Filipe SANTOS

Filipe Santos

Position

Tutor in Greek History

Qualifications

B. A. (Hons) in History (Lisbon 1986)
D. Phil. in Ancient and Medieval History (Madrid 1993)

Room

Te Pourewa 408D

Contact Details

Phone: +64 (0)3 364 2987 ext. 45738
Internal Phone: 45738
filipe.santos @ canterbury.ac.nz

Postal address:
Postgraduate Office
College of Education
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

Background

Filipe read and afterwards tutored Ancient and Medieval History in Lisbon, under the guidance of the renowned Portuguese medievalist and Celtologist Prof. Luís Ribeiro Soares. Later on he prepared a new revised edition of Soares' groundbreaking doctoral dissertation on St. Martin of Braga that was to be posthumously published. Meanwhile he undertook postgraduate research in Greece - Thessaloniki and Athens - to complete his PhD at the Autonoma University of Madrid in Philosophy and Arts - Ancient and Medieval History, under the supervision of Garth Fowden, PhD Oxon. He wrote a dissertation on the Byzantine philosopher Maximus of Ephesus, which he afterwards condensed for an entry in the Dictionnaire des Philosophes Antiques edited by R. Goulet.

Undergraduate Courses

CLAS 111: Greek History

Research Interests

Filipe's research interests cover Late Antiquity, Neo-Platonist Philosophy, Asian Studies and the History of Eastern and Western Philosophy.

Filipe has coordinated, taught and externally advised in universities in Namibia, Venezuela and Brazil (where he was Post-Doctoral FAPEMIG Senior Research Fellow at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte). In 2009 he began a PhD in Philosophy of Education at the University of Canterbury's College of Education. He has written articles on Greek Epigraphy, Orientalism, Literature and Rhetoric, Multiculturalism and Migrations, and was invited as a guest speaker for seminars and conferences held in Namibia (Windhoek), Germany (Oldenburg), France (Toulouse), Spain (Granada), Italy (Pesaro) and Mozambique (Maputo).

Affiliations

Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (Professional Organisation): Member

Nuntius Antiquus (Journal & Publication): Editorial advisor

Publications

Recent Publications

Traduzir o intraduzível: o impacto dos textos sagrados orientais no Ocidente, Aletria, Revista de Estudos de Literatura, 20 Número Especial, Faculdade de Letras da UFMG, Belo Horizonte 2009, pp. 125-136 (overview of the philological work undertaken by the promoters of the Oriental Renaissance movement and its impact on European philosophy and literature of the 18th and 19th Centuries).