Events

Thursday March 27, 2008

A Conversation with Kay Kaufman Shelemay

Start: 4:00 pm

Thursday, March 27 at 4PM, 701C Dodge Hall

PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST RSVP TO aaf19@columbia.edu to attend this event. A paper by Prof. Shelemay is being distributed to those who RSVP and will be discussed at the event.

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Saturday March 29, 2008

MACSEM 2008: Dates and Logistics

Start: 8:00 am

MACSEM conference events will occupy the full day on Saturday, March 29, from 9AM to 10PM (including a keynote lecture by Adelaida Reyes, Professer Emerita at new Jersey City University and an evening concert); and a half day on Sunday, March 30, from 9AM to 1PM. Featured performers and a keynote speaker will be announced in early January, 2008. Most events will be held in the Davis Auditorium in the Fu School of Engineering on the Morningside Campus of Columbia University.

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Tuesday April 8, 2008

Sarah Weiss: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception"

Start: 4:00 pm

End: 6:00 pm

Ethnomusicologist Sarah Weiss (Yale University) will be speaking in the Center on Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 4PM. The title of her talk is: "Authentic Hybridity?: Cultural Boundaries and Music Reception." A reception will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public.

Sarah Weiss has addressed issues of gender, aesthetics, postcoloniality, and hybridity in both her writing and teaching. Her book, Listening to an Earlier Java: Aesthetics, Gender and the Music of Wayang in Central Java was published in 2006 by KITLV Press in Leiden. Weiss is currently working on a comparative project exploring women and performance across several of the world’s major religions. She holds the PhD in Musicology from New York University.