Spring 2024
Wednesday, 27 March
Patrick Murphy, “The Field Hand and the Procession: Combat and Space in Nineteenth-Century Trinidadian Carnival” with Prof. Danielle Roper, discussant
4:30-6 pm, Logan 801
Wednesday, 10 April
Patrick Dittamo, “The Pseudohistory and Virality of the ‘Shame Flue'”
4:30-6pm, Logan 801
Wednesday, 17 April
Nathan Friedman, “‘The Jew in You’: Diasporism and Utopianism in Contemporary Yiddish Song”
4:30-6pm, Logan 801
Thursday, 2 May
A Conversation with Georgina Born
More details forthcoming
Wednesday, 8 May
Caleb Herrmann, “Holding Environments: Theorizing Breath in Recent Pop Music”
4:30-6 pm, Logan 801
Wednesday, 15 May
Seth Brodsky, “‘in the absence of time, we made rhythm’: Losing and Finding Death Drive’s Beat”
4:30-6 pm, Logan 801
Winter 2024
Wednesday, 24 January
Florian Walch (PhD, Music)
“Monetized misrecognitions: cross-genre reaction videos, platform capitalism, and the limits of subcultural capital”
4:30-6 pm, Logan Center 801
Friday, 9 February 3-5 pm
Susanna Sun (PhD Student, EALC & TAPS)
“‘Neither Horse nor Donkey’: Nationalization of Voice at Shanghai Music Conservatory in 1958”
Discussant: Jacob Reed (PhD Candidate, Music)
Co-sponsored by the Arts and Politics of East Asia (APEA) Workshop
Center for East Asian Studies 319
1155 E 60th Street
Thursday, 15 February 5-6:30 pm
Catrin Dowd (PhD Candidate, Music & TAPS)
“Bel Canto and Vals Criollo: Orchestrating the 1996-97 Lima Hostage Crisis”
Co-sponsored by the Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean (WLAC)
Pick Hall 118
Wednesday, 28 February
Andrei Pohorelsky (PhD Candidate, Music)
“‘[…] as if history were no more than a tune on a player piano’: Scott Joplin and the last days of the working class”
4:30-6 pm, Logan Center 801
Fall 2023
11 October Kickoff Event: BARBIE
Our first object-oriented session focuses on the summer blockbuster you know and love (or hate! or have complicated opinions about!). Guided by discussion leaders, conversation will center around specific excerpts from the film.
25 October: Ideas in Conversation
Rebecca Epstein-Boley, “‘Eine aus der Damenkapelle’: Hearing Identity in German and Austrian Women’s Music Ensembles around 1900”
In collaboration with the Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop
1 November: AMS/SMT Run-throughs
Students participating in this year’s AMS/SMT joint meeting will have the opportunity to run through their papers in a relaxed and supportive environment. An email soliciting presenters will be in your inboxes soon, but please feel free to get in touch in the meantime to discuss presenting.
15 November: The Listening Room
Shakti, Natural Elements (1977)
Discussion led by Nina Narayanan