Conference announcement
The Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at Bristol
University is pleased to announce the following conference:
"Future Music and the Classical Past. Wagner and his Legacy"
* Location: Department of Music, University of Bristol: Victoria's Rooms
* Date: Saturday 11 March 2006, 2-6 pm.
* Register now at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute/wagner_registration.doc
* Conference speakers: Professor John Deathridge, Dr. Raymond Geuss, Dr.
Martin Ruehl, Professor Thomas Grey.
* Further particulars:
"Through the most intimate understanding of antiquity the German spirit has
acquired the ability to imitate the purely human in all its original
freedom, which it does, not by using classical forms to depict a particular
subject, but by using the classical view of the world to produce the new
and necessary form."
Wagner, What is German?
Wagner's music and writings engage with a tradition of thought which places
antiquity at the heart of a programme of social and cultural regeneration.
Nevertheless, his works effect a particular transformation of these
intellectual currents with far-reaching consequences for music, aesthetic
theory, cultural criticism, ideas of nation and revolutionary politics.
The conference seeks to explore both Wagner's own renewal of the classical
past and the problematic legacy he bequeathed to his successors.
We are delighted to be welcoming the following speakers:
(1) Prof. John Deathridge (Kings College London): "Wagner's Greeks - and
Wieland's too"
(2) Dr. Raymond Geuss (Cambridge): "Wagner, Nietzsche and The Birth of
Tragedy"
(3) Dr. Martin Ruehl (Cambridge): "Art and Revolution: Nietzsche contra
Wagner on the Politics of the Dionysian"
(4) Prof. Thomas Grey (Stanford): "Wagner, Offenbach, and Aristophanes:
Classical Comedy, Modern Music, and Cultural Politics c. 1870"
* Register now at:
http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute/wagner_registration.doc
* Enquiries about registration to: Samantha Barlow /
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* Further enquiries about the conference to: Liz Potter /
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Dr E.J. Potter
Junior Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
Tel. 0117 928 8680
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