CFP: Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts (Helsinki)

KUVA (LAAJENNETTU METATIEDOSTO)
COLLOQUIUM ON ARTISTIC RESEARCH IN PERFORMING ARTS
THEATRE ACADEMY, HELSINKI
19 - 21 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Artistic research, art-based research, practice-based research, practice-led research, performance as research – these are just some of the terms and approaches that have been developed to describe knowledge production originating from artistic concerns. This colloquium is the first in a series of biannual colloquia, organised by the Performing Arts Research Centre at the Theatre Academy of Helsinki, aimed at addressing the problems and possibilities of artistic research, particularly those involving the performing arts. The term ‘performing arts’ is here understood in a broad sense that encompasses a variety of different creative practices. The purpose of these colloquia is to contribute to the development of research practices in the field of the performing arts and to foster their social,pedagogical and ecological connections.

The question we wish to begin with is:
How does artistic research change us? Artistic research does not only produce knowledge; it also changes us as individual and collective beings – artists, pedagogues, spectators, citizens, consumers. In what ways can this kind of change be the object of research? Could the change itself serve as a criterion for the relevance of the research?

We invite researchers to join the colloquium and to participate in the discussion by sharing their experiences on the transformative dimensions of their artistic research practice.

The colloquium will be organised to take account of the special features of various artistic research practices: research can realise itself in its own concrete set up; cooperative action and collective reflection can function as a means of producing knowledge; the definition of the role and place of the observers or participants in a situation can be an essential part of the research arrangements, etc. The colloquium can also serve as the site of the research itself.

The colloquium will take place over three days. On Thursday, presenters will have the possibility to hold day-long workshops for other colloquium participants and the doctoral students of the Performing Arts Research Centre. Friday and Saturday are reserved for all kinds of presentations,including the possible presentation of the workshops, and discussions.

We kindly encourage you to submit presentation, demonstration and workshop proposals on your practice and your experience with artistic research related to the performing arts. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should include 50 words of biographical detail on the presenter.

We suggest that you outline the ideal format for your presentation (research arrangement,workshop, installation, paper etc.) including length, venue and mode of participation. The language of the colloquium is English.

Please send proposals via email to Research Coordinator Annika Fredriksson at
Annika.Fredriksson@teak.fi no later than 15.5.2009.

Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 15.6.2009 and asked to confirm their participation by 1.9.2009.

The Colloquium Venue:

The colloquium will be held at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. The Academy is situated near the centre of the city. It is well served with public transport from the airport and the main railway station and is easily reached by metro, tram or bus. http://www.teak.fi/

Further Information:

For further information on the colloquium, please contact:
Professor Esa Kirkkopelto esa.kirkkopelto@teak.fi or
Professor Annette Arlander annette.arlander@teak.fi

The Performing Arts Research Centre (Tutke), Theatre Academy, Helsinki
Teatterikorkeakoulu Teaterhögskolan Theatre Academy
Haapaniemenkatu 6, PL 163, FI-00531 Helsinki
tel. +358 (0)9 431 361, fax. +358 (0)9 4313 6200
http://www.teak.fi

Job Posting: Lecturer (2 posts) - University of Leeds

JOB POSTING
LECTURER (2 POSTS)
SCHOOL OF MUSIC, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK
CLOSING DATE: 14 April 2009.

The School of Music invites applications for 2 Lecturer posts. Qualified to Doctoral level you will be an outstanding scholar who has research outputs of international significance (or the potential to develop) and be able to make a significant contribution to the research culture of the School and contribute to a lively postgraduate community. With excellent teaching skills, including experience at HE level, and the ability to demonstrate these in an appropriate choice of delivery techniques and assessment methods you will participate in specialist undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision.

Post 1: Lecturer in Music with specialism in Composition (any style)
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery and coordination of specialist Composition modules and be able to contribute to the degree programme in Popular and World Musics.

Post 2: Lecturer in Music with specialism in Music Technology
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery and coordination of specialist Music Technology modules and contribute to a broader range of subjects within the School’s portfolio and contribute to both the BA Music and BA Popular and World Musics programmes. Knowledge of the wider musicological, historical, aesthetic, scientific, compositional and/or performative aspects of music technology and computer music would be desirable.

These posts are available from 1 September 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Lecturer 7/8 (£29,704 - £43,622 p.a.) according to qualifications and experience

Informal inquiries about the post may be made to Professor Derek Scott, School of Music, email d.scott at leeds.ac.uk

To download an application form and job details please visit www.leeds.ac.uk and click on jobs. Alternatively these may be obtained from email vpaempl at leeds.ac.uk tel +44 (0)113 343 7003 or +44 (0)113 343 3731.
Closing date: April 14th, 2009.

CFP: Angles: An Interdisciplinary Postgrad Conference on Cultural History (Birkbeck)

ANGLES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE ON CULTURAL HISTORY
BIRKBECK, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
20 JUNE 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The aim of the conference is to bring together a range of postgraduate perspectives on cultural history from across the disciplinary spectrum. The focus will be on unusual topics or unconventional approaches to otherwise familiar topics. For instance, papers might deal with cultural practices that have been neglected by traditional history, or engage with emerging fields, trends or themes that may have been overlooked by existing scholarship. We would especially welcome papers that reflect on the challenges of dealing with discipline-specific responses to the way in which you approach your topic, or the particular advantages or limitations of taking on an unusual topic.

We invite all interested contributors to submit proposals for 20 minute papers. Please send a 200 word abstract, including your name, designation, institutional affiliation and thesis title (if applicable) to angles.postgrad@gmail.com no later than Saturday 4 April 2009.

Co-organisers:
Rachel Richardson, Thomas Turner, James Emmott
(Birkbeck)

Supported by
School of History, Classics and Archaeology / www.bbk.ac.uk/hca
In association with the London Consortium / http://www.londonconsortium.com/

It's no Topsy Turvy, D'Oyly Carte Prompt Books Digitised

D'OYLY CARTE PROMPT BOOKS -

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN OPERAS
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM

THEATRE & PERFORMANCE COLLECTIONS

From Act I Prompt Book of the Pirates of Penzance available from the V&A Theatre Collection

The Victoria and Albert Museum's Theatre & Performance Department has digitised several of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's original prompt books, which were used in the end of the 19th century at the Savoy Theatre in the productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

Some of the prompt books digitised include The Mikado, Princess Ida and the Pirates of Penzance which all date from the 1880s. It will undoubtedly serve as a useful tool for those researching musical theatre of London in the late 19th century.

One could speculate that Mike Leigh, the director of the movie Topsy Turvy or a member of his production staff, might have consulted these very prompt books to give an air of authenticity to their movie.

"Three Little Maids" Trio from The Mikado available from the V&A Theatre Collection

To see the full range and download a copy visit the V&A site: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/theatre_performance/objects_theatre_performance/doyly_carte/index.html

King's College London Summer School

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON SUMMER SCHOOL

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON

6 - 24 JULY 2009 AND 27 JULY - 14 AUGUST 2009

We invite students and others who want to learn from all over the world to join King's for our university summer school. This year our programme of study includes two university-level courses in music with outstanding, research-based teaching and the added experience of world-class cultural institutions in London.

The courses offer a high quality intensive learning experience. Visits to London's concert and opera venues, libraries and archives, and interviews with leading artistic directors and management (subject to course) are integrated into the study programme.

July, 6th - 24th: royals and royalties: MUSIC AND SPECTACLE IN LONDON

http://www.blogger.com/www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/summerschool/arts/prospectus/session1/musicroyals.html

July, 27th – Aug, 14th: BBC PROMENADE CONCERTS: MUSIC, MEDIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

http://www.blogger.com/www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/summerschool/arts/prospectus/session2/proms.html

Course Leader: Dr. Wiebke Thormählen PhD (Cornell University), MMus (KCL)

Courses will be available for credit, subject to the agreement of your home university.

For general enquiries or to see a syllabus, please contact: summerschool at kcl.ac.uk

CFP: Pop Culture Tools in the Music Classroom (publication)

POP CULTURE TOOLS IN THE MUSIC CLASSROOM

DEADLINE: 1 AUGUST 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit potential contributions to an essay collection on using popular culture in undergraduate- and graduate-level music courses. The essays should focus on teaching and learning tools derived from popular culture, and may also include generalized considerations of popular-culture texts. The collection is intended to serve as a framework for course design or as a supplementary text in either pedagogy or music classes. Approaches
concerning methods of using popular culture to address either art or vernacular musics, from the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory and analysis, and performance studies are welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• electronic media such as mp3s and other digital audio; Ipod culture; streamed radio
• multimedia sources, including YouTube, music videos, television shows, movies, soundtracks
• videogames such as Guitar Hero, Rock Band, Dance Dance Revolution, and others
• online environments such as Second Life
• covers, versioning, parodies, mashups

Essays should be 6,000-10,000 words in length and conform to Chicago Manual of Style guidelines. Authors will be responsible for acquiring any necessary permissions for copyrighted materials included in their works. Text should be submitted as Word files (.doc or .rtf format), with musical examples in .tif, .pdf, .jpg, .gif, or .bmp format (.tifs are preferred).

The collection will be published by Scarecrow Press in 2010. Materials should be submitted electronically to Nicole Biamonte at by August 1, 2009. Please include:
1) a cover letter or message, including the author's name and essay title
2) an abstract of approximately 200 words
3) the proposed contribution, with author's name and other identifying information omitted
4) a brief biography (50 to 100 words)
5) a current cv

Job Posting: Lecturer/Professor (Musicology - University of Sydney)

JOB POSTING

SYDNEY CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

LECTURER/PROFESSOR, MUSICOLOGY

The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, a college of the University of Sydney, has an academic vacancy in Musicology which is being advertised at the level of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor. Applicants at Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level are required to have a specialist knowledge of music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

For full details and access to the the online application facility, please search for position 151095 at the following site:

http://positions.usyd.edu.au/jobtools/JnCustomLogin.Login?in_organid=14743

CFP: Systemic Musicology 2009 (Ghent, Belgium)

SYSMUS09
SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STUDENTS OF SYSTEMIC MUSICOLOGY
GHENT, BELGIUM
CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.ipem.ugent.be/sysmus09

Important dates:
Submission of papers: May 29, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance: August 17, 2009
Camera-ready submissions: October 9, 2009
SysMus 2009: November 18-20, 2009


All research involving meaning, description, and technological mediation of music can be related to musicology. However, the complexity of musical engagement in socio-cultural contexts engenders different networks of research and knowledge, with distinct interdisciplinary configurations, methods and specializations. Systematic musicology specifically deploys this methodological diversity so as to approach each musicological question with a distinct configuration of methods. In doing so, systematic musicology often bridges methodological foundations of sciences with the critical analysis from humanities. It promotes the study of aesthetics, semiotics, and cultural studies by incorporating empirical and data-oriented methods into the methodological framework. It relies on paradigms from different disciplines as diverse as the philosophy of aesthetics, theoretical sociology, semiotics, and music criticism, combined with strategies derived from empirical psychology, acoustics, physiology, neurosciences, cognitive sciences, computing, and others.

Unfortunately, the concentration of efforts on methodological diversity and broad re-search questions may lead students to superficial discussions, disconnected results or research that is alienated from the musical matter. One of the biggest challenges for researchers in systematic musicology, therefore, is to learn how to deal with the inter-disciplinary nature inherent to their own field. Several questions are raised by this problem:

- How to guide yourself through innumerable methods, resources, and uncertain methodological pathways?
- How to design and execute interdisciplinary research?
- How to communicate with our partners: engineers, psychologists, and musicians?
- How to build an active network of collaborations within this interdisciplinary field?

These questions, together with courses in presentation and conference skills, will be addressed in SysMus09.

SUBMISSION:

Submissions are solicited for spoken research papers or posters related to any subdiscipline of systematic musicology. Suggested topic areas include, but are not limited to:

Acoustics and psychoacoustics
Cognitive musicology
Composition and improvisation
Computer Music
Cross-cultural studies of music
Mediation technology
Memory and music
Multimodal Interfaces
Music and emotions
Music and evolution
Music and language
Music and meaning
Music and movement
Music and neuroscience
Music education
Music performance
Music therapy
Musical development
Musical timbre
Pitch and tonal perception
Rhythm, meter, and timing
Social psychology of music

Short papers in English (max. 2 pages) should be submitted on the conference website (http://www.ipem.ugent.be/sysmus09/) and must be presented in one of the two formats: oral presentations or posters. The templates required for formatting papers and posters will be available at the same address. There will be a double-blind review process by a committee composed of advanced PhD students.

Wishing you welcome in Ghent in 2009!

Organizing Committee - SysMus09
Director: Luiz Naveda
Co-Director: Prof. Marc Leman

CFP: Donald Tovey Memorial Prize

DONALD TOVEY MEMORIAL PRIZE
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Board of the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford proposes to award the Donald Tovey Memorial Prize in Trinity Term 2009.

The prize (which will be of the value of £2,000 but may be augmented should the need arise, at the discretion of the Board) is open to men and women without regard to nationality, age, or membership of a university. It may be awarded either:

(a) to assist in the furtherance of research in the philosophy, history, or understanding of music. In this case, candidates must satisfy the judges that their programme of research lies within this field, and should provide: a brief statement of proposed research; two testimonials; and two examples of original work (essays, articles, book chapters, etc., whether published or not) which demonstrate their fitness to undertake it. Nine-tenths of the prize-money will be paid to the prize-winner at the time of the award, and the remaining one-tenth on approval by the judges of a brief report indicating fulfilment of the programme;

or

(b) to assist in the publication of a work already completed in one of the subjects mentioned above. In this case, candidates should submit one copy of the work concerned and explain why the prize is needed in order to ensure publication.

In either case, it is hoped that the prize-winner will agree to deliver a lecture in the Faculty of Music disseminating the findings of the research.

Entries, which should include a list of the expenses associated with the project for which the prize is sought, must reach the Faculty Administrator and Board Secretary, University of Oxford, Faculty of Music, St Aldate’s,Oxford OX1 1DB, no later than Friday 12 June 2009.

National Early Music Association Conference: Singing Music from 1500-1900 (Upcoming Conference) (York)

NATIONAL EARLY MUSIC ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE:
SINGING MUSIC FROM 1500 TO 1900
YORK EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
UNIVERSITY OF YORK
7 - 10 JULY 2009

This important conference (7th to 10th July 2009) will be a Singing Shop, not just a Talking Shop, with delegates invited to sing in four workshops. It is being hosted by the University of York Music Department, and will be convenient for delegates planning to attend the York Early Music Festival, which starts on 10th July. For programme, abstracts, and to book online, go to the University of York’s website at https://store.york.ac.uk/events/. You can book to attend the whole conference, including 3 nights B&B, all meals and all events, for an affordable 359 pounds sterling, if you register before the Early Bird date (4th May 2009).

For queries on website, booking or payment, contact Sian Fraser at conferences at york.ac.uk (phone: 01904 328431). Other queries to Richard Bethell, Conference Organiser, at richardbethell at btinternet.com (phone: 01293 783195).

For full programme information go to:
https://store.york.ac.uk/events/eventdetails.asp?eventid=8

CFP: Diasporas, Migration and Media: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions (Utrecht)

DIASPORAS, MIGRATION AND MEDIA: CROSSING BOUNDARIES, NEW DIRECTIONS
UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS
6 - 7 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by the DIASPORA, MIGRATION AND MEDIA SECTION -
European Communication Research and Education Association
Co-hosted by Nottingham Trent University and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece


Studying the relationship between diasporas and the media presents several challenges and issues that are at the core of humanities, social sciences, anthropology, and cultural and media studies.

In the last two decades, an increase in the number of theories and amount of empirical research in the field, with topics ranging from Diaspora, mobility, migration, ethnicity, cosmopolitanism, postcolonialism, identity politics, representation, and practices of media production and consumption, have enhanced our understanding of the everyday lives of Diasporas and migrants.

Through this process, the area of Diaspora, migration and media has evolved to embrace different theoretical and methodological perspectives, resulting in a plethora of work, and as a result, consolidating its position as an important area of investigation.

On the other hand, any emerging canon needs to be criticized and challenged if the field is to retain its dynamism. In addition, the increasingly vocal critiques against multiculturalism give rise to defensive writing: is it time to develop more positive and forceful lines of enquiry.

The aim of this workshop, then is to address the state-of-the-art in the field by inviting colleagues - academics, non-academics, researchers and PhD students - to map the diverse areas of investigation and/or present ongoing empirical and theoretical work that might offer a critique as well as point out new directions in the field.

We invite abstracts that address the following themes, but would be happy to consider proposals which fall outside of them:

--The local/global diasporic cultural experiences

--Dynamics of migration and memory

--Dynamics of Representation, discourse and language

--Subjectivity, emotion and identity

--Diaspora, youth and media

--Diasporic Audiences

--Diaspora and Queer theory

--Visual Cultures and Diasporas/Migrants

--Music and Diasporas

--Cultural Citizenship

--Cultural policy and Diaspora

--Web 2.0, social media and Diasporas: what are they doing for Diasporas and minorities?

--The backlash against multiculturalism and/in the media

--Diasporic/minority media: what is new?

--Urban environments and multicultural encounters

--Diasporic generations, communication and media

The deadline for submissions is 16 June 2009.

Registration fee: £50

For further information please contact:

olga.bailey@ntu.ac.uk

CFP: National Opera Association Scholarly Paper Competition

NATIONAL OPERA ASSOCIATION
25TH SCHOLARLY PAPER COMPETITION
CALL FOR PAPERS

Scholarly investigation is indispensable to the field of opera, especially as a basis for production and performance. The National Opera Association is pleased to announce its Twenty-Fifth Scholarly Papers Competition, 2009, for outstanding scholarly papers on operatic subjects.

ELIGIBILITY

The competition is open to any interested author. Membership in NOA is not required. No registration fee is required. Deadline for submission: June 15, 2009. Author notification: after September 1, 2009. Previous winners of this competition may not re-apply, but are strongly encouraged to submit articles for consideration to "The Opera Journal," a NOA publication.

GUIDELINES

The scholarly paper should explore an operatic subject, present significant research and conclusions, and include an extensive bibliography citing primary, secondary and, if applicable, tertiary sources. .Authors should follow these guidelines.
. The paper must be typewritten, double-spaced, no more than 3000 words in length.
. The paper's title and the name of its author should be provided on a detachable title page. The author's name should not appear on subsequent pages.
. Only one submission per person is admissible and must be accompanied by a statement confirming that the paper is not under copyright by any party other than the author and that it has not been previously published.
. Papers previously presented orally are eligible as long as they have not or will not be published in any proceedings.
. Papers will be judged particularly for significant advances in research and conclusions that shed new light on an operatic topic dealing with music drama, the libretto, the history of the genre, etc.
. Topics may be as broad as the field of opera itself, which includes historical and theoretical analysis of the music and libretto (along lines of current and past critical theory and translation thereof), singing, acting, costuming, stagecraft, theater, etc.
. The jury will consider the clarity and quality of the writing, judge the acceptability of the paper for publication in "The Opera Journal," and will also rate papers on their overall suitability to be read in an abridged version of no more than twenty minutes length at the convention's Scholarly Papers Session.

AWARDS

The winner will be invited to read her/his paper during the Scholarly Papers Session at the annual convention, early January, 2010, at Atlanta, Georgia. The Leland Fox Scholarly Paper Stipend of $500 will be awarded to the reader of a winning paper at the annual convention.
The winning paper will be published in "The Opera Journal."
Copies of papers not selected, accompanied by the committee's critiques, will be forwarded to the editor of the journal for possible consideration for publication.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

There is no application fee for the competition. Submission may be by mail or email attachment. Papers will not be returned. Submit entries and any inquiries about the competition to:
Dr. Robert Hansen
National Opera Association
PO Box 60869
Canyon, TX 79016-0001
email: rhansen at mail.wtamu.edu
Deadline for the submission of scholarly papers: June 15, 2009.
Author notification: after September 1, 2009.

CFP: Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts (Lincoln)

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSCIOUSNESS, THEATRE, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN
16 - 18 MAY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Lincoln School of Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK is pleased to host the Third International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature, and the Arts. The Conference will be held in Lincoln, UK, from Saturday 16 to Monday 18 May 2009.

Abstracts (up to 1 page) are invited for papers relating any aspect of consciousness (as defined in a range of disciplines involved with consciousness studies) to any aspect of theatre, performance, literature, music, fine arts, media arts and any sub-genre of those. Please send the abstract to Professor Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, dmeyerdinkgrafe@lincoln.ac.uk

Deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to 1 APRIL 2009

See conference website at http://blackboard.lincoln.ac.uk/bbcswebdav/users/dmeyerdinkgrafe/current/conference2009.html

CFP: Politics of Opera Symposium (Oxford)

POLITICS OF OPERA COLLOQUIM

OXFORD, UK

OCTOBER 2009

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We are hoping to organise another one-day "Politics of Opera" colloquium in Oxford later this year. It will probably be at the beginning of October, and at the Taylorian Institution again. As
before, our aim is to bring together scholars in the humanities (in particular musicologists, historians and modern linguists) to discuss questions pertaining to the patronage, production, performance, reception, and ideology of opera in an informal and interdisciplinary
environment, and to continue building a community of scholars working in different areas of opera in order to forge connections and further research.

We'd therefore be very grateful to receive proposals for papers drawing on your current research so that we can begin thinking about a possible theme for the colloquium this year. And please forward this message to any other scholars (including graduate students), whom you
think might be interested in becoming involved.

For details about the 2009 colloqium, see: http://www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk/opera.htm

Invitation: Music Research Online Survey

MUSIC RESEARCH
ONLINE SURVEY

We invite you to take part in a survey which will take you about 20 minutes and is completely anonymous. We invite all music educators, music psychologists, or music scientists (students and professionals who engage in research). Please follow the link:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=AS7IOTng6f2xqPtZdohCmA_3d_3d

This is a questionnaire survey to find out about professional music researchers’ musical backgrounds and current levels of musical engagement (e.g. performing, composing, improvising, listening). The first round of the survey addresses music researchers in any area of music psychology and music science.

Please circulate this information to anyone interested in it. Many thanks in advance.

Fellowship: J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship (American Handel Society)

J. MERRILL KNAPP RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
AMERICAN HANDEL SOCIETY
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 1 APRIL 2009

The J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship

The Board of Directors of The American Handel Society invites applications for the J. Merrill Knapp Research Fellowship to support scholarly projects related to Handel and his world. One or more fellowships may be awarded in a calendar year up to a total of $2,000. Requests for funding may include, but are not limited to, purchase of microfilms, travel for research, and production expenses for publication. This fellowship may be used on its own or to augment other grants or fellowships.

In awarding the Knapp Fellowship, preference will be given to graduate students, scholars in the early stages of their careers, and independent scholars with no source of institutional support.

The deadline for the 2009 award will [now] be [April 1, 2009]. There is no application form. Each applicant should submit an outline of the project, a budget showing how and when the funds will be used, and a description of other funding for the same project applied for and/or received. In addition, applicants should have two letters of recommendation sent directly to:

Professor Robert Ketterer

226 Jefferson Building

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA, 52242

robert-ketterer at uiowa.edu

CFP: Chopin 1810-2010: Ideas, Interpretations and Influence (Warsaw)

CHOPIN 1810–2010, IDEAS, INTERPRETATIONS AND INFLUENCE
THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
FRYDERYK CHOPIN INSTITUTE, WARSAW
25 FEBRUARY - 1 MARCH 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

Under the patronage of the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Mr Bogdan Zdrojewski, from 25 February to 1 March 2010 the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw will be hosting the Third International Congress CHOPIN 1810–2010, IDEAS, INTERPRETATIONS AND INFLUENCE, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fryderyk Chopin.

Paper proposals in the form of abstracts of approx. 500 words in length can be submitted and papers may be read in English, French or German.

Nearly 200 years have elapsed since the birth of Fryderyk Chopin in 1810. In honour of this event and to recognize the importance that Chopin and his music have had throughout the past two centuries, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw will promote a major celebration entitled ‘Chopin 2010', featuring performances of his music, competitions and festivals, as well as the Third International Congress devoted to the composer and his oeuvre.

The first Congress took place in Warsaw in 1960 under the aegis of the Institute of Musicology at the University of Warsaw, while the Second Congress, organized in 1999 by the ‘Polish Chopin Academy', was devoted to ‘Chopin and his Work in the Context of Culture'.

The Third International Congress will encompass a broad thematic spectrum, focusing
in particular on the ideas that inspired Chopin's oeuvre, interpretative responses to it, and the influences that it has had on the music of other composers as well as on other forms of artistic endeavour and human activity.

The following areas are particularly relevant:

1. Chopin's personality, heritage and milieu

• biography

• historical contexts surrounding Chopin's creative output

• contemporary aesthetics and their influence on Chopin

2. Interpretations of Chopin's music

• sources (including but not limited to performances)

• methodologies

• historical and current performance traditions and styles analyses (broadly defined)

3. The influence of Chopin and his music

• on the music of other composers

• on literature and art­

• in terms of historical and sociological repercussions.

In addition to the formal conference program, concerts will be held and the new Fryderyk Chopin Museum will be opened in the Ostrogski Castle.

Proposals are invited for 30-minute papers and 15-minute research reports in the above categories. There is also limited scope for free papers of the same durations. Proposals may also be submitted for ‘special sessions', i.e. round tables, panel discussions or workshops up to 90 minutes in length. Finally, abstracts are invited for posters, to be featured in poster sessions held throughout the conference. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute will provide those presenting full papers, research reports, or ‘special sessions' with hotel accommodation. Where relevant, a stipend will be paid to speakers for the right to print their papers in the conference proceedings.

Applications and queries should be sent by email to congress@nifc.pl by no later than 31 March 2009. Late submissions will not be accepted.

CFP: Mediating Jazz (University of Salford)

MEDIATING JAZZ
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD
26 - 27 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

An international conference hosted by the Popular Music Research Centre, University of Salford.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Krin Gabbard (SUNY), author of Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture, Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture, and Jammin’ at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema

Mediating Jazz is a two-day multi-disciplinary conference that brings together the leading researchers in the field of New Jazz Studies. The conference itself will comprise four key strands, each of which addresses the overarching theme of mediation in jazz:

1. Jazz and the Media
We wish to explore the way in which media representation impacts on jazz discourse. The review panel will welcome papers that examine the way in which jazz is represented through various media from Hollywood film to television documentary, sleeve notes to journalism.

2. Performance and the Body
Musicians often promote the performance of jazz as an unmediated experience. We invite papers that interrogate this assumption, exploring the relationship between performance and different types of mediation. This could include discussions of jazz as a transcendent art or a gendered
construct, as well as examining the mythologies of improvisation, musicianship and the ‘jazz life’, and the codification of performance practice.

3. Politics and Identity
Within the jazz mainstream, the radical politics of the 1960s has arguably been replaced with a sense of homogenised culture, devoid of explicit race and class issues. This strand explores the role mediation plays in the growth and development of identities alongside the promotion/subversion of political messages.

4. Jazz Cultures and Narratives
This strand explores jazz as both narrative trope and changing cultural signifier. We welcome papers that explore the concept of jazz from a range of disciplinary perspectives, encouraging a discursive approach to the cultural study of jazz.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to Dr Tony Whyton
(t.whyton@salford.ac.uk) by Wednesday 27 May 2009.

Review panel: Dr Tony Whyton (Salford), Dr Nicholas Gebhardt (Lancaster), Dr Catherine Tackley (Open University) and Professor George McKay (Salford)

CFP: Old Age and Late Works (15th-21st Centuries) (Poitiers, France)

OLD AGE AND LATE WORKS (15TH-21ST CENTURIES) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
POITIERS, FRANCE
10 - 12 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Sponsored by the Université de Poitiers, UFR Sciences Humaines et Arts, GERHICO

Artists’ longevity is a topic that raises question about biography’s impact on creation. Artistic production in old age often coincides with a drastic change of style, resulting from a reconsideration of preceding skills and positions, if not a return to basics. This final season of life has fed the romantic myth of the elderly genius’s absolute liberty of expression, reaching an
incomparable dramatic intensity, as a constant in major artists’ late production throughout history.

The old age of artists has been, however, a subject of debate since the Renaissance, when senility’s consequences on artistic creation were often denounced as a defect. Historiography has long fluctuated between these two interpretative positions, glorifying the liberty of expression of late works or denigrating the imperfections of their workmanship or conception.

Most recently, scholars have considered the status of late works in relation to the psychological, cultural and social conditions that the negative consideration of old age could have on senior artists’ production, independent of its quality. In spite of the attention paid to this topic, we still lack for a comprehensive view that considers late artistic creation over a long period and in different fields of expression, allowing us to question its specificity with respect to the wider spectrum of intellectual and scientific production by those of advanced age.

This conference’s purpose is therefore to treat the topic of old age and its late creations over an extended chronology – from the Renaissance to the modern era – in visual arts, music and literature, establishing a dialogue between those different disciplines.

For more information: http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/gerhico/accueil.html

Submissions dead-line : 31 march 2009 (text : at most 2.000 characters; curriculum vitae : at most 1 page) Contact : diane.bodart at univ-poitiers.fr

CFP: Music, Plantation and Migration International Symposium (Dublin)

MUSIC, PLANTATION AND MIGRATION
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
DIT, DUBLIN, IRELAND
25 APRIL 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama in association with The Department of Music, NUI Maynooth, UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute and The Society for Musicology in Ireland

The legislation which resulted in the plantation of Ulster was passed in 1609 and this important event in Irish history is being marked by an exploration of the exchange of music and musicians between Ireland and Britain in the period 1600–1750 and how the story of plantation and migration has been recorded in Irish traditional music of this time and later periods.

The symposium will be held in DIT Kevin Street on Saturday 25 April 2009 and will be followed by the launch of the tenth volume of Irish Musical Studies: Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century (Barra Boydell & Kerry Houston editors).

We invite papers from writers reflecting on topics including:

• Irish and English musical culture of the time (including music at the Court of James I)
• Musical and cultural exchanges between Ireland and Scotland
• The recording of the events of plantation and migration in Irish traditional music
• The aftermath of the Plantation of Ulster and its impact on the musical and cultural life of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland
• Sacred music in Ireland and Scotland in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Abstracts of around 300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be sent to Kerry Houston, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Rathmines Road, Dublin 6 (kerry..houston@dit.ie) by Wednesday 11 March 2009. We will consider group proposals and lecture recital proposals.

Symposium committee: Barra Boydell (NUIM), David Connolly (DIT), Marian Deasy (DIT), Kerry Houston (DIT), Helen Lyons (DKIT/UCD), Adrian Scahill (NUIM) and Eamon Sweeney (DIT).

Job Posting: Professor of Music (Royal Holloway)

JOB POSTING: PROFESSOR OF MUSIC (MUSICOLOGY)
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
EGHAM, SURREY TW20 0EX, UK
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

The remuneration for this position will be internationally competitive and reflect the importance of the role.

Ref: Y0108/4164

Applications are invited for the post of Professor of Music, with a specialism or specialisms in any area of Musicology. The post is tenable from 1 Sept 2009 or within a reasonable period thereafter.

You will have a record of academic achievement at the highest level and will be expected to play a leading part in the maintenance and development of the national and international reputation of the Department in the following respects: as a centre for musicological research of the highest calibre, as reflected in its ranking as the leading UK Department of Music in the 2008 RAE; as a centre for postgraduate studies; in its provision of high-quality and innovative undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes and its links with external organisations.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr James Dack (Head of Department), tel: +44 (0)1784 443532; fax: +44 (0)1784 414490; email: j.dack@rhul.ac.uk

Further details and an application form are available from our website: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Personnel/JobVacancies.htm or by contacting HR at recruitment@rhul.ac.uk or tel: +44 (0)1784 414241. Please quote the reference above.

The closing date for the receipt of applications is midday on 27th March 2009. Interviews are likely to be held during the week commencing 20th April 2009.

Beyond the Sounds: Master Class for Orchestral Conducting 2009 (Romania)

BEYOND THE SOUNDS: INTERNATIONAL MASTER CLASS FOR ORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING 2009
TARGOVISTE, ROMANIA
KONRAD VON ABEL (DIRECTOR)
21 JUNE - 4 JULY 2009

In collaboration with:
Muntenia Philharmonic Targoviste and the University of Music Bucharest, under the patronage of the Romanian Ministry of Culture

The course is based on Sergiu Celibidache's "Phenomenology of Music". Konrad von Abel was the artistic assistant to Sergiu Celibidache at the Munich Philharmonic for more than 10 years. The course is not only for conductors but for anyone seeking a gateway to the intrinsic laws of music.

ORCHESTRA
Muntenia Philharmonic, Targoviste

THE CLASS
There will be accepted 12 active participants. The number of audience members is unlimited!
The class will be held in English.

The class will be divided in 2 stages:

STAGE I
Sunday, June 21 ­ Thursday, June 26
General aspects of the teachings of Sergiu Celibidache on «Musical Phenomenology». Discovering the natural arm's weight in conducting as the foundation for communicating univocal musical impulses. Conducting exercises with piano and string quartet work covering the course repertoire.

Saturday, June 27 - Monday, June 29
Rehearsals and concert with Maestro Konrad von Abel followed by lessons.

STAGE II
Tuesday, June 30 ­ Saturday, July 4
Work with Orchestra. Two sessions (3 and 2 hours) a day followed by debriefing session. Each active participant will work ca 20 minutes a day with the orchestra.

REPERTOIRE
J. Haydn, Symphony No. 104 in D major
L. v. Beethoven, Symphony No. 1 in C major
L. v. Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor
R. Schumann, Symphony No. 2 in C major
C. M. von Weber, Der Freischütz (Overture)

All participants are expected to be well prepared. The active participants should be able to conduct by heart.

CONTACT
Musikproduktion Höflich
Enhuberstrasse 6-8 Rgb.
D - 80333 München
Tel 089 - 52 20 81
Fax 089 - 52 54 11
www.musikmph.de
targoviste@musikmph.de

FOR MORE INFORMATION
http://www.musikmph.de/projects/intropro.html course.

Bifurcating Paths Multidisciplinary Encounters on Complexity in Arts and Sciences (IRCAM)

BIFURCATING PATHS

MULTIDISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS ON COMPLEXITY IN ARTS AND SCIENCES

IRCAM, PARIS

10 - 12 JUNE 2009

Multidisciplinary Encounters on Complexity in Arts and Sciences - Ircam, June 10-12, 2009

http://complexite09.ircam.fr

IRCAM & Centre Pompidou organize three days of international multidisciplinary encounters on complexity in the arts and sciences, June 10-12, 2009.

The event comprises of a three-days scientific symposium and two art-science encounters in the evening.

The whole event takes place inside the Ircam Agora Festival, June 8-19, 2009, a major milestone in the French cultural landscape. It is also coupled with a Lars von Trier retrospective organized by the Centre Pompidou.

While the symposium will focus on conferences by prestigious scientists or art theorists, the evening presentations will give the opportunity to leading artistic personalities to confront their practices and ideology on the ground of complexity.

Physics, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, epistemology, architecture, music, painting, literature, cinema, theatre ... a great variety of topics will be explored in an interactive fashion.

Participants will take advantage of a selection of concerts during the Agora Festival program that have a unique connection to the idea of complexity.

CFP: Contemporary Music Studies (Intellect Books)

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC STUDIES

INTELLECT BOOKS (UK)

Intellect seeks to expand its portfolio of publications in the area of contemporary music studies. As an independent academic publisher, we champion innovative scholarly work at the cross section of arts, media & creative practice. Since 1986, Intellect has provided a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects, and is now a leading publisher in scholarly areas of creative media and popular culture. We have a robust international book distribution arrangement, including partners such as the University of Chicago Press (North America, and Rest of World), Gardners (UK), Inbooks (Australia & New Zealand), and Book Editions (Asia).

Intellect welcomes book proposals from both new and experienced authors producing original, adventurous academic work in the areas of contemporary music research.

To send us your book proposals, please download a questionnaire from our website (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/PublishWithUs/publishwithus.php), or contact books@intellectbooks.com for further information.