Committees

Anabela is a researcher in the domains of the performativity of language of plurilingual speakers, at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) at the University of Coimbra, where she is co-coordinator of the Research Group on Digital Humanities. She is an Invited Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the same University. She is also a member of the research groups: Portuguese in Contact and Bridging Communities at the Applied Linguistic Research Centre (CELGA-ILTEC), and of the Humanities, Migrations and Studies for Peace group at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Her work deals with the enunciation of the subjectivity of plurilingual speakers, through which emotions and points of view are expressed, regarding mobilities and diaspora communities. She is interested in language as a semiotic activity underlying social interactions and the concept of ‘translating’ self-representation.

Carolina Coelho is an architect, graduated from the Department of Architecture, University of Coimbra (DARQ-UC). She presented her doctoral thesis “Life within architecture from design process to space use. Adaptability in school buildings today – A methodological approach”, at the Centre for Social Studies and DARQ-UC, identifying adaptability in contemporary learning environments. Her thesis was awarded the Glen Earthman Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Society for Educational Planning. She is invited assistant professor at DARQ-UC in theory and history of architecture and subjects associated with architectural research. Carolina Coelho is an integrated researcher and member of the Scientific Coordination Board of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Coimbra (CEIS20). Her research focuses on the living experience in space and in co-creation/co-rehabilitation processes for active learning environments, developed in the Erasmus+ project “CoReD: Collaborative Re-design with Schools”, in which she coordinated the Portuguese research team. Currently she integrates the intervention and research project team from the University of Coimbra for the refurbishment of José Falcão Secondary School in Coimbra, developing participatory approaches to the school community.

José Oliveira Martins (Ph.D. University of Chicago). I am currently the Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) of the University of Coimbra, and president of the Portuguese Society for Music Research (SPIM). I serve as professor of music on the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FLUC) of the University of Coimbra and have previously been on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. My research interests explore the music-theoretic and cognitive aspects in the modeling of musical systems of 20^th and 21^st c., the oral tradition of Canção de Coimbra, and the experience, plasticity and interdisciplinarity in the study of time in/through music.

Leonor is a researcher in the domains of ethnomusicology and cultural studies of music at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies – CEIS20 – at the University of Coimbra, where she is co-coordinator of the Research Group on Artistic Currents and Intellectual Movements; Invited Professor at the Department of Artistic Studies at the Faculty of Letters at the same University; Member of the board of the Portuguese Society for Research in Music; general co-editor of the Portuguese Journal of Musicology (RPM); and member of the Coimbra Song Platform. Her work deals with the politics, aesthetics and discourses of the record industry in Portugal, a field of music studies that she contributes to shaping; the transformation of music media and the dynamics of aurality transformations throughout the 20th century; and musical creativity, subjectivity and forms of historical, geographic and identity representation. She is the author of the book ‘Machinas Fallantes’: Recorded Music in Portugal at the beginning of the 20th century (Tinta da China, 2014).

Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra, and senior researcher of the Centre for Portuguese Literature. His academic work addresses writing and reading media and how they impact on literary forms and practices. The most significant results of his research can be seen in Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities: Reading, Editing, Writing (Bloomsbury, 2022), LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet (https://ldod.uc.pt/, 2017-2023, eds. Manuel Portela and António Rito Silva), and Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines (MIT Press, 2013). Director of the PhD Programme in Materialities of Literature and co-director of the MA in Creative Writing. He is also the current Director of the General Library of the University of Coimbra.

Olga Solovova is a researcher in the domains of language ideologies and policies, visual discourses, linguistic citizenship, and construction of linguistic/cultural identity in multilingual societies. She is a member of Research Group on Digital Humanities at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) at the University of Coimbra and a collaborative researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Solovova is currently a science manager at CEIS20 and has recently started teaching at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the same University.