Name: Elsa Peralta
Professional Category: Assistant Professor at NOVA FCSH; Researcher
Thematic areas: (Post)Colonial Memory; Critical Museology; Colonial Heritage; Imperial Urban Legacies; Curatorship and Cultural Policy
Position within IHA: SC Member | RG Member [Museum Studies]
Contact: meperalta@fcsh.unl.pt
CIÊNCIA ID: BC1D-4AAE-1E4F
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1366-3797
Biography
Elsa Peralta is an Assistant Professor of Museum and Heritage Studies in the Department of Art History at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and an integrated researcher at the Institute of Art History (IHA), where she is part of the Museum Studies Research Group. With a PhD in Anthropology, she has pursued an interdisciplinary career at the intersection of memory studies, heritage, critical museology, colonial and postcolonial studies, and urban studies. Her work focuses particularly on the materiality of the imperial past in the urban space, as well as on contemporary policies and practices of representing and mediating (post)colonial memory.
She is the author of several books on these themes, published by renowned international publishers such as Bloomsbury and Routledge, and is currently preparing the publication of The Postcolonial Museumscape of Lisbon with Palgrave Macmillan. She has coordinated several research projects funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), including Constellations of Memory: A Multidirectional Study of (Post)Colonial Migration and Remembrance, and has promoted national and international initiatives dedicated to the difficult memories of decolonization, migration, and post-imperial urbanity. Alongside her academic research, she has undertaken curatorial and exhibition coordination work with the aim of strengthening the links between the university, museums, the arts, and society. She is currently Pro-Rector for Culture, Social Impact and Communities at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
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Elsa Peralta é Professora Auxiliar em Museologia e Estudos do Património no Departamento de História da Arte da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, e investigadora integrada no Instituto de História da Arte (IHA), onde participa no Grupo de Investigação Museum Studies. Doutorada em Antropologia, desenvolveu um percurso interdisciplinar na intersecção entre estudos da memória, património, museologia crítica, estudos coloniais e pós-coloniais e estudos urbanos, com particular enfoque nas materialidades do passado imperial no espaço público e nas políticas e práticas contemporâneas de representação e mediação da memória (pós-)colonial.
É autora de vários livros sobre estes temas, publicados por editoras internacionais como a Bloomsbury e a Routledge, e prepara atualmente a publicação de The Postcolonial Museumscape of Lisbon pela Palgrave Macmillan. Coordenou vários projetos financiados pela FCT, entre os quais Constellations of Memory: a Multidirectional Study of (Post)colonial Migration and Remembrance, e tem promovido iniciativas científicas nacionais e internacionais dedicadas às memórias difíceis da descolonização, migração e urbanidade pós-imperial. Para além da investigação académica, tem desenvolvido trabalho curatorial e de coordenação de exposições com a intenção de reforçar a articulação entre universidade, museus, artes e sociedade. Atualmente, é Pró-Reitora para a Cultura, Impacto Social e Comunidades da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council; RG – Research Group