Afonso Dias Ramos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at NOVA FCSH (IN2PAST) and coordinates the research group on Art Theory, Historiography and Politics (TEORIA). He was the Associate Editor of Revista de História da Arte, an Invited Assistant Professor at Coimbra University, and a Visiting Scholar at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. He was also an Art Histories Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien / Freie Universität Berlin. He holds an MA and received his PhD in the History of Art from University College London. He has previously worked at the Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre and studied Art History at NOVA FCSH and Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). His research interests mainly intersect modern and contemporary art, visual culture, and colonial history. He recently co-edited the books Ernesto de Sousa 1921-2021: uma criação consciente de situações, uma situação consciente de criações, with Mariana Pinto dos Santos (IHA, 2023), Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860-1975, with Filipa Lowndes Vicente (Palgrave, 2023), Activism: Documents of Contemporary Art, with Tom Snow (MIT Press, 2023), and edited Hoje soube-me a pouco (Tinta-da-China, 2023). He also recently co-curated the exhibitions The Surrealist Castle of Mário Cesariny, with João Pinharanda (MAAT, 2023) and Neorrealisms, or the politicisation of art in Júlio Pomar, with Mariana Pinto dos Santos (Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar 2025).
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Ana Bigotte Vieira is a historian, cultural critic, dramaturg, and curator. Her research focuses on experimentalism in the arts and its intersections with cultural and urban transformations. She was Co-PI, with Maria João Brilhante, of the University of Lisbon project Archiving Theatre. She is a Research Fellow at Resonance project and an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA). Ana is also an affiliated researcher with the project Performance y curadoría: transformaciones performativas del comisariado, el coleccionismo y la espectaduría desde una perspectiva comparada: España, Portugal, Brasil y Argentina, 2003–2028 (PID2024-156472NB-I00) and a Colaborator at Centro de Estudos de Teatro of the University of Lisbon.
Between 2018 and 2023, she was part of the programming team at Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon. She is the author of A Caixa Preta e Outros Mal-Entendidos (Sistema Solar, 2025) and Uma Curadoria da Falta (Sistema Solar, 2022), based on her PhD research, which received an Honorable Mention in the Mário Soares Award for Contemporary History.
Ana co-authored Dança Não Dança – Archaeologies of New Dance in Portugal with João dos Santos Martins, Ana Dinger, and Carlos Manuel Oliveira, as part of the VII edition of Para Uma Timeline a Haver. The edition comprised a book, a cycle of (re)performances, and an anthological exhibition at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Dança Não Dança emerged from the ongoing long-term artistic research project Para Uma Timeline a Haver, which she founded and has coordinated with João dos Santos Martins since 2016.
Ana is also an affiliated researcher with the project Performance y curadoría: transformaciones performativas del comisariado, el coleccionismo y la espectaduría desde una perspectiva comparada: España, Portugal, Brasil y Argentina, 2003–2028 (PID2024-156472NB-I00).
Ana Pais is Auxiliary Researcher CEEC at ICNOVA/FCSH – NOVA University Lisbon, dramaturge and discursive practices curator. She was the PI of the FCT – 50 anniversary of the 25th of April Commission-funded project Free will and the will for freedom (2024-2026). In 2022-23, she was Visiting Professor at the Postgraduate Performing Arts Program of the Federal University of Bahia (PPGAC-UFBA/Brasil). She is the author of several books, the last one being Who is afraid of Emotions? (2022), a public engagement book on the performativity of affects in the pandemic. She also edited the volume Performance in the Public Sphere (2018) (available at www.performativa.pt) and authored several articles published in Performance Research, Luso-Brazilian Review, TDR, and other journals. She has also curated, coordinated and produced various discursive practice events, namely Project P! Performance in the Public Sphere (2017) and In the Flow: Public feelings and practices of awareness (2019).
Filipa Magalhães is an Assistant Researcher at CESEM – Centre for Music Studies (NOVA FCSH, Lisbon). She holds a PhD in Musicology (2020) and advanced training in Musical Arts and Historical Archivistics (2022). Her interdisciplinary research bridges musicology, archival science and digital humanities, focusing on the preservation, documentation and analytical modelling of music theatre works. She is internationally recognised for her research on the composer Constança Capdeville and for her contributions to the preservation of contemporary Portuguese music. Her work explores creative processes in music theatre and the relationships between music, dance, theatre and cinema, with publications in international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. In 2022, she was awarded an FCT-funded CEEC Junior Researcher position for the project “Music Theatre Preservation: A Bridge Between Musicology and Archival Science”. She currently coordinates the Contemporary Music Research Group (GIMC) at CESEM and leads Thematic Line 04, “Archives: From Preventive Preservation to Digitalisation”, at IN2PAST. As a member of the RESONANCE project, she contributes to the study of how ephemeral and interdisciplinary performative practices, particularly music theatre, challenge conventional approaches to documentation, archiving and heritage preservation.
Hélia Marçal is a researcher and lecturer based in Lisbon. She is an Assistant Professor (Research) at the Art History Institute (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST). She is the Coordinator of the Research Group on Museum Studies at the Art History Institute and the Thematic Line on Museums, Monuments, and Their Collections at the IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory. Prior to these appointments, she was an Associate Professor at the University College London’s Department of History of Art and the Vice-Dean for the Bicentennial / UCL200 Champion for the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences (until July 2026), a Visiting Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Research Institute (2024-2025), a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (2021-2025), and a researcher at Tate, in the context of the projects Reshaping the Collectible: When Artworks Live in the Museum (2018-2020) and Documentation and Conservation of Performance (2016-2021). She has published on posthumanism and collection care practices in museums and is the PI of the project RESONANCE: Epistemologies for Documentation of Affects and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979).
Joana Lia Ferreira holds a PhD in Conservation Science (2011) and is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Conservation and Restoration from NOVA FCT. She has dedicated herself to the study and conservation of historic synthetic polymers and, in this context, has coordinated several research projects, namely Plastic Paints in Art: the impact of manufacturing processes on their long-term stability, PlasCO2 – Green CO2 technologies for the cleaning of plastics in Museums and Heritage Collections, and HERIT-AGES. Plastic and Glass ‘Ages’ for whom? Exploring new avenues for valuing and preserving heritage for the future. Working essentially with contemporary art, the study of technology and its impact on preservation and the assessment of cultural significance as a basis for heritage conservation sustainable management, including its relationship with the communities that benefit from it, are her main research interests.
Luís Trindade is a Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory. Previously, he was Professor of Portuguese and European Studies at Birkbeck, University of London (between 2007 and 2019), and of Contemporary History at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, between 2020 and 2023. In the academic year 2006-2007, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
In Birkbeck, he was a board member of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. He was also coordinator of the Research Group on Cultures, Identities, and Power and of the Thematic Line Modern Mediations at the IHC, as well as vice-coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra.
He has published O Estranho Caso do Nacionalismo Português. O salazarismo entre a política e a literatura [The Strange Case of Portuguese Nationalism] (2008), Narratives in Motion. Journalism and modernist events in 1920s Portugal (2016), and Silêncio Aflito. A sociedade portuguesa através da música popular (dos anos 40 aos anos 70) [Portuguese society through popular music] (2022). He has developed research in the areas of nationalism, Marxism, cinema, and other aspects of popular culture in Portugal in the 20th century.
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Rita Macedo is an assistant professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology, where she teaches contemporary art history and art theory at the Department of Conservation and Restoration. She is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Documentation for the Preservation of Contemporary Art in the same institution. She has a Master in Art History and a doctorate in Conservation and Restoration (2008) with the thesis “Challenges of Contemporary Art to Conservation Restoration – Documenting Portuguese Art of the 60´s/70´s.
She is a member of the research group Museum Studies of IHA – Art History Institute, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH).
Her research interests focus on values in conservation, memory and oral history for the preservation of intangible heritage and contemporary art. She has been developing research within multidisciplinary national and international projects like Documentation of Contemporary Art (FCT) NeCCAR (NWO, Holland), NACCA (H2020) and T-FACTOR (H2020).
Vasco Baptista Marques received his PhD in Contemporary Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (2017), with a dissertation on Vladimir Jankélévitch’s metaphysics of time. His research interests include film-philosophy, the history of metaphysics, the metaphysics of time, Neoplatonism, and topics within aesthetics and film criticism. His recent work addresses the cinema of Bill Morrison, as well as the relationships between Albert Serra and Georg Simmel, Manoel de Oliveira and Catherine Malabou, and John Carpenter and Jean Baudrillard. Over the years, he has published his research in journals such as Aniki, Sophia, and Trans/Form/Ação, and with publishers such as Routledge and L’Herne. In addition, he has been a resident film critic at the weekly newspaper Expresso since 2005.