2026-05-30 | 16h00 | NOVA FCSH, Avenida de Berna (Lisboa) | Room 208 – Floor 2 | Teams Room
Free entrance, both online and in presence. The seminar will take place in English.
Meeting with Anthony Seeger
Anthony Seeger | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Anthony Seeger is 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.