri-Gerace, University of Napoli “Federico II”.
Speech: “La politica anticristiana dei primi shōgun Tokugawa (1603-1639)” [The Antichristian Policy of the First Tokugawa Shoguns (1603-1639)].
2018 March 12-14
International Workshop, Trade, Migration, Belief: Crossing Early Modern Asia, 16th-18th Centuries, held in Napoli (Italy), at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University; Tokyo University (東京大学).
Speech: “Trade networks around the Philippines in the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth centuries.”
2017 December 9
International Symposium, The Book in Transition. The East and the West, held in Tokyo (Japan), at Keiō University (慶應義塾大学).
Organizers: Keio University Global Research Institute (慶應義塾大学グローバルリサーチインスティテュート); Research Institute for Digital Media and Content (デジタルメディア・コンテンツ統合研究センター).
Speech: “The Boxer Codex: a Sino-Hispanic Source of Knowledge in the Late 16th Century Philippines.”
2017 November 24-26
Fifth International Conference on Macaology: Macaology and the Development of Macao 第五屆 “澳門學” 國際學術研討會: 澳門學與澳門發展, held in Guangzhou (China), at Jinan University (暨南大学).
Organizers: Jinan University (暨南大學); Social Sciences in China Press (中國社會科學雜誌社); Macao Foundation (澳門基金會); University of Macau (澳門大學); Macao Polytechnic Institute (澳門理工學院); Macau University of Science and Technology (澳門科技大學). Co-organizers: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社會科學院); Guangdong People’s Publishing House (廣東人民出版社).
Speech: “The Macao-Manila Route under the Iberian Union (1580-1640)”.
2017 September 25-27
International Conference, Michele Ruggieri: Portrait of a Jesuit Missionary at the Dawn of the Dialogue between China and Europe, held in Rome and Napoli (Italy), at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome and “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organized and supported by: “Sapienza” University of Rome; “L’Orientale” University of Naples; Beijing Foreign Studies University; Confucius Institute.
Speech: “Early Spanish Intruders in China: The Mission of Fr. Pedro de Alfaro O.F.M. of 1579.”
2017 July 4-5
International Conference, Seafaring, Trade, and Knowledge Transfer: Maritime Politics and Commerce in Early Middle Period to Early Modern China and Beyond, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent).
Organizers: University of Salzburg; McGill University. Supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Speech: “The Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines and its Actors Between the 16th and 17th Centuries.”
2017 April 14
International Meeting, Xibanya suocang Taiwan yu Dongya shiliao shuweihua xiankuang yu zhanwang 西班牙所藏臺灣與東亞史料數位化現況與展望, held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院).
Organizers: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學人文社會研究中心; Institute of Taiwan History of the Academia Sinica 中央研究院台灣史研究所; Archivo General de Indias of Seville.
Speech: “Japanese Diplomatic Letters sent to Manila at the Turn of the 16th Century: A Comprehensive Overview.”
2016 September 22-24
AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi) 40th Meeting, held in Torino, at the University of Turin.
Speech: “Gli accordi di cooperazione ispano-giapponese del primo Seicento: preludio alla missione Hasekura (Keichō shisetsu 慶長使節)” [the Hispano-Japanese agreements of cooperation of the early Seventeenth century: prelude to the Hasekura Mission (Keichō shisetsu)].
2016 June 20-21
International Conference Jifeng Yazhou: jindai chuqi de Xibanya yu Dongya 季風亞洲: 近代初期的西班牙與東亞 (Monsoon Asia: Spain and East Asia in Early Modern Era), held in Taipei (Taiwan), at the Academia Sinica (中央研究院).
Organizers: Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences of the National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學人文社會研究中心; Institute of Taiwan History of the Academia Sinica 中央研究院台灣史研究所; “Pompeu Fabra” University of Barcelona (Spain).
Speech: “Sangleyes, Japones, and Casados. An Overview of the Actors of the Sino-Japanese Trade in the Philippines between the 16th and Early 17th Centuries.”
2015 August 19-22
International Conference, Beyond the Silk Road: Asian Maritime History and Culture (絲路的延伸: 亞洲海洋歷史及文化), held in Shanghai (China) at the China Maritime Museum (中國航海博物館).
Organizers: China Maritime Museum (中国航海博物馆); Macau University (澳门大学); Salzburg University; McGill University. Co-organizers: Committee of China Maritime Museums (中国博物馆协会航海博物馆专业委员会); Committee of Maritime History and Culture Research (中国航海学会航海历史与文化研究专业委员会).
Speech: “Conquistadors of the Celestial Empire. The Spanish Policy toward China at the End of the Sixteenth Century.”
2015 May 26-30
International Conference, The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Alternative Maritime Routes in the Development of a Global Economy, from the Late Prehistory to Modern Times (“Red Sea Project VII: the seventh international conference on the peoples of the Red Sea region and their environment”), held in Naples (Italy) at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA); Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO).
Speech: “Focusing on the Voyages of the Manila Galleon: the «Golden Triangle» between the Philippines, Japan, and Mexico.”
2015 May 4
International Conference, Riflessi europei della presenza portoghese in India e nell’Asia Orientale, held in Napoli (Italy), at the “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University of Naples.
Organizers: “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University; “L’Orientale” University; Association Italia-Portogallo.
Speech: “La Flota de Filipinas e il contrasto agli olandesi in Insulindia nella prima metà del secolo XVII: un caso di interazione ‘globale’ tra Napoli, Madrid e Lisbona ai margini dell’‘Impero dove non tramonta mai il sole’” [The ‘Fleet of the Philippines’ and the fight against the Dutch in the Malay Archipelago in the first half of the 17th century: a case of ‘global’ interaction between Naples, Madrid and Lisbon at the edge of the ‘Empire on which the sun never sets’].
2014 May 12-13
International Conference, Il Portogallo in Cina e in Giappone nei secoli XVI e XVII, held in Napoli (Italy), at the “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University of Naples.
Organizers: “Suor Orsola Benincasa” University; “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; Association Italia-Portogallo.
Speech: “Conflitti e rivalità asiatiche tra Spagna e Portogallo durante il periodo delle Corone Unite (1580-1640)” [Asian Conflicts and Rivalries between Spain and Portugal during the Iberian Union (1580-1640)].
2014 March 26-28
Symposium of the World History Association (WHA), Port Cities in World History, held in Barcelona (Spain) at the Pompeu Fabra University.
Panel Organizer. Title of the Panel: “The Port City of Manila as the Spanish Doorway to Asia: Philippine Trade and Diplomacy around the China Seas in the 16th and 17th Centuries”.
Speech: “A Bridgehead to the Asiatic Mainland: Spanish Manila’s Trade and Diplomacy in East Asia and Southeast Asia from its foundation (1571) to the Late-1590s.”
2014 February 6-7
4th Foro Español de Investigación en Asia-Pacífico (FEIAP), held in Granada (Spain) at the University of Granada.
Speech: “Las Filipinas como encrucijada entre China y Japón a caballo de los siglos XVI y XVII” [The Philippines at the crossroads of China and Japan between the 16th and 17th centuries].
2013 December 20-21
International Conference, Interkulturelle Diplomatie im historischen Vergleich, held in Vienna (Austria) at the University of Vienna.
Organizer: University of Vienna, Verein zur Förderung von Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte (VSIG).
Speech: “Spanish Diplomacy in the China Seas in the Late-16th and Early-17th Centuries.”
2013 September 30-October 2
International Conference Maritime East Asia in the Light of History, 16th-18th Centuries. Sources, Archives, Researches: Present Results and Future Perspectives, held in Naples and Procida, at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (東洋文化研究所) della Università di Tokyo (東京大学). Co-organizers: Xiamen University (厦門大学); Macau University (澳門大学). Supported by the Japan Foundation (国際交流基金).
Speech: “The Project of the ‘Nao del Japón’: Attempts of Cooperation between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Spaniards in Manila during the Keichō Era (1596-1615).”
2012 June 21-23
International Conference, Crossroads between Empires and Peripheries. Knowledge Transfer, Product Exchange and Human Movement in the Indian Ocean World, held in Ghent (Belgium), at the University of Ghent (Universiteit Gent).
Organizers: Ghent University; McGill University.
Speech: “‘The Center of a Circle’: Manila and its Overseas Trade at the beginning of the 17th Century.”
2012 April 10-13
International Conference, El galeón de Manila, 1565-1815. Navegación, comercio e intercambios culturales, held in Seville and La Rábida (Spain), at the International University of Andalucía and the School of Hispano-American Studies.
Organizers: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC); Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA); International University of Andalucía.
Speech: “El papel del Galeón de Manila en el Japón de Tokugawa Ieyasu (1598-1616)” [The role of the Manila Galleon in Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Japan (1598-1616)].
2011 April 28-29
ItaSEAS (Associazione Italiana di Studi sul Sudest Asiatico) 2nd Meeting, held in Milan at “Bicocca” University of Milano.
Speech: “The Spanish Presence in the Philippines in the Second Half of the 16th Century: From Legazpi’s Mission (1565) to the ‘Manila Galleon’ (1593).”
2011 March 31-April 4
AAS-ICAS (Association for Asian Studies, and International Convention of Asian Scholars) International Meeting held in Honolulu, Hawai’i (USA).
Speech: “Shaping Japanese Foreign Policy: Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Idea of the Manila-Uraga-Acapulco Triangle.”
2010 September 16-18
AISTUGIA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Giapponesi) 34th Meeting, held in Naples at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Speech: “Prime relazioni ispano-giapponesi, dalla fondazione di Manila (1570) alla morte di Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598)” [First Hispano-Japanese relations, from the founding of Manila (1570) to the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1598)].
2007 September 11-15
EuroSEAS (European Association for Southeast Asian Studies) 5th International Meeting, held in Naples at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Speech: “The founding of Manila: Spanish policy toward China and Japan.”
2005 December 5-6
International Conference Portogallo e Asia held in Naples at “L’Orientale” University of Napoli.
Organizers: “L’Orientale” University of Napoli; Embassy of Portugal in Rome; Camões Institute; Association Italia-Portogallo.
Speech: “L’affaire della ‘Nossa Senhora da Graça’ (1609)” [the incident of the ship ‘Nossa Senhora da Graça’ (1609)].
PUBLIC LECTURES
2022 November 18
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona, Spain.
Department of Humanities.
Invited by Prof. Joan-Pau Rubiés and Dr. David Ruiz Martínez.
Speech: “Cross-Cultural Trade Networks in Early Modern East and Southeast Asia.”
2022 March 1
National Taiwan University (國立台灣大學). Taipei, Taiwan.
Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (科技部補助人文社會科學研究中心).
Invited by the Director of the Institute, Prof. He Ming-xiu 何明修.
Speech: “Trade and Piracy Around Taiwan. Focusing on the Luzon-Kyushu Route and its Actors (Late 16th Century).”
2021 December 16
École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO). Paris, France (online lecture).
Invited by Prof. Pierre-Yves Manguin, and Prof. Paola Calanca.
Speech: “Spanish Ships and Shipyards in the Early Modern Philippines.”
2021 April 29
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). Leuven, Belgium (online lecture)
Department of History.
ERC Advanced Grant, Transpacific Lecture Series.
Invited by Prof. Angela Schottenhammer.
Speech: “The Luzon-Kyushu Trade Route in the Late 16th Century: Smugglers and Pirates at a Crossroads.”
2020 November 24
National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學). Hsin-chu新竹, Taiwan.
Institute of History 歷史研究所.
Invited by Prof. Mau Chuan-hui and Prof. Lee Yu-chung.
Speech: “Spanish shipbuilding in Japan at the beginning of the 17th century.”
2020 November 18
Academia Sinica中央研究院. Taipei, Taiwan.
Institute of History and Philology歷史語言研究所, and EFEO Taipei Center. Taiwan
Invited by Prof. Chen Kuo-tung (IHP), and Dr. Frank Muyard (director of the EFEO Taipei Center).
Speech: “Traders, smugglers, and pirates in the shaping of the early modern Hispano-Japanese relations.”
2017 December 12
University of Tokyo (東京大学). Tokyo, Japan.
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology (人文社会系研究科).
Invited by Prof. Shimada Ryūto, and Prof. Morikawa Tomoko.
Speech: “Trade and Diplomacy between Japan and the Spanish Philippines at the Turn of the 16th Century (1582-1615).”
2015 April 15
University of Macau (澳門大學). Macau, China.
Department of History.
Invited by Prof. George Wei and Prof. António Vasconcelos de Saldanha.
Speech: “Trade and Conquest around Macau: The Spanish Presence in China and Japan and the Voyages of the ‘Great Ship’ (nau da prata) at the Turn of the 16th Century.”
2014 May 19
University of Macau (澳門大學). Macau, China.
Department of History.
Invited by Prof. António Vasconcelos de Saldanha.
Speech: “Spanish Diplomacy in East Asia at the Turn of the 16th Century.”
PARTICIPATIONS IN LECTURE SERIES
2016 June 8
“L’Orientale” University of Napoli. Naples (Italy).
Department of Asian, African, and Mediterranean Studies (Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo).
Lecture Series, World Philologies II: Ricerche sulla prassi filologica in Asia, Africa e Europa [World Philologies II: Researches on the Philological Praxis in Asia, Africa, and Europe], April-June 2016.
Speech: “Il Codice Boxer: un documento di intelligence nella Manila del XVI secolo” [The Boxer Codex: an Intelligence Document in 16th Century’s Manila].
2013 December 12
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona (Spain).
Faculty of Humanities (MA Degree in World History).
Lecture Series (Taula Redona), The East Asian ‘Mediterranean’: Empires, Diasporas, and Crossroads in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Speech: “Pros and Cons of the Hispano-Japanese Agreements between Rodrigo de Vivero and Tokugawa Ieyasu (1609-1610).”
2012 April 16
Pompeu Fabra University. Barcelona (Spain).
Institute of History Jaume Vicens i Vives (Institut Universitari d’Història Jaume Vicens i Vives).
Ph.D. Lecture Series, Seminarios de Doctorado en Historia, January-May 2012.
Speech: “Comercio y diplomacia entre Japón y Filipinas en la era Keichō (1596-1615)” [Trade and Diplomacy between Japan and the Philippines during the Keichō era (1596-1615)].
2011 May 12
Interdisciplinary Seminar L’Asia Orientale Marittima nella Storia [Maritime East Asia trough History], held in Napoli (Italy) at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici), May 10-12.
Speech: “La presenza spagnola in Asia Orientale nei secoli XVI-XVII” [The Spanish Presence in East Asia in the 16th and 17th Centuries].
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0000480 - INTERCULTURALITA' E RETI TRANSNAZIONALI DELL'ASIA SUDORIENTALE PREMODERNA
Secondo Semestre (24/02/2025 - 30/05/2025)
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Laurea Magistrale
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0000483 - STORIA DEL SUD-EST ASIATICO
Secondo Semestre (24/02/2025 - 30/05/2025)
- 2024
Laurea
8 CFU
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