EAS is happy to present the keynote speakers for the EAS conference 2025 in Évora (Portugal)!
PATRICIA CAMPBELL
Patricia Shehan Campbell is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, where she taught courses at the interface of education and ethnomusicology for 33 years. With three Fulbright awards (in India, China, and Canada) and grant-funded projects in Bulgaria, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Myanmar, and Tanzania, she frequently lectures on “music as a pathway to intercultural understanding”.
Her work is in World Music Pedagogy and children’s musical cultures, with multiple publications that include Global Music Cultures, Teaching Music Globally, Songs in Their Heads, Music, Education and Diversity, the Oxford Handbook on Children’s Musical Cultures, Oxford’s 28-volume Global Music Series, and the 7-volume Routledge World Music Pedagogy Series. Campbell is recipient of the 2012 Taiji Award (China) and the 2017 Koizumi Prize (Japan) for work on the preservation of traditional music through educational practice, and was named an Honorary Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology (2021). She is an educational consultant for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Association for Cultural Equity, and the Global Jukebox, and serves as chair of Chamwino Connect, an NGO for the sustainability of music, arts, and culture in a Tanzanian village.
SARA CARVALHO
Sara Carvalho is a composer and a senior lecturer at the University of Aveiro’s Department of Communication and Arts, Portugal. She currently is the Director of the Doctoral Music Program, Vice-Director of the Undergraduate Music Program, and coordinator of the Composition course. Sara is a member of the University’s Doctoral School Board and a fellow researcher of the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-MD).
As a composer, she is interested in researching creative processes associated with gesture, musical narrative, audience as performers and performer-composer collaboration.
Her portfolio has over 90 pieces regularly performed both in Portugal and internationally. These include commissions by prestigious international institutions, ensembles, and soloists of merit. Several of her pieces are available on CD, with Numérica editing her monographic CD “7 pomegranate seeds”. Her scores are published by the Portuguese Music Information & Investigation Centre (MIC.PT), Babel Scores, and Wirripang Pty. Ltd, Australia. She is frequently invited to participate in international composition juries.
She has actively participated in the academic community, both as an organizer and panel member of numerous scientific committees for conferences and journals. Among others, the “Performa – Conference on Performance Studies” (2011 and 2015), the “Orff-Schulwerk Meeting of the University of Aveiro” (2016, 2017, and 2019), the “National Meeting of Composition and Musical Analysis: Educational Perspectives” (2016, 2019, and 2023), the “1st and 2nd International Conference Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Children, Composers, Performers and Educators” (musichildren’17 / musichildren’22), and the “Symposium ACTUS: Audience as Performers” (2024), an event linked to her funded project “ACTUS: Audience as Performers”.
Her research is presented at national and international conferences and published in various journals, books and book chapters, including those published by ASHGATE/SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music Series and London: Imperial College Press
JULIET HESS
Juliet Hess is an associate professor of music education at Michigan State University, specializing in anti-oppression, critical pedagogy, trauma-informed pedagogy, and disability and Mad studies. She authored Music Education for Social Change: Constructing an Activist Music Education and Madness and Distress in Music Education: Toward a Mad-Affirming Approach, and co-edited Trauma and Resilience in Music Education: Haunted Melodies. Her research explores the intersections of music, social justice, and critical pedagogy, with particular attention to minoritized communities across all sites of identity.
Hess earned her Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the University of Toronto and presents her work globally, including at Research in Music Education (RiME) and MayDay Group conferences. She previously taught public school music in Ontario. Her publications appear in leading journals, contributing to discussions on anti-oppression, ethics, Madness, and disability in music education.