Leonor Sá

Biography
Leonor Sá é Conservadora Responsável do Museu de Polícia Judiciária e Investigadora do Instituto de História Contemporânea da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e do Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura da Universidade Católica. Doutorada em Estudos de Cultura pela Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Mestre em Estudos Alemães (Literatura) pela FCSH da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa , pós-graduada em Museologia pela Universidade Lusófona (Estágio no Centre International de Formation Écomuseologique, Canadá) e licenciada em Línguas e Literaturas Modernas pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.
Mentora e Coordenadora dos Projetos ‘SOS Azulejo’ (Grande Prémio da União Europeia para o Património Cultural/EUROPA NOSTRA 2013, cat. 4) e ‘Igreja Segura-Igreja Aberta’ (Prémio APOM 2007), a sua tese de doutoramento intitulada ‘Infâmia e fama: o mistério dos primeiros retratos fotográficos judiciários em Portugal 1869-1895’, publicada pelas Edições 70 foi galardoada pelo BPI/Lisbon Consortium-UCP e pelo Grémio Literário. Em 2022 publicou na INCM ‘Polícias, ladrões & outras revelações: Arquivo Histórico Fotográfico do Museu de Polícia Judiciária 1912-1945‘, resultado do tratamento e pesquisa de 25 anos do arquivo em questão. Autora de mais de 50 artigos publicados a nível nacional e internacional, comissariou várias exposições, fez traduções (das quais se destaca 30 Anos, de Ingeborg Bachman), crítica literária (O Independente, JL, Expresso) e publicou na Douda Correria um livro de poesia intitulado A Poesia está fechada.
Research fields
- Cultural heritage
- History of the police
- Legal photography
- Literature
Selected publications
- Sá, Leonor. Polícias, Ladrões & Outras Revelações. Arquivo Histórico Fotográfico do Museu de Polícia Judiciária (1912-1945). Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2022. [link]
- Sá, Leonor, “Da Polícia de Investigação Criminal (PIC) à Polícia Judiciária (PJ): sumário de um percurso atribulado 1867/93 – 1945,” in Polícia(s) no Portugal contemporâneo, coordinated by Maria Fernanda Rollo, Pedro Marques Gomes and Adolfo Cueto-Rodríquez. Lisbon: MUP – Museu da Polícia, 2022.
- Sá, Leonor. Infâmia e fama: o mistério dos primeiros retratos judiciários em Portugal (1869-1895). Lisbon: Edições 70, 2018. [link]
- Sá, Leonor, “A performance do falso e a coleção do ilícito: fétiches, mercado – e museus,” in Collecting, Collections and Concepts – Uma viagem iconoclasta por coleções de coisas em forma de assim, coordinated by Paulo Mendes and Sandra Vieira Jürgens. Guimarães: Fundação Cidade de Guimarães / IN.TRANSIT Editions, 2013. [PDF]🔓
Main projects
- Coordinator of the project “SOS Azulejo” [SOS Tiles] — Hosted by the Museu de Polícia Judiciária. 2007- [link]
- Coordinator of the project “Igreja Segura – Igreja Aberta” [Safe Church – Open Church] — Hosted by the Museu de Polícia Judiciária. 2003-2012 [link]
- Coordinator of the project “Catálogo Nacional de Obras de Arte furtadas de Coleções Públicas Portuguesas” [National Catalogue of Works of Art stolen from Portuguese Public Collections] — Hosted by the Museu de Polícia Judiciária. 1998-2002
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The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month. RESONANCE Reading
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The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month.
RESONANCE Reading Group
Session #4: Independent Music Theatre in Berlin, by Martina Stütz
The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979). This group meets in person at NOVA FCSH or online, during lunchtime on a weekday. Each participant brings their own lunch, and for in-person sessions, coffee and biscuits are kindly provided by the project.
The fourth session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on the chapter “Independent Music Theatre in Berlin: Breaking Out of Traditional Discourses and Building New Structures,” by Martina Stütz. This chapter traces the development of independent musical-theatre in Berlin since the 1990s, drafting its ecologies of practice through forms of diversity and interdisciplinarity. It demonstrates some of the ways in which these nodes expand into the creation of production and collaboration networks, affirming musical theatre as a multimodal hybrid practice. In doing so, however, it expands this medium’s formal currency into paradox: how can such a capacious, vibrant, networked set of manifestations still be so scattered, fragmented, and invisible within institutional circuits? This reading group is going to be led by Filipa Magalhães (CESEM — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST).
You can register by emailing Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive an online meeting link and a PDF copy of the chapter.
More information about the RESONANCE project here.
This event is part of the RESONANCE’s Spring Seminar Series. Public events will also include the Seminar Performing the Archive, led by the curator and scholar Paula Parente Pinto, which will take place on the same day, April 29, at 6 PM, Auditorium B1 (Tower B), NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Picture: Persimmon, axial view, MRI. Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford. Source: Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom (CC BY)
The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).
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(Quarta-feira) 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History, IHA, CESEM, ICNOVA e IFILNOVA — NOVA FCSH
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