Curriculum Vitae
Alcina Cortez
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alcina Cortez
- Date of birth
- 1966/02/28
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- CORTEZ, Alcina
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 5711-8C6A-8564
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1921-9048
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=kdhPcu8AAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
Email addresses
- alcinamariacortez@gmail.com (Professional)
Telephones
- Telephone
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- (351) 217908003 (Professional)
Addresses
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Instituto Nacional de Etnomusicologia. Av. Berna 26C, 1069-061, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Websites
- www.inetmd.pt (Professional)
- www.objectsofsound.com (Professional)
- https://alcinacortez.com/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Arts
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Beginner (A1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2022/01/18
Concluded
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Ciências Musicais (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Etnomusicologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Communicating through sound in museum exhibitions: unravelling a field of practice" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Distinction |
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2017/10/01 - 2018/06/30
Concluded
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Acoustics and Sound Studies (Pós-Graduação)
NOVA, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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16 |
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2014/12/19
Concluded
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Ciências Musicais, variante Etnomusicologia (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Etnomusicologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Popular music exhibitions in Portugal: practices of representation from 2007 to 2013" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011 - 2012
Concluded
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Popular Music Studies (Pós-Graduação)
NOVA, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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17 |
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2009 - 2009
Concluded
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Editing and Proofreading (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
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15 |
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1988 - 1992
Concluded
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Ciências Musicais (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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13 |
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1984 - 1988
Attended
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Curso Geral do Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa (Bacharelato)
Instituto Gregoriano de Lisboa, Portugal
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13 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal |
| 2016/01 - 2018/12/31 | Coordinating Researcher (Research) | Moment, Museum of Music & Entertainment in New York City, United States |
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1998/01/01 - 1998/12/31 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Parque Expo'98, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2001/11/01 - 2011/07/31 | Assessor (Técnica Superior) | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022/04/20 - 2022/04/20 | Sound as a Medium to Communicate in Museums and Beyond: Enhancing the Understanding of the EU's Arts, Culture and Values
101095109
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
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Horizon Europe
Not funded
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| 2022/03/10 - 2022/03/10 | The Sonified Museum: Unravelling Sound's Communicative Opportunities
2022.02528.PTDC
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
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Not funded
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| 2021/10/07 - 2021/10/07 | Sound in Museums Exhibitions: Unravelling its Representational, Emotional and Sensorial Meanings
101061576
Principal investigator
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
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Horizon Europe
Not funded
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| 2016/10/01 - 2019/09/30 | CATEGORISING AND ANALYSING SOUND-BASED MULTIMODAL MUSEUM PRACTICES
SFRH/BD/115789/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/01/09 - 2027/12/31 | Sonic Ways
2024.02528.PTDC
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Institute for Digital Culture, United Kingdom
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Submitted
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Conference paper |
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| Edited book |
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| Journal article |
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| Manual |
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| Report |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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| Translation |
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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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| 2023/09/19 | Mapping Sound-Based Multimodal Museum Practices: A Seven-Use Framework | Museum Transformations: Pathways to Community Engagement, 16th International Conference on Inclusive Museum
UBC Robson Square (Vancouver, Canada)
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| 2023/09/13 | Resonating Dimensions: Exploring the Interplay of Sound with Museums, Humans, Space, andTechnology | Sonic Days
Sonic College (Kolding, Denmark)
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| 2022/06/23 | Listening in Museums: Unraveling a Field of Practice | The Listening Academy, Hangar
The Listening Academy (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/09/02 | Arte Sonora em Museus: O Som Como Construtor do Espaço | II Congresso Internacional—Paisagens Sonoras: O Som, a Música e a Arquitectura nas Comemorações de André Soares (1720-1769)
CEHUM, Universidade do Minho (Braga)
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| 2021/05/24 | Expor Som em Museus: História e Práticas Recentes | Ciclo de Conferências Museus, Exposições e Amplitudes da Realidade
CITCEM—Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar ''Cultura, Espaço e Memória'', Universidade do Porto (Porto)
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| 2019/05/01 | Mobilising the Knowledge on Music in Museum Exhibitions Through Multimodality and Sound Epistemologies | PhD Research Seminars
School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester (Leicester, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/03/07 | New Ways of Encountering Music: Embedding Music Studies in the Museum | Annual Symposium of Music Scholars in Finland
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
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| 2017/05/30 | E se o Som Fosse Um Objeto? Conceitos para a Exposição do Património (i)material em museus | Encontro Internacional Expor Arte & Património, entre o Transitório, o Transcendental e o Intangível
CITCEM—Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar ''Cultura, Espaço e Memória'', Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2017/04/04 | Sound Epistemologies in Museums | Doctoral Forum 3, PhD Studies
INET-MD (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016/10/20 | The Heritagisation of Popular Music: Current Practices and New Challenges | Symposium of the Future of Heritage 2016: Strategy, Values and Impact
Symposium of the Future of Heritage (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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| 2016/06/10 | Sound Art As Electronic Literary Artifacts: Objects of Shifting Imaginations, Self Construction, and Spaces of Memory | Sound Art As Electronic Literary Artifacts: Objects of Shifting Imaginations, Self Construction, Spaces of Memory
Electronic Literature Organisation (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)
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| 2016/05/25 | Curating Popular Music Heritage: Reasoning on Making Museum Studies and Music Studies Know Each Other | Séminaire Post-Doctoral du Labex CAP, Expositions et Création: Pratiques Sociales et Experiences du Musée
Labex CAP (Paris, France)
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| 2016/04/06 | The Digital Museum: On Studying New Trajectories for the Music Museum | Museums and the Web 2016
Museums and the Web (Los Angeles, United States)
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| 2016 | The Digital Museum: On Studying New Trajectories for the Music Museum | Museums and the Web
(Los Angeles, United States)
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| 2015/06/15 | Practices of Exhibiting Popular Music in Portugal: When My Kind of Music is Not Yours | Exhibiting Music, Canadian Society for Traditional Music 2015 Conference
Cape Breton University (Cape Breton, Canada)
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| 2014/10/23 | Musical Sound in Museums: Art Object and Artifact | Exhibiting Music': Representations of Music and Sound in Museum Contexts
University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
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| 2013/06/23 | Popular Music Museologic Narratives | 17th Biennial Conference of International Association of Popular Music Studies
IASPM (Oviedo, Spain)
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| 2011/04/02 | When Texts Leads to Seeing: Written Materials in Museums | When Texts Leads to Seeing: Written Materials in Museums
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Culture, University of Bologna at Forli (Bologna, Italy)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/10/01 - Current | Ambientes sonoros em museus
Co-supervisor
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Estudos do Património (PhD)
Faculdade de Letras Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/12/30 - Current | Sound in Museums¿Sonic College, Kolding, Denmark (20-22 November 2024)
The conference aims to bring together academics, researchers, independent scholars, museum directors, museum practitioners,
curators, sound artists, sound designers, and industry professionals from all over the world to share findings, expertise
and experience about the exhibition of sound in museums. (2023/12/30)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Sonic College, Denmark |
| 2023/10/01 - 2024/06/30 | Co-curator of the exhibition 'Sephardic songs'' (2023/10/01 - 2024/06/30)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
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Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal |
| 2022/10 - 2023/04 | Sound Experts Workshop (2023/04/27 - 2023/04/28)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Institute for Digital Culture, United Kingdom |
| 2016/01/01 - 2016/07/31 | Exhibition ''Protest Song'' (2016/06/15 - 2016/06/26)
Exhibition (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas| FCT| Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2007/01/01 - 2011/06/30 | Exhibition ''Darwin's Evolution'' (2009/02/12 - 2011/07/17)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2006/01/01 - 2007/12/31 | Exhibition ''Ingenuities, Photography, and Engineering 1846-2006'' (2007/02/08 - 2007/04/29)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2005/01/01 - 2007/06/30 | Exhibition ''At The Service of the Health'' (2006/12/06 - 2007/01/26)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Fundação Caloutse Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2003/07/01 - 2007/06/30 | Exhibition ''In the Light of Einstein. 1905-2005'' (2005/10/03 - 2006/11/24)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2001/11/01 - 2002/07/31 | Exhibition ''Powers of Ten'' (2002/02/21 - 2002/06/30)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2000 - 2000 | European Day Without Cars
Festival (Other)
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Institute of Environmental Promotion, Ministry of Environment, Portugal |
| 1999 - 1999 | The Rural World and Nature Conservation
Exhibition (Other)
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Institute of Agronomy| Institute of Environmental Promotion, Portugal |
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/06/25 | Music and Tangible Encounters: The Creation of Sonic Experiences in Museums
(Thesis) Arguer
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Maria Luísa Guevara Tirado (Master)
Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2022/05/20 - 2022/10/27 | Senses and Society | Taylor and Francis Online |
| 2022/08/27 - 2022/10/12 | Curator, The Museum Journal | Wiley Online Library |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022 - 2023 | Museu Nacional da Música—Member of the Scientific Committee
Advisor / Consultant
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Museu Nacional da Música, Portugal |
| 2016/01/02 - 2019/12/31 | Advisor to the founding Committee of MOMENT NYC, Museum of Music and Entertainment, New York. | MOMENT NYC, United States |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2023 - 2023 | XII ENIM | Museu Nacional da Música |
| 2022 - 2022 | XI ENIM | Universidade de Aveiro |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 1994/01 - 1994/12 | Projecto Maestro: Catalogação Musical, Inteligência Artificial e Robótica | |
| 1992/01 - 1993/01 | Saltimbancos, Theater Company |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2010/09 - 2010/11 | Informação ICOM | ICOM |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2020/05 - Current | Reviewer of Research Projects in the field of Museums/Sound Materials. | Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland |
| 2010 - 2010 | Tender 'Comunicar Ambiente' on the theme Biodiversity | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2016 | Blog 'Objects of Sound' selected for the publication 'The Blog Book'
MuseumsETC, Portugal
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