CESEM is a research unit dedicated to the study of Music, in disciplinary and interdisciplinary terms, based on a variety of approaches arising from the most current perspectives and methodological trends in Social and Human Sciences.
Based at NOVA FCSH, it also includes researchers working at the Polytechnic Institutes of Lisbon (ESML) and Porto (ESMAE) and the University of Évora. Its internal structure is organized into five groups: Early Music Studies, Music in the Modern Period, Contemporary Music, Critical Theory and Communication (with two sections: Music and Thought and SociMus-Sociology of Music) and Education and Human Development. There are also eight thematic lines, which allow researchers from the various groups to collaborate on transversal themes: Luso-Brazilian Studies, Music and Interpretation, Opera Studies, Musical Iconography, Music and Literature, Paleography and Music Publishing; Therapeutic Effects of Music and, more recently, Music, Gender and Sexuality Studies. CESEM’s work includes intense laboratory activity based on five laboratories, both at its facilities on the NOVA FCSH campus and at the ESML hub.
