CFP: Eduard Hanslick: Aesthetic, Critical, and Cultural Contexts (UC Dublin)

EDUARD HANSLICK: AESTHETIC, CRITICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS
24 - 25 JUNE 2009
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN
CALL FOR PAPERS

On 24 and 25 June 2009, the first international conference on Eduard Hanslick will take place at University College Dublin. This is being hosted by the UCD School of Music, in association with the School of Music and Sonic Arts (Queen’s University Belfast), Conservatory of Music and Drama (Dublin Institute of Technology) and German Studies, UCD School of Languages and Literatures. It will explore the work and legacy of Eduard Hanslick, the most influential critic in the Austro-Germanic sphere of the late-nineteenth century. The conference has the following aims: to analyse Hanslick’s writings and discuss their importance for musicology, and the study of aesthetics and cultural issues; to scrutinise the structure of Hanslick’s critical thinking
and aesthetic theories; and to present and develop new research on Hanslick.

The keynote speaker is Professor James Deaville (Carleton University)

Sessions for individual papers, as well as panels and round tables, are expected to develop the following themes, although other proposals in other relevant areas will also be welcome:

AESTHETICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC

--The relationship between Hanslick’s aesthetic theory and critical output;

--The appropriation of the writings of German philosophers in Hanslick’s aesthetic theory;

--Hanslick and the ‘Neudeutsche Schule’;

--The influence of Hanslick’s writings on composition in the twentieth century;

--Musical expressiveness;

--Issues of formalism.

CRITICISM
--The relationship between Hanslick’s writings and those of contemporary aestheticians and critics;

--Historicism and musical consumption;

The treatment of genres and the reappraisal of forgotten works;

--Concert programming;

--Hanslick’s journalistic style;

--The treatment of contemporary performing artists.


CULTURAL CONTEXTS
--German national identity;

--Hanslick’s Jewish heritage and religious contexts;

--The treatment of musical hermeneutics;

--The treatment of nationalism in music;

--Hanslick’s literary interests;

GENDER ISSUES

Proposals for individual papers should be no more than 300 words. Abstracts for sessions/panels/roundtables should be no more than 800 words. Please indicate the number and title of each individual paper with its abstract. All proposals must be sent to cfp@hanslickconference.com by 9 January 2009.

For further information please see the conference website www.hanslickconference.com
or contact the conference organiser, Dr Nicole Grimes, at info@hanslickconference.com

Submission deadline: 9 January 2009
Proposals will be selected by the end of February 2008.
The full programme will be announced by mid March 2009.

The conference committee plans to publish a refereed volume of selected conference contributions.


Conference committee:
Dr Nicole Grimes (Queen’s University Belfast)
Dr Kerry Houston (Dublin Institute of Technology, Conservatory of Music and Drama)
Dr Wolfgang Marx (University College Dublin)
Dr Siobahán Donovan (University College Dublin)