Article co-authored by Elsa De Luca (EMS) published by Brepols
The article ‘Salzinnes and Digital Tools’, written by Jennifer Bain, Elsa De Luca, Geneviève Gates-Panneton, and Dylan Hillerbrand, discusses the digital resources that have emerged from work with the Salzinnes antiphoner and incorporates several different perspectives. Elsa De Luca (Early Music Studies Group), who has been a key member in the development of the neume... Read More
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Chapter by Kristin Hoefener (EMS) in Brepols volume
Kristin Hoefener, a researcher with the Early Music Studies Group, is pleased to announce the publication of her chapter ‘Mediaeval Sacred Song: Creative Impulses and Innovation in Repertoire, Musical Notation and Transmission’, published by Brepols in the volume ‘Innovation and Medieval Communities’. ‘This chapter was a real challenge: to reflect on the notion of innovation... Read More
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Lecture by Iskrena Yordanova (MMP) in Basel
Iskrena Yordanova, researcher at the Music in the Modern Period Group, will give a lecture in Basel, Switzerland, on January 21. More information on the topic “Niccolò Jommelli’s divertimenti – Variants, Contexts and Performance Practice” and on the researcher can be found here. Find out more about the event here.
Interview with Beatriz Silva (MMP) for the newspaper Hoje Macau
Beatriz Silva (Music in the Modern Period Group) was interviewed by the newspaper Hoje Macau about her PhD project “Singing the Revolution: The Role of Songs and Opera in the Spread of Communism in Mao Zedong’s China”. The newspaper Diário do Minho was also interviewed the researcher on the subject, this time on the occasion... Read More
Article by Manuel Pedro Ferreira (EMS) in Medievalista
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, a senior researcher at the Early Music Studies Group, has published an article entitled “Melodias de além-Pirinéus na lírica gelego-portuguesa: os cantares em maneira de proençal” in Medievalista Journal, published by the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), a research unit at NOVA FCSH. Click here to read it.
Newsletter I January 2026
The January edition is now available. Subscribing to the CESEM newsletter is the most convenient way to receive, directly in your email, the latest news and essential information about events, projects, and other opportunities. Staying connected to the CESEM community has never been easier!
CESEM researchers sign FCT Tenure contracts
CESEM congratulates the six researchers whose FCT Tenure contracts have already been signed. FCT Tenure (Research): Alberto Medina de Seiça: Musical Heritage, sacred and liturgical music, vocal (including Gregorian chant) and/or instrumental (between the 11th and 17th centuries) – areas of preservation and dissemination and/or musical performance; Ana Filipa Magalhães: Documentation and Preservation, in the... Read More
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Peça a Peça Itinerante (PaPI) in Vila Nova de Famalicão
The PaPI artistic-educational constellation brings together a set of small musical-theatrical pieces designed from scratch to be easily circulated in kindergartens, museums, libraries, social centres and other institutions interested in promoting access to culture. The first PaPIs were created in multidisciplinary and intergenerational artistic residencies held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation as part of the... Read More
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Entre Brasis Study Day
On 11 February, the Research Cluster in Thought and Music will host the “Entre Brasis” workshop at auditorium B2, NOVA FCSH. The programme will feature contributions by Acácio Piedade (Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina), Caio Priori-dos-Santos (CESEM/NOVA FCSH), Clara Rowland (IELT/NOVA FCSH), Filipe Campello (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco), Gabriel Marotti (Universidade Federal de São... Read More
CESEM closed from December 22 to January 2
The management team will be on holiday from December 22 to January 2. See you soon!