CFP: Methods of Musicological Research (Utrecht)

METHODS OF MUSCIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
KVNM OPERN FORUM DAY, UTRECHT
14 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Music comes in many different forms. Music can be a sonic phenomenon, a visual object, but also a cultural practice. In each of these guises music can act as a valid research object in musicology, but they all require different approaches. Moreover, in recent years, under the influence of the so-called New Musicology and of developments in cognitive and computational music research, the diversity of musicological methods has increased tremendously. How can researchers best select those methods that are appropriate to answer particular musical research questions?

For the Open Forum Day on 14 November 2009, the Royal Society for Music History of
The Netherlands invites papers that address this particular issue. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to: performance studies, the score as object of research, the study of sounding music, research in improvisation, music as cultural practice, new historiography, musicology and new media.

Conference languages: English and Dutch.

Please send your abstract (up to 200 words) to Vincent Meelberg (v.meelberg at]let.ru.nl).
Deadline for submission: 15 September 2009.

Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619–1740 and Its Contexts (Utrecht)

SACRED MUSIC IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1619-1740 AND ITS CONTEXTS

ROOSEVELT ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT

MIDDELBURG, THE NETHERLANDS

5 - 8 NOVEMBER 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred music at the Austrian Habsburg courts existed within a complex environment in which liturgy, theology, literature, art, architecture, and politics were tightly interwoven. Also as a cultural export product at the borders of the Empire, such as Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary and the Low Countries, this music interacted – positively or negatively – with local traditions. The symposium seeks to explore this cross-disciplinary interaction for the period from the beginning of the reign of Ferdinand II (1619) to the death of Charles VI (1740).

The sessions will be held over two days and will take place in the attractive surroundings of Middelburg’s late medieval town hall. Limited grants towards travel and subsistence may be available for younger scholars, those without university affiliation, and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. Selected contributions will be published in a volume of proceedings.

Proposals are invited for

- individual papers of 20 minutes duration (followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion).

- round-table sessions of up to two hours (three or four papers) including discussion.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of

- an abstract of not more than 250 words (individual papers).

- a summary of not more than 250 words and abstracts of up to 250 words for each participant (round-table sessions).

Abstracts and papers may be written/presented in English or German.

Acceptance of a proposal will be at the discretion of the programme committee. The abstract should be preceded by the name, institution, postal address, phone no., and email address of the author and may be submitted electronically (plain text, MS Word, RTF) to Tassilo Erhardt (t.erhardt at roac.nl).

The deadline for proposal submission is 15 April 2009.

Programme committee:

Herbert Seifert, Steven Saunders, Robert Rawson, Tassilo Erhardt

For further information please contact:

Dr. Tassilo Erhardt

Email: t.erhardt at roac.nl

Link: http://www.roac.nl/roac/habsburgmusic.phtml

Deadline: 15 Apr 2009

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: Sacred Music in the Habsburg Empire 1619-1740 and Its Contexts, Middelburg (Utrecht)

SACRED MUSIC IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE 1619-1740 AND ITS CONTEXTS
ROOSEVELT ACADEMY (UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT), MIDDLEBURG, THE NETHERLANDS
5 - 8 NOVEMBER 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS

Sacred music at the Austrian Habsburg courts existed within a complex environment in which liturgy, theology, literature, art, architecture, and politics were tightly interwoven. Also as a cultural export product at the borders of the Empire, such as Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary and the Low Countries, this music interacted – positively or negatively – with local traditions. The symposium seeks to explore this cross-disciplinary interaction for the period from the beginning of the reign of Ferdinand II (1619) to the death of Charles VI (1740).

The sessions will be held over two days and will take place in the attractive surroundings of Middelburg’s late medieval town hall. Limited grants towards travel and subsistence may be available for younger scholars, those without university affiliation, and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe. Selected contributions will be published in a volume of proceedings.

Proposals are invited for:
- individual papers of 20 minutes duration (followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion).
- round-table sessions of up to two hours (three or four papers) including discussion.

Individuals may submit one proposal in the form of:
- an abstract of not more than 250 words (individual papers).
- a summary of not more than 250 words and abstracts of up to 250 words for each participant (round-table sessions).

Abstracts and papers may be written/presented in English or German.

Acceptance of a proposal will be at the discretion of the programme committee. The abstract should be preceded by the name, institution, postal address, phone no., and email address of the author and may be submitted electronically (plain text, MS Word, RTF) to Tassilo Erhardt (t.erhardt at roac.nl).

The deadline for proposal submission is 15 April 2009.

Programme committee:
Herbert Seifert, Steven Saunders, Robert Rawson, Tassilo Erhardt

For further information please contact:
Dr. Tassilo Erhardt
Email: t.erhardt [at] roac.nl

CFP: Medieval-Renaissance Music Conference (Utrecht)

CALL FOR PAPERS
MEDIEVAL-RENAISSANCE MUSIC CONFERENCE
UTRECHT UNIVERSITY, THE NETHERLANDS
1-4 JULY 2009

The program committee of the 2009 Medieval-Renaissance Music Conference, to be held at Utrecht University from 1-4 July, invites proposals for papers on any and all aspects of Medieval and Renaissance music. As usual, there is no overriding central theme to the conference, and interdisciplinary contributions are very welcome, as are proposals for multi-speaker panel sessions.

Proposal deadline: 15 February 2009

Scholarly committee: Marnix van Berchum, Jacques Boogaart, Theodor Dumitrescu, Ulrike Hascher-Burger, Eric Jas, Karl Kügle, Ike de Loos, Rudolf Rasch

Abstracts of no more than 250 words for 20-minute papers, or 1000 words for panel sessions (including abstracts of individual contributions), should include title, author names, and affiliations/locations. Please submit by one of the following methods (email preferred):

Email:
theodor.dumitrescu at let.uu.nl

Fax:
+31 (0)30 253 6167

Post:
Dr. Theodor Dumitrescu
Universiteit Utrecht
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29
3512HD Utrecht
The Netherlands