On July 16, at 9 am, in the CCCI Auditorium of the Department of Communication and Arts of the University of Aveiro, students from the Doctoral Programme in Music (PDM) and the Doctoral Programme in Artistic Creation (PDCA), associated with INET-md, will present their research projects as part of the Research Summit 2026.
The programme includes three round tables, moderated by Sofia Serra, Alfonso Benetti and Ana Flávia Miguel, integrated researchers at INET-md, and features 13 presentations by Phd students associated with the research unit.
Organised by the University of Aveiro, the Research Summit is a forum that aims to foster meaningful debate within the University of Aveiro’s research community and to enhance collaboration, thereby advancing the state of the art and boosting research efforts on campus. The theme for the 2026 edition will be Science, public policy and impact: from evidence to action.
Admission is free.
See the full programme here
Music and community engagement: Practices, artistic dialogue, and contemporary challenges Chair | Sofia Serra
09:10 | Diana Gaspar | Media multitasking during music practice and its effect on performance
09:20 | Rute Carolina da Cunha Benigno | Forró as Intangible Cultural Heritage: bottom-up strategies in a mobility context
09:30 | Gabriel Arruda | Some Forms of Recognition in a Samba Context
09:40 | Guillermo Bocanegra Jiménez | Other Rituals: Musical Performance and Relational Knowledge Through Artistic Research
09:50 Roundtable
Creativity and artistic practice in music: Experiences, dialogues and perspectives Chair | Alfonso Benetti
10:20 | Pedro Emanuel Pereira | Silence as a Phenomenon of Confinement: An Artistic Exploration within the Portuguese Prison System
10:30 | Huayma Tulian | Gestures and figures: integrating composition, performance, and fixed audiovisual media
10:40 | Gustavo Afonso | From the archive to the stage: the experimental recreation of Euripides’s Medea
10:50 | Jonathan Silva | Reconfiguring the Classical Concert Through Improvisation and Instrument Augmentatio
11:00 | Luam Gabriel Clarindo Nunes | Creativity and Artistic Practice in Music: Experiences, Dialogues and Perspectives through Hypercuíca
11:10 Roundtable
Contexts and circulation of sound media, instruments and musical practices Chair | Ana Flávia Miguel
11:40 | Marina Bonfim Pacheco | Amália Brasileira: The Trajectories of Amália Rodrigues in Brazil through an Ethnography of Archives (1944–1972)
11:50 | Beatriz Oliveira | The guitar in Portugal in the 19th and 20th centuries: An archival study
12:00 | Lucas Ladeia Ribeiro| Cavaquinhos and Braguinhas: Territories and Interactions Between Brazil and Portugal
12:10 | Daniel Filipe da Costa Domingues | The record before listening: material traces, sound practices and phonographic circulation
12:20 Roundtable