CALL FOR PAPERS/ PERFORMANCES (Reminder)
(Deadline 1 March)
3rd Annual Meeting of the SongArt Performance Research Group, in association with the Institute of Musical Research, London:
2012 Theme: “Lyric Song in Idea and Performance” Continue reading
BSA CONFERENCE: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
The British Society of Aesthetics 2012 Annual Conference. 21-23 September 2012, Queen’s College, Oxford
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Kendall Walton (University of Michigan) will
give the Wollheim Memorial Lecture; Jancis Robinson (www.jancisrobinson.com)
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Call for Abstracts
Conference:
The Philosophy of Performance: Art in Modern Society
University of Notre Dame
April 27-28, 2012
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International Society for Philosophy of Music Education
The Ninth International Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education
June 5-9 2013
Submission deadline: October 1, 2112
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Margaret Moore – Musical Timbre: Between Ontology and Perception
A central difficulty in the ontology of music is to simultaneously do justice to a work’s abstract structural properties and to the sensuous qualities of the material sounds heard in its performances. Timbral sonicism, the ontological position put forth by Julian Dodd, goes some way towards solving this difficulty by requiring that all and only the acoustic properties of a given work are normative in that work. In particular, a work’s timbral properties are normative, contra the ontological views of Roger Scruton and others. Continue reading
How Performance Thinks. A two-day conference
A two-day conference co-organized by the PSi Performance and Philosophy working group and Kingston University’s practice.research.unit
April 13th-14th 2012
The London Studio Centre, London
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The German Philosophy Seminar at the IGRS, School of Advanced Study, University of London, will resume its bi-weekly sessions on 16 January, 16:00-18:00, Senate House, Room 264. The topic this term is: Wagner in German Philosophy. Against the backdrop of recent interest in Wagner in philosophical circles (Badiou, Zizek), we will read and discuss texts by Wagner, Schopenhauer, Nietz Continue reading
The Ethical Challenge of Multidisciplinarity: Reconciling ‘The Three Narratives’—Art, Science, and Philosophy
2-6 July 2012, University of Cyprus
Language—and by extension our story telling activities in general—enables us to confront the contingencies of life by answering the immediate question: what’s happening and what is going to happen next. Science also attempts to answer this question. However, there appears to be—at least in the western cultural tradition—a fundamental tension between the literary-artistic and the scientific projects: whereas the artist seeks to recreate human experience, thereby evoking basic ethical issues, the scientist seeks ethically-neutral, evidence-based facts, as the constituents of our knowledge of reality. It is thus left to others—to the philosopher, theologian, critic, or historian—to bridge the theoretical and ethical gaps between the world of ‘fiction’ and the world of ‘fact’, of art and science. Among other things, the ever increasing rate of production of scientific data in the modern age poses a new multidisciplinary challenge: how to address the unresolved/unresolvable tensions between the language of normativity and the language of facticity. Continue reading
International Conference: Music and Body Matters
Jornadas de la Sociedad Ibérica de Etnomusicología (SIBE) 2012
7-8 June 2012, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño Continue reading
Conference: Constructing Historiography of Music: The Formation of musicological Knowledge
Date: November 3-5, 2011
Conference Venue: Georg-August-University Goettingen, Germany
Organized by: Ph.D. Fellows of “Erinnerung – Wahrnehmung – Bedeutung. Musikwissenschaft als Geisteswissenschaft”, funded by the federal state of Lower Saxony at the Universities in Goettingen, Oldenburg and Osnabrueck together with the University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover. Continue reading
