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Upcoming Musicology Congress in Santa Fe, Argentina

Best wishes to our colleagues from Argentina in their upcoming congress, XVIII Conferencia de la Asociación Argentina de Musicología y XIV Jornadas Argentinas del Instituto Nacional de Musicología "Carlos Vega" on August 14-17 2008. Read on to see the program. read more »

Conference Announcement: Listening In, Feeding Back

Start: 02/13/2009 - 09:00

End: 02/14/2009 - 22:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location:

301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, concert location TBA

Listening In, Feeding Back

Organizers:
David Novak, Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
den12@columbia.edu
Ana Maria Ochoa, Columbia University, Department of Music
ao2110@columbia.edu

Description:
In recent years, several academic disciplines, including history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and media studies, have devoted significant attention towards practices of listening. The act of listening is undoubtedly an underexplored dimension of modern sensory experience -- and of modernity itself, which is too often characterized by an overdetermined regime of visuality. What can listening offer to emerging interdisciplinary work on perception, performance, aesthetics, social life, and the circulation of sound media? read more »

MACSEM 2008: Dates and Logistics

Start: 03/29/2008 - 08:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Location:

Davis Auditorium and Sindebad East Conference Room, Fu School of Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY

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.

MASCEM 2008: Call For Papers

For more information about MACSEM 2008 at Columbia University, please click here.

The Program Committee for MACSEM/2008 invites proposals for individually presented papers, organized panels of 4 paper presentations, film screenings (limited to 30 minutes), and practical workshops (30 or 60 minutes). We encourage submissions from graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty from both within and beyond ethnomusicology. While there is no thematic restriction on submission, the program committee would like to encourage proposals with an emphasis on interdisciplinary applications of musical ethnography, especially. The deadline for electronic submission of proposals and abstracts is JANUARY 15, 2008. read more »