Colloquia Lent Term 2018
The Colloquium series is the main opportunity for members of the Faculty of Music, 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, 17 January 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Katherine Butler Schofield
King’s College London
Archives differing: stereophonic methods, auditory history, and the paracolonial Indian Ocean, c. 1760–1860
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Freya Jarman
University of Liverpool
The queerness (or not) of vocal high notes
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Gabriela Currie
University of Minnesota
‘As the lute moves in the wind’: instrumental journeys in pre-modern Eurasia
Wednesday, 7 February 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Andrew Hicks
Cornell University
On Plato's Timaeus and other twelfth-century music theory textbooks
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
5.00pm, Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Music
Andreas Haug
Universität Würzburg
The end of sacrifice and the beginning of singing: towards a history of chant before the age of music (300–900 CE)
Wednesday, 21 February 2018
5.00pm, Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Music
Abigail Wood
University of Haifa
Soundscapes of pilgrimage: European and American Christians in Jerusalem’s Old City
Wednesday, 28 February 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Alexander Lingas
City, University of London
Karas, Kontoglou and the Problem of 'Musical Heresy'
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
James Q. Davies
University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
5.00pm, Recital Room at the Faculty of Music
Tomas McAuley
University of Cambridge
The sound of music and philosophy