June 7-9, 2019 Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York, USA
The fifteenth Symposium of the Kiel Society for Film Music Research will be dedicated to questions about music in documentary films. For this purpose, documentary films about music should not necessarily be the center of attention. Rather, our interest is focused on films, documentaries, docudramas, reports, etc., which use music in a field of tension ranging from so-called authenticity to applications of music that are barely different from those in feature films.
Call for Chapters: The Road to Independence: the Independent Record Industry in Transition.
The Material and Visual Worlds Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence at Binghamton University announces the Spring 2019 Speaker Series.
Doug Bailey
Professor of Archaeology at San Francisco State University
Feb. 28, 2019 - 6PM
Room Fine Arts 258
Alexander Galloway
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University
April 4, 2019 - 6PM
Room Fine Arts 258
To coincide with the world premiere of the first modern opera on slavery, Imoinda (at the London Festival of American Music), a roundtable discussion on "Voices of the Enslaved: Tales of Love and Longing" will take place with composer Odaline de la Martinez, who will join historian Sophie White (speaking on 18th century slave testimony), writer and director Candace Allen, author and Vanity Fair travel editor Michelle Jana Chan, research fellow Kristy Warren and Imoinda's librettist Joan Anim-Addo.
The Indiana University Institute for Advanced Study is now accepting applications for its 2019 Summer Repository Research Fellowship (SRRF). This program funds a two-week residential fellowship for a community scholar or faculty member from outside Indiana University Bloomington to conduct in-depth research in the collections of one or more of our partner repositories.
American Studies invites submissions for a special issue, to be published in Fall 2020, focused upon coverage of the arts in the black press between Reconstruction and the end of legalized Jim Crow segregation in the 1960s. Critics and reporters on the arts beat not only brought to light the creative output of black musicians, filmmakers, writers, and visual artists, but also investigated the role the arts played in the long struggle against oppression, as well as the economic and cultural impact of the arts on black communities and the United States as a whole.
Borderlines XXIII, 'Sound and Silence in the Medieval and Early Modern World', Trinity College Dublin, 26–28 April 2019
Trinity College Dublin is proud to host the annual Borderlines conference. The conference is in its 23rd year and attracts a large number of medievalists and early modernists from across the globe.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference “The international perspective on a radio centenary”
7-8 November 2019
Mystic Seaport is pleased to announce that the 40th annual Music of the Sea symposium will be held on June 7 and 8, 2019. This program is made possible by the generous support of Williams College and the Williams-Mystic Maritime Studies Program.
