The Colloquium series provides an important opportunity for members of the Faculty, researchers from other departments and the general public to come together and hear papers on all aspects of music research, given by distinguished speakers from the UK and abroad. Colloquia are held on Wednesday evenings in the Recital Room at the Faculty of Music, West Road. Admission is free and all are welcome. Please arrive at 4.50pm for a 5.00pm start. Papers are followed by a discussion and a drinks reception with the speaker.
Wednesday, 20 January 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Nicholas Cook
1684 Professor of Music, University of Cambridge
‘The imaginary African: race, identity, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Laudan Nooshin
Senior Lecturer, City University London
'Re-Imagining Musical Difference: Creative Process, Alterity and 'Improvisation' in Iranian Music from Classical to Jazz'
Wednesday, 3 February 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Laura Tunbridge
Associate Professor, University of Oxford
'Stockpiling Schubert'
Wednesday, 10 February 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Gavin Williams
Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Anahid Kassabian
Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London
Wednesday, 24 February 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Julian Anderson
Professor of Composition and Composer in Residence, Guildhall School
Wednesday, 2 March 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Derek Scott
Professor of Critical Musicology, University of Leeds
‘Cosmopolitan Musicology’
Wednesday, 9 March 2016
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Tomas McAuley
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
‘What is music and philosophy (or: what does music mean?)?’