Dear All,
You may have heard about threatened industrial action at the BL on
Monday 10 November. The threat has now been lifted and we can therefore
confirm that Eric Clarke's RHUIL/BL lecture will definitely be going
ahead.
Regards,
Ananay Aguilar
Music Department
Royal Holloway, University of London
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The first of this year's Royal Holloway-British Library Lectures in
Musicology presented by Eric Clarke (Oxford University) will commence
next week on Monday 10 November at the British Library Conference Centre
from 6-7pm. Admission to the five lectures will be free.
Lecture 1 Situating subjectivity
10 November 2008, 6-7pm
This first lecture situates subjectivity among its conceptual neighbours
in philosophical and psychological domains, and considers in particular
how subjectivity in music has been understood in the various discourses
and disciplines in which it is found. As a term, subjectivity is
primarily associated with a nineteenth century philosophical discourse,
but the idea of a kind of subjectivity that is expressed through music,
or embodied in music, or constructed by music, can be found in many
other disciplinary contexts, and associated with rather different
intellectual traditions and explanatory frameworks. Some of the issues
explored include the relationship between subjectivity and
consciousness, and between subjectivity and identity, subjectivity and
the sense of self; the ecological embeddedness of the human subject and
the interactive or distributed character of musical consciousness; and
relationship between subjectivity and intersubjectivity.
The series will attempt to situate musical subjectivity in a broadly
philosophical and psychological field, and explore different attributes
of musical subjectivities in some of the many circumstances in which
music is made and used, concluding with some prospects for future
research into music and subjectivity. Upcoming dates and lecture titles
are as follows:
Lecture 2 Listening to subjectivity
3 December 2008
Lecture 3 Performing subjectivity
19 January 2009
Lecture 4 Constructing/composing subjectivity
16 February 2009
Lecture 5 Musical subjectivity in the future
16 March 2009
The series is organised by RHUL's Music Department and supported by the
British Library.
For further information and abstracts, visit:
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/music/Research/08-09distinguishedlectures.html
If you have enquiries, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Ananay Aguilar
Music Department
Royal Holloway, University of London
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