Jaime Moreira Ribeiro da Silva (091F-C7E5-19B9)

Curriculum Vitae

Jaime Moreira Ribeiro da Silva

Jaime Silva has a MA in History- Civilizations of the Middle East and Ancient Asia, by NOVA FCSH, with a dissertation entitled ¿The aquatic environment of Lower Mesopotamia and its symbolic meanings (4th and 3rd millennia BC)¿. His research interests are focused on human aquatic symbols and aquatic environments, through an interdisciplinary approach that intertwines History of Religions, Environmental History and Ancient History. The historical and biogeographic areas of his work are Ancient Western Asia and Mesoamerica. In 2021 he joined the 4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life Portuguese Team as a research assistant. Recently, he became a PhD Candidate in History, specialising in Ancient History from NOVA FCSH looking to develop a research project on the universality of human aquatic symbols.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Jaime Moreira Ribeiro da Silva
Date of birth: 1995/11/23
Gender: Male

Citation names

Silva, Jaime

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 091F-C7E5-19B9
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8595-7730

Email addresses

jaimesilva@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/09/20 - 2027 Ongoing	História (Doutoramento) Major in Ancient History Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "Ancient Mesopotamian and Mayan Watery Worlds: A contribution for the Human History of H2O" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09 - 2020/09/30 Concluded	History (Mestrado) Major in Civilisations of Middle East and Ancient Asia Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal "O ambiente aquático mesopotâmico e os seus significados simbólicos (IV-III milénios a.C.\| The aquatic environment of Lower Mesopotamia and its symbolic meanings (4th and 3rd millennia BC) " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17
2018/08/21 - 2019/01/21 Concluded	Erasmus Program-History (Mestrado) Major in Master Universiteit Leiden Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Netherlands
2014 - 2017 Concluded	History (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal	13

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/10/11 - Current	4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life ERC - Grant Agreement n.º 951649 PhD Student Fellow	European Research Council Ongoing
2022/10/01 - 2027/06/30	Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers & Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE 951649 10.3030/951649 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2022 - 2023/10/31	CONCHA - The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An approach via Ocean's Cultural Heritage H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017 (777998) Researcher CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal	European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021/11 - 2022/10/11	4-OCEANS: Human History of Marine Life ERC Synergy - Grant Agreement n.º 951649 Researcher Assistant CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal	European Research Council Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Ana Catarina Garcia; Joana Baço; Ana Satiro; Jaime Silva; Mariana A. Boscariol; Brígida Baptista. A linha de costa como espaço de interface e identidade. CHAM. 2023.
Conference abstract	Isabel Gomes de Almeida; Jaime Silva. "Mesopotamian aquatic symbols in the British Museum glyptic collection". 2019.
Conference poster	Silva, Jaime. "Mesopotamian and Mayans Different Endings of World: Water and the Anthropocene". Paper presented in III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments, 2022. Almeida, Isabel Gomes de; Brito, Cristina; Maria de Fátima Rosa; Vieira, Nina; Silva, Jaime; Vera Lúcia Cardoso Gonçalves; Satiro, Ana. "WATERS - a project focused on tracing aquatic symbols and metaphors in Lower Mesopotamia religion (c. 3300 - 1800 BCE)". Paper presented in III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: More than just Biodiversity, 2022. Silva, Jaime; Almeida, Isabel Gomes de; Brito, Cristina. "Mesopotamian aquatic symbols in the British Museum glyptic collection". Paper presented in "In thy arms I lost myself" – Images, Perceptions and Productions in/of Antiquity International Congress, 2019. Jaime Silva; Isabel Gomes de Almeida; Cristina Brito. "Mesopotamian aquatic symbols in the British Museum glyptic collection". 2019.
Thesis / Dissertation	Silva, Jaime. "O ambiente aquático mesopotâmico e os seus significados simbólicos (IV-III milénios a.C.)\| The aquatic environment of Lower Mesopotamia and its symbolic meanings (4th and 3rd millennia BC)". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/112029.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/11/03	Nanše, goddess of the Sea and the Marshes: in search for a water goddess in ancient Lower Mesopotamia	I Colóquio do Fórum de Pós-Graduandos/as do CHAM - Identidade(s): Políticas, Identificações, Compreensões e Interseccionalidade CHAM - Centro de humanidades; Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas; Universidade dos Açores (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/05	A baixa Mesopotâmia: Procurando significados simbólicos no ambiente aquático	Aula no âmbito da unidade curricular da "História das Religiões na Antiguidade" Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/07/14	Putting Water into H2O	VI CHAM International Conference CHAM (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/05/25	The impact of Lower Mesopotamian aquatic environmental changes on the symbolic elements displayed in early cylinder seals	13 International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICANNE) ICANNE (Copenhagen , Denmark)
2023/03/20	Contactos via Golfo Arábico-Pérsico e as transformações da simbologia aquática na Baixa Mesopotâmia (IV e III milénios a .C.)	Conferências da Primavera do Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau –Ásia- Painel As Antigas Rotas da Seda Centro Científico Cultural de Macau (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/01/27	Uma terra entre mares - o contexto biogeográfico da antiga Mesopotâmia	Universidade Federal do Sergipe (Laranjeiras, Brazil)
2023/01/27	4-Oceans: Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers & Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE - apresentação do projeto ERC Synergy	Universidade Federal do Sergipe (Laranjeiras , Brazil)
2023/01/27	Uma terra entre mares - o contexto biogeográfico da antiga Mesopotâmia	Universidade Federal do Sergipe (Laranjeiras, Brazil)
2022/06/24	Nanse, the goddess that lost the Sea: A vision of Lower Mesopotamia connection with the aquatic element (3rd millennium BC)	Oceans Past IX Conference Washington University (Seattle, United States)
2022	Lost Seas: an approach to the Mayan and Mesopotamian visions of Water	X CITCEM CONFERENCE : Cultures do Water: Heritage, Environment and Society CITCEM (Porto, Portugal)
2021/10/16	Can the diluvian metaphor be rooted in environmental changes? An interdisciplinary approach on Lower Mesopotamian aquatic imagery	IV Report(h)a Meeting: Sapiens, Health and the Environment - Natural and Artificial Frontiers, Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2021/06/22	Lower Mesopotamian religious imagery and the Gulf’s coastal regions (4th- 3rd millennia BCE)	V CHAM International Conference 2021 CHAM (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/11	The debate between bird and fish: thinking aquatic environments in ancient Mesopotamia	CONCHA 2nd Workshop "Seas, Peoples and Animals" CHAM-Centro de Humanidades (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/10/25 - 2023/10/28	XIII Encontro da Rede BRASPOR. "A linha de costa como espaço de interface e identidade: Contributos interdisciplinares das humanidades (2023/10/25 - 2023/10/28) Conference (Co-organisor)	CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2023/10/13 - 2023/10/13	O ambiente aquático nas mitologias da antiguidade - atividade "hands on" para 3º ciclo de escolaridade (2023/10/13 - 2023/10/13) Festival (Co-organisor)	Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal
2017/06/26 - 2017/08/01	VIII European Conference of Egyptologist-CECE8 (2017) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2017/07/12 - 2017/07/15	III International CHAM Conference: Oceans and Shores-Heritage,People and Environments (2017 - 2017) Conference (Other)	CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/02/07 - 2022/02/21	Systematic literature review with Endnote course-Gades Solution Seminar
2016/05/09 - 2016/05/10	Sources to Study Antiquity: Between texts and material culture Conference	CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
2016/04/23 - 2016/04/24	In the Border between Myth and History- Representations of Power and Space in Antiquity Conference	CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2022/08/01 - 2022/08/31	Mentoring undergraduate research fellows under the FCT Verão com Ciência 2022 [Summer with Science] programme.	Ana Moreira

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/12/01 - 2023/12/01	Analysis and collecting information on cylinder seals from the Ashmolean Museum, for the Phd Project	Ashmolean Museum Oxford, United Kingdom

Distinctions

Other distinction

2022	Travel Grant : Oceans Past Conference IX Fisheries Society of the British Isles, United Kingdom
2019	Research for Master's Degree- Independent Mission British Museum Department of the Middle East, United Kingdom