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Manuel Pedro Ferreira studied Music and Philosophy in Lisbon and earned his Ph.D from Princeton University, where he wrote a dissertation on Gregorian chant at Cluny. He is a Professor at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Department of Musicology, FCSH), where he also chairs, since 2005, the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM); he held a guest professorship at EPHE, Paris-Sorbonne (2004-2005) and was Visiting Research Fellow at IIAS, Jerusalem (2016). In 1995 he founded the early music ensemble Vozes Alfonsinas, with which he produces himself in concerts and recordings. He published a large number of papers, both on medieval music and on other topics, namely twentieth-century Portuguese music. His prize-winning book O som de Martin Codax (Lisbon, 1986) was followed by many others, either as author or editor, e.g. Cantus coronatus (Kassel, 2005), Medieval Sacred Chant: from Japan to Portugal (Lisbon, 2008), Aspectos da Música Medieval, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 2009-2010), Revisiting the Music of Medieval France (Farnham-Burlington, 2012), Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian connections (Kassel, 2016) and The Notation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Diplomatic Edition, 3 vols. (Lisbon, 2017). He has been additionally active as a music critic, a composer and a poet. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010) and Director-at-large of the International Musicological Society (since 2012). [Scientific outputs]

Lynda Chouiten is Professor of literature in the department of English of the University of Boumerdès (Algeria). Her PhD, awarded in 2013 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, was funded by the Irish Government under its PRTLI programme (Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions). Chouiten’s research interests include colonial and postcolonial literature, travel writing, Orientalism, and women’s literature. She is the editor of Commanding Words: Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and the author of Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa: A Carnivalesque Mirage (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) as well as several academic articles. Chouiten is also a writer; so far, she has published two novels. Le Roman des Pôv’Cheveux (Algiers: El Kalima, 2017) was in the short list of two prestigious prizes – le Prix Mohammed Dib and L’Escale d’Alger – and Une Valse (Algiers: Casbah, 2019) won the Assia Djebar Prize (le Grand Prix Assia Djebar). Chouiten’s first short story collection was released in March 2022.

PhD in Literature Studies and Master in General Philosophy from the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, is a writer, essayist and literary critic, member of the Union of Angolan Writers. He was a member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the Writing of the IX volume of the General History of Africa. He is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Universidade Agostinho Neto. He participates in research teams of other institutions such as the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon.Among his more than ten published titles, his last two books stand out: Alumbu. The Endogenous Canon in the Angolan Literary Field. For a Cultural Hermeneutics, Luanda, Mayamba Editora, 2019; African philosophes. Essay on the Effectiveness of the Right to Philosophy (Essay), 1st edition, e-book, Sergipe, Ancestre Editora, 2021. [Scientific outputs]

 

Degree in Theatre, a Master Degree in Portuguese Studies and a PhD in Communication, Culture and Arts with the thesis Narração Oral: uma Arte Performativa. He also collaborates with the Arts and Communication Research Centre (University of Algarve). He is a storyteller since 2003, working in libraries, schools, associations,theatres and festivals in Portugal and abroad. [Scientific outputs]

 

Artistic director, researcher, teacher and founder of Olaria Projetos de Arte e Educação, based in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. Since 1998, she has created and coordinated the Tocadores project, an initiative for the documentation and dissemination of popular musical traditions that recorded the practices of more than 160 artists in Brazil and Portugal. Curator and producer of projects that can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/liamarchi [Scientific outputs]

Laura Mateus Fonseca is an Invited Assistant Professor at ESCE – School of Business Sciences and ESE – School of Education at IPS – Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal for Portuguese and Textual Practices and teacher of the 2nd and 3rd cycles of Portuguese and English. Publisher, manager of editorial projects and researcher at IELT – Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition, FCSH – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Consultant, Certified Trainer and E-Trainer in Professional Written Communication and Storytelling by the training company InPar. Develops and teaches Creative Writing workshop content and programs for schools, libraries, universities and museums. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature from the Classic University of Lisbon, also a postgraduate degree in Editorial Techniques from the same University and a Master’s in School Management and Administration from the ESCE and ESE – IPS. She is currently finishing his PhD in Portuguese Studies, specializing in Book History and Textual Criticism, at New University of Lisbon – FCSH. Owner and manager of the independent editorial project – Palavra Editora. Co-author of textbooks and author of specialized articles in her research areas. Recently (2019), published the book with its organization, introduction and notes Uma última pergunta – Entrevistas com Mário Cesariny. [Scientific outputs]

Bachelor’s Degree and Professorship, Philosophy, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986; Master, Andean History, FLACSO/Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, 1995; PhD, Social Anthropology, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil, 1999. Publications: Antígona: hija, hermana, mujer. Tragedia y contemporaneidad (2003); Indios muertos, negros invisibles. Identidad, hegemonía y añoranza (2008); Nadie sabe con qué pie / se desmarcará otra vez. Semiopraxis, discurso de los cuerpos y relaciones interculturales poscoloniales (2012); Del Socioanálisis a la Semiopraxis de la Gestión Social del Conocimiento. Contra-narrativas en la telaraña global (2012); Danza de los cuerpos y semiopraxis (2014); Semiopraxis barroca popular (2014); Añoranza, olvido, semiopraxis: la esperanza de los vencidos (2014); Más acá del Estado-Nación: Semiopraxis territoriales en pugna (2014); Hospitalidad excesiva. Semiopraxis crítica y justicia poscolonial (2014); En otras lenguas. Semiopraxis popular-intercultural-poscolonial como praxis crítica (2017). [Scientific outputs]

 

PhD student in Portuguese Studies – Literature, with a research project on Manuel de Faria e Sousa as a commentator on the work of Camões, at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). José Carlos was a lecturer of Portuguese Studies at the Université Bordeaux Montaigne, at the University of Namibia and at the Faculty of Philology – University of Belgrade, Serbia. His fields of interest focus on Camões Studies, also including the teaching of Portuguese language, literature, and culture. He is editor of the Luís de Camões blog. [Scientific outputs]

 

Jorge Uribe is a graduate from de Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, and a Ph.D. by the Universidade de Lisboa. His final dissertation was dedicated to the intellectual biography of Fernando Pessoa and to the concepts of aesthetical criticism and dramatic depersonalization in the works of Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold. Uribe completed is post-doctorate at the University of São Paulo (USP). He is also a member of the critical and editorial project Estranhar Pessoa. Uribe has been grant-holder for the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and for the Fundação Calouste-Gulbenkian (FCG). [Scientific outputs]