CFP: CUNY Symposium on Music and Disability (NY)

CUNY SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC AND DISABILITY
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
15 - 17 JANUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ph.D. Program in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center and The M.A. Program in Disability Studies at the CUNY School for Professional Studies announce A Symposium on Music and Disability

The Symposium will be more a workshop or seminar than a traditional conference. There will be fewer than fifteen participants, and each will have an ongoing research project on music and disability. The Symposium will be primarily devoted to discussion and critique of these works-in-progress, which may include future conference presentations, book or dissertation chapters, and articles. Four three-hour discussions around the seminar table (Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning) will be interspersed with meals, lectures, and musical performances. Lectures and performances will be open to the public, but the seminar meetings will be open only to Symposium participants.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will be the Keynote Speaker for the Symposium and the Respondent for all of the papers. She is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look (Oxford UP, 2009) and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997); editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press, 2002).

Deadlines:
• September 1: Proposals due. Proposals should include a 100-word summary of your interest and previous involvement in the fields of disability and music and a 200-word description of the project. Submit via email attachment to disability.and.music at gmail.com. Participants will be notified of acceptance by September 15.
• December 15. Paper drafts due. These will be circulated to all participants (and to Prof. Garland-Thomson).
• January 3. Paper critiques due. Each participant will be asked to circulate written critiques of at least three papers by other participants.

Each participant will receive a stipend of $350 to encourage participation and defray expenses.

All events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. For additional information, contact Joseph Straus jstraus at gc.cuny.edu, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton SJensenMoulton at brooklyn.cuny.edu, or Blake Howe blake.howe at gmail.com.

CFP: Symposium on Music and Disability (CUNY)

SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC AND DISABILITY
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
15 - 17 JANUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ph.D. Program in Music at the CUNY Graduate Center and The M.A. Program in Disability Studies at the CUNY School for Professional Studies are sponsoring
A Symposium on Music and Disability

The Symposium will be more a workshop or seminar than a traditional conference. There will be fewer than fifteen participants, and each will have an ongoing research project on music and disability. The Symposium will be primarily devoted to discussion and critique of these works-in-progress, which may include future conference presentations, book or dissertation chapters, and articles. Four three-hour discussions around the seminar table (Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon, Sunday morning) will be interspersed with meals, lectures, and musical performances.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson will be the Keynote Speaker for the Symposium and the Respondent for all of the papers. She is Professor of Women's Studies at Emory University and the author of Staring: How We Look (Oxford UP, 2009) and Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Literature and Culture (Columbia UP, 1997); editor of Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body (NYU Press, 1996), and co-editor of Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities (MLA Press, 2002).

Deadlines:
- September 1: Proposals due. Proposals should include a 100-word summary of your interest and previous involvement in the fields of disability and music and a 200-word description of the project. Submit via email attachment to disability.and.music@ at gmail.com. Participants will be notified of acceptance by September 15.
- December 15. Paper drafts due. These will be circulated to all participants (and to Prof. Garland-Thomson).
- January 3. Paper critiques due. Each participant will be asked to circulate written critiques of at least three papers by other participants.

Each participant will receive a stipend of $350 to encourage participation and defray expenses.

All events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. For additional information, contact Joseph Straus jstraus at gc.cuny.edu, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton SJensenMoulton at brooklyn.cuny.edu, or Blake Howe blake.howe at gmail.com.

CFP: Drawing on the Musical Past: Music Iconology, Instrument Making and Experimental Playing in Music Archaeology (CUNY)

DRAWING ON THE MUSICAL PAST: MUSIC ICONOLOGY, INSTRUMENT MAKING, AND EXPERIMENTAL PLAYING IN MUSIC ARCHAEOLOGY
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
23 - 25 SEPTEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Third conference of the ICTM Study Group for Music Archaeology and Twelfth conference of the Research Center for Music Iconography
City University of New York, The Graduate Center
New York, 23–25 September 2009

Research in music archaeology has become attractive not only among specialized archaeologists and musicologists, but also among instrument makers and musicians. Music iconology, apart from the study of excavated musical instruments, often forms a crucial part in the interpretation of the social contexts and meanings of past music, but also in the study of organological forms and their individual history, materials of manufacture, playing postures, playing techniques, and other aspects. A glance into the rich universe of past music cultures seems to be possible and even reasonable, to a certain degree. This conference aims to present aspects of the advantages, risks, and limits of music iconology, instrument making, and experimental playing in music archaeology.

Abstracts of 200–300 words may be submitted before 1 May 2009 to:

Arnd Adje Both
ICTM Study Group for Music Archaeology, Chair
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen
C5 Zeughaus
68159 Mannheim
adje at zedat.fu-berlin.de

Zdravko Blazekovic
Research Center for Music Iconography
City University of New York,
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016-4309
zblazekovic at gc.cuny.edu

Selected papers presented at the conference will be published in the journal Music in Art http://web.gc.cuny.edu/rcmi/musicinart.htm

Further information will be posted at
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/rcmi/12thConferenceInfo.html and
http://www.ictmusic.org/ICTM/beta/stg/index.php?lcode=11

CFP: Representing Music­ or­ Music Representing (CUNY)

REPRESENTING MUSIC OR MUSIC REPRESENTING
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
12TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
25 APRIL 2009
CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, NEW YORK CITY
CALL FOR PAPERS

Led and moderated by LEO TREITLER, Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus, CUNY Graduate Center

The CUNY Graduate Center's Music Ph.D.-D.M.A. program invites applications from graduate students for participation in its Twelfth Annual Graduate Students in Music Symposium (GSIM 2009)­this year, a collaborative, interactive event on the theme "Representing Music­ or­Music Representing," to be held on Saturday, 25 April 2009 at the CUNY Graduate Center. The symposium will consist of two parts: a morning seminar for the selected participants, conducted by Professor Treitler; and an afternoon workshop, moderated by Professor Treitler, in which a selected number of student papers will be the focus for group discussion and critique.

The symposium will focus on the intersections between theories of musical meaning and musical discourse. (Please see the attached essay by Prof. Treitler for a more extensive prompt.) Students in all music disciplines are encouraged to apply, especially those interested in hermeneutics, criticism, aesthetics, semiotics, metaphor, theories of language, and narratology.

Students wishing to apply as participants must write a brief (100-word) statement about their experience and/or interest in the topic of the study day. The statement must also include the applicant's name, institution, e-mail address, and phone number. Participation will be limited to 15 students; selection will be random. Applicants are advised that the selected participants will be responsible for several reading and writing assignments in advance of the symposium, and for actively contributing in seminar and paper workshop discussions.

Students wishing to propose papers for the paper workshop must submit a 300-word abstract with title, and a separate cover letter with the author's name, institution, e-mail address, and phone number. Proposals will be read by the Program Committee with names of the authors withheld. Applicants are advised that authors of the selected papers will be required to distribute their completed papers to all participants two weeks before the symposium. Those applicants whose papers are not selected will automatically be included in the pool of potential participants (described above); for applicants submitting abstracts, there is no need to also submit the 100-word statement of interest.

All materials and questions may be sent to gsim.cuny.2009 at gmail.com. Applications must be received by 1 Feburary 2009.