Borderlines Open School for Advanced Cross-Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teaching and research organization, presents a new course on Music / Jewish studies:
Dear Colleagues:
The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University is proud to announce the speakers for the virtual lecture series: Encounters with Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies. “Politics of Genocide” is the theme of this year’s series, and it will feature Melissa Bilal (UCLA), David Tollerton (University of Exeter) and Mark Geraghty (University College London).
Borderlines Open School for Advanced Cross-Cultural Studies, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural teaching and research organization, presents its first Spring course:
“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”
― Plato
Michael Jackson's artistic legacy: a different perspective
Deadline for submitting contributions: 1st March 2021
Journal issue edited by Isabelle Petitjean
PRESENTATION
This conference, to be held in Feltre (Veneto) on the 6–7 October 2021, will be focused on the Feltre Theatre in the 19th century. The aim of these days of scientific exchange is a discussion on various aspects of provincial theatres’ practices – on the one hand through case studies similar to the one in Feltre, on the other hand through broader investigations that provide a general framework.
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the conference “Music, Sound, and Trauma Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” taking place virtually February 12-14, 2021. Hosted at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and subsidized through an IU Presidential Arts & Humanities grant, the conference is free and open to the public.
Colonialism and its legacies including slavery were a part of the lives of several generations of the Stockton family at Morven.
For Black History month, Independent scholar John Burkhalter and pianist Sheldon Eldridge explore the link between Robert Field Stockton (1795-1866) the “Commodore”, and the free black composer Francis “Frank” Johnson. Recordinig sent to ticketholders following program
Islam has played a crucial role for creativity over time. Muslim as well as non-Muslim artists have commented on the religion – its narratives, symbols, leading proponents, ideas, central rituals – in numerous art forms and for very different reasons.
The Popular Culture Association will be holding their annual conference virtually, June 2-5, 2021.
The Biographies Area is soliciting papers that examine the connections between biography and popular culture. Papers and full panel presentations regarding any aspect of popular culture and biography are encouraged. Potential topics might include:
