Dr. Javier Francisco

Freie Universität Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 4, 14195 Berlin

Since 02/2017: Postdoctoral researcher of imperial history, Department of History at the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.
2014: Visiting scholar, ILAS, Columbia University (NYC).
2013–2016: Ph.D., History, FU Berlin (awarded magna cum laude).
2012: qualifying Ph.D., History, University of Tübingen.
2011: Teacher for university preparatory courses, Nürtingen.
2010: Staatsexamen (equivalent of B.A. and M.A.), History, Spanish and English, University of Tübingen, (awarded magna cum laude).

Imperial and global history
Historical methodology and its applications
Political history of balance of power and security
The Jesuit order as a global player (17th–18th centuries)
Exploration of space in science (e.g. exobiology, colonization projects) and fiction (z.B. Asimov, Star Trek)
Inventing board games

Fall 2017: Fund grant for the workshop Reconfiguring Imperial Spaces: Intra- and Inter-Imperial Entanglements, University of Göttingen, Berlin.
Spring 2016: Follow-up funding award for the completion of the PhD, Graduate School ‘Between Spaces’, Berlin.
2013–2015: PhD fellowship, German Research Association (DFG), Berlin.
Spring 2015: Fund grant for the workshop Liminality as an Interdisciplinary Interface?, DFG, Trier.
Spring 2014: Award for visiting scholar at Columbia University, Graduate School ‘Between Spaces’, New York City.
Fall 2013 and 2014: Research travel grant, DFG, Seville, Vatican City, Córdoba (Arg.) and Buenos Aires.
Fall 2013: Grant for research stay at the Colegio de México, DFG, Mexico City.
2012: Qualifying PhD fellowship, Historical Association for History of Overseas (GÜSG).
Fall 2007: Scholarship for research stay at University of Brisbane, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Anticipated fall 2018: Workshop on global history, Decolonization as Driver of Political Integration, Oxford [with: Carlos Pérez Ricart, Oxford].
12th–14th October 2017: Workshop on imperial history, Reconfiguring Imperial Spaces: Intra- and Inter-Imperial Entanglements, Berlin [with: Jens Scheiner, Göttingen].
10th–12th June 2015: PhD network conference, Liminality as an Interdisciplinary Interface?, Trier [with: Graduate School ‘Diversity’, Sophie Schramm et al., Trier].

May 2017: Conference on the suppression of the Jesuit order, 250 Jahre nach Aufhebung der Jesuitenmissionen in Spanisch Amerika (1767), University of Fribourg (Switzerland).
January 2017: Conference on the Spanish siglo de oro of Gernot Kamecke and Ingrid Simson, Netzwerk Siglo de Oro, FU Berlin and Humboldt University.
June 2016: Public lecture (Ringvorlesung) of Jürgen Elvert on European Overseas History, Akteure, Pläne und deren Nebenwirkungen in der europäischen Geschichte, University of Cologne.
March 2015: Conference on Jesuit universities, Jesuitenuniversitäten als Medienzentren, Jesuitica association, Paderborn.
December 2014: Doctoral colloquium of prof. Matthias Asche, University of Tübingen.
November 2014: Conference on social dynamics of the Early Modern Era, Movement & Arrest in Early Modern Culture, Nordic Network for Renaissance Studies, Stockholm.
March 2014: Conference of MACLAS (Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies), Rethinking Social Justice in Latin America: From the Vatican to the Street, Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
May 2013: Conference of young-ADLAF (Latin American research foundation) for promising PhD topics on Latin America, Cologne.
June 2012: Conference of GÜSG (historical association for history of overseas), Vienna.

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