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: Celebrating Jean-Georges Noverre 1727-1810 (New College, Oxford)

12TH OXFORD DANCE SYMPOSIUM
CELEBRATING JEAN-GEORGES NOVERRE 1727-1810: HIS WORLD, AND BEYOND
NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD
16 - 17 APRIL 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

The 12th Oxford Dance Symposium examines various aspects of the life and works of the French-Swiss choreographer and dance writer Jean-Georges Noverre, his contemporaries and successors, his detractors and his champions. In calling for papers, the organisers are seeking a wide range of papers on all these aspects, particularly on his influence as practised in different centres throughout Europe and beyond.

The bi-centenary of the death of Noverre presents an ideal opportunity to take a closer look at the world in which he lived and worked. Trained in Paris by the great Louis Dupré, Noverre went on to work in the opera houses of Paris, Lyons, Strasburg, Stuttgart, Vienna, Milan, and London, trained such future stars as Gaetan Vestris, Jean Dauberval, and Charles Didelot, and crossed swords with several European choreographers including his former pupils Gardel and Dauberval.

Despite Noverre's claims to be an innovator and reformer in many aspects of dance, a number of the theories that he propounded in his own writings had been anticipated by other authors, but it was he who left a mark on the history of theatrical dance which could not be ignored. By the end of his life, the French press was referring to him as 'the Nestor of our choreographers' and after his death in 1810 a flood of adulatory obituaries paved the way for a fame that has lasted virtually unchallenged until recent times.

Offers of papers (by 30 September 2009) and requests to be included on the conference mailing list should be sent to the College Officers' Secretary, Maggie Davies: maggie.davies at new.ox.ac.uk. The conference is organized by Michael Burden and Jennifer Thorp.

Upcoming Conf: Trumpet Forum (RSAMD)

TRUMPET FORUM
ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMA
14 JULY 2009

The RSAMD is pleased to present a range of world-leading researchers and artists at its first Trumpet Forum on 14th July 2009. Among the speakers for this one-day conference are internationally-renowned brass specialists John Wallace, Trevor Herbert, Reine Dahlqvist and Arnold Myers.

Our special guest will be John Webb, who will be bringing a selection of instruments from his personal collection which will be heard in performance by musicians from the RSAMD.

Programme and booking details are now available on the conference
webpage: www.rsamd.ac.uk/academy/research/brass/

CFP: Popular Dance and Music Matters Symposium (Surrey)

POPULAR DANCE AND MUSIC MATTERS SYMPOSIUM

DEPT OF DANCE STUDIES & DEPT OF MUSIC AND SOUND RECORDING, UNIVERSITY OF SURREY

21 NOVEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Dance Studies and The Department of Music and Sound Recording at University of Surrey, in collaboration with The Society for Dance Research

Building on the rich dialogue and breadth of expertise that informed the 2007 and 2008 Popular Dance and Music Matters Symposia, we are pleased to launch our third international symposium. For this forthcoming symposium we have decided to concentrate presentations around four broad themes that speak to key issues and debates raised at the two previous symposia:

* Re-imagining popular forms in their local and global circulation

* Mediations of the popular through new and extant technologies

* Spectacle and performativity in expressions of the popular

* Revisiting methodology through the dance-music interface

The symposium committee welcomes proposals from scholars and practitioners engaged in examining the practices and products of popular dance and music. In addition to those researching within the fields of dance studies and popular music, we are interested in presentations that intersect with other disciplinary areas such as sociology, cultural studies, social history and media studies.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS

Monday 13th July 2009

For submission guidelines or any questions, please email Dr. Patricia Schmidt at pschmidt [at] surrey.ac.uk

CFP: 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Switzerland)

25th ACM SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING
SIERRE, SWITZERLAND
21 - 26 MARCH 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

Important Dates
September 08, 2009: Full Paper Submission
October 19, 2009: Notification of paper acceptance/rejection
November 02, 2009: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers

For the past twenty-four years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. The conference proceedings are published by ACM and are also available online through ACM's Digital Library.

The 25th Annual SAC meeting will be held March 2010 in Sierre, Switzerland, and is hosted by the University of Applied Sciences, Western Switzerland (HES-SO) and Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Visit the SAC 2010 home page for further information: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/

Special Track on Information Access and Retrieval (SAC-IAR)
The research on information access and retrieval aims at modelling, designing, implementing and evaluating systems that provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of multimedia information. One main issue of such systems is to estimate the relevance of documents to user information needs. This is a very hard and complex task due to several reasons that a large volume of research has attempted to analyse and tackle, among which the subjective and multi-aspect nature of relevance. Information Retrieval (IR) can be considered as the first historical research area aimed at defining systems for the automatic access to huge amounts of information (together with DBMSs whose main aim is to manage and access huge amounts of data). In the past 30 years, IR has grown well beyond its primary goals of indexing and searching textual documents in static bibliographic collections, and has moved away from the perception of being the narrow area of interest of librarians and information experts. With the expansion of the Internet and of the Web, other access techniques have been identified and developed, such as Recommender Systems and Information Filtering systems, Question Answering Systems, Meta-search engines, Geomap information services, and collaborative information retreieval services. Information access technologies and IR in particular, are currently being used in many different application contexts that go far beyond the initial scope of their design. The application of models and techniques proposed and tested in standard experimental contexts to new application areas is a very challenging task that we believe is worth of great attention by the researchers. Nowadays, research in information access includes document indexing, document classification and categorization, system architecture, user interfaces, information visualisation, query languages, topic detection, management of multi-lingual information, content indexing of audio-visual information, collaborative searching, etc.

This special track is the ninth edition in the context of SAC and is concerned with the theory, implementation and evaluation of information access and retrieval technologies to novel application areas and novel contexts.

We invite submission of original research contributions, and experimentations in emerging fields such as Geographic Information Retrieval, Collaborative search and retrieval, User Interfaces for information access, presentation, and exploration, information retreival on the Web.

The topics of interest include:
* (Multimedia) document clustering and categorization,
* (Multimodal) Interfaces for information access, presentation, and exploration,
* Flexible query languages,
* Topic detection and tracking
* Cross language retrieval,
* Content indexing of multimedia information,
* Information extraction and mining
* Modeling user context,
* Ontology based Information Retrieval Systems,
* Conceptual information retrieval
* Collaborative information searching and retrieval
* Spoken IR,
* (Mobile) Search engines and meta-search engines,
* Models of information access and retrieval,
* Applications of advanced information access and retrieval systems,
* (Multimedia and multimodal) information access and retrieval systems,
* Content-based and collaborative information filtering,
* Distributed information access and retrieval.

Track Chairs
Gabriella Pasi
Department of Informatics,Systems and Communication (DISCo),
University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy
pasi@disco.unimib.it
Gloria Bordogna,
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IDPA ,
Dalmine (BG), Italy.
gloria.bordogna@idpa.cnr.it

Guidelines for Submission:
Original papers from the above-mentioned or other related areas will be considered.
Submissions fall into the following categories:
Original and unpublished work
Reports of innovative computing applications in the arts, sciences, engineering, and business areas
Reports of successful technology transfer to new problem domains
Reports of industrial experience and demos of new innovative systems
Peer groups with expertise in the track focus area will blindly review submissions to that track. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three referees. Accepted papers will be published in the annual conference proceedings. Submission guidelines can be found on SAC 2010 Website. Papers should be submitted per track using the provided automated submission system via the website: eCMS site http://sac.cs.iupui.edu/SAC2010/
Submission of the same paper to multiple tracks is not allowed. For more information please visit the SAC 2010 Website. Submissions must follow the template reported at the conference web site. Each paper can have a length of 5 pages according to the template, with a maximum of 3 extra pages in the camera ready format. There will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. extra page will be charged 80USD. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats, such as US letter and A4.
The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must NOT appear in the body of the paper, and
self-reference should be in the third person. This is to facilitate blind review. Notice that Papers that report the author names will not be sent to the reviews and will be rejected. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information."

Special Track on: INFORMATION ACCESS AND RETRIEVAL
http://www.disco.unimib.it/go/Home/IAR-2010

CFP: Music without Walls? Souce Studies in the 21st Century (Queen's University, Belfast)

INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM: MUSIC WITHOUT WALLS?

SOURCE STUDIES IN THE 21ST CENTURY

SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND SONIC ARTS, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST

16 - 17 DECEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Website: http://www.symposiummusicwithoutwalls.co.uk

The symposium ‘Music without Walls?’ is being held to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and to celebrate subsequent developments in music source studies. The aims of this interdisciplinary symposium are to present and contextualize recent findings and to discuss how new technologies may facilitate and enhance our understanding of these issues.

Proposals exploring any aspect of this theme are invited, although those relating to new discoveries, archival research in former ‘Eastern-Bloc’ countries, case studies of various geographical locales, the implications of technological developments and future directions in source studies, are particularly encouraged.

The symposium will open with a research seminar given by Dr Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv, Leipzig) Wednesday 16 December 2009, 1 pm.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of an abstract of not more than 300 words (individual papers), or not more than 400 words (round table sessions).

The abstract should be preceded by information under the following headings:

NAME, INSTITUTION, POSTAL ADDRESS, EMAIL ADDRESS.

Abstracts may be emailed to Alison Dunlop adunlop04@qub.ac.uk Attachments (in MS word file or .rtf format) are preferred for the text of abstracts, but all attachments should be backed up with a plain-text version in the main email.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts is 1 September 2009.

Alison Dunlop

School of Music and Sonic Arts (Music Building)

University Road

Belfast

Northern Ireland

BT7 1NN

Tel : +44 (0)28 9097 5337 (School Office)

http://www.symposiummusicwithoutwalls.co.uk/

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: 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).

Instruments of Passion: Music, Painting, and the Contest of the Arts (Upcoming symposium) (New York)

INSTRUMENTS OF PASSION: MUSIC, PAINTING, AND THE CONTEST OF THE ARTS: A SUMPOSIUM

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART / COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

6 FEBRUARY 2009

NEW YORK, NY

Organized by Lydia Goehr and Klaus Krüger

The program is a collaboration among The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,

Columbia University, New York, and, Freie Universität, Berlin

TIMES AND PLACES

Friday, February 6, 2009

11:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Avenue

New York

[Free with Museum admission; reservations and tickets are not required. For more information, please email lectures@metmuseum.org, consult the Met’s online Calendar at www.metmuseum.org, or call (212) 396-5460. ]

Saturday, February 7, 2009

9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America,

Columbia University

1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 116th Street

New York

Free; for more information, please call (212) 854-3665.

THE PROGRAM

Friday, February 6: 11:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.

11:00–11:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University

Andrea Bayer, Department of European Paintings and interim head of Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.

The End of the Contest: On Philosophy, Painting, and Photography in the History of Modernism, Arthur C. Danto, Philosophy, Columbia University

Introduced by Jonathan Gilmore, Philosophy, Yale University

12:15–1:15 p.m.

Watteau and the Contest between Melpomene and Thalia, Georgia J. Cowart, Music, Case Western Reserve University

Introduced by Ellen Rosand, Music, Yale University

break for lunch

2:30–3:30 p.m.

King David’s Harp, Beckmesser’s Lute: Musical Instruments and the Instrumentality of Painting, Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University

Introduced by Christopher S. Wood, History of Art, Yale University

3:30–4:30 p.m.

“Most musical of mourners, weep again!”, David Rosand, Art History, Columbia University

Introduced by Alexander Nagel, Art History, New York University

Saturday, February 7: 9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.

9:30–10:30 a.m.

The Masked Singer: The Auditory Perception of Beauty in renaissance Italy, Giuseppe Gerbino, Music, Columbia University

Chair: Susan Boynton, Music, Columbia University

10:30–11:30 a.m.

Marsia’s Lament: Animating the Contest of Marsyas and Apollo in Barberini Rome, Wendy Heller, Music, Princeton University

Chair: Christoph Menke, Philosophy, Goethe Universität Frankfurt

break

12:00–1:00 p.m.

Athene and Marsyas: Two Bodies of Beauty and Music, Gertrud Koch, Film Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin

Chair: Gregg Horowitz, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University

break for lunch

2:00–3:00 p.m.

“Mi manca la voce”: Silent Music in Balzac’s Novellas, John T. Hamilton, Comparative Literature and German, New York University

Chair: Walter Frisch, Music, Columbia University

3:00–4:00 p.m.

“The Natural Instrument of the Voice”: Apollo, Marsyas, and Andrea Sacchi’s Portrait of the Soprano, Marc’Antonio Pasqualini, David E. Cohen, Music, Columbia University

Chair: Tim Barringer, History of Art, Yale University

break

4:30–5:30 p.m.

Painted Sounds—Imaginary Music (On Giorgione, Savoldo, and Caravaggio), Klaus Krüger, Art History, Freie Universität, Berlin

Chair: Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University

7:00 p.m.

PERFORMANCE of J. S. BACH’S Cantata BWV 201 Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde. The Contest between Phoebus and Pan, with singers and instrumentalists associated with Columbia University. Introduced by Elaine Sisman, Music, Columbia University.

Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University

1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 116th Street, New York

Entry to the concert is free for students with Columbia University ID; otherwise $10 or donation. Tickets are not required.

We are grateful to the following sponsors and supporters:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Freie Universität, Berlin: “Languages of Emotion,” Cluster of Excellence

Columbia University: Arts Initiative, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Department of Music, Department of Philosophy, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Music Performance Program, School of the Arts

[Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue at 82nd street New York, NY 10028-0198 www.metmuseum.org]

Genius without Borders: A Symposium in Honor of the Genius of Ray Charles (Chicago)

GENIUS WITHOUT BORDERS: A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF THE GENIUS RAY CHARLES
COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO
7 - 8 MARCH 2009

Presented by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago: paper sessions, lecture-demonstrations, and panel discussions on Ray Charles’s compositions, musical influences, life, and legacy

Join keynote speaker David Ritz, scholars and authors James Austin, Stanley Crouch, Fredara Hadley, Tammy Kernodle, and Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., as well as musicians who were members of Charles’s band, including Marcus Belgrave (trumpet), John Bryant (drums), Leroy Cooper (former head of the Ray Charles Orchestra), and Dr. Mable John (former Raelette and Charles’s pastor). Ray Charles Enterprises is collaborating with the CBMR to create a small exhibit of select Charles memorabilia.

The event is sponsored by Mesirow Financial, The Palmer House Hilton Hotel, and U.S. Cellular.

For a preliminary program, schedule, venues, lodging, and registration and ticket information, please visit www.colum.edu/cbmr/raycharles2009/.

CFP: International Conference on Music Performance Analysis (Lucerne)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MUSIC PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
LUCERNE (SWITZERLAND)
1 - 2 JULY 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts organizes a conference in the field of music
performance analysis. The conference will take place during the annual meeting of the
“International Association of Schools of Jazz” in Lucerne, and it will attract a mixed audience of
jazz students/teachers and researchers in the field of performance. The conference consists of two symposia:

Symposium 1: Perspectives on ‘Body & Soul’
Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 13:30-18:30
‘Body & Soul’ (1930) is famed to be the most recorded American popular song of all time: In 1980, Gary Giddins counted nearly 3000 recorded versions of the song, and the three decades since then have added considerably to this impressive number. The attraction of this intricate melody with its harmonically surprising bridge doesn’t seem to fade away. The papers of the symposium analyse recorded performances of the tune; they describe individual responses of musicians and singers to the composition, the lyrics and to earlier renditions of ‘Body & Soul’.

Symposium 2: Methods of music performance analysis
Thursday, July 2, 2009, 09:00-16:30
The analysis of music performance is a relatively new field in music research, and the methods of
analysis are still in an experimental stage. The papers of this symposium present innovative
analytical procedures and demonstrate the scope and limit of these methods by applying them to
concrete musical examples of different genres (examples of both popular and classical music are
welcome).

Call for papers
Researchers and musicians, who are interested to contribute a paper, send their abstract of approximately 400 words to Olivier Senn (olivier.senn@hslu.ch) before December 14, 2008. The
presentations (30’ each) and discussions will be held in English. All presented papers will be
published within the conference proceedings.

CFP: Acting out (Reading)

'ACTING OUT'
UNIVERSITY OF READING
20 MARCH 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Acting Out - A symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation

"Clearly films depend on a form of communication whereby meanings are acted out." (Naremore, Acting in the Cinema, p. 2)

"I would like to say that what I am doing in reading a film is performing it (if you wish, performing it inside myself)" (Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 1981, pp. 37-38.)

Keynote Speaker - Andrew Klevan, (St. Anne's College, University of Oxford) - Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (Wallflower Press)

This one-day symposium seeks to provide a forum for scholars of screen acting to meet and progress the spate of recent work on performance on film. We would like to explore how we draw out performance through an interrogation of the relationship between performance, inference and interpretation, but will consider proposals on other screen performance related issues.

As viewers we frequently respond instinctively to the material and kinetic details of the performer within their fictional world. In consequence, the role of inference could be said to be indivisible from interpretation. But how important is that moment between engaging with a performance and analysing it? How do you find it and observe it?

The perceived problem of subjectivity is the ghost of film studies, haunting many analyses but rarely addressed directly. How do discourses around spectatorship effect discussion of performance? Could it be that the study of performance is uniquely disposed to alerting us to the complexity of engagement?

The broader implication of these thoughts is, how do YOU 'frame' performance? And how are different analytical frameworks (e.g. phenomenological, social role-play, practice-based approaches, close analysis) specifically equipped to conceptualise these processes?

Equally, what is the role of inference in the process and production of performance? What is left unsaid and/or assumed in performance?

Arguably, many performances communicate in non-verbal ways and leave a certain amount to the imagination but how does this vary between performance styles? More histrionic, melodramatic or ostensive performances are frequently thought of as offering more privileged access to thoughts and feelings or even a transparently clear communication of meaning. What
kinds of assumptions underpin this way of thinking about performance? And where does this leave more contained or repressive performances?

Deadline for Proposals - Monday 22 December 2008

Please contact Ceri Hovland and Lucy Fife Donaldson at actingout@reading.ac.uk with any questions or if you would like to discuss any initial proposal ideas.

CFP: International Symposium on Performance Science (New Zealand)

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERFORMANCE SCIENCE 2009
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
15 - 18 DECEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Convened by The National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, The University of Auckland Centre for Performance Science and the Royal College of Music, London
www.performancescience.org

Following a highly successful inaugural conference in Portugal in 2007, the next International Symposium on Performance Science will take place at The University of Auckland on 15-18 December 2009.

Submissions are invited for unpublished papers, posters, and symposia on research from across the arts which explores the theme Performing Excellence.

The conference will bring together performers and researchers, artists and scientists, teachers and students for an interdisciplinary exchange. For this reason, specific research topics, fields of study, and methodological approaches have been left open intentionally. Those whose primary interests lie outside of the arts, but whose work nonetheless offers implications for the performing arts and/or for performing artists, are also encouraged to attend.

Keynote Speakers
--Deidre Anderson, Chief Executive Officer of U@MQ, Macquarie University (Australia)
--Sylvie Fortin, Director of the Dance Health and Performance Center, University of Québec at Montreal (Canada)
--K. Anders Ericsson, Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology, Florida State University (USA)
--Lord Robert Winston Professor of Science and Society, Imperial College London (UK)

Submissions are invited for:
- Spoken papers
- Poster presentations
- Symposia, workshops, demonstrations

Detailed instructions for submissions are available via the conference website, www.performancescience.org . Submissions should be made electronically to cps@rcm.ac.uk by 1 April 2009.


Graduate Award Paper
The conference Organizers and Scientific Committee are keen to encourage the attendance of students, as well as established researchers and practitioners. Therefore, the ISPS 2009 Graduate Award will be offered to one graduate student to present a 30-minute keynote paper at the conference. The award will include all conference fees and accommodation.

Information on how to submit a proposal for the Graduate Award is available at the conference website. (Unsuccessful award submissions will be processed automatically as regular conference submissions.)

Review Process
Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by the Scientific Committee according to its originality, importance, clarity, and interdisciplinarity. Corresponding authors will be notified by email of the Committee's decision by 15 May 2009.


Conference Publication
Accepted paper, poster, and symposia submissions will be published as 6-page papers in the Proceedings of ISPS 2009 (complete with ISBN), available in hardcopy at the conference and subsequently downloadable via the conference website. Details of the procedure and format for submitting published papers will be provided when authors receive notification of acceptance. Final papers for publication will be due on 1 September 2009.


1 March 2009 Online registration opens
1 April 2009 Submission deadline for papers, posters, and symposia
15 May 2009 Notification of submission decision
31 July 2009 End of early registration
1 Sept 2009 Deadline for final papers for the Proceedings of ISPS 2009
15 Dec 2009 Start of ISPS 2009

Additional information on the conference programme, venue, and registration costs is available on the conference website, www.performancescience.org. The official language of the conference is English.

Documenting Practices (Upcoming exhibiton - CSSD)

DOCUMENTING PRACTICES
CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
6 - 7 NOVEMBER 2008

Documenting Practices is an exhibition sampling different approaches to documenting theatre and diverse models of documenting. An afternoon of round table discussions addresses issues and practices.

The exhibition features four broad thematic areas.

- Archiving the performance

Includes materials from the Cameron Mackintosh archive, the LIFT Living Archive, the National Theatre digital archive, the Rambert archive and the V&A’s National Video Archive of Performance

- Documentation by theatre practitioners in the process of making productions

Includes drawings by Rae Smith for War Horse, video design storyboards by mesmer, sound design documentation by Gareth Fry, and benesh movement notation from early Rambert productions

- Documentation by way of artistic interpretation

Includes drawings by Quentin Blake and Jane Heather, books by Ernst Fischer, photographs by Manuel Vason

- Diverse modes of documenting new theatre

Includes examples that document experimental pieces by Central practitioners

A symposium on the afternoon of Thursday 6 November at 3.00pm addresses the following topics:

Documenting and archiving theatre in the digital age

Panellists include representatives from the Theatre Collections (V&A), National Theatre Archive, Royal Opera House New Media Department, Musicians’ Union and arts & media lawyer Sean Egan. The panel will address the range of digital forms of documentation and their related costs; the growing interest in streaming performances online and the use of podcasts and clips; and issues of intellectual property and copyright.

Theatre practitioners on documenting practices

Panellists include Rae Smith (designer), Mervyn Millar (associate director/writer), Gareth Fry (sound designer), Sven Ortel (video designer and co-director of mesmer) and David Harradine (designer/director). The panel will address how and why they document, the problems they face, solutions they find and costs they encounter.

Thur 6 Nov (exhibition, symposium, reception), 1.30-8.00pm
Fri 7 Nov (exhibition only), 10.00am-7.00pm
Admission is free. To reserve a place at the symposium, contact cett@cssd.ac.uk (020 7449 1571)

Transnational East Asian Cinema (Upcoming symposium) (Southampton)

TRANSNATIONAL EAST ASIAN CINEMA SINCE 1997
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON, UK
SATURDAY 6 DECEMBER 2008

A one day symposium sponsored by Screen, hosted by the University of Southampton with Goldsmiths, University of London and the University of Hong Kong

The symposium will explore the relationship between cinematic representations and transnational cultural exchange, centred on one of the most active areas of cinematic activity over the past decade - East Asian cinema. It encompasses a broad range of topics that reflect upon how academia, filmmakers and the film industry have responded to the effects of globalisation, and the ways in which representations are read through the differing transnational contexts that exist between Asia and the West. Beyond cinema, our event will create a significant dialogue whose relevance relates to important issues surrounding globalisation and intercultural communication between East and West, as well as the status and function of Film Studies in different cultural contexts.

Confirmed Speakers: Prof. Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton); Prof. Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College, London); Dr. Esther Cheung (University of Hong Kong); Dr. Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong); Dr. Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham); Dr. Isolde Standish (SOAS, University of London); Dr. Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia); Dr. Mark Morris (University of Cambridge).

Attendance: We are currently seeking expressions of interest from those wishing to attend this student-organised symposium, due to be held at the University of Southampton on Saturday 06th December 2008. Expressions should be made to Daniel Hickin at djh104@soton.ac.uk by Friday 31st October 2008. Those received after the deadline will not be guaranteed a place. Please note: there is no fee for attending this event.

Transnational East Asian Cinema since 1997 is sponsored by Screen as one of its 50th Anniversary events, and supported by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. The events are hosted by the Department of Film Studies at the University of Southampton, in association with Goldsmiths University of London and the University of Hong Kong. For further information
please contact: Richard Donne (richarddonne@hotmail.co.uk), Daniel Hickin (djh104@soton.ac.uk) and Aramchan Lee (filmtheory@gmail.com).