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KU Leuven, Belgium
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Nicely written feature in Horizon Magazine @HorizonMagEU on our #Transpacific project. Enjoy the read!
#EUfunded researchers are rediscovering voyages that changed trade, medicine and culture across the Pacific.
How is #EUfunded research bringing shipwreck secrets back to the surface? ➡️ bit.ly/3HFa0NV
#ResearchImpactEU #Science4EU
Our next lecture series talk features Ricardo Castellón on Asia-Central America connections in the 18th c, examining the trade of “efectos de China,” & how the Reino de Guatemala was a key connector in the colonial global system. Join us on Jan 30 at 3PM! tinyurl.com/3zwrr649
New video out🎥: The Manila Galleon Trade Beyond Silver & Silks explores the transpacific network (1565–1815), revealing diverse actors, commodities, and ports. Available on KU Leuven RDR. tinyurl.com/mrv28t65
It features a discussion between Roberto Junco Sánchez & Angela Schottenhammer through the Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán, and the Museo Histórico de Acapulco, Fuerte de San Diego @SicMexico
tinyurl.com/ydtrbv96
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In early modern #navigation, theory met practice at #sea. Cosmographers had the models, but #pilots had the skills—and they almost always won.
Read the finale of Pilots Always Win by @JMMorenoMadrid at rutter-blog.blogspot.com/202…
@ciuhct @ERC_Research
We're hosting a hybrid event next Thursday, July 31st, as a follow up to @jaswlaw's PhD defense, featuring case studies from @SchottenhammerA,@Roncypo and @KristofLoockx. For more details and to register, check out shorturl.at/E5Wb2.
Looking forward to seeing you there!🌊
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Counting down to the publication of 2 fantastic new books this summer:
Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 - out 6/8/25
Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy - out 22/9/25
Pre-order them now!
aup.nl/en/series/maritime-hu…
Sincere thanks to Bobby Orillaneda & the wonderful National Museum of the Philippines for supporting our TRANSPACIFIC Manila Galleon documentary. Jose Casabán & Kimura Jun represented our team on-site. Filming in Cebu, Manila, along with Saipan, Rota & Leuven—publication in 2026!
Last 2-16 June, the NMP participated in a documentary on the Manila Galleons, part of the research project 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐈𝐅𝐈𝐂 by noted historian Dr. Angela Schotenhammer.
READ MORE: bit.ly/43PE8ia
#NationalMuseumPH
📝 A smaller documentation, recorded in Mexico with Dr. Roberto Junco in Tepotzotlán and Acapulco, is also in preparation.
👉 See: shorturl.at/qy9mF
🙏 Special thanks to the European Research Council @ERC_Research for their generous support to make this project possible as part of their HORIZON 2020 funding program.
We’re happy to welcome Stefanie Gänger from Heidelberg University for a talk on "Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease, 1760–1830" across the French, Iberian, and British empires. Feel free to join us👇
🗓️ June 27, 2025 | 14:00 CET | Online (MS Teams)
🔗 shorturl.at/qgsrj
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The final workshop of the RUTTER project has begun: two and a half days not to present the project, but to share knowledge and engage in discussions with colleagues and friends at the #AcademiadaCiências de Lisboa.
More photos: rutter-project.org/gallery/
You can still apply for this position until March 17!
📣CFA: @EMHLeuven We are offering a fully-funded PhD position for the project "Globalisation and the Spread of Disease in Early Modern Maritime (South-)East Asia," with a focus on Taiwan and Dutch Batavia. Apply by Feb 28: tinyurl.com/emhphd.
📣CFA: @EMHLeuven We are offering a fully-funded PhD position for the project "Globalisation and the Spread of Disease in Early Modern Maritime (South-)East Asia," with a focus on Taiwan and Dutch Batavia. Apply by Feb 28: tinyurl.com/emhphd.
This fall, we will feature two talks in our #Transpacific lecture series, with speakers Cuauhtémoc Villamar and Lynette Russell. Check out the dates 📅and details below, along with the Teams links to join 👉shorturl.at/rDVyi
Hello all, we are happy to have YAN Niping @UM_1981 for our next #Transpacific lecture. She will talk about the making of the famous Boxer Codex (1590s) and the layers of geographic knowledge contained within. See you on📅Sept 27 at 15:00 CET via Teams. 👉shorturl.at/8RlQ7
Interesting documents preserved at Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cádiz @CulturaAND featuring food onboard and cooks on naval and merchant ships departing for New Spain and returning to Cádiz in the 18th c. shorturl.at/7BdUT
