Newsletter I July 2026
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Luso-Brazilian Congress on Digital Music Teaching and Learning I Applications accepted until July 13
The Luso-Brazilian Congress on Digital Music Teaching and Learning (6–9 October, online), organised in partnership by the University of Aveiro (UA) and the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md), the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), the University of São Paulo (USP), the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC) and... Read More
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Article by Ernesto Donoso (CM) available in open access
The article “The gaze at the source: Participation and intertextual mediation of a virtual acoustic in Marc-André Dalbavie’s La source d’un regard”, written by researcher from Research Group on Contemporary Music (GIMC/CM) Ernesto Donoso, has been published in Súmula: Revista de teoría y análisis musical. Click here to read the article.
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“Music with Science” I Ep.03 – Mafalda Nejmeddine
“Music with Science” is CESEM’s latest podcast. The guest on the third episode, Mafalda Nejmeddine, presented the project “Portuguese Music Identity: Patterns of the Keyboard Repertoire (1750-1834)” (2023.06709.CEECIND). Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r13v6gXck3g Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r8QyAKdGcC02s1IbBZiKb?si=jWZgwB_UTtO79FznMsiHtA Production and Direction: Ana Sofia Malheiro Editing and Assembly: José Grossinho This work is financed by national funds through FCT – Fundação para... Read More
Recent publications by Nikita Braguinski (CTC)
Nikita Braguinski, a collaborator in CESEM’s Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication, highlights two of his publications released in the first half of 2026: — “Music Streaming as a Mediated Process: Algorithms and Assets”. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 2026: 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2026.10068: “Online music streaming and the platforms that... Read More
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IV Music, Media and Audiences Workshop: Music, Value and the Public Interest
The workshop aims to create a space for interdisciplinary debate centred on a key question: how are values attributed to music, and how do these values become a matter of public interest, thereby justifying forms of intervention, funding, regulation or protection? Taking a sociomusicological, cultural and communicational approach, the session will seek to examine the... Read More
XV Music Research Meeting (EnIM) I Proposals until July 20
The Portuguese Society for Music Research (SPIM) invites submissions of proposals for papers for EnIM 26 | XV Music Research Meeting, which will take place at the Royal Palace of Mafra from 4 to 6 November 2026. Given the current complexity of the disciplinary landscape of music studies and research practices, the XV Music Research... Read More
Jelena Novak (CTC) joins an international team awarded with an SSHRC Destination Horizon Grant
CESEM is pleased to announce that researcher Jelena Novak (a member of the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication and coordinator of the Opera Studies Thematic Line) is part of an international research initiative that has been awarded a prestigious Destination Horizon Grant by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research... Read More
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Open Studio: Listening, Resonance and Dialogue – Event for CESEM members
As part of the internal engagement activities of CESEM – Centre for Music Studies, we are organising the Open Studio: Listening, Resonance and Dialogue (June 29, 4.00 pm), an initiative designed to foster encounters, reflection and interaction amongst members of the Centre’s academic community. Building on the concepts of listening, resonance and dialogue, this activity... Read More
Essay by Paulo Ferreira de Castro (CTC) published by Brepols
The essay “Virtual Dialogues: Towards a Critical-Historical Approach to the Concepts of Musical Topic, Topos, and Intonation”, written by Paulo Ferreira de Castro, a member of the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication, has been published in the volume Musical Rhetoric Beyond Figures (ed. Joan Grimalt, Brepols). Further information here.