Colloquium series

David Irving, ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals–CSIC Accidental Occident: The Construction of ‘Western Music’ in Global History To be held in The Gatsby Room, Chancellor’s Centre, Wolfson College CB3 9BB. https://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/about-wolfson/find-us

Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music, London How to do things with plants: Cage, nature, and improvisation in the 1970s Please note this Colloquium has been postponed

James Cook, University of Edinburgh Hearing Historic Scotland

Ross Cole, University of Cambridge Blood Sings: A Soundtrack for the Alt-Right

Peter Spissky, Lund University, Sweden Ups and Downs: Violin Bowing as Gesture

Richard David Williams, SOAS University of London Beauty and ‘Empiricism’ in Colonial-Era Hindi Musical Scholarship

Elisabeth Giselbrecht, King’s College London Reading early music: A new approach to early modern musical literacy

CANCELLED - Dr Martin Parker Dixon, University of Cambridge, 'A Practice-led Music Aesthetics: Some Methodological Considerations'

Prof. Stephen Crist, Emory University, Atlanta, 'Pushing the Limits: Bach and the Aesthetics of Excess'

Dr. Emily Payne, University of Leeds, 'Time, Temporality, and Expectation in Indeterminate Music: A Case Study of John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra'