2026-05-20 | 4 pm | NOVA FCSH, Lisbon | Campus Avenida de Berna | Tower B, Room B307 & Online
Free entrance, both online and in presence. The seminar will be held in Portuguese.
Ways to serve a life in music and a commitment to society, a conversation with Anthony Seeger
Anthony Seeger | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
For this seminar of Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies, Anthony Seeger presents to the INET-md community some aspects of his life’s work in research and applied ethnomusicology, providing an opportunity for open dialogue with researchers at various stages of their careers.
Anthony Seeger | Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Why Suyá Sing: A Musical Anthropology of an Amazonian People (Cambridge University Press, 1987), and co-editor of Archives for the Future: Global Perspectives on Audiovisual Archives in the 21st Century (Seagull Books, 2004). His numerous publications have focused on the human and territorial rights of Brazilian Indigenous communities, archival issues and intellectual property, as well as questions of ethnomusicological theory and methodology. Between 1975 and 1982, he was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. He also served as Director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution between 1988 and 2000, where he oversaw the release of approximately 250 recordings.
This event is financed by national funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the project EXIMUS – “We must warn everyone”: Music and Portuguese exile in France during the Estado Novo regime (1933-1974) (2022.05129.PTDC, DOI 10.54499/2022.05129.PTDC), and INET-md, Institute of Ethnomusicology – Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (UID/00472/2025, DOI: 10.54499/UID/00472/2025).