Conference — 20 January 2026
The Latin American Congress of Aural Studies will take place between June 24 and 26 at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile. They have issued a call for papers, roundtables, and sound works to discuss listening and aurality in Latin America from interdisciplinary perspectives.
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Economies, industries and policies of culture — 19 January 2026
Juan Almonacid, one of the CMUS thesis students, will defend his dissertation tomorrow, January 20th, for the title of Professor specializing in General Music Theory at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile. His work, entitled “Through the Door: The Impact of the Euro-We
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Economies, industries and policies of culture — 13 January 2026
Carla Pinochet will participate remotely this Friday in the 2nd Anthropology of Sound Seminar. The deputy director of CMUS will present the paper "Towards an Anthropology of Listening: Conceptual Convergences and Emerging Methodological Paths," followed by a conversation with eth
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Call for papers · Conference — 9 January 2026
The 49th ICTMD World Conference will be held at Alberto Hurtado University from January 14 to 20, 2027. The co-chairs of this conference are Jacob Rekedal, a member of ICTMD Chile and professor at Alberto Hurtado University, and Ignacio Soto-Silva, president of ICTMD Chile, profe
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Publications — 6 January 2026
In the Place of Others: On Representation in Museums and Ethnography" is the name of the article that Carla Pinochet published in the academic journal Itinerarios. The deputy director of the Millennium Nucleus writes the following in her abstract: "This article addresses the pro
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Conference · Events — 5 January 2026
The 12th Chilean Congress of Anthropology, entitled "Anthropologies and Divergences," will take place from Monday, January 5th to Friday, January 10th, 2026 at the Arturo Prat University (UNAP) in Victoria, Araucanía Region. At this event, Andrea Chamorro is coordinating the symp
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Publications — 2 January 2026
In late December 2025, issue number 57 of the academic journal Resonancias, published by the Music Institute of the Catholic University of Chile, was released. Several members of CMUS contributed to this issue. First, the dossier "Urban music, hurban, and música urbana: false fri
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Economies, industries and policies of culture — 30 December 2025
CMUS principal researcher Andrea Chamorro will lead the Workshop on Anthropologies and Experimental Cinemas, organized by the Tierra en Trance collective, which will take place between January 12 and 23, 2026. The workshop seeks to address cinema and anthropology as relational pr
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Communities, territories and participation — 29 December 2025
The audiovisual capsules from The School of Listening are now available, systematizing and communicating different dimensions of the work developed in the participating educational establishments. The short videos capture the experiences of students and teachers, as well as the c
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Publications — 23 December 2025
Beatriz Medeiros, CMUS postdoctoral researcher, published the article "Performing for the male gaze? Female drummers’ performances on TikTok" en la revista académica Journal of Sound, Silence, Image and Technology. The abstract states the following: "This article examines how fe
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Economies, industries and policies of culture — 18 December 2025
Organized by the USACH Cultural Corporation, the Teacher's Manual: Music of Written Tradition in TISA (Transitions, Exchanges and Sensitization of the Arts) was launched on Friday, December 12th at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Quinta Normal. CMUS researchers Eileen Karmy and
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Economies, industries and policies of culture · Publications — 15 December 2025
The director of CMUS, Christian Spencer, wrote the academic article "Music, Popular Culture, and Imagination: Horacio Salinas and the Folk-Rooted Guitar" in volume 31 of the Brazilian journal Opus. The text is part of the dossier "Histories, Agencies, and Appropriations of the Gu
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