Luis VELASCO-PUFLEAU

Luis Velasco-Pufleau is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Music of the University of Montreal. He holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship with McGill University’s Schulich School of Music and the University of Bern’s Institute of Musicology. His research focuses on the political dimensions of music, sound, and memory in 20th/21st-century contexts, including their intersections with human rights, social justice, and ecological issues.

• Education: No explicit details provided.

Research Expertise: Specializes in 20th/21st-century musicology, music and political regimes, sound archives, and qualitative research methods. Current projects include ONTOMUSIC (exploring ethical/political dimensions of 21st-century music) and analyzing musical propaganda in wartime contexts with Marie-Hélène Benoit-Otis.

Awards: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow; elected member of the Swiss Young Academy.

Grants and Collaborations: Affiliated with the Canada Research Chair in Music and Politics (CRCMP). Editorial roles include co-directing Transposition journal and editing Music, Sound and Conflict blog.

Labs/Teams: Active in CRCMP and collaborates internationally across musicology, political science, and sound studies.