andreu martinez d`alòs-moner

 ANDREU MARTINEZ D’ALÒS-MONER
PhD in History
Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg
Nationality: Spanish
Date of birth: 15 July 1972
Address: Nernstweg 15, 22765 Hamburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838 8379; cell phone: +49 (0)176 681 77707
Fax: 49 (0)40-42838 3330
E-mail: Andreu.Martinez@uni-hamburg.de andmartalos@googlemail.com
EDUCATION
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European University Institute, Florence, Department of History. PhD in History.
December 2008.
Dissertation: In the company of Iyäsus: The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia , 1557-1632
Supervisor: Gérard Delille
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. D.E.A. in African Anthropology.
September 1997.
Dissertation: La mission de la Société des Missions Africaines de Lyon au Bénin
(1878-1920)
Supervisor: Jean-Pierre Dozon
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Department of Anthropology. Postgraduate
Studies in African Anthropology. July 1996.
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Geografia i Historia. Degree in Social
Anthropology. June 1995.
PRESENT APPOINTMENT
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Scientific editor, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Hiob Ludolf Centre for Ethiopian
Studies, University of Hamburg, 04/02—present
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Religious proselytism and the impact of religious missions; European expansion; 16th
and 17th century Ethiopian history; Gondärine art and architecture; prosopography;
Mughal architecture; e-learning
PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS
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Research fellow, Sonderforschungsbereich (“Special research unit”) 520: “Crisis and
Transformations in African Societies”, University of Hamburg, 09/01—04/02
Lecturer, Asien-Afrika Institut, University of Hamburg, 02/02—07/06
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Consultant, Gabinet de Comunicació Mariona Alsina, Barcelona, 07/97—05/98
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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University of Hamburg grant, 2005, for research in colonial archives in Rome
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung grant, 2003 for the organization of a workshop and publication
of a monograph
Ecole Française de Rome, 2000 for research in Roman Archives
European University Institute fellowship, 1998-2001 for the completion of a Ph.D.
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales grant, 1997, for research in the
Archives of the Société des Missions Africaines (Lyon)
COURSES TAUGHT
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“El arte de la misión jesuita en Etiopía”, in the seminars “Arquitectura y retablística
medieval y novohispano II” and “Historia constructiva conventual y retablística
europea, siglos V-XVI”, prof. Alejandra González Leyva, Facultad de Filosofía y
Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 20 and 22 April 2010
Political History of Ethiopia: 16th–17th Centuries, University of Hamburg, Summer
2006, Undergraduate seminar
Historical Ethnography of Ethiopia, University of Hamburg, Winter 2005-06,
Undergraduate seminar
History of the Missions in Ethiopia, University of Hamburg, Summer 2005,
Undergraduate seminar
Discoverers and Missionaries, University of Hamburg, Summer 2002, Undergraduate
seminar
LANGUAGE SKILLS
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Mother tongues: Spanish and Catalan
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Main foreign languages:
English
Reading skills
excellent
Writing skills
excellent
Verbal skills
excellent
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French
excellent
good
excellent
Italian
excellent
good
excellent
Portuguese
excellent
good
excellent
German
excellent
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excellent
Other languages: notions of Arabic and Amharic
SOCIAL AND ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
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Used to live and work with people in multicultural environments; experience in
team work. Fast at evaluating problems and finding solutions; ready to engage in
decision making.
2 TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCES
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Working knowledge of MS-Office, Apple applications and scientific software:
bibliographical (Procite 5, Endnote X02, Citavi), databases (Filemaker Pro 7,
Access); daily use of the internet as a research tool, use of databases (FirstSearch),
on-line texts.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Book-length work
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Ethiopia and the Missions: Historical and Anthropological Insights, co-edited with
Verena Böll – Steven Kaplan – Evgenja Sokolinskaja, Münster: Lit, 2005.
Book-length works in progress
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In the company of Iyäsus: The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia
Journal articles
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“L’architettura gesuita in Etiopia, l’arte Moghul e la nascita dello stile Gondar”,
Rendiconti dell’Accademia dei Lincei (in preparation).
“Santiago, de Matamoros a Conquistador: el Apóstol durante la expansión de las
monarquías ibéricas en el mundo”, Revista de historia militar (in preparation).
“Una misión en clave imperial: los jesuitas en Etiopía (1557-1632)”, Anuario del
Instituto Ignacio de Loyola 15, 2008, 201-28.
“Colonialism and memory: The Portuguese and Jesuit adventures in Ethiopia through
the colonial-looking glass”, Studies of the Department of African Languages and
Cultures (Universidad de Varsovia) 41, 2007, 73-90.
“Etiópia Xaveriana: O Santo como legado, taumaturgo e protetor”, Broteria 163, 5/6,
2006, 517-24.
“The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia: An Analytical Bibliography” (con Leonardo Cohen),
Aethiopica 9, 2006, 190-212.
“The Birth of a Mission: The Jesuit Patriarchate in Ethiopia”, Portuguese Studies
Review 10, 2, 2003, 1-14.
“The Jesuit Patriarchate to the Preste: Between Religious Reform, Political Expansion
and Colonial Adventure”, Aethiopica 6, 2003, 54-69.
Articles in collective works
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“Early Portuguese emigration to the Ethiopian highlands: geopolitics, missions and
métissage”, in: Stefan Halikowski Smith (ed.), Indian Ocean worlds. Essays in honour
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of K. N. Chaudhuri on the occasion of his 75 birthday, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing (in preparation).
“Las misiones jesuíticas en Asia durante la unión de las Coronas Ibéricas”, in: Carlos
Martinez Shaw – José Antonio Martinez Torres (eds.), El Imperio hispano-portugués
de Ultramar (1580-1668), Madrid, Ediciones Polifemo, 2010 (in preparation).
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“War and prophecy: Visions and Apparitions in the sixteenth-Century Portuguese
Expeditions to Ethiopia and the Red Sea”, in: Sebastien Jahan – Brian Sandberg
(eds.), Religious Violence and Modernity: Europe and the World from the Sixteenth
Century to Today (in preparation).
“Les fils de Christovão da Gama: les Burtukan de l’Ethiopie”, in: Publications du
3ème Congrès du Réseau Asie, 2008, publicación on-line (http://www.reseauasie.com/cgibin/prog/pform.cgi?langue=fr&Mcenter=colloque&TypeListe=showdoc
&email=&pass word=&ID_document=447).
“Europe and Ethiopia’s Isolation: The Ethio-Jesuit Paradigm Revised (16-17cent.)”,
in: Umbrüche in afrikanischen Gesellschaften und ihre Bewältigung. Beiträge aus
dem Sonderforschungsbereich 520 der Universität Hamburg, ed. Ludwig Gerhardt et
al., Berlin: Lit, 2006, 223-33.
“‘The Children of Tubal’: Archaeology of an Ethio-Portuguese Half-caste (16th17Centuries)”, in: Proceedings of the XVth International Conference of Ethiopian
Studies, Hamburg, 21-25 July 2003, ed. Siegbert Uhlig et al., Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2006, 307-12.
“The Selling of the Negus: the ‘Emperor of Ethiopia’ in Portuguese and Jesuit
Imagination”, in: Varia Aethiopica. In Memory of Sevir B. Chernetsov (=Scrinium 1),
ed. D. Nosnitsin, Sanct Petersburg: Byzantinorossica, 2005, 161-73.
“Introduction” (con Verena Böll – Steven Kaplan – Evgenja Sokolinskaja), in:
Ethiopia and the Missions: Historical and Anthropological Insights, Ead., Münster:
Lit, 2005, xiii-xxii.
“Paul and the Other: the Jesuit Debate on Circumcision in Ethiopia”, in: Ethiopia and
the Missions: Historical and Anthropological Insights, ed. Verena Böll – Steven
Kaplan – Andreu Martínez d’Alòs-Moner – Evgenja Sokolinskaja, Münster: Lit, 2005,
31-51.
“Christian Ethiopia: The Temptation of an African Polity”, in: Studia Aethiopica:
Festschrift für Siegbert Uhlig zum 65. Geburstag, ed. Verena Böll et al., Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2003, 165-76.
Book reviews
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Mauro Forno, Tra Africa e Occidente. Il cardinal Massaja e la missione cattolica in
Etiopia nella coscienza e nella politica europee, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2009, in:
Aethiopica 13, 2011 (in preparation).
J. J. Hespeler-Boultbee, A Story in Stones: Portugal’s Influence on Culture and
Architecture in the Highlands of Ethiopia 1493-1634, British Columbia: CCB
Publishing, 2007, in: Aethiopica 10, 2008, 254-58.
A Companhia de Jesús na Península Ibérica nos sécs. XVI e XVIII: espiritualidade e
cultura. Actas do colóquio internacional, Maio 2004, Porto: Universidade do Porto,
2004, in: Revista portuguesa de filosofia 62, 2006, 263-65.
Articles in works of reference
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13 articles in: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, ed. Siegbert Uhlig, vol. 4, Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2009: “Oviedo, Andrés de”, “Páez, Pedro”, “Portugal: LusoEthiopians”, “Qwälläla”, “Research: historical” (con Gianfranco Fiaccadori), “Sacra
Congregatio di Propaganda Fide”, “Sacra Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus”,
“Särsä Krestos”, “Sem’on”, “Tellez, Balthazar”, “Urreta, Luis de”, “Varthema,
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Ludovico de”, “Wäld Sä’ala”.
6 articles in: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, ed. Siegbert Uhlig, vol. 3, Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2007: “Historiography: Ethiopia, Aksum in Portuguese Sources”,
“Jesuits: 1555-1632” (con Leonardo Cohen), “Lazarists”, “Lima, Rodrigo da”, “Lobo,
Jerónimo”, ”Manuel I”.
11 articles in: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, ed. Siegbert Uhlig, vol. 2, Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2005: “Dias, Ayres”, “Diu”, “Dominicans”, “Ellero, Giovanni”,
“Feremona”, “Florence Council of”, “Franciscans”, “Gama, Christovão da”,
“Godinho, Nicolao”, “Góis, Damião de”, “Gorgora”.
3 articles in: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, ed. Siegbert Uhlig, vol. 1, Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2003: ”Alfonso V”, ”Bermudez, João”, ”Capuchins” (con Antonios
Alberto).
Invited papers and conference presentations
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“Explaining the Império Lusitano: contemporary Portuguese narratives on the
expansion”, The Production Of Colonial Historiography, Internationales
Graduiertenkolleg “Politische Kommunikation” and Exzellenzcluster “Die
Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen” Frankfurt University, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany, 4-5 October 2010.
“Jesuit and royal architecture in Ethiopia: the sources of a cultural hybride and their
aftermath”, XVIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Institute of
Ethiopian Studies, Addis Abäba/Aqaqi, Ethiopia, 2-5 November 2009.
“Santiago, de Matamoros a Conquistador: el Apóstol durante la expansión de las
monarquías ibéricas en el mundo”, congreso internacional Poblar la Inmensidad :
sociedades, conflictos y representaciones en los márgenes del Imperio Hispánico
(XVXIX), CSIC, Sevilla, Spain, 14-17 April 2009.
Presentation de Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 3, Asia-Africa Institute, University of
Hamburg, Germany, 25 January 2008.
“Santiago, guerra y conquista. Fortalezas y ciudades dedicadas al Apóstol durante la
primera fase de la expansión ibérica”, Internacional congress Las ciudades portuarias
del Mundo Atlántico. Siglos XVI- XXI, Palacio Aldama, Instituto de Historia de Cuba,
La Havana, Cuba, 3-5 October 2007.
“Les Portugais en Ethiopie: géopolitque, mission et métissage”, 3ème congrès du
Réseau Asie, IMASIE, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France, 26-27 September 2007.
“The Burtukan of Ethiopia: between Military Elite and Outcasts”, XVIth International
Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,
Trondheim, Norway, 2-6 July 2007.
“Colonialism and Memory: the Portuguese and Jesuit Adventures in Ethiopia through
the Colonial-looking Glass”, workshop European Schools of Ethiopian Studies:
Poland and Germany, Pultusk Akademy-University of Warsaw, Poland, 18-20
October 2006.
“A Mission in the Heart of Tegray: The Jesuit Station at Fremona”, 2nd International
Littmann Conference at Aksum – 100 Years German Aksum Expedition (DAE),
Aksum, Ethiopia, 9-13 January 2006.
Presentation de Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, Ghoete Institut, Addis Abäba,
Ethiopia, 4 January 2006.
“A Singular Joint Venture: Banyan Trade and the Jesuit Mission To Ethiopia”, World
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History Association Annual Conference, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco,
2729 June 2005.
“The Jesuit Mission: Colonial Historiography and Memory”, workshop Etiopistica
oggi, Università degli Studi di Napoli ”L’Orientale”, Napoli, Italy, 25 March 2004.
“’Why do you Circumcise?’ Genealogy of a Missionary Fetish”, workshop Historical
and Anthropological Insights into the Missionary Activities in Ethiopia: Conversions,
Resistances and Compromises, University of Hamburg, Germany, 25-26 July 2003.
“Archaeology of a Half-Cast: the Sons of Christovão da Gama (16-17th Cent.)”, XVth
Iternational Conference of Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany, 2025 July 2003.
“The Birth of a Mission: The Jesuit Patriarchate in Ethiopia”, Annual Meeting of the
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, University of Georgia, Athens,
Georgia, U.S.A., 13-15 April 2002.
“Violent Prophecies in the European Expansion (16-17C.): A New Perspective upon
Jesuit and Portuguese Narratives”, workshop Religious Violence and Modernity –
Body, Rituals, and Politics: Europe and the World from the Sixteenth Century to
Today, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 11 March 2003.
“Roman missionaries in Ethiopia (c.1550-1700): Historiography, Expansion,
Movement”, taller Jesuits as Intermediaries in the Early Modern World, European
University Institute, Florence, Italy, 11-13 October 2001.
Presence at conferences and workshops
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Guerra y Sociedad en la Monarquía Hispánica. Política, Estrategia y Cultura en la
Europea Moderna (1500-1700), Congress de Historia Militar CSIC, Madrid, Spain, 912 March 2005.
First International Littmann Conference: Archaeology and History of the Horn of
Africa, Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany, 4-5 May 2002.
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