Luís M. Santos honoured with the “Emerging Scholar Award” from the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network
Luís M. Santos, a researcher at CESEM (Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication), was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award by the New Directions in the Humanities Research Network, as part of the 24th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities: Beyond Borders – The Role of the Humanities in... Read More
Lap Music – Musical Orientations for Parents with Babies and Children I Registrations open
Lap Music – Musical Orientations for Parents with Babies and Children is a training programme offered by the Laboratory of Music and Communication for Children (LaMCI) designed for parents, babies, and children. These sessions provide an opportunity to share parenting experiences and enrich children’s musical imagination. The training program, led by António Amaral and Fernanda... Read More
Recent publication by Mafalda Nejmeddine (MMP) in the journal Música Hodie
The article “The Identity of Portuguese Early Music: New Data on João Cordeiro da Silva and his Keyboard Sonatas” by Mafalda Nejmeddine (Music in the Modern Period Group) was recently published in the journal Música Hodie. This publication is available in open access. Click here to read it.
Haig Utidjian (EMS) has been appointed Visiting Professor of Excellence by INALCO, in partnership with FCG
The National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO – part of the Sorbonne) in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Inalco Foundation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Haig Utidjian as Visiting Chair of Excellence 2026-2027. Haig Utidjian, a collaborating researcher at the Centre for Music Studies (Early Music Studies Group)... Read More
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Jul
2026
“Essay Crossings”: Reading and Discussion Seminar
On July 22, at 6.00 pm, the fifth session of the ‘Ensaios Cruzados’ Reading and Discussion Seminar will take place. The seminar runs from March to July at the Edições do Saguão venue. The session will be led by Filipa Cruz (CESEM) and will take Virginia Woolf’s book A Room of One’s Own as its... Read More
New article by Bráulio Vidile, Helena Rodrigues e Ana Isabel Pereira (EHD)
The article “The Use of Verbal Metaphors in the Teaching and Learning of Musical Instruments: A Systematic Literature Review”, written by Bráulio Vidile, Helena Rodrigues, and Ana Isabel Pereira (Education and Human Development Group), is available in open access. Click here to read the article. Abstract: «Verbal metaphors are common in the teaching of musical... Read More
Publication of “Library Music and Imagined Images”, a book by Júlia Durand (CTC)
“Library Music and Imagined Images” is the latest publication in Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music, and Media collection. It takes a musicological and sociological lens to the workings of library music – a little-noticed sonic presence that shapes the media of our everyday lives. By teasing out the patterns and peculiarities that distinguish it... Read More
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8
Jul
2026
PRAYTICIPATE – Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
For centuries, prayer has played a central role in shaping worldviews, education, and religious experience, as well as structuring communities and everyday life across Europe. Despite the so-called “religious turn” in the humanities, prayer is still often treated as self-evident or ordinary. This has hindered a deeper historical understanding of this powerful and complex phenomenon... Read More
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NCMM – Nova Contemporary Music Meeting I Proposals until October 31
The call for proposals is now open for the international conference NOVA Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM), which will take place from 5 to 7 May 2027 in Mafra. Under the theme ‘Displaced Sounds: Music and Algorithms’, the conference invites contributions exploring how computational systems transform musical creation, performance, circulation, preservation, listening, and rights. The conference... Read More
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Newsletter I July 2026
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