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Rui Oliveira Lopes is a Senior Assistant at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, where he teaches art and design history, visual arts, creative industries, arts management, curatorship, and creative entrepreneurship. His research interests are focused on the artistic exchanges between Europe and Asia during the early modern period, the interactions between art and religion, the role of the museum and curatorial practices as a place for intercultural dialogue, and the safeguarding of cultural heritage through contemporary artistic practice. He is the Principal Investigator for a research project entitled ¿Architectural Heritage in Brunei Darussalam: Safeguarding, Identity and Sustainability¿, which aims to digitise urban heritage to build a platform for education, tourism and heritage management.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Rui Oliveira Lopes

Citation names

  • Lopes, Rui Oliveira

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9A13-F584-AAFF
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7608-2370

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Art history
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Religious Studies

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Malay (generic) Elementary (A2) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
French Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2006 - 2011
Concluded
 Ciências da Arte (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"Arte e alteridade. Confluências da Arte Cristã na Índia, na China e no Japão, séc. XVI a XVIII." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom com Distinção e Louvor por Unanimidade
2003 - 2006
Concluded
 Teorias da Arte (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
"Imagens para edificar: modelos didácticos na pintura portuguesa do Renascismento" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito Bom
1999/09 - 2003/06
Concluded
 História (Licenciatura)
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa Departamento de História Artes e Humanidades, Portugal
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017 - 2018 Researcher (Research) International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, Japan
2012 - 2015 Postdoc (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
2006 - 2012 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - 2024/05/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Brunei

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/07/01 - Current Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory Ágora - Cultura e Desporto, E. M., Portugal
Museu das Convergências, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015 - 2020 Consultoria em Arte, Museus e Património Museums Department, Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, Brunei
2018/04 - 2018/11 Consultoria em Arte, Museus e Património National Palace Museum, Taiwan
2014 - 2015 Consultoria em Arte, Museus e Património Observatório da China, Portugal
2009 - 2014 Consultoria em Arte, Museus e Património Museu Ibérico de Arqueologia e Arte, Portugal
2013/11 - 2013/12 Consultoria em Arte, Museus e Património National Palace Museum, Taiwan
2006 - 2010 Consultoria em Arte, Museus e Património Museum with No Frontiers, Belgium
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/10/01 - Current Architectural Heritage in Brunei Darussalam: Safeguarding, Identity, and Sustainability.
UBD/RSCH/1.2/FICBF(b)/2020/017
Principal investigator
Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Brunei
 Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Ongoing
2017/10/01 - 2019/09/30 The value of cultural heritage and appropriate museology in the formation of collective identity. Art, museums and (in)tangible cultural heritage in Borneo.
UBD/ORI/URC/RG (334)/U01
Principal investigator
Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Brunei
 Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Concluded
2018/04/01 - 2019/04/01 Literature survey on Conservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Brunei Darussalam
Mapping Studies on the Safeguarding of ICH (FY 2013 – FY 2019)
Principal investigator
International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region, Japan
 International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region
Concluded
2011/01/01 - 2013/12/31 Projecto Estratégico - UI 4042 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/EAT/UI4042/2011
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2011/02/01 - 2015/05/31 Art in a Global Perspective
OE
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "Community arts and urban heritage during the COVID-19 lockdown: the case of urban sketching". In Empower Arts, Animate Communities, 85-104. Hong Kong SAR China: Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021.
    Published • 10.54165/9789887928522/07
  2. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "Defining Bruneian Cultural Identity Through Contemporary Artistic Practice". In Engaging Modern Brunei, 199-214. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-981-33-4721-2_12
  3. "Arte en las misiones jesuíticas a China. Una edición ilustrada del siglo XVII del Método de rezar el Rosario". In Arte y Globalización en el Mundo Hispánico de los Siglos XV al XVI, 443-469. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2020.
    Published
  4. "Museum Curation in the Digital Age". In The Future of Creative Work: Creativity and Digital Disruption, 124-140. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020.
    Published
  5. "The formation of artistic identities in the context of intercultural dialogue between China and the World". In Face to Face. The transcendence of the arts in China and beyond – Historical Perspectives, 10-40. Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, 2013.
    Published
  6. "O Bharatanatyam e a pintura de Mithila. A criação artística das mulheres entre a tradição religiosa e a construção identitaria da Índia contemporânea". In Arte e Género. Mulheres e criação artística, 114-148. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, 2012.
    Published
  7. "Beyond time. The spiritual nature of jade throughout Chinese history". In Proceedings of the International Conference of the Iberian Museum for Archaeology and Art, 100-109. 2012.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Lopes, Rui Oliveira; Malik, Owais Ahmed; Kumpoh, Asiyah Az-Zahra Ahmad; Keasberry, Chester; Hong, Ong Wee; Lee, Shirley Chin Wei; Liu, Yong. "EXPLORING DIGITAL ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE IN BRUNEI DARUSSALAM: TOWARDS HERITAGE SAFEGUARDING, SMART TOURISM, AND INTERACTIVE EDUCATION". Paper presented in 2019 IEEE Fifth International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), Singapura, 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/BIGMM.2019.00067
Edited book
  1. Global Trends in Modern and Contemporary ‘Islamic’ Art. Lisboa, Portugal: Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. 2015.
    Editor
  2. Face to Face. The transcendence of the arts in China and beyond – Historical Perspectives. Lisboa, Portugal: Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. 2014.
    Published • Editor
  3. Face to Face. The transcendence of the arts in China and beyond – Approaches to Modern and Contemporary art. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. 2013.
    Published • Editor
  4. Arte e Genero. Mulheres e Criação Artística. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. 2012.
    Published • Editor
  5. Arte e Sociedade. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. 2011.
    Published • Editor
  6. Dias, Fernando Rosa; Lopes, Rui Oliveira. Semana «Oriente/Ocidente - Miscigenações». Livro de Actas e Memória do Evento. Lisboa, Portugal: Associação Organizadora do Campeonato do Mundo de Karate Shukokai; FBAUL-CIEBA. 2010.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. Art and Religion in the Context of the Portuguese Expansion. Museu do Oriente, 2021.
Journal article
  1. Yussif Iddrisu; Rui Oliveira Lopes. "Towards the enhancement of folk pottery through design innovation: a narrative review". Creative Industries Journal (2024): https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2024.2308943.
    10.1080/17510694.2024.2308943
  2. Rui Oliveira Lopes; Nuriskandar bin Mohd Hasnan. "The Expression of Cultural Identity in Mosque Architecture in Brunei Darussalam". TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (2021): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/trn.2021.13.
    10.1017/trn.2021.13
  3. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "Artistic Syncretism Along the Silk Road: Christian Art in China Before the Jesuit Missions". Orientis Aura: Macau Perspectives in Religious Studies 4 (2021): https://journals.usj.edu.mo/index.php/orientisaura/article/view/38.
    Published
  4. Rui Oliveira Lopes. "Semionauts of Tradition: Music, Culture and Identity in Contemporary Singapore". Journal of Contemporary Asia 50 5 (2020): 860-876. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2019.1642369.
    10.1080/00472336.2019.1642369
  5. Lopes (Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Rui Oliveira. "Jesuit Visual Culture and the Song nianzhu guicheng. The Annunciation as a Spiritual Meditation on the Redemptive Incarnation of Christ". Art in Translation 12 1 (2020): 82-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2020.1769905.
    Published • 10.1080/17561310.2020.1769905
  6. "Artistic eclecticism in Mughal miniature painting (1526-1707)". Orientations Magazine 51 5 (2020): 65-77.
    Published
  7. "A ‘Flora Sinensis’ de Michal Piotr Boym (1654): Animais, plantas e frutos medicinais da China e do Sudeste Asiático". Revista Oriente 28 (2020): 152-163.
    Published
  8. "An overview of the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Brunei Darussalam". International Journal of Intangible Heritage 15 (2020): 152-163.
    Published
  9. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "The ‘transience of things’ in Buddhist art". Convocarte – Journal of Sciences of Art 8/9 (2020): 107-128.
    Published
  10. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "The safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Brunei Darussalam: a case study". International Journal of Intangible Heritage (2020): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/54212030/.
  11. "The cultural and creative industries as a new road to economic diversification in Brunei Darussalam". Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal 19 (2019): 64-77.
    Published
  12. "L’art dans les missions jésuites en Chine. Une edition illustrée du XVIIe siècle de la ‘Méthode de prière du Rosaire". Histoire de l’art 82 (2018): 141-154.
    Published
  13. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "Words for images and images for words: an iconological and scriptural study of the Christian prints in the Chengshi moyuan ¿¿¿¿". Word & Image 33 1 (2017): 87-107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2016.1263137.
    Published • 10.1080/02666286.2016.1263137
  14. Blair, Sheila; Oliveira Lopes, Rui. "Editors’ Introduction: Religion and the Arts of Global Asia". Religion and the Arts 20 1-2 (2016): 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02001001.
    Published • 10.1163/15685292-02001001
  15. Oliveira Lopes, Rui. "A New Light on the Shadows of Heavenly Bodies". Religion and the Arts 20 1-2 (2016): 160-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02001008.
    Published • 10.1163/15685292-02001008
  16. Lopes, Rui Oliveira. "Meeting another China: exhibiting Chinese [folk] art and popular culture in the Orient Museum". World Art 4 2 (2014): 237-261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21500894.2014.937505.
    Published • 10.1080/21500894.2014.937505
  17. Lopes, R.O.. "Securing the harmony between the high and the low: Power animals and symbols of political authority in Ancient Chinese Jades and Bronzes". Asian Perspectives 53 2 (2014): 195-225. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84937701549&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published
  18. "Repensar a pintura europeia no contexto das missões católicas na corte imperial Chinesa (1601–1798)". Revista Oriente 22 (2013): 52-74.
    Published
  19. "Integrating the Heavens and Humanity. Shen Zhou’s album leaf paintings at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art". Zhongguo yanjiu / Journal of Chinese Studies 8 (2012): 123-138.
    Published