Global History and New Polycentric Approaches Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

Manuel Perez Garcia is tenured Associate Professor at the Department of History, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He obtained his PhD at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He was research fellow at UCBerkeley, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) in 2011, and visiting professor at UNAM (Mexico) and University of Macerata (Italy). Among his publications stands out Vicarious Consumers, published in 2013.Lucio De Sousa is Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan). He obtained in Ph.D. course in Asian Studies  at University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal). He is member of the steering committee of  Global History Network. He was a Post Doctoral Fellow at European University Institute (Florence, Italy); and Research Associate at Historiographical Institute (史料編纂所), University of Tokyo, Department of Foreign Materials. He was a book winner by the Macao Foundation, the Social Science in China Press and the GuangDong Social Sciences Association (2013), the Portuguese Academy of History and the Gulbenkian Foundation Award (2019). His primary field of research is the slave trade and Jewish Diaspora in Asia in the Early Modern Period.