pixel Last lecture by Professor Salwa Castelo-Branco - 16 December | Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

Last lecture by Professor Salwa Castelo-Branco - 16 December

Salwa Castelo-Branco
16 December 2022

A relevant figure in the area of Musical Sciences, not only nationally but also internationally, Salwa Castelo-Branco, Full Professor at the Department of Music Sciences of NOVA FCSH, bids farewell to teaching, giving her last lecture on December 16, 2022 at 3 pm in the Rectorate Auditorium of NOVA University Lisbon.

Salwa Castelo-Branco was Vice-Rector of NOVA, and was also recognized by the university as Professor Emeritus. In her last lesson, she will address the institutionalization of Music Sciences in Portugal: the pioneering role of the Department of Music Sciences of NOVA FCSH. The lesson will also include a performance by the musician, pianist, composer, and former student of NOVA FCSH, Júlio Resende, and the intervention of Luís Baptista, Dean of NOVA FCSH, and João Sàágua, Rector of NOVA.

Please confirm your presence by filling out the form.

Since she joined the Department of Music Sciences at NOVA FCSH in 1982, Salwa Castelo Branco has transformed Music Sciences in Portugal and has progressively become one of the protagonists in the field of Ethnomusicology. Get to know better her career in an interview  to NOVA Communication  - "Music is also a privileged prism to look at transversal questions of human experience".