Filiação institucional

Instituto de Etnomusicologia-Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-MD) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Centre de recherche en ethnomusicologie - Laboratoire d'ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (CNRS UMR-7186)

Categoria ou actividade/Activity

Investigador bolseiro Pós-Doutoral / Post-doctoral Research Fellow at INET/MD – FCSH/UNL (FCT Fellowship)

Formação Académica/ Education

2010 Doctorate (PhD) in Anthropology-Ethnomusicology (University Paris Ouest – La Défense, France)

Title : La passion du tragique : paroles mélodisées chez les Yézidis d'Arménie. [Passion for tragedy. Melodised speech among the Yezidis in Armenia] This thesis was awarded the highest distinction by French academic conventions ("Mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l'unanimité").
2004 Masters in Ethnomusicology (Saint Denis/Paris VIII, France)

Title : Lamentations de femmes kurdes déplacées: les chemins de l'identité kurde en Turquie aujourd'hui[Displaced Kurdish women's laments : a path for Kurdish Idendity in Turkey].
2002 Masters in Russian studies (Saint Denis/Paris VIII, France)

Title : Molokanes de Transcaucasie : survie d'une identité [Molokans from Transcaucasie : Survey of an Identity].

2002 BA in Ethnomusicology (Saint Denis/Paris VIII, France)

Title : Femmes mollah et cérémonies de deuil, péninsule d'Apchéron, Azerbaïdjan [Women mollah and mourning ceremonies in Apsheron peninsula, Azerbaijan].

2001 Licence in Ethnology (Nanterre/Paris X, France)

2000 Licence in Russian Studies at University Tours-Tanneurs.

Fellowships and grants

2012-2014 FCT Post-doctoral fellowship

2011 Grant for publication SFE (Société Française d'Ethnomusicologie).

2011 Grant for publication University Paris Ouest La Défense.

2011 Grant for publication Centre de recherches en ethnomusicologie (CREM-LESC/CNRS-UMR7186).

2007 Lavoisier scholarship (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs).

Actividade Ligada a Organizações Académicas e Profisionais Nacionais e Internacionais / Professional and Academic Organizations

Member of the Research Center in Ethnomusicology (CREM-LESC UMR 7186), Paris.

Member of the SFE (French Society for Ethnomusicology).

Member of the ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music).

Member of the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists).

Actividade Docente e Profissional/Academic Positions and Professional Activities

2013-2014 Teaching a module in the doctoral seminar in Ethnomusicology at FCSH/UNL on "Vocal Anthropology: acoustics, agency and power of the performed voice".

2012 Teaching a module in the doctoral seminar in Ethnomusicology at FCSH/UNL on "Music and Grief".

1999-2012 Javanese gamelan teacher at the Cité de la Musique (Paris).

2010-2011 Javanese Gamelan Teacher (practice and theory) at FCSH/UNL (Lisbon).

2007-09 Temporary lecturer at University Paris X-Nanterre.

I taught the following lectures : "What is ethnomusicology?", "Fieldwork in ethnomusicology", "Social organisation and kingship", "Key texts in ethnology", "Anthropology of religions".

2006-09 In charge of the development of Javanese gamelan in Southeastern France.

I coordinated the training of new teachers in gamelan and the educational gamelan program with students from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, from the Conservatoire of Cannes (CNR) and the Regional delegation for Music and Dance (ADEM 06).

2006-07 Temporary lecturer in ethnomusicology at University Paris VII-Jussieu (for students in Masters).

2005-06 Temporary lecturer in ethnomusicology at University Paris X-Nanterre (for undergraduate students).

2005 Conception and coordination of Feleknaz Esmer and Gazin's concerts at the Cité de la Musique (Paris) during the festival "Destins Kurdes" (25, 26 and 27 February 2005).

Realisation of a filmed interview "Feleknaz Esmer et Gazin, chanteuses kurdes" (21 min 41), Mondomix / Cité de la Musique, Paris. www.cite-musique.fr/mediatheque/entretiensfilmes

PUBLICAÇÕES/PUBLICATIONS

Livros/Books

2013 Paroles melodisees. Recits epiques et lamentations chez les Yezidis d'Armenie, Classiques Garnier ed., col. "Mémoire, histoire, Politique" (coord. by C.Coquio), Paris.

Artigos em revistas e livros de carácter científico/Articles in scientific journals and books

2013 with Melissa Bilal (Chicago University), "The Oror and the Lorî: Armenian and Kurdish lullabies in present-day Istanbul", Remembering the Past in Iranian Societies, P.Kreyenbroek and C.Allison (eds), Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 125-140.

2012 "Voices of sorrow: Melodized speech, laments and epics in the Yezidi community of Armenia", Yearbook for Traditional Music 44:129-148.

2012 (with Victor A. Stoichita, CNRS), "Musics of the New Times: Romanian Manele and Armenian Rabiz as Icons of Post-communist Changes", The Balkans and the Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea, I.Biliarsky, O.Cristea et A.Oroveanu (eds), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 321-335.

2011 "Le pleur du duduk et la danse du zurna: essai de typologie musicale des émotions dans la communauté yézidie d'Arménie", Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 56 (2):385-401.

2010 "Le pleur du duduk et la danse du zurna: essai de typologie musicale des émotions dans la communauté yézidie d'Arménie", La voix actée. Pour une nouvelle ethnopoétique, C.Calame, F.Dupont, B.Lortat-Jacob and M.Manca eds. Kimé, 175-194.

2010 "Des affects entre guillemets : Mélodisation de la parole chez les Yézidis d'Arménie", Cahiers d'ethnomusicologie, n°23 :131-145, Geneva.

2008 "Chants pour la maisonnée au chevet du défunt: La communauté et l'exil dans les funérailles des Yézidis d'Arménie", Frontières vol.20-2: 60-66 (with a CD), Montréal.

2005 "Femmes mollah et cérémonies féminines de deuil en Azerbaïdjan", Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles, n° 18 : 51-66, Geneva.

2005 Contribution on musics from Azerbaijan (mugam, ashug...). Multimedia presentation of the audio and video archive of the Cité de la Musique, Paris. www.cite-musique.fr/mediatheque

2005 "Η μουσική του γκαμελάν και οι κύκλοι της ζωής" [Gamelan music and the cycles of life], Highlights 17 : 186-191, Athens.

2003 "Fatima's Song – Песня Фатимы", IRS 5: 48-49, Baku.

Interviews and translations

2013 with Victor A. Stoichita (CREM/LESC-CNRS), "Trois continents, une passion", interview with Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Cahiers d'ethnomusicologie 26:239-252.

2012 "Il y a quand même de l'espoir" (There is still hope), interview with Emerik Sardar. Etudes Kurdes 11:103-108.

2012 "Le postier" (The mailman), short story by Emerik Sardar. Original title : "Почталион". Translated from Russian for Etudes Kurdes 11:109-118.

2012 "Je suis un exilé" (I'm exiled), poem by Mraz Cemal. Original title : "Xerîbim". Translated from Kurdish for Etudes Kurdes 11:119.

2012 "Je viendrai en secret" (I will come in secret), poem by Xaylaz Reşit Mîrzoeva. Original title : "Dizikava ezê bêm". Translated from Kurdish for Etudes Kurdes 11:120-121.

2005 "Feleknaz Esmer et Gazin, chanteuses kurdes", filmed interview (21 min 41). Mondomix production/Cité de la Musique. www.cite-musique.fr/mediatheque/entretiensfilmes

Coordinação de panel/ Panel coordination

2012, With Alexandra Argenti-Pillen (UCL) "Saying the unspeakable. The uses of voice in the narration of traumatic events". 12th EASA Biennial Conference "Uncertainty and disquiet", Nanterre 10-13 July 2012.

Conférencias por convite e seminarios / Invited talks and seminars

2014 "Ethnomusicologies théorique et pratique, l'enseignement du gamelan javanais", seminar of the CREM (Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie). 3rd of March, University Paris Ouest-Nanterre.

2014 "Voix de peine et chants de héros. Récits quotidiens de sacrifices exemplaires chez les Yézidis d'Arménie", seminar Religion et politique : corps d'apocalypses coordinated by Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Cécile Boëx, Claudine Gauthier and Anna Poujeau. 10th of February

2014 "Conférence-Atelier autour du gamelan javanais", seminar Les rencontres du troisième type organized by the AEEAN (association des Étudiants en Ethnologie et Anthropologie de Nanterre). 7th of February.

2013 "Paroles mélodisées et cœurs brûlants. Expressions sonores et poétiques de la perte chez les Yézidis d'Arménie", seminar Anthropologie à Nanterre, University Paris Ouest La Defense, 19th of November.

2013 "Récits d'exil des kurdophones d'Arménie. Des lamentations aux chants de héros", Brunch EthnomusiKa, Paris, 6th of October.

2013 "Voicing the Tragic among the Yezidis of Armenia", Colloquium Morality in cognition and culture. Cerisy, 4th-11th of September.

2013Presentation of the book Paroles mélodisées Récits épiques et lamentations chez les Yézidis d'Arménie, Kurdish Institute of Paris, 29th of June.

2013 "Des larmes aux héros. Paroles mélodisées chez les Yézidis d'Arménie". Seminar Histoire et anthropologie des islams du Nord: Russie, Caucase, Asie Centrale, Chine organized by Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Alexandre Papas, Anne Ducloux, Frédérique Longuet-Marx, and Tierry Zarcone. IISMM (Institut d'études de l'Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman), 3rd of June.

2013 Narrativas de exílio dos Curdos nas grandes cidades da Turquia, Ciclo Aulas abertas Islão contemporâneo, culturas e sociedades. Organização Maria Cardeira da Silva, NECI/CRIA (Núcleo de estudos em Contextos Islâmicos do Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia). Lisbon, FCSH-UNL, 2nd of May.

2013 " 'Burning heart women': Melodised narratives of pain and loss among the Yezidis of Armenia", Guest lecture at Center for Gender Studies and Center for Ethnomusicology, Kunst University of Graz, Austria, 20th of March.

2012 "'Burning hearts': Melodised narration of pain and loss among the Yezidis of Armenia". Colloquium Illness Narratives revisited: From the Semiotics of Language to the Materiality of Speech (Green Templeton College - University of Oxford), 5-8 December.

2011« Des larmes aux héros: paroles mélodisées chez les Yézidis d'Arménie », CIEREC, Université de Saint-Etienne, France.

2011 « Paroles mélodisées et partage des affects dans la communauté Yézidie d'Arménie », Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie UMR 7186 LESC-CNRS, Paris.

2011"Da doum la da - Made in Armenia : Rêves d'Orient et d'Occident dans les musiques populaires de part et d'autre de la mer Noire", Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen (CERCEC, UMR 8083), seminar Le Caucase entre les Empires.

2011"Das lágrimas aos heroís. Fala melodizada na comunidade yezidi da Arménia", Instituto de etnomusicologia, colóquio Música em contexto, Lisbon.

2011 "From tears to heroes. Melodised speech among the Yezidis in Armenia", Seminar of Anthropology, UCL, London.

2010 "Les Yézidis d'Arménie ou la passion du tragique", Centre de Recherche en Ethnomusicologie UMR 7186 LESC-CNRS, Paris.

2008 "Recherches de terrain comparées en ethnomusicologie sur les kurdophones d'Arménie et de Turquie", Journées d'études de la Société d'Etudes Arméniennes, Paris.

2008 "Que je sois ton sacrifice : musique et émotions dans les funérailles yézidies d'Arménie", Laboratoire d'ethnomusicologie CNRS UMR-7173, Paris.

2008 "Enonciation, musique et affects dans les funérailles yézidies d'Arménie", Groupe de recherche en ethnopoétique CNRS GDR-3068, Paris.

2007 "Yézidis d'Arménie : une étude ethnomusicologique", Société d'Etudes Arméniennes, Paris.

2005 "La musique traditionnelle dans les régions kurdes", Collège "Musiques, sociétés, langages", Cité de la Musique, Paris.

2005 "Lamentations de femmes kurdes réfugiées à Istanbul", Séminaire : Kurdes et Kurdistan, EHESS, Paris.

2004 "Molokanes de Transcaucasie", Séminaire : Le Caucase entre les Empires, CERCEC, EHESS, Paris.

2003 "Femmes mollah et cérémonies de deuil dans la péninsule d'Apchéron (Azerbaïdjan)", Séminaire : Islam et identité nationale au Caucase, ETO-CHDT, EHESS, Paris.

Comunicações/ Papers in Conferences

2014 "Se lamenter en MP3. Supports de mémoires mobiles chez les Yézidis d'Arménie", Le funéraire. Mémoire, protocoles, monuments - 11e colloque annuel de la MAE, coord. by G.Delaplace (LESC) and F.Valentin (ArScAn), University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, 18-20th of June.

2014 "Ethnomusicologie appliquée: Atelier-conférence autour du gamelan javanais" Journées d'études de la Société Française d'Ethomusicologie: L'ethnomusicologie appliquée: pour qui? Pourquoi? Paris,22-24th of May.

2012Participation to the forum: « Musique(s) arménienne(s)? », Cité de la Musique, Paris.

2012"Voices of sorrow : laments, epics and melodized speech amongst Yezidis in Armenia", 12th EASA Biennial Conference Uncertainty and disquiet, Nanterre.

2012"Remembering the dead on mp3 compilations : post-soviet heroes among Yezidis in Armenia", British Institute for Persian Studies - Jawanmardi Workshop, 12 avril.

2011Participation to the forum : "Musiques et rituels funéraires", Cité de la Musique, Paris.

2011 "Melodised speech and empathy of sorrow in the Yezidi community of Armenia", ICTM World Conference, 13-19 July, Canada.

2011 "Building the hero : from ritual mourning to mp3 compilations", People make places, SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore), 17-24 april, Lisbon.

2010 (avec Victor A. Stoichiţă) "Musics of the new times Romanian manele and Armenian rabiz as icons of post-communist changes". The Balkans and the Caucasus. Parallel processes in the historical destiny, mentality, culture and future trends on the opposite sides of the Black Sea New Europe College, Bucharest, 12-13 april.

2009 "Duduk lament and zurna dance: a musical typology of emotion in Armenia's Yezidi communities ", Kurds and Kurdistan: history, politics, culture, Exeter University (UK) 2-3 april.

2008 "Des funérailles aux mariages : musique et émotions dans la communauté yézidie d'Arménie", Les mots, les chants, les gestes pour le dire :les lamentations dans le monde euro-méditerranéen, Université Paris IV, Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Bastia.

2007 "Lamentations, mort et exil : construction spatiale et sonore de la parenté dans les lamentations funéraires des Yézidis d'Arménie", Les mots, les chants, les gestes pour le dire :les lamentations dans le monde euro-méditerranéen, Université Paris IV, Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Paris.

2007 "Discourses of homeland, displacement and exile in Yezidi songs from Armenia", Yezidism in Transition – Communities at Home and in the Diaspora, 12-15 april, University of Frankfurt am Main.

2007 "Exils chantés dans les funérailles yézidies d'Arménie", Journée d'étude sur les Yézidis du Caucase, EHESS, Paris.

2006 "The Sacrifice of the Stranger : Kurdish Lullabies and Laments in Today's Istanbul", Discourses on Memory in Iranian Cultures, CNRS, Paris.

2005 "Η φαγούρα του εθνομουσικολόγου" [The ethnomusicologist's itching], International Conference of the Cultural Press (Greek ministry of Culture and Highlights), Kavala-Komotini (Grèce).

OUTROS ELEMENTOS QUE CONSIDERE IMPORTANTES / OTHER ACTIVITIES

Investigação de Campo / Field Research

Armenia (Dec. 2005, April-May 2006, Sept-Oct. 2006, Jan-May 2007, August-Sept. 2007, Dec. 2008) Azerbaijan (August-Oct. 2001, Feb-March 2002)

Georgia (August 2007)

Greece (May-Oct. 2005, July-Sept. 2008)

Indonesia (July-August 2006, June-July 2007)

Turkey (Feb. 2003, April 2003, Sept-Oct. 2003, Oct-April 2004-2005)

Formação Músical/ Musical training

2000-14 Training in Javanese Gamelan at the Cite de la musique as a member of the Cité de la musique's gamelan players.

Our group studied under the supervision of Javanese gamelan masters (mainly Rahayu Supanggah and Sri Joko Raharjo).

During the last 5 years I concentrated mostly on the study of sindhenan (female singing part), and kendhangan ciblon (drums).

We had the opportunity to perform at various events in Chinon (2011), Pontault-Combault (2010), Pau (2009), Nanterre (2008), Strasbourg (2008), Paris (2008), Cannes (2008), Java (2008, 2007), La Réunion (2006), Nice (2004), Grenoble (2004), Lyon (2004), Bourg en Bresse (2004). Some of these performances accompanied traditional Javanese dance or puppet theater.

1994-2005 Training in 'oud under the supervision of Abderrahim Tazi.

2002-03 Training in Middle-Eastern kamancha under the supervision of Anouch Donabedian.

2000-01 Training in vocal classical Arabic music under the supervision of Aïcha Redouane.

1988-98 Training in classical piano.

1887-2000 Practice of Arabic music (mostly percussions -derbouka, tbilat, bendir, riqq, qraqeb- and singing) and Javanese gamelan at the Galerie Sonore d'Angers.

Our group had the opportunity to give concerts at the Royal Festival Hall (South Bank Center - London) in 1994, during the international gamelan festival in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) in 1995 and at the Unesco (Paris) in 1998.

Línguas / Languages

French, Russian, English, Modern Greek, Kurdish (kurmanji), Portuguese - Fluent

Armenian, Indonesian - Conversational

Turkish, Polish, Arabic, Persian - Basic level