Elsa Peralta, PhD in Anthropology (ISCSP-UTL, Portugal, 2006), is a FCT research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. Her work draws on crossed perspectives from anthropology, memory studies and postcolonial studies and focuses on the intersection between private and public modes of recall of past events, in particular of the colonial past. Between 2009 and 2015 she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL), Portugal, with a research project on the memory and forgetting of Portuguese colonial empire in postcolonial Portugal, and between 2009 and 2011 she was an Honorary Research Fellow in the University of Manchester. In CEC she coordinates the Research Line \u201cLegacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective\u201d\u00a0and is the PI of the project \u201cNarratives of loss, war and trauma: Portuguese cultural memory and the end of empire\u201d. Her works include several papers and books, as well as the edited volumes\u00a0Heritage and Identity: Engagement and Demission in Contemporary Society<\/em>, Routledge, 2009 (with Marta Anico), Cidade e Imp\u00e9rio: Din\u00e2micas coloniais e reconfigura\u00e7\u00f5es p\u00f3s-coloniais<\/em>, Edi\u00e7\u00f5es 70, 2013 (with Nuno Domingos) and Retornar: Tra\u00e7os de Mem\u00f3ria do Fim do Imp\u00e9rio<\/em>, Edi\u00e7\u00f5es 70, 2017 (with Bruno G\u00f3is e Joana Oliveira). She was the curator and scientific coordinator of the exhibition\u00a0Return \u2013 Traces of Memory<\/em>\u00a0produced by EGEAC in 2015.<\/p>\n Main areas of research<\/strong><\/p>\n Selected publications<\/strong><\/p>\n Peralta, E. (2017), Lisboa e a Mem\u00f3ria do Imp\u00e9rio: Patrim\u00f3nio, Museus e Espa\u00e7o P\u00fablico<\/em>, Lisbon: Deriva\/Le Monde Diplomatic.<\/p>\n Peralta, E., G\u00f3is, B. & Oliveira, J. (eds.) (2017),\u00a0Retornar: Tra\u00e7os de Mem\u00f3ria do Fim do Imp\u00e9rio<\/em>. Lisbon: Edi\u00e7\u00f5es 70.<\/p>\n Peralta, E. & Jensen, L. (2017), From Austerity to Postcolonial Nostalgia: Crisis and National Identity in Portugal and Denmark. In Austere Histories in European Societies: Social Exclusion and the Contest of Colonial Memories<\/em>,\u00a0S. Jonsson &\u00a0J. Will\u00e9n (eds.). London & New York: Routledge, pp. 74-91.<\/p>\n Peralta, E. & Oliveira, J. (2016), P\u00f3s-mem\u00f3ria como heran\u00e7a: fotografia e testemunho do \u2018retorno\u2019 de \u00c1frica. Configura\u00e7\u00f5es<\/em>, 17, 181-197.<\/p>\n Peralta, E. (2015), The Presence of the Past: Imagination and Affect in The Museu do Oriente, Portugal\u201d. In Museum Theory: An Expanded Field<\/em>, A. Witcomb & K. Message (eds.). Malden, MA, USA, & Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing.<\/p>\n Peralta, E. (2014), Conspira\u00e7\u00f5es de sil\u00eancio: Portugal e o fim do imp\u00e9rio colonial. In\u00a0Este Pa\u00eds N\u00e3o Existe – Textos contra ideias-feitas<\/em>. B. Monteiro & N. Domingos (eds.). Lisbon: Deriva\/Le Monde Diplomatique, pp. 127-134.<\/p>\n Peralta, E. (2014), O Monumento aos Combatentes do Ultramar: A Performance do Imp\u00e9rio no espa\u00e7o sagrado da na\u00e7\u00e3o. In Antropologia e Performance<\/em>. 100Luz, Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Cultura e Sociedade, pp. 213-236.<\/p>\n Peralta, E. & Domingos, N. (eds.) (2013), Cidade e Imp\u00e9rio: Din\u00e2micas coloniais e reconfigura\u00e7\u00f5es p\u00f3s-coloniais<\/em>. Lisbon: Edi\u00e7\u00f5es 70.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some publications are available in the repository of the University of Lisbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Legacies of Empire and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective\u00a0\/ CITCOM<\/a><\/p>\n![\"ElsaPeralta\"](\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ElsaPeralta-300x293.jpeg\")
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