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Relevant publications

  • Castro, Laura. 2020. An exhibition and case study of the first private museum in Portugal—João Allen: Collecting the World (a publicar em 2020). Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. SAGE Journals. ISSN: 1550-1906
  • Castro, Laura. 2020. Intimate and political – uses of embroidery and textile in contemporary Portuguese art. H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte. 6, 150-179. ISSN: 2539-2263. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25025/ hart06.2020.09  
  • Castro, Laura. 2019. Demeures d’artistes et ateliers, une muséalisation paradoxale : une réflexion sur quelques cas au Portugal. Culture & Musées. 34, pp. 171-198. ISSN 2111-4528 https://journals.openedition.org/culturemusees/4064 DOI: 10.4000/culturemusees.4064
  • Pereira, Catarina e Laura Castro. 2019. Memória Recapturada: Imagens de uma Comunidade. ARTis ON, n. 9 (Dezembro), 125-39. https://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/245.
  • Castro, Laura. 2018. From walking artist… to walking visitor… to walking researcher.
  • InterArtive. Special Issue Walking Art / Walking Aesthetics Eds.: Yannis Ziogas, Stella Sylaiou. ISSN: 2013-679X https://walkingart.interartive.org/ 
  • Castro, Laura. 2018. Porto, 1916, sem Amadeo. In Soares, Leonor; Santos, Celso et al. (Coord.) – 1º Congresso Internacional Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. Porto: Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória, págs. 17-30. ISBN: 978-989-8970-02-2
  • Castro, Laura; Abreu, José Guilherme (Eds.) 2017. Public Art in the Digital Creativity Era. International Conference Proceedings 2017. Porto: Universidade Católica Editora/CITAR. ISBN: 978-989-8835-38-https://www.uceditora.ucp.pt/resources/Documentos/UCEditora/PDF%20Livros/...
  • Castro, Laura. 2016. Invenções Magníficas da Vida e da Morte. A Obra de Clara Menéres. In Leandro, Sandra; Silva, Raquel Henriques da (Ed.) Mulheres Escultoras em Portugal. Lisboa: Caleidoscópio. ISBN: 978-989-658-435-1

Areas of scientific interest

  • History of art and visual culture - modernity and contemporaneity;
  • Museology and art curatorship;
  • Art and Landscape;
  • Public Art.

Theses as supervisor
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