Alcina Cortez takes up his new position at INET-md under CEEC Individual – 7th edition

Alcina Cortez recently took up her new position at INET-md/NOVA FCSH, where she’s been awarded her PhD on Musicology, and will now proceed her research under an Individual Scientific Employment Incentive Contract in the category of Junior Researcher, funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.

Cocoordinator of INET-md’s thematic line on Heritage(s), Archives and Museums, Alcina Cortez is a curator and producer of museological exhibitions since 1996, and has dedicated her academic work to the interdisciplinary study. In 2024, her PhD dissertation resulted in the book O Som como Meio de Comunicação nas Exposições em Museus (Sound as a Means of Communication in Museum Exhibitions), published by the Portuguese Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage and Caleidoscópio as part of a collection in museum studies. That same year, Alcina launched the international conference Sound in Museums, now approaching its third edition. Meanwhile, she has been preparing The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound in Museums, due for publication in 2027, coedited with Eric de Visscher, Holger Schulze and Gabriele Rossi Rognoni.

With the project Unlocking the Power of Sound in Museum Exhibitions, now ongoing under the CEEC Individual, Alcina aims to investigate the types of meaning that sound can convey to visitors in museum contexts, by combining two frameworks: the first referring to the curatorial uses of sound in museums and the second referring to the different meanings commonly attributed to sound within so-called Western culture.