Global history has been confined to the way we’ve recorded it, mapped it and researched it. So Manuel Perez Garcia, a professor at Renmin University, is tossing out the old analytical tools to unlock new history. Please join Dr. Garcia as he unveils, through trade routes and socio-economic relations, new tales and twists of China, Macau and even Marseille.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Manuel Perez Garcia is Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He was postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University (2011-2013). He obtained his PhD on Global Studies and relations between China and the West at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has been visiting scholar at UCBerkeley, UNAM (Mexico), Peking University, University of Tokyo, the Mateo Ricci Institute of Macau, Université Paris-Sorbonne, among others. His latest book is ‘Vicarious Consumers’: Trans-National Meetings between the West and East in the Mediterranean World (1730- 1808). Among others he obtained the academic awards of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, 2014 and UKNA-Marie Curie Actions, International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, 2013-2014.