Francisco Vaz da Silva
Professor Associado (com Agregação) Department of Anthropology (ECSH)
217650338 (Ext. 220112)
Office D2.24
Post Box 205
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Congress The Grimm Brothers Today: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, 200 Years After. Instituto de Estudos de Literatura e Tradição (IELT) / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian 2012
Member of scientific event committee Congress 2nd Symposium on Psychiatry and Mental Health / 1st Symposium on Youth Literature Centro Hospitalar do Alto Minho / Centro Cultural do Alto Minho 2008
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Congress The Concept of Time and Space in European Folklore Universidade de Ljubljana, Eslovénia 2007
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Workshop Interpreting Folk Narratives and Practices Centro de Estudos Ataíde Oliveira, Universidade do Algarve / Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD) 2002
Scientific Editing/Reviewing Activities
Type of Activity Journal Title Journal ISSN Quartile Period Language
Scientific journal editor Narrative Culture 2169-0235 Q1 2019 - 2024 English
Member of scientific journal editing staff Narrative Culture 2169-0235 Q1 Since 2014 English
Member of scientific journal editing staff Cosmos 0269-8773 -- Since 2010 English
Member of scientific journal editing staff Marvels and Tales 1521-4281 Q3 Since 2008 English
Member of scientific journal editing staff Cultural Analysis 1537-7873 -- Since 2000 English
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
University of Tartu (Department of Folklore) Estonia (Tartu) Visiting Professor (Teaching an intensive course for international students) 2016
University of Iceland (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Departamento de Folclore) Iceland (Reykjavik) Visiting Professor (Teaching an intensive seminar for post-graduate students.) 2013
University of Lisbon (Program in Theory of Literature, School of Arts and Humanities) Portugal (Lisboa) Visiting Professor (Teaching a post-graduate seminar.) 2003 - 2004
University of California, Berkeley (Anthropology Department / Folklore Program) United States of America (Berkeley) Visiting Professor (Teach one undergrad course and one seminar for graduate students per semester in the Fall and Spring semesters, 2001/2002.) 2001 - 2002
Fulbright Commission (Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UC Berkeley) United States of America (Berkeley) Visiting Scholar (One-semester spell of research at the University of California, Berkeley) 1999
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Fabric of Stories A talk on fairy tales in the Fabric of Stories series at Torres Vedras, by invitation of the local authority. 2011
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Summer workshop on tales, violence, pedagogies, and the imaginary Workshop on wondertales at the Algés municipal library. 2010
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Wandering Words Conference at the 9th meeting of Wandering Words, organized by the Beja Municipal Library 2007
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event 4th Edition of Classics at Gulbenkian: Tales that Voices Told Conference at the 4th Edition of Classics at Gulbenkian, organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2006