Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Jelena Novak
Citation names
- Novak, Jelena
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 521C-421F-6384
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0778-3565
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Vyh_DMQAAAAJ&hl=en
Email addresses
- jnovak@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://fcshunl.academia.edu/JelenaNovak (Professional)
- https://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt/pessoa/jelena-novak/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts - Performing Arts Studies (Musicology, Theater Science, Dramaturgy)
- Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | |
Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | |
French | Intermediate (B1) | ||||
Serbian (Mother tongue) | |||||
Croatian (Mother tongue) | |||||
Bosnian (Mother tongue) | |||||
Latin | Elementary (A2) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2012
Concluded
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Cultural Analysis, Musicology (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Singing Corporeality: Reinventing the Vocalic Body in Postopera" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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n/a |
2004
Concluded
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Art Theory and Theory of Media (Master)
Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
"Opera in the Age of Media" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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9.6/10 |
2001
Concluded
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Musicology, History of Music (Bachelor (1st cycle))
Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
"Wild Analysis: Formalist, Structuralist and Poststructuralist Interpretation of Music" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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8.68/10, graduate exam 10/10 |
Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/02/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal | ||
2013/03/01 - 2019/01/31 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal | ||
2017/01 - 2017/06 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Nationale Opera and Ballet, Netherlands |
Nationale Opera and Ballet, Netherlands | ||
2006/09/01 - 2012/12/31 | Researcher (Research) | Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands | ||
2010 - 2012 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2020 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | ||
2014 - 2019 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal | ||
2001 - 2002 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia |
Others
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2001/01/01 - 2009/07/17 | Editor for classical and Contemporary Music | Radio Beograd, Radio Television of Serbia, Serbia |
Radio Belgrade 3, Serbia |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2013 - 2019 | OPERA BEYOND DRAMA
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/SFRH/SFRH2%FBPD2%F902442%F2012/PT
SFRH / BPD / 90244 / 2012
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2006 - 2012 | Singing Coreporeality: Reinveinting the Vocalic Body in Post-Opera
Huygens 2007
PhD Student Fellow
Amsterdam School for Cultural analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs
Concluded
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2002 - 2004 | Opera in the Age of Media
NF 2002
Huygens 2003
Master Student Fellow
Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia
Norges musikkhøgskole, Norway Koninklijk Conservatorium, Netherlands |
Norges forskningsråd Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2019/03 - 2019/06 | Exhibition "Post-Opera"
2019
Other
TENT, Netherlands
Operadagen Rotterdam festival, Netherlands Mondriaan Fonds, Netherlands |
Concluded
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2010 - 2011 | Women and Music in Serbia
Uneco Venice 2010
Researcher
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UNESCO Venice office
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Book review |
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Conference paper |
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Edited book |
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Encyclopedia entry |
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Exhibition catalog |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Manual |
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Newspaper article |
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Online resource |
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Thesis / Dissertation |
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Artistic / Performance
Artistic performance |
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Curatorial / Museum exhibition |
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Script |
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Theatre play |
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Other
Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2020/05 | ”The Cultural History of Contemporary Opera: Serbia as Case Study” | International conference Music and Art in the Shaping of European Cultural Identity, granted by Erasmus + program
University of Arts, Faculty of Music (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2020 | Opera beyond Human: Vocaloids, Mixed Realities and Singing Machines | Opera in Flux: Identity, Staging, Narrative
School of Theatre and Music, University of Illinois Chicago (online, United States)
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2020 | LISTEN, WATCH AND INTERACT: Music as App in the Age of Posthuman | Like, share and Subscribe: Youtube, Music and Share Culture before and after the New Decade
CESEM, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (online, Portugal)
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2019/12/05 | “Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama” | guest lecture
University of Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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2019/11 | “After Opera: Einstein on the Beach” | invited lecture, MA is scenic arts courses
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/08/22 | “Coloratura through Minimalist Grid: Institutional Theory of Art and Un’Opera Italiana by Tom Johnson” | Minimalism Extended: The Seventh International Conference on Minimalist Music
Cardiff University (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
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2019/07 | “Opera beyond the City: Vocaloids, Mixed Realities and Singing Machines” | International conference “Opera and the City: Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination”
National Theater of São Carlos; CESEM; Cinemateca (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/06 | “Dog, Voice, Opera” | 8. Seminário Música, Teoria Crítica e Comunicação
CESEM (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2019/05/18 | "Installing the Operatic" | Installing the Voice, International symposium
TENT Rotterdam, Operadagen festival, CESEM (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2019/04 | “Post-Opera and Voice” | Guest lecture (with Kris Dittel)
Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2019/03/01 | “Odbranimo humanistiku” (Let’s Defend Humanities) | Operofilia book launch
National Library (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2019 | Invited pre-concert talk with Lucinda Childs related to the performance of “Einstein on the Beach” by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson at Operadagen Rotterdam | Operadagen Rotterdam
Tobias Kokkelmans (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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2018/12/31 | “Constructing Canine Vocality” | Human Voice, Animal Voice, International conference
University of Tel Aviv (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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2018/12/03 | “Loaded Singing: Opera, Realism and Politics / Perspectives from Latin America” | Instrumental Theatre. Music and the Stage in Latin America (1954-2006), International Conference
Casa del Bicentenario, Centro de Arte Sonoro (CASo) (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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2018/05 | "Cinematography with a Scent of Opera: Films and their Singing Derivatives" | Opera through the eyes of Film, international conference
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
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2018/04 | "Opera beyond Itself: Installing the Operatic" | International conference Experiments in Opera Today
Heyman Center, Columbia University (New York, United States)
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2017/05/19 | “Installing the Operatic” | International conference “The Operatic”
Center for research of Music Theatre (CROMT), University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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2017 | “Instaliranje operskog” | Musicological Forum
Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2017 | “Beyond Einstein on the Beach” | MA is scenic arts courses
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2016 | “Shaggy–Dog Minimalism in Operas by Tom Johnson” | International conference "Minimalism: Location Aspect Moment"
Winchester Guildhall and Winchester School of Art (Winchester, United Kingdom)
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2015/09 | “Opera on the Horizon of Postminimalism” | Minimalism Unbounded, The Fifth International Conference on Music and Minimalism
University of Turku; Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki, Finland (Turku, Helsinki, Finland)
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2015/05 | “Singing, Ventriloquism and the Body: Performing the Voice in Postopera” | 23rd ICTM Colloquium Between Speech and Song: Liminal Utterances
Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (Paris, France)
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2015/02/14 | “Documentary Singing: Performing the Voice in Music by Steve Reich” | Steve Reich Study Day
Kings Place, Society for Minimalist Music (Lonson, United Kingdom)
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2015 | “Singing Gender as a Performance” | Musical Trouble: After Butler, colloquium
NEGEM, CESEM (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2015 | Public talk about Koyaanisqatsi (1982) dir. Godfrey Reggio (music by Philip Glass), Bodysong (2003) dir. Simon Pummell (music by Jonny Greenwood), Decasia (2002) dir. Bill Morrison (music by Michael Gordon) | “Atrás do Som e da Imagem”
O’culto da Ajuda (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2014/12/11 | “Minimalism and Postminimalism” | Radio as a Pillar of Development of Serbian and Yugoslavian Art and Culture
Musicology Institute SANU (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2014/04/23 | “In Transit: from Operndorf to Youtube Symphony” | Musical Practices – Continuities and Transitions, XII. International Conference of the Department of Musicology
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, Belgrade University of Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2014 | “Postopera: Reinventing the Vocalic Body” | Musicological Forum
Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2013/01/04 | “Will it Get Some Wind for the Sailboat? The Life and Times of Postopera” | International Symposium “Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama”
University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam)
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2013 | “From Einstein to Disney: Political Economy of Opera beyond Drama” | Fourth International conference for Music and Minimalism
UCLA and the California State University, Long Beach (Los Angeles, United States)
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2013 | “Classical music and Ventriloquist Dance: Le Sacre du Printemps Reinvested” | Simpósio Cem Anos de Sagração da Primavera (1913-2013)
CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012/11/09 | “Operatizing the Film” | International conference Opera and Cinema: The Politics of an Encounter
CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012 | “Politics of Turbo-folk” | Seminário «Estética e Política entre as Artes»
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012 | “Postopera and Moving Image: Singing Body beyond the Screen” | Conference: Das Wohnzimmer als Loge. Von der Fernsehoper zum medialen Musiktheater
Universitat Siegen (Siegen, Germany)
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2012 | “Reinventing the Vocalic Body in Postopera” | Seminar “MÚSICA, TEORIA CRÍTICA E COMUNICAÇÃO”
CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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2012 | “Body and Voice, Divided: Singing Corporeality in the Age of Media” | International conference Astonished and Terrified: Opera and the Transformation of the World by Technology
Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre, University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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2011/10 | “La Commedia, Vocal Travesty and Reinvention of Body-Voice – Gender Construct” | The Third International Conference on Minimalist Music
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)
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2011 | "Writing to Vermeer: Singing Letters and Opera after Drama" | International Symposium: Time, Realism and Convention in Recent Opera
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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2011 | "From Minimal Music to Postopera: Repetition, Representation and (Post)Modernity" | Second Colloquium of Society for Minimalism in Music
University of Wolverhampton (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
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2010/03 | “Prosthesis, Ventriloquism, Travesty: Reinventing Singing in the Age of Media” | International Workshop Opera in Medial Transformation
European Institute (Florence, Italy)
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2008 | “Il Ruolo della musica contemporanea nella cultura europea” | lecture/roundtable discussion
RisonanzExpo (Pescara, Italy)
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2005 | “Representation of Body in Music Theatre” | lecture
Department of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Arts (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2005 | “Opera in the Age of Media” | guest lecture
Faculty of Arts (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
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2004 | Opera as Mass-Media Art | Lecture series at MIC
Music Information Center (Belgrade, Serbia)
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2002/04 | “Music and Postmodernity in Yugoslavia” | guest lecture
Norvegian Academy of Music (Oslo, Norway)
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2002 | Opera in the Age of Media | Lecture series at MIC
Music Information Center, Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2020/09 - 2021/01 | Opera "O Corvo Branco" by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson. Postdramatic perspectives.
Supervisor
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post-doc (Other)
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil
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2018 - 2020 | “Descrever (Com Chantal Akerman). Tanto tempo tinha passado. Eu estou aqui.”
Co-supervisor
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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019/06/24 - 2019/06/25 | Opera and the City: Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination, International Conference, co-host with Joao Pedro Cachopo
(2019/06/24 - 2019/06/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Portugal Cinemateca Portuguesa Museu do Cinema, Portugal |
2019/05/18 - 2019/05/18 | International symposium "Installing the Voice" (2019)
Symposium (Member of the Organising Committee)
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2013/01/05 - 2013/01/06 | Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama, co-organizer with Sander van Maas (2013)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
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Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2018 - Current | American Musicological Society | |
2012 - Current | SPIM – Portuguese Society of Music Research | |
2009 - Current | Union of Serbian Composers and Musical Writers | |
2007 - Current | Society for Minimalist Music | |
2000 - Current | Slovenian Musicology Society, Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
2018 - 2019 | Special Interest Group for Voice Studies, The Society for Ethnomusicology | Co-chair |
2004 - 2011 | CHINCH, Initiative for Research and Production of Contemporary Music, “Live” and Visual Arts | director |
2001 - 2010 | TKH (Walking Theory), Center for Theory and Practice of Performing Arts (Belgrade) |
Committee member
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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2019 - Current | Steering Committee, Society for minimalist Music
Member
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Society for Minimalist Music, United Kingdom |
2011 - 2015 | Steering Committee, Society for minimalist Music
Member
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Society for Minimalist Music, United Kingdom |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2020 - Current | Shaping the Present by the Future: (Ethno)musicology in/and Contemporaneity, International conference | Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences |
2019 - Current | International conference “Opera and the City: Technologies of Displacement and Dissemination” | CESEM, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Teatro Nacional Sao Carlos |
2011 - Current | Third International Conference on Music and Minimalism | Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium |
2019/05/18 - 2019/05/18 | Installing the Voice, International symposium | TENT Rotterdam, Operadagen festival, CESEM |
2016 - 2016 | ‘LOG IN, LIVE ON’ música e cibercultura na era da Internet of Things | Organization: SociMus (CysMus)/CESEM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
2013/01/05 - 2013/01/06 | Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama, International symposium | University of Amsterdam |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2020 - Current | peer reviewer | Journal of the American Musicological Society, United States |
2019 - Current | Editorial board, INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology | |
2018 - Current | peer reviewer | Journal "Nuove Musiche", Italy |
2018 - Current | peer reviewer | Journal of Musicological Research, United States |
2017 - Current | peer reviewer | Journal Muzikologija, Serbia |
2003 - Current | Editorial board, Muzicki Talas magazine | |
2005 - 2015 | Corresponding editor, Nutida Musik | |
2002 - 2009 | peer reviewer | TkH journal, Serbia |
2001 - 2006 | Editorial board Treci program journal | Radio Belgrade 3, Serbia |
2001 - 2006 | Editorial board, TkH Journal | |
2001 - 2005 | Editorial board for music program | Radio Belgrade 3, Serbia |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2015/01 - 2015/04 | Module “Opera, New Media and Singing Body” | MA in Scenic Arts | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal |
2014/01 - 2014/04 | Module “Opera, New Media and Singing Body” | (MA in Scenic Arts) | |
2009 - 2009 | Module: “Music as Text: from Formalist to Semiotic Analysis” | MA in Art Theory and Theory of Media, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies | Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia |
2001 - 2002 | Course: Art Theory, MA in Art Theory and Theory of Media | MA in Art Theory and Theory of Media | Univerzitet umetnosti Beogradu, Serbia |
2001 - 2002 | Performance Theory | performance theory (Outros) | CENPI, Center for New Theatre and Dance, Serbia |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2020/03/09 - 2020/03/09 | Music Matters, BBC Radio 3 | Game Changers, interview about the book Einstein on the Beach: Opera beyond Drama |
2015/02/19 - 2015/02/19 | Radio Belgrade 2 and Radio Belgrade 3 | Text for the Intermission of direct broadcast of Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” from Matropoliten Opera in New York |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2019/04 - 2019/04 | Installing the Voice | Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, master students |
Distinctions
Award
2013 | Thurnau Award |
2010 | Bozidar Valtrovic theatre award
Little Theatre Dusko Radovic, Serbia
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Other distinction
2013 | FCT Postdoc research grant
Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
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2007 | Hyugens grant
Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs, Netherlands
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2003 | Huygens grant
Nederlands organisatie voor internationale samenwerking in het hoger onderwijs, Netherlands
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2003 | British Council travel grant |
2002 | Research Council of Norway Grant
Norges forskningsråd, Norway
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2000 | Pro Helvetia travel grant |