-----Original Message----- From: Dominic McIver Lopes <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Feb 15, 2015 4:44 am Subject: [AE] Fwd: CFP: RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference, London, July 2015
Begin forwarded message: From: Jeremy Coleman <[email protected]> Date: February 14, 2015 at 13:13:29 GMT Subject: CFP: RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference, London, July 2015 Reply-To: Jeremy Coleman <[email protected]> 5th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group, in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society and De Musica b LaboratC3rio de EstC)tica e Filosofia da MC:sica (Brasil). Optional) Theme: Music and the Senses Co-hosted by the Departments of Music and Philosophy at Kingbs College London and the Institute of Musical Research, University of London 17-18 July 2015 Keynote speakers include: Professor Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University) Professor Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University) Plenary panellists: Professor Mark Evan Bonds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Professor Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh) Professor Hannah Ginsborg (University of California at Berkeley) The RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group warmly invites paper submissions for this two-day international conference. The event, the fifth of an annual series of conferences run by the Study Group, will offer an opportunity for philosophers, music scholars, and others interested in philosophically-oriented research about music to discuss and debate their work in a collaborative setting. The conference presumes inclusive definitions of both music and philosophy. We take music to include all forms and genres of music, art music and popular, secular and sacred, raucous and refined, from any and all historical and geographical locales. We take philosophy to include analytic, continental, classical, and non-Western thought, as well as critical theory. Regardless of disciplinary affiliation, the committee seeks conceptually rigorous and clearly articulated research that presents a novel argument and advances understanding of its topic. The optional theme of this yearbs conference is b Music and the Senses,b however submissions on all topics relating to music and philosophy are welcome. Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to): b" B B Music, emotion, and affect; emotion vs. perception b" B B The partition and integration of the senses Philosophical approaches to auditory perception b" B B Non-aural aspects of musical experience (visual, tactile, gustatory, olfactory) b" B B Sound in the history and anthropology of the senses b" B B Musicbs relationship to technology, technique, and distributed cognition b" B B Music, sex, pleasure, intimacy, and the erotic b" B B Individual vs. collective musical experience b" B B Attention, inattention, and altered states b" B B New approaches to music and phenomenology b" B B Atmosphere, immersion, Stimmung, mood, and vibe b" B B Formalisms: regressive, normative, and revolutionary b" B B Philosophical approaches to entertainment and distraction b" B B Music, capitalism, ideology, and the senses b" B B Music, movement, and dance b" B B Ontologies of sounds, tones, and music Proposals are invited for: Individual papers (20 minutes) b up to 350 words Collaborative papers (30 minutes) b up to 500 words Lecture recitals (30 minutes) b up to 350 words Themed paper sessions of three or four individual (20 minute) papers b 350 words per paper plus 350 words outlining the rationale for the session Ninety-minute sessions in innovative formats b up to 1000 words outlining the format and content of the session Please submit proposals by email in a word document attachment: [email protected] The deadline for proposals is 7 March 2015; outcomes will be communicated to authors by 21 March 2015. All paper submissions will be considered by the programme committee: Bill Brewer (Department of Philosophy, Kingbs College London) Michael Gallope (Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota) Andrew Huddleston (Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London) Tomas McAuley (Department of Musicology, Indiana University) Nanette Nielsen (Department of Musicology, University of Oslo) Hannah Templeton (Department of Music, Kingbs College London) Mario Videira (Department of Music, University of SC#o Paulo) Nick Zangwill (Department of Philosophy, University of Hull) Reasonably priced university accommodation will be available. The event is generously supported by Kingbs College London, the Institute of Musical Research, Trinity Laban Conservatoire, the University of Hull, the British Society of Aesthetics, the Mind Association, and the Royal Musical Association. All best wishes, Jeremy Coleman Administrator, RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group [email protected] _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.aesthetics-online.org/listinfo.cgi/news-aesthetics-online.org
