CESEM closed from December 22 to January 2
The management team will be on holiday from December 22 to January 2. See you soon!
NOVA FCSH Libraries I Academic Break and Closure
The NOVA FCSH facilities will be closed until 4 January 2026. During this period, all current loans will be extended. From January 5 to February 17, 2026, the Mário Sottomayor Cardia Library (Av. de Berna) will reopen with reduced hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday. The Vitorino Magalhães Godinho Library (CAN)... Read More
Carlos Azevedo (CM) wins DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble Composition Prize
Carlos Azevedo is the winner of the DSCH – Schostakovich Ensemble 2025 Composition Prize, an award given by one of today’s most prestigious chamber music ensembles. In addition to being a composer and professor at the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), Carlos Azevedo is a collaborator in the Research Group on Contemporary Music.
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Dec
2025
Album release with research and musical editing by Alberto Pacheco (MMP)
Between 1792 and 1796, Jornal de Modinhas, the first Portuguese periodical dedicated to publishing sheet music, was published in Lisbon. This journal ended up publishing a collection of Portuguese and Brazilian songs that is representative of what was being heard in Portugal at that time. After extensive research and musical editing by Alberto Pacheco (Music... Read More
CESEM PhD Students Meeting – Second Edition I Proposals until January 30
The call for papers for the CESEM PhD Students Meeting is open until January 30. Click here to find out more about the formats for participation and presentation at the event scheduled for February 2026. The organisation accepts registrations in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. In case of any questions, please contact doutorandoscesem@fcsh.unl.pt.
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Contributions by Joana Freitas (CTC) to the Journal of Popular Music Studies
A special issue entitled “Popular Music and Online Cultures” is now available in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, featuring several articles written collaboratively by colleagues and members of the Music and Online Cultures Networks. Its introduction and the article “K-pop Stars at Your Fingertips: BTS Mobile Games, Musical Personae, and Transmedial Networks” were co-authored... Read More
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21
Dec
2025
VII Conference on Music, Media and Audiences – Portugal 1974 to the present day I ‘Listening to Society’
The VII Music, Media and Audiences Conference – Portugal 1974 to the present day, organised by CESEM’s Advanced Studies in the Sociology of Music Cluster (SociMus), will take place on 22 and 23 January at NOVA FCSH’s Avenida de Berna campus, in a hybrid format. Structured around the theme ‘Listening to society’, the VII Conference invites... Read More
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Article by Vinícius de Aguiar (CTC) published in the Philosophia Digitalis series
Vinícius de Aguiar, from the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication (CTC), published the article “Social Media and the Arts: Two Regimes of Attention Economy” in the bilingual anthology “Ästhetik, Digitalisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz / Aesthetics, Digitalisation, and Artificial Intelligence”, published in the Philosophia Digitalis series by Brill | mentis.... Read More
Essay by Caio Priori-dos-Santos (CTC) in the Opus Journal – Dossier “Stories, agencies and appropriations of the guitar in Latin America”
The essay “The Brazilian guitar between identities and the market: Yvonne Rebello in O Violão and Luiz Bonfá in Brazilian Guitar“, authored by Caio Vitor Priori-dos-Santos, a collaborator of the Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication and a doctoral fellow of the Thematic History of Music in Portugal and Brazil... Read More
CESEM & NOVA FCSH I CEEC Support Sessions and Projects
Regarding the 8th edition of the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus, CESEM support sessions are as follows: 17 December, 10:30 a.m. – Ana Filipa Magalhães | A successful application, but only on the third try, so don’t give up at first! 6 January, 10:30 a.m. – Andrew Woolley | Presenting your curriculum in the... Read More
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