Global Humanities

We are delighted to announce that the Music Faculty has received funding from the University’s Global Humanities Initiative to support a number of new and ongoing projects related to global musicology, understood broadly. These projects will span the next two academic years and include:

• a podcast project on global musical traditions, produced by Min Yen Ong and Myles Eastwood
• a seminar on global musicology, to be co-convened by Ben Walton and Peter McMurray (in 2021-22)
• visiting performers, both as part of the Faculty’s Practising Performance series organised by Maggie Faultless and as freestanding events to be announced in due course
• support for existing ensembles devoted to non-Western repertoires, including the Cambridge Gamelan Society and the Cambridge University Chinese Orchestra
• a workshop on global media histories to be organised jointly with the Centre for Film and Screen

We look forward to sharing more details in due course.