GUEST LECTURE (2023-03-29)
The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) in collaboration with the History Department is pleased to invite all those interested to the Guest Lecture Before the Chocolate City – Africans in Southeast and East Asia (1800-1960). The invited speaker is Dr. Clifford Joseph Pereira (Visiting Research Associate at the African Studies Department, University of Hong Kong). The talk will be followed by a Q & A session moderated by Prof. Joshua Ehrlich (Department of History).
DATE: 2023-03-29
TIME: 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Venue: E21A-3118 (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau)
ABSTRACT
Awareness of the African presence in China in the late twentieth and especially the first two decades of the twenty-first century is well documented by social-science researchers and historians. However, the presence of Africans in Southeast Asia and East Asia is still being uncovered and the role of Africans during the period of European colonial hegemony in Asia has been largely forgotten. This presentation underlies the important role that Africans have played in the freedom of China including the Macau SAR, as well as Myanmar and Indonesia in the Second World War and much more.
Registration (recommended): https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2lR28Ebfkjrp50G
SHORT BIO
Dr. Clifford Joseph Pereira (University of Hong Kong)
EDUCATION
2020-2021. MRes. History of Africa and the African Diaspora. University of Chichester, England, UK.
2013-2014. Level 3 Elementary Brazilian Portuguese. International House. Vancouver. British Columbia. Canada.
Jul 2010. Nordic Summer University (NSU) Finland.
Jul 2009. Nordic Summer University (NSU) Norway.
1986-1989. II.1.B.A.(Hon.) Humanities Combined. University of Ulster. Northern Ireland, UK.
MOST RECENT POSITIONS HELD
Sep 2018-Sep 2021 & Sep 2022-Sep 2023. Visiting Research Associate at the African Studies Department, School of Modern Languages and Culture (Global Studies). University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. China. Enhancing teaching material for several courses, lecturing and facilitating links with the University of Cape Town and with the HKU Museum and Gallery around the “Colours of the Congo” Exhibition 2021.
Feb 2014-Jul 2016. Freelance Consultant on a variety of heritage projects in Vancouver, including the Old Hastings Mill Store Museum and The Chung Collection (UBC).
Jun 2014-Feb 2015. Exhibition Content and Development for Msheireb Properties, Doha, Qatar, specifically for the Bait Jelmood Museum.
Jun 2011-Aug 2016. Visiting Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Marine History and Culture, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, Liaoning Province. China.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
The Barbari-Habeshi crewmen and merchants – Uncovering an African maritime tradition in the Indian Ocean World. In Proceedings of the 4 th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Session 14 (on-line). Edited by Brian Fahy. 2021.
New Interpretations on the African Presence in Southeast Asia 700-1700CE. In Advancing Southeast Asian Archaeology. Vol. 1. Edited by Noel Hidalgo Tan. Bangkok, Thailand. 2019.
Luso-Asian Crewmen in World War One. In Proceedings of the 3 rd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Session 15. Edited by Bill Jeffry, Sila Tripati, Veronica Walker, Brian Fahy & Jun Kimura. Hong Kong SAR. China. 2017.
Who were the Africans in Eastern Asia: The Christian European Period 1500-1900A.D. In Proceedings of the 3 rd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Session 6. Edited by Bill Jeffry, Sila Tripati, Veronica Walker, Brian Fahy & Jun Kimura. Hong Kong SAR. China. 2017.
Developing a new historiography – The Mao Kun map as a Case Study. In Proceedings of the 3 rd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Session 14. Edited by Bill Jeffry, Sila Tripati, Veronica Walker, Brian Fahy & Jun Kimura. Hong Kong SAR. China. 2017.
East in the West: Investigating the Asian Presence and influence in Brazil from the sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. In Proceedings of the 2 nd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage. Session 6. Edited by Hans Van Tilburg, Sila Tripati, Veronica Walker, Brian Fahy & Jun Kimura. Honolulu, Hawai’i. USA. 2014.
CO-AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
Trade and use of ceramics in mainland Southeast Asia and the Malay Peninsula between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Century. Co-authored with Attasit Sukkham and Asyaari Muhamad in the Journal of Maritime Archaeology. 2021.
Terra Nova for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): 2007 and the Bombay African Strand of the ‘Crossing Continents: Connecting Communities’ Project. Co-authored with Vandana Patel. In Representing Enslavement and abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements. Part III, Chapter 10. Edited by Laurajane Smith, Geoffrey Cubitt, Ross Wilson & Kalliopi Fouseki. London, 2011.