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The next Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum will take place on:
Monday, 22nd May 2017, 9.30am-6pm,
followed by a concert at 7pm by the Maya Youssef Trio
Music Department, City, University of London
Room AG09, College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 0HB
All welcome and admission is free but advance registration is requested for planning purposes: http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-forum
For more information on this event, please contact Laudan Nooshin: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
The forum is being run in conjunction with the one-day conference 'Music, Technology and Digital Cultures in the Middle East and North Africa’, on Tuesday 23rd May, also at City, University of London.
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/may/mena-research-conference Please sign up separately if you wish to attend both events.
SCHEDULE FOR MONDAY 22nd May
9.30am Registration and Welcome
Session 1, 9.45am - 11.15am
Julian Harris (King’s College London)
'Ta'abiriya /“Expressionism": Composing for the Oud from an Iraqi Perspective’
Rachel Pakbaz (University of Cambridge)
'William Daniel’s Nationalist Music and the Preservation of the Assyrian Cultural Heritage'
11.15 –11.45noon Tea/Coffee
Session 2, 11.45am-1.15pm
Shayna Silverstein (Northwestern University)
'Embodying Saltanah: Intercorporeality, Flow, and Selfhood in Syrian Dabke’
Gabrielle Messeder (City, University of London)
‘YouTube Battleground: Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Songs of the Syrian Civil War'
Lunch (not provided)
Session 3 2.15pm-3.45pm
Roundtable Disucssion: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Studying Music in Situations of Conflict and Violence: Perspectives from the Middle East
Tom Parkinson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Abigail Wood (University of Haifa)
Laudan Nooshin (City, University of London)
3.45-4.15pm Tea/Coffee
Session 4, 4.15-5.45pm
Maria Rijo Lopes da Cunha (SOAS)
'Between the ‘Colours of Enchantment’ and the Shadow of Nostalgia: Revival and Innovation in Contemporary Lebanese Music Tradition'
Mu Qian (SOAS)
'Pulled by God - Sounds, Movements and Meanings in the Uyghur Hälqä-Söhbät Ritual'
7pm Concert by the Maya Youssef Trio, presented as part of the City University Summer Sounds Music Festival: http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/music/city-summer-sounds
If you wish to attend the concert, please sign up separately: http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2017/may/maya-youssef-trio
The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc.)
Find out more about the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum<http://www.city.ac.uk/arts-social-sciences/music/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum>
The Forum is convened by Dr Laudan Nooshin, City, University of London ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Dr Rachel Harris, SOAS, University of London ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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