Call for papers
Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds: Music and the Global American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
http://globalsouth.unc.edu

Southern Sounds/Out of Bounds: Music and the Global American South aims to bring together graduate students, faculty, independent scholars, and a broader public audience to share current research on the culture, meaning, and practices surrounding music in and from the Global American South. The two-day conference will consider musical import/export, musical manifestation of changing populations, musical meaning contextualized by regional history and contemporary politics, and musical transgressions of boundaries or borders in region, style, genre, and identity. Continue reading →

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Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop 2013‏
Georgetown Law, Washington, D.C.
3 & 4 June 2013

The paper competition is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars in law and the humanities; in addition to drawing from numerous humanistic fields, we welcome critical, qualitative work in the social sciences. Based on anonymous evaluation by an interdisciplinary selection committee, between five and ten papers will be chosen for presentation at the June Workshop. At the Workshop, two senior scholars will comment on each paper. Commentators and other Workshop participants will be asked to focus specifically on the strengths and weaknesses of the selected scholarly projects, with respect to subject and methodology. The selected papers will then serve as the basis for a larger conversation among all the participants about the evolving standards by which we judge excellence and creativity in interdisciplinary scholarship, as well as about the nature of interdisciplinarity itself. Continue reading →

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Voice/Presence/Absence
An Interdisciplinary Conference on Voice and the Arts
Creative Practice and Cultural Economy Research Group
University of Technology, Sydney
14-15 February 2013

Voice/Presence/Absence is an interdisciplinary conference organised under the auspices of the Creative Practice and Cultural Economy Research Group of the University of Technology, Sydney, with the goal of exploring new approaches to the study of voice in the context of arts and humanities, performing practices and new media. Continue reading →

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People’s Palace: Culture and Controversy in Music Hall and Vaudeville
11 May 2013
Hoxton Hall, London

A unique conference experience, held at Hoxton Music Hall, and organized by King’s College, London and the University of Liverpool. This one-day conference will explore the history of one of the most exciting, subversive and controversial forms of theatre born in the 19th century. Continue reading →

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New Elizabethans 1953-2013: Nation, Culture, and Modern Identity
13-15 June 2013
Senate House, London

Papers are invited for a major international, interdisciplinary conference to be held at Senate House, London, June 13-15 2013. Coinciding with the 60-year anniversary of the Coronation, this conference will explore the ways in which the ideal of a new (or second) Elizabethan age has been variously defined, promoted, and challenged in Britain and the Commonwealth. Following closely after the London Olympics and Jubilee celebrations, it will also offer a fitting opportunity to explore the ways in which these values continue to present themselves in contemporary definitions of national identity, culture, and character. Continue reading →

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Music, Gender & Difference: Intersectional and postcolonial perspectives on musical fields
10-12 October 2013
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria

Feminist research on music has revealed the gender-specific conditions for the production, distribution, assessment, appropriation and experience of music, and has explored the participation and representation of women in various music genres. However, far less attention has been paid to the construction of exoticism, the processes of “othering” and the production and circulation of representations of difference. Continue reading →