Category: talks
Event Start:
Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology
The Center for Ethnomusicology Spring Colloquium Series Presents: read more »
Event Start:
Saturday, December 3, 2011 - 6:30pm - 7:15pm
Location:
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) Hillman Attic Studio
"Fado History, Fado Form"
Lila Ellen Gray
(Associate Professor of Music, Columbia University)
Part of the 2011 Next Wave Festival
Saturday, December 3, 2011
6:30pm
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Hillman Attic Studio
(45min)
$10; $5 for Friends of BAM
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Event Start:
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology
The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University Fall Colloquium Series Presents:
Steven Shaviro
(DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University)
"Splitting the Atom: Post-Cinematic Articulations of Sound and Vision"
Friday, December 2, 2011
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
Dodge Hall 701C
Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and Open to the Public read more »
Event Start:
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology
The Fall 2011 Ethnomusicology Colloquium Series presents:
Christine Yano (Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Singing Black Tears: An African American Prodigal Son in Japan
Monday, November 14, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology
701C Dodge Hall
Columbia University Morningside Campus read more »
Event Start:
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 4:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology
The Fall 2011 Ethnomusicology Colloquium presents:
Verbal Arts and the Senses: A Bricolage of Sources Expressing the Inexpressible
By Regina Bendix
Professor of European Ethnology, the University of Göttingen, Germany
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
4:00pm
701C Dodge Hall (Center for Ethnomusicology, Columbia University)
The working of the senses in tandem with cognition facilitates the experience of pleasure and pain, fear and elation - but to what extent can (or should) this realm, situated between individual experience and social coding, be accessible to cultural research? read more »
Event Start:
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
The Fall 2011 Department of Music Colloquium series presents:
A Musical History of the Muwashshah
By Dwight F. Reynolds
Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Friday, October 21, 2011
4.00 - 6.00pm
Dodge Hall, 622
This presentation will focus on the musical history of the Muwashshah beginning with its first radical break with all previous Arab art music sometime around the 11th century, through several different historical changes, and finally looking at different regional styles from different parts of the contemporary Arab world. read more »
Event Start:
Thursday, September 22, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
Casa Hispanica, Columbia University - 612 West 116th Street, Room 201, New York, NY
Colloquium announcement:
Nora Gamez
"Living in transition: the politics of popular music in contemporary Cuba"
Ms. Gamez has a MSc. degree in Media and Communication from the London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK.
Presented by CSER, Center for Ethnomusicology and the Department of Latin American Cultures
Location: Casa Hispanica, Columbia University - 612 West 116th Street, Room 201, New York, NY (map)
For further information visit the CSER website.
Event Start:
Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall, Center for Ethnomusicology
Please join us Thursday September 29 for the Center for Ethnomusicology's Fall 2011 Colloquium series, presenting:
New Capitalism, Globalization, and the Commodification of Taste
Prof. Timothy D. Taylor (Musicology/Ethnomusicology, UCLA)
Thursday, September 29, 2011
12.00 - 2.00 pm
Center for Ethnomusicology, Dodge Hall, 701 C
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Event Start:
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall, Columbia University

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.