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Dear all, Here are our forthcoming research seminars at the International Centre for Music Studies at Newcastle University. Anyone with an interest is most welcome to join us: SEMESTER ONE Week 2: John Milsom (Visiting Professor, Newcastle University), ‘Forensic Analysis’, Wednesday 14 October 2015, 4.00-6.00pm, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building Week 4: Kathryn Cok (Royal Conservatory, The Hague) leads a special colloquium on performance and research in postgraduate higher education, Wednesday 28 October 2015, 2.00-5.00pm, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building *** note time *** Week 6: Sarah Hill (Cardiff University), 'Psychedelia and its High Other in 1960s San Francisco', Wednesday 11 November, 4.00-6.00pm, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building Week 8: Klisala Harrison (Helsinki University), 'Complexities and Contradictions of Implementing Cultural Rights through Music in Urban Poverty', Wednesday 25 November, 4.00-6.00pm, CETL Seminar Room, Armstrong Building Week 10: John Bowers (Culture Lab, Newcastle University), 'Makings, Publics, Musics: a Messy Practice for ill-Disciplined Creation', Wednesday 9 December, 4.00-6.00pm, Dove Marine Laboratory, Cullercoats *** note location *** Week 12: Vic Gammon (Newcastle University emeritus) with Arthur Knevett, 'The English Folk Song Collectors and the Idea of the Peasant, c. 1840-1920', Wednesday 13 January 2016, 4.00-6.00pm, Room 2.09, Armstrong Building SEMESTER TWO Week 2: Nikki Moran (Edinburgh University), 'Playful Music', Wednesday 10 February 2016, 4.00-6.00pm, Room 2.09, Armstrong Building Week 4: Liu Xiaolong (Hanban University), 'New Age Compositions in China after the 1980s', Wednesday 24 February, 4.00-6.00pm, Room 2.09, Armstrong Building Week 6: Joel Sachs (Juilliard School of Music, New York), 'Weighing the Evidence: Assessing Veracity in Writing Henry Cowell's Biography', Wednesday 9 March, 4.00-6.00pm, Room 2.09, Armstrong Building Week 8: Paul Carr (University of South Wales), 'Sting and the Regional Identity: the Gravitational Pull of Newcastle', Wednesday 20 April, 4.00-6.00pm, Room 2.09, Armstrong Building Week 10: J. P. E. Harper-Scott (Royal Holloway), 'Gender and the Canon', Wednesday 4 May, 4.00-6.00pm, Room 2.09, Armstrong Building More information here: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/icmus/events_and_happenings/ http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sacs/music/ all the best, Simon McKerrell Head of Music Newcastle University