Between the 9th of June and the 13th of July the VI Seminar ‘Music, Critical Theory and Communication’ will take place. This seminar, organized by CESEM’s Critical Theory and Communication Group, introduces a set of ongoing research works, promoting the meeting and discussion between researchers, artists and other interested parties, on a diversity of musicological... Read More

June 17th and 18th, at CCB, Lisbon “The birds of the world gather to search for Simorg, the king of birds, guided by the Poupa. It will be a long and dangerous journey … The first obstacle: the multiple resistances they raise, Poupa having to find arguments for the convince him to accompany her on... Read More

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Revisiting Fernando Lopes-Graça, his life and work, his thinking, his intervention, his extensive and diverse legacy, is the purpose of this symposium. We intend to promote an attempt at a critical assessment – albeit always provisional and limited – of the multiple dimensions to be considered and which intertwine with each other. We mention, namely:... Read More

The submission deadline has been extended until 31 January 2018 This conference will examine the identity of music repertories from around 1500. We understand repertories here as a group of musical works coherently linked together via cultural, geographical or institutional associations. Although the conference stems from a project dissecting Iberian music, we are also interested... Read More

It’s available the book in honour of Professor Manuel Carlos Brito

Caravelas will hold the II International Congress “The Portuguese Language in Music: Dialogues” between April 4 and 6, 2018, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. The first edition of the congress took place in Lisbon, in 2012, when the debates started at the Symposium “The Pronunciation of Sung European Portuguese” (http://caravelas.com.pt/eventos.html),... Read More

Medieval Iberian Cultural Identity: The manuscript record   The ‘Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estetica Medieval’ (CESEM) and the ‘Instituto de Estudos Medievais’ (IEM) of the Nova University of Lisbon organize two interdisciplinary sessions at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 10-13, 2018). The sessions are intended for scholars interested in Iberian manuscripts... Read More

October 18th, 2017 | 18h00 | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa | room 5.2 Luzia Rocha, guest of the AzLab #31, is one of the most renowned Portuguese researchers in the area of ​​musical iconography. In her doctoral thesis she explored the music in Baroque azulejos, theme of the next AzLab, in which... Read More