Curriculum Vitae José Alberto Tavim
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CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Personal data Full Name José Alberto Rodrigues da Silva Tavim Name under which I publish José Alberto Tavim Work address Centro de História, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214, Lisboa, Portugal. Email [email protected]; [email protected] 2. Academic degrees Year: 1981 Degree: LICENCIATURA Final grade: 15 (15 in a scale of 0-20) Degree granting institution Universidade de Lisboa School/College/Campus Faculdade de Letras Thesis title N/A Supervisor: N/A Co-supervisor: N/A Scientific area História Number of curricular years 4 Program title História Year: 1992 Degree: MESTRADO [Master Degree] Final grade: (Maximum = Very Good) Degree granting institution Universidade Nova de Lisboa School/College/Campus Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Thesis title Os judeus na Expansão portuguesa em Marrocos durante o século XVI: origens e actividades duma comunidade. Supervisor: Professor Maria Augusta de Abreu Lima Cruz Co-supervisor: N/A Scientific area História dos Descobrimentos e da Expansão Portuguesa. Number of curricular years 4 Program title History Year: 2002 Degree: DOUTORAMENTO [PhD] 1 Final grade: (Maximum - Very Good, with Distinction) Degree granting institution Universidade Nova de Lisboa School/College/Campus Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas Thesis title Judeus e cristãos-novos de Cochim. História e Memória (1500-1662) Supervisor: Professor Maria Augusta de Abreu Lima Cruz Co-supervisor: Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam Scientific area Estudos Portugueses Program title Estudos Portugueses (Portuguese Studies) 3.Fellowships 2007-2008. Post-Doctoral Fellowship granted by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia de Portugal. Hosted institution: École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris. 2007. The Touro National Heritage Fellowship, The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, USA. 2005. Fellowship by the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to participate in “I Encuentro Histórico Cultural Hispano-Turco-Sefardí”, Ankara. 2003. Fellowship granted by the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento to participate in the meeting “The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese”. 1996-1999. PhD Fellowship granted by the Fundação Oriente. 1996. Fellowship of Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian to a research travel in Israel. Scholarship of the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses to participate in a scientific meeting in Montreal. 1995. Joint fellowship of the Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação Oriente for a research travel in India. 1993. Joint fellowship of Instituto Camões and JNICT (Programa Lusitânia) to participate in the “IV Congresso da Associação Internacional de Lusitanistas”, Hamburg. 4. Previous activity and current status 01-02-2016 – Chair of the seminar “Jews in Portuggal and in the Diaspora Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa 01-8-2015 - Senior Researcher and Professor - Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon 2 08-7-2002 - 31-7-2015 - Senior Researcher Instituto de Investigação 27-6-1996 - 07-7-2002 – Research Assistant Científica Tropical, Lisbon 5. Area of scientific activity History and Portuguese Studies. History of the Jewish Portuguese Diaspora. History of the Portuguese Expansion. Studies about Identity, Memory and Self-Image. 6. Present research interest Domain of specialization Jewish Studies. Portuguese Empire: Discoveries and Expansion. Current research interests History of the Portuguese Jewish Diaspora in Europe, North Africa, Ottoman Empire, India and Brazil. Identity and Self-Image of the Brazilian Jews (XIX-XX centuries. Present perceptions about the life and the expulsion of the Jewish and Muslim minorities. Jews in Portugal during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. 7. Other professional interests/activities Immigration and presence of minority elements in Portugal (XVI-XVII centuries). Perceptions and Memories about Portugal and the Portuguese Past among Jewish communities in Diaspora Lands. Identitary elements among Jewish communities with references to the Iberian Peninsula, and to Portugal, particularly. 8. Experience as scientific adviser Supervisor of Doctor Ângela Benoliel Coutinho project on “Jewish Heritage Cabo Verde” - https://www.facebook.com/CVJHP Supervisor of the PhD thesis of Dr. Jorge Afonso, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, with the title "Os Cativos Portugueses nos Banhos Magrebinos (1769-1830): o Islão, o Corso, a Política e a Geostratégia no Ocidente do Mediterrâneo" (2012-2017)". Requested for evaluation in the History Scientific Domain by the Israel Scientific Foundation (2012). Supervisor of the research of doctor Jaime Nelson Novoa, of the University of Pisa (October 2004-June 2005), with a scholarship of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 3 Supervisor of the PhD thesis of Dr. Zelinda Cohen, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, with the title “Judeus sefarditas em Cabo Verde (secs. XIX-XX): estudo de um perfil coletivo “, 2018-2021. Requested for evaluation by the European Research Council (2018) Request for Evaluation: Université Libre de Bruxelles: Marie Curie Individual Grants (2020) : twice 9. Participation in, and coordination of R&D projects Invited to the Management Committee, representing Portugal, of COST ACTION CA18140 - People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923): https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18140/ - 2019-2021. Coordinator of the Project “Portuguese Jewish Sources in Portugal”, founded by Rothschild Foundation (HANADIV) Europe, CIDEHUS, Universidade de Évora, as the host institution - 2014-2018. Team Member, “Jews of Goa”, coordinated by Professor Shalva Weil, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as sponsor – 2014-2017. Team member "Muçulmanos e judeus em Portugal e na Diáspora: Identidades e Memórias (séculos XVI-XVII), of Universidade de Évora, coordinated by Professor Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, 2010 (Scientific Domain: History). Project PTDC/HIS- HEC/104546/2008// - 2008-2012. Team member "Castelos a Bombordo. Práticas de Monumentalismo do Passado e Discursos de Cooperação Cultural entre Portugal e os Países Árabes e Islâmicos", of Centro de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Program POCTI of FCT, 2004), coordinated by Professor Maria Cardeira da Silva (Cientific Domain: Anthropology). Project POCTI/ANT/48629/02// - 2004-2006. Team member "Contextos Coloniais e Pós-Coloniais da Globalização: Interacção e Discurso no Mundo Lusófono (Séculos XVI a XX)", of Centro de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (Program POCTI of FCT, 2001), coordinated by Professor Jill R. Dias (Scientific Domain: Anthropology). Project POCTI/ARIPIPI/43463/01// - 2001-2005. Team member "Mudança social e identidades culturais nas áreas de interacção histórica portuguesa", of Centro de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, (Program PRAXIS XXI of FCT, 1995), coordinated by Professor Jill R. Dias (Scientific Domain: Anthropology). Project PRAXIS XXI/CSH/740/95 and POCTI/ANT/740/2001// - 1995-2000. 4 10 – Other scientific activities Invited Professor (by professor Luís Pilipe Thomaz) - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1999; Universidade do Porto, 1999; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (by professors Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Charles Amiel), 1997 (Paris); Sorbonne, 1997 (Paris); École Pratique des Hautes Études (by professor Dejanirah Couto), 1999 (Paris); and Université Aix-Marseille (by professor Ernestine Carreira), 2013-2017. Scientific coordination of the meeting “Colóquio Internacional judeus sefarditas entre Portugal, Espanha e Marrocos”, Universidade de Évora, 1999. Founder Member of the “Society for the Study of the Jews of Sepharad” (Hebrew University), 2009 (http://www.sefarad-studies.org/ Elected to the Executive Board of the “Society for the Study of the Jews of Sefarad” (Hebrew University), 2010-2012. Re-elected 2013-2016; and 2017-2019. Chairman of the “Second International Conference of the Society for the Study of the Jews of Sefarad”: The Encounter of the Jews of Sefarad with Islam and the Muslims (20-22 May) 2012. Co-organisation of the International Conference « Na Ibéria e na Diáspora: História de Judeus e Mouros” (Évora University, 17-19 Juin) 2012. Co-organisation of the International Conference “Na Península Ibérica e na Diáspora: Linguagem e Cultura de Judeus e Mouros” (Évora University, 5-6 Juin) 2012. 2013 - Invited by Professor Juan Carlos Villaverde Amieva to the Advisory Committee of the collection "Iberia & Berbería", collection the Seminar of ArabRomanesque Estudios de la Universidad de Oviedo. Founded with Filomena Barros, Hamsa: Journal of Jewish and Islamic Studies (http://www.hamsa.cidehus.uevora.pt/). Vol. 1 (ISSN 2183-2633), 2014; vol. 2 –( ISSN 2183-2633), 2015; vol. 3 – (ISSN 2183-2633), 2016; vol. 4 – (ISSN 2183-2633), 2017. Member of the Advisory Board do Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (since 2015). Co-organisation of the International Conference “Jews and New Christians in the Lusophone World” (ISCSP University, Lisboa, 2-4 December 2016). Inauguration and direction of the cycle of Conferences “The Jews of Portugal and in the Diaspora”, org. Centro de História, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Seminário “Os judeus em Portugal e na Diáspora” and “Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa. Cycle “New Researchers: