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Ha conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Scienze Politiche e Sociali - Geopolitica (Storia e istituzioni dell'Asia) presso l'Università di Pisa nel 2014 con una tesi sugli effetti della fine dell'Impero Ch'ing e la nascita della Repubblica Cinese sugli interessi britannici in Alta Asia. Tra il 2017 ed il 2022 ha continuato le proprie ricerche presso l'Università di Kyoto dove è attualmente Affiliated Associate Professor presso il Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). Dal settembre 2022 è ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipologia b) di Storia e istituzioni dell'Asia presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. Ha insegnato come Lecturer presso lo Sherubtse College - Royal University of Bhutan e presso la Thammasat University come Visiting Professor. Nel 2011 è stato eletto Fellow della Royal Asiatic of Great Britain and Ireland. È autore di Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916, E-International Relations, Bristol, England 2022 (open access).
MATTEO MIELE
STUDI
2010 – 2014 Università di Pisa, Dottorato di ricerca
Scienze Politiche e Sociali – Geopolitica (SPS/14 – Storia e istituzioni dell’Asia)
Tesi: L’Alta Asia buddhista (Tibet, Bhutan e Mongolia) tra il crepuscolo dell’Impero Ch’ing e la nascita della Repubblica cinese: aspetti geopolitici e diplomatici britannici
2006 – 2008 Università di Pisa, Laurea specialistica
Politiche e Relazioni Internazionali
2003 – 2006 Università di Pisa, Laurea
Scienze Politiche e Internazionali
ESPERIENZA ACCADEMICA
apr 2023 – in corso Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Giappone)
Affiliated Associate Professor, Division of Cross-regional Studies, Research subject: Opium and sandalwood: The Parsis in the British Empire
set 2022 – in corso Università degli Studi di Firenze – Dip. di Sc. Politiche e Sociali
Ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipologia b) – Storia e Istituzioni dell’Asia (SPS/14)
nov 2019 – mar 2023 Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Giappone)
Affiliated Assistant Professor, Division of Cross-regional Studies
gen 2021 – mar 2022 Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Giappone)
Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Division of Environmental Coexistence (Research Unit for Realization of Sustainable Society)
ago 2021 – nov 2021 Thammasat University – Faculty of Liberal Arts (Thailandia)
Visiting Professor
gen 2021 – mag 2021 Thammasat University – Faculty of Liberal Arts (Thailandia)
nov 2019 – ott 2020 Kyoto University – Kokoro Research Center (Giappone)
Collaborative Researcher
nov 2017 – ott 2019 Kyoto University – Kokoro Research Center (Giappone)
JSPS International Research Fellow
dic 2015 – ott 2017 Università di Pisa – Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
Cultore della materia – Storia e istituzioni dei Paesi afro-asiatici; L’Asia del Novecento: politica, economia e relazioni internazionali; Storia, politica e relazioni internazionali dell’Africa indipendente
nov 2012 – nov 2015 Università di Pisa – Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche
ago 2011 – lug 2012 Royal University of Bhutan – Sherubtse College (Bhutan)
Lecturer
Partecipazione a gruppi di ricerca
mag 2021 – mar 2022 Kyoto University – Unit for Himalayan Studies (Giappone)
Member
Corsi insegnati
Università degli Studi di Firenze – Scuola di Scienze Politiche “Cesare Alfieri”
China in Contemporary History
Università degli Studi di Firenze – Scuola di Studi Umanistici e della Formazione
Storia delle relazioni internazionali [In condivisione con un altro docente]
Thammasat University – Faculty of Liberal Arts
Seminar on Political Issues in Southeast Asia
Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asia
Royal University of Bhutan – Sherubtse College
Contemporary World Politics
Introduction to Political Science II
Political History of Bhutan
Geopolitics [In condivisione con un altro docente]
Introduction to Political Science I
Project
FONDI E BORSE DI STUDIO
2017 – 2019(2020) KAKENHI Grant Number 17F17306, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Host Researcher: Seiji Kumagai (Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University)
2017 – 2019 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan
2010 – 2012(2013) Borsa di dottorato, Scuola di dottorato in Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Università di Pisa (36 mesi)
ELEZIONE A SOCIETÀ SCIENTIFICHE
2011 – in corso Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
MEMBERSHIP
European Association for Chinese Studies
Association for Iranian Studies
Canadian Historical Association
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Oriental Rug and Textile Society
SERVIZIO ACCADEMICO
2023 – in corso Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Florence and the Shanghai Normal University
Coordinatore per il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali
2023 – in corso Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Florence and the National Sun Yat-sen University
2022 – in corso Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Florence and the University of Seoul
2022 – in corso Sherub Doenme (Bhutan)
membro dell’editorial board
2022 – in corso Documentos de Trabajo en Estudios Asiáticos (Cile)
membro del consejo científico
2022 – in corso Annuario di diritto comparato e di studi legislativi (Italia)
membro del comitato editoriale
Revisore per: Archiv orientální (Repubblica Ceca); Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali (Italia); Asia Maior (Italia); Buddhism, Law & Society (USA)
PRINCIPALI PRESENTAZIONI
Presentazioni e singole lezioni su invito
2023 The Motion of No Confidence in the Bhutanese Constitutional System: A Historical and Comparative View, lecture, Module “Government and Politics in Bhutan”, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, March 8, 2023
2023 A Colonial Legacy: The Zoroastrian Diaspora in South-East Asia, guest lecture, Religion in Southeast Asia: Socio-politico contexts, Southeast Asian Studies Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, January 25, 2023
2022 History and politics of Tibetan Buddhism, guest lecture, History of Buddhism, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, December 3, 2022
2022 Hong Kong: Colonial and Local Identity, special lecture, Seminar on Socio-Cultural Issue in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Studies Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, November 15, 2022
2022 Parsis: A Zoroastrian Community in British Burma, guest lecture, Religion in Southeast Asia: Socio-politico contexts, Southeast Asian Studies Program, Thammasat University, March 08, 2022
2021 After the Great Game: historical research and High Asian geopolitics, The Importance of Research and Publication for Knowledge Enhancement in Humanities and Social Sciences, Thammasat University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, July 27, 2021
2014 Bhutanese geopolitics and democratisation, Global Studies Research Seminar, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, May 8, 2014
2014 Mongolian Independence and the British, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Student Series, London, May 7, 2014
Lezioni per corsi di dottorato di ricerca
2022 La Cina nel Novecento: storia ed istituzioni, lezione per il Corso di dottorato in Imprese, Istituzioni e Comportamenti, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, 23 febbraio 2022 (1 CFU)
2014 La guerra fredda, attività formativa condivisa con il Prof. Luca Riccardi per gli studenti del Dottorato di ricerca in Scienze del testo letterario e delle fonti storiche dell’Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, 11 febbraio 2014
Conferenze
2019 The unopened letter: Ugyen Dorji’s missions to Lhasa for the British Raj, Japanese Association for South Asian Studies (JASAS) 32nd Annual Conference, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, October 5-6, 2019
2019 The Bhutanese Mediation: Ugyen Wangchuck and the Younghusband Expedition, Fifteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Paris, July 7-13, 2019 (presentato in absentia)
Workshop
2023 History of Dzongkha: A look at the British archival sources, International Workshop on Languages in Asia: History, Society and Law, organized by Dr Miguel Álvarez Ortega, Graduate Schools of Law, Kyoto University, January 17, 2023
2021 The Mongolian independence: a geopolitical tangle for the British High Asian dimension (1911-1916), 2nd International Workshop on Himalayan Law, Politics and Buddhist Ethics, January 18, 2021
2019 Geography of power in post-1885 Bhutan: British perspectives, 22nd Seminar on Bhutan/18th Seminar on Himalayan Religion (International Workshop on Himalayan Law, Politics and Buddhist Ethics), Dept of Bhutanese Studies, Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, September 12, 2019
Altre presentazioni
2023 Verso la nascita di un regno himalayano: il Bhutan tra il 1885 ed il 1907, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali, Lunch Seminar, 10 gennaio 2023
2021 Zoroastrianism and Sustainability: Remote Roots and Contemporary Perspectives, Kyoto University Research Coordination Alliance, Report Meeting of Unexplored Science Research Unit 2021, July 24, 2021
2013 Tra India e Cina: geopolitica della regione himalayana, Corso di dottorato in Geopolitica / Insegnamento di Geopolitica internazionale. Storia delle crisi, Università di Pisa, 8 maggio 2013
La mia ricerca verte principalmente sulle conseguenze del declino e fine della dinastia Ch’ing e della nascita della Repubblica cinese sugli equilibri geopolitici dell’Alta Asia e dell’Estremo Oriente dal punto di vista dell’Impero britannico.
Altri interessi di ricerca riguardano la geopolitica contemporanea della regione himalayana (in particolare Nepal e Bhutan) nella competizione tra Cina ed India, la storia delle relazioni internazionali della Repubblica cinese (in particolare la questione dell’extraterritorialità) e la storia e il diritto della comunità parsi-zoroastriana in India.
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Matteo Miele received his PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca) in Political and Social Sciences - Geopolitics (History and Institutions of Asia) at the University of Pisa in 2014 with a dissertation on the consequences of the end of the Ch'ing Empire and the birth of the Chinese Republic on British interests in High Asia. Between 2017 and 2022 he continued his research at Kyoto University where he is currently an Affiliated Associate Professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). Since September 2022 he has been an Assistant Professor of History and Institutions of Asia at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Florence. He taught as a Lecturer at Sherubtse College - Royal University of Bhutan and at Thammasat University as a Visiting Professor. In 2011 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic of Great Britain and Ireland. He is the author of Mongolian Independence and the British: Geopolitics and Diplomacy in High Asia, 1911–1916, E-International Relations, Bristol, England 2022 (open access).
EDUCATION
2010 – 2014[1] University of Pisa, PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Political and Social Sciences – Geopolitics
Academic discipline: History and institutions of Asia
2006 – 2008 University of Pisa, Master’s degree (Laurea Specialistica)
International Politics and Relations
2003 – 2006 University of Pisa, Bachelor’s degree (Laurea)
Political and International Sciences
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Apr 2023 – ongoing Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Affiliated Associate Professor, Division of Cross-regional Studies
Research subject: Opium and sandalwood: The Parsis in the British Empire
Sept 2022 – ongoing University of Florence – Dept of Political and Social Sciences
Assistant Professor (History and institutions of Asia)
Nov 2019 – Mar 2023 Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 Kyoto University – Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 Thammasat University – Faculty of Liberal Arts
Jan 2021 – May 2021 Thammasat University – Faculty of Liberal Arts
Nov 2019 – Oct 2020 Kyoto University – Kokoro Research Center
Collaborative Researcher, Dept of Bhutanese Studies
Nov 2017 – Oct 2019 Kyoto University – Kokoro Research Center
Dec 2015 – Oct 2017 University of Pisa – Dept of Political Sciences
Cultore della materia – History and institutions of Afro-Asiatic Countries; Asia in 20th Century: Politics, Economics and International Relations; History, Politics and International Relations of Independent Africa
Nov 2012 – Nov 2015 University of Pisa – Dept of Political Sciences
Aug 2011 – Jul 2012 Royal University of Bhutan – Sherubtse College
Research groups
May 2021 – Mar 2022 Kyoto University – Unit for Himalayan Studies
Courses taught
University of Florence – School of Political Sciences “Cesare Alfieri”
University of Florence – School of Humanities and Education
History of International Relations [in Italian; shared with another lecturer]
Geopolitics [shared with another lecturer]
ELECTION TO LEARNED SOCIETIES
2011 – ongoing Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS
Host Researcher: Seiji Kumagai, KRC, Kyoto University
2010 – 2012(2013) Doctoral scholarship, Doctoral school in Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa (36 months)
Member of the Association for Iranian Studies
Member of the Association of Ancient Historians
Member of the Canadian Historical Association
Member of the European Association for Chinese Studies
Member of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Member of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2023 – ongoing Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Florence and the Shanghai Normal University
Coordinator (for the Department of Political and Social Sciences)
2023 – ongoing Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Florence and the National Sun Yat-sen University
2022 – ongoing Agreement of Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between the University of Florence and the University of Seoul
2022 – ongoing Sherub Doenme (Bhutan)
member of the Editorial Board
2022 – ongoing Documentos de Trabajo en Estudios Asiáticos (Chile)
member of the Scientific Board
2022 – ongoing Annuario di diritto comparato e di studi legislativi (Italy)
Referee for: Archiv orientální (Czech Republic);Cambio. Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali (Italy); Asia Maior (Italy); Buddhism, Law & Society (USA)
MAIN PRESENTATIONS AND SEMINARS
Invited talks and lectures
2022 Parsis: A Zoroastrian Community in British Burma, guest lecture, Religion in Southeast Asia: Socio-politico contexts, Southeast Asian Studies Program, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, March 08, 2022
2022 La Cina nel Novecento: storia ed istituzioni, seminar, Doctoral Program in Businesses, Institutions and Behaviors, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, February 23, 2022
2014 La guerra fredda, seminar shared with Prof. Luca Riccardi, Doctoral course in Sciences of the literary text and of the historical sources, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, February 11, 2014
Conferences
2022 Sino-Afghan Relations in 1942: The Weak British Mediation, Liberal Arts of the Future: Changes and Challenges in Research and Pedagogy, LATU (Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University) National and International Conference, July 26-27, 2022
2019 The Bhutanese Mediation: Ugyen Wangchuck and the Younghusband Expedition, Fifteenth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Paris, July 7-13, 2019 (presented in absentia)
Workshops
Campus or departmental talks
2023 Verso la nascita di un regno himalayano: il Bhutan tra il 1885 ed il 1907, University of Florence, Department of Political and Social Sciences, Lunch Seminar, January 10, 2023
2013 Tra India e Cina: geopolitica della regione himalayana, Corso di dottorato in Geopolitica / Insegnamento di Geopolitica internazionale. Storia delle crisi, University of Pisa, May 8, 2013
My research focuses mainly on the consequences of the decline and end of the Ch'ing dynasty and the birth of the Republic of China on the geopolitical equilibrium of High Asia and the Far East from the point of view of the British Empire. Other research interests concern the contemporary geopolitics of the Himalayan region (in particular Nepal and Bhutan), the history of international relations of the Chinese Republic (1912-1949) and the history of the Parsi-Zoroastrian community.
