CFE: Noise, Audition, Aurality: Histories of the Sonic World(s) of Europe, 1500-1945 (essays)

NOISE, AUDITION, AURALITY: HISTORIES OF THE SONIC WORLD(S) OF EUROPE, 1500-1945
DEADLINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR ESSAYS

Contributions are invited for a proposed collection of essays exploring the soundscapes of Europe from c.1500 to 1945. The collection seeks to open up new areas of interdisciplinary scholarship from a range of fields including (but not limited to) musicology, urban geography, history, literary studies, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, psychology and anthropology, and will build on existing work in acoustic ecology, the sociology of noise and histories and historiographies of noise, audition and aurality. We will favour contributions that deal with historically-informed topics in the following areas (although this is by no means an exclusive list):

. The noise-sound-music nexus
. Urban/rural soundscapes
. Public/private soundscapes
. The acoustic ecology of communities
. Legal histories of noise
. Noise, music and the body
. Listening and the erotic
. Political economies of noise
. Noise, music and landscape
. Theories of hearing and listening
. Historical acousmêtres
. Historiographies of noise, audition and aurality
. Technologies of sound reproduction and their histories

Prospective contributors should send a 250-word abstract and a short biography to Ian Biddle (i.d.biddle at ncl.ac.uk) by no later than November 30 2009. If your contribution is chosen, we will require your finished chapter by 19 April 2010.

If you have any queries please also contact Ian Biddle at the email address above.

CFP: Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700 (University of Southampton)

MUSIC, LITERATURE, ILLUSTRATION: COLLABORATION AND NETWORKS IN ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT CULTURE, 1500 - 1700
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
16 - 17 FEBRUARY 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS

A conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers, hosted by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Chawton House Library, Hampshire, 16-17 February 2010
Keynote speaker: Dr Peter Beal FBA (Institute of English Studies, University of London)

This two-day conference will bring together postgraduate and early career researchers working on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English manuscript sources. Many of the sources from this period are multi-authored and contain strikingly disparate materials, posing a serious challenge to scholars working within traditionally defined disciplinary boundaries.

The primary aim of the conference is to address this challenge: to provide an opportunity for genuine interdisciplinary discussion, and to create new networks between researchers which will enable them to share both theoretical perspectives and practical approaches to working with early modern manuscript materials.

Our definition of ‘literature’ for this conference is a broad one, including (but not limited to) poetry, prose, drama, (auto)biography, letters, devotional writing and medical/scientific texts.

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers that address any aspect of the conference theme but, in particular, those focused in the following areas:

• Studies of individual manuscripts that contain a range of diverse materials
• Manuscripts as emblems of social bonds (e.g. family, friendship, or patronage-based networks)
• Manuscripts as spaces for private reflection
• Manuscripts as objects for public display
• Manuscripts as commodities in a gift economy
• Relationships between manuscript and print culture
• The role of new technologies in manuscript studies, including:

- Project reports and/or practical demonstrations of existing electronic resources
- Conceptual and theoretical models – how can emerging technologies shape the future of manuscript studies?
- Representing non-textual material in electronic editions

Abstracts (300 words max.) for proposed papers should be sent by email to both conference organisers by October 16th 2009:

Michael Gale ( mdg at soton.ac.uk ) and Louise Rayment ( L.Rayment at soton.ac.uk )

Please include contact details and indicate your institutional affiliation and professional status (i.e. doctoral candidate, post-doctoral researcher etc.) in your submission.

Further information about the conference will appear in due course at: http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/news/conferences/2009_10/music_literature.html

CFP: Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music "Diego Fernandez" (Almeria, Spain)

10th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SPANISH KEYBOARD MUSIC "Diego Fernández”
PARADOR DE MOJACAR, ALMERIA
8 - 10 OCTOBER 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
KEYBOARD MUSIC AND INSTRUMENTS IN THE SPANISH EMPIRE (16th - 17th centuries)

Chairs: John Koster (National Music Museum, Vermillion, USA)
Francesco Nocerino, (Naturalmente Musica, Naples)
Luisa Morales (FIMTE, Almería)

Commemorating the 500th anniversary of Antonio de Cabezón’s birth, the 10th International Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music “Diego Fernández” will be held in the Parador of Mojácar, Almería, Andalusia, from 8th through 10th October 2010, as part of FIMTE 2010: the 10th International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music. The festival shall feature both mainstream and fringe concerts as well as various courses and exhibitions.

Proposals for papers are particularly encouraged in the following areas:

-Antonio de Cabezón and his contemporaries
-The circulation of performance practices and repertoire in the Spanish territories
-The circulation of musiciens
-Keyboard instruments: their construction, influences, trade…
-Iconography

We welcome 200-250 word abstracts for 20-minute papers, as well as proposals for lecture-concerts (30-minute). Abstracts should be signed at the bottom with the author's name, institutional affiliation or city of residence and full return address, including e-mail address and fax number where possible.

Official languages: English and Spanish.
Symposium fee (including Symposium dinner) EUR 125
Deadline for Abstracts: 31st December 2009
For further information, please contact:

Luisa Morales
FIMTE
Apdo. 212 Garrucha 04630
Almería ESPAÑA
Tel: +34 950132285
fimte at fimte.org
fimteinfo at gmail.com

www.fimte.org

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