Dr Joseph da Costa teaches the following course at undergraduate level:

HY118 - Faith, Power and Revolution: Europe and the Wider World, c.1500-c.1800

Forthcoming conference contributions:

• 7-10 April, 2021, Panel Speaker: 'Artes and imperial jurisprudence: customary relativity in Fernão de Oliveira and Pedro Nunes’ Law and Politics in Early Modern Africa and the Mediterranean, The 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
• 7-10 April, 2021, Panel Organiser: Representing the World: Geographical and Cosmographical Imagination in the Early Modern Period, The 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
• 7-10 April, 2021, Panel Chair: 'Teaching and Learning the Renaissance and the Early Modern Period', The 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America
• 29 June - 1 July, 2021, Panel Speaker: ‘"Homogenous and heterogenous realities in Portuguese sciences of order (16th Century)" Fixity and flexibility in urban, cartographic and imperial spaces (16th-18th centuries)', The 9th conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich

Past conference contributions

• 8 July 2019 Panel Speaker: ‘Portuguese conceptualisations of race and the structures of scientific racism’. BAME Doctoral Researchers Event, British Library, London
• 10-11 April 2018 Panel Speaker: ‘Quantified aesthetics in the creation of early modern Portuguese natural knowledge’. Aesthetics and the Anthropocene, University of Sussex, Brighton
• October 2017, Co-organiser LAHP student-led interdisciplinary conference, Dr Williams’s Library, Bloomsbury, London.

• London Arts and Humanities Partnership studentship 2015-2018
• LAHP funded Visiting Fellowship with Prof. Henrique Leitão – CIUHCT, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal - September 2016 - December 2016