The international conference “The Intellectual Worlds of Johannes Brahms”
will take place at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts of the University
of California, Irvine, from 1–3 February 2019. It will comprise two keynote
lectures, one by Julian Horton and one by Natasha Loges, a Brahms concert,
and a series of workshops on professional development for graduate students
and early-career scholars.
The conference committee welcomes submissions from a diverse field of
interdisciplinary scholars including those working on music theory and
analysis, musicology, aesthetics, music and philosophy, critical theory,
historiography, and German studies, and those wishing to present lecture
recitals relating to the conference themes.
There are five conference themes:
1. Literature and Poetry
2. Philosophy and Critical Theory
3. History, Race, and Identity Politics
4. Brahms's Compositions and Recomposing Brahms
5. Brahms on the Pacific
Papers will be twenty minutes in duration followed by 10 minutes for
questions and discussion. Proposals for individual papers should be no more
than 300 words. Abstracts for sessions/panels/roundtables should be no more
than 900 words; please indicate the number and title of each individual
paper with its abstract.
Lecture-recitals will be 40 minutes in duration. Please submit a
description (two pages maximum) explaining the significance of the program
and/or manner of performance, and a summary of the lecture component,
including information pertaining to the underlying research, its
methodology, and conclusions.
Proposals must be in the form of a Microsoft Word attachment which includes
the name, contact details, and institutional affiliation (if any) of each
speaker/performer, and a short biographical note of no more than 150 words
on each speaker/performer. The conference language is English.
Further details are available on the conference website:
http://brahmsonthepacific.com
Please submit proposals to *ngrimes[at]uci[dot]edu* by *5pm PST on Friday
15 June 2018*.
Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their submission by Friday 20
July 2018.
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*Dr Nicole Grimes*
*Assistant Professor of Musicology*
*Claire Trevor School of the Arts*
*University of California, Irvine*
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