{"id":4238,"date":"2023-12-12T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T14:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/?page_id=4238"},"modified":"2024-07-02T12:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:59:44","slug":"jose-da-silva-horta","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ufmg.br\/ieat\/en\/chairs\/fundep-ieat\/jose-da-silva-horta\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 da Silva Horta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nomination:<\/strong> Professor Eduardo Fran\u00e7a Paiva \u2013 Department of Philosophy, FAFICH\/UFMG.<\/p>\n

Period:<\/strong> August 7th to September 2nd, 2013.<\/p>\n

Jos\u00e9 da Silva Horta completed all his academic training at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (FLUL): Bachelor’s degree in History (1984), Master’s degree in Modern History (1990) and Doctorate in Literature \u2013 History of Portuguese Expansion (2003).<\/p>\n

Since 1992, he has worked at FLUL, where he is currently Associate Professor, director of the undergraduate course in African Studies, Deputy Director and integrated researcher at the History Center, Member of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Chair of Studies Sephardim \u201cAlberto Benveniste\u201d. He teaches in the master’s degree in African Studies at the Instituto Universit\u00e1rio de Lisboa and in the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in History (ICS, FLUL, ISCTE, Univ. \u00c9vora, Univ. Cat\u00f3lica Portuguesa), where he is also a partner and collaborator. He is an associate researcher at the Center for History of Al\u00e9m-Mar (CHAM \/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa-Universidade de A\u00e7ores). Member of the Advisory Board of the Mande Studies Association\/Association des Etudes Mandingues and the Amilcar Cabral Institute of Economic and Political Research (London). Director of the Portuguese committee of the permanent project Fontes Historiae Africanae of the Union Acad\u00e9mique Internationale. Member of the interdisciplinary team of the \u201cCacheu Slavery Memorial\u201d project approved by UNESCO.<\/p>\n

He has published several books, such as The Forgotten Diaspora: Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World, with Peter Mark; \u2018Cape Verde Guinea\u2019: Textual Production and Representations (1578-1684); The Representation of Africans in Travel Literature, from Senegal to Sierra Leone (1543-1508) and articles in international publications such as the magazines History in Africa: A Journal of Method and Mande Studies\u201d.<\/p>\n