British Forum for Ethnomusicology One-Day Conference

Beyond Memory and Reconciliation:
Music, Conflict and Social Manipulation in Post-Conflict Contexts

3rd November 2018

Keele University

 

*** Conference Programme Now Available ***

 

Keele University (https://www.keele.ac.uk) is proud to host the 2018 British Forum for Ethnomusicology one-day conference. This year’s conference will focus on processes of post-conflict mechanisms of remembrance, nostalgia, and cultural survival in post-memory/reconciliation contexts. In some cases governments, NGOs and popular culture have joined forces to create spaces to discuss the aftermath of social conflict, but what happens when complacency sets in? How are cultures revived and drawn together (or apart)? How is guilt negotiated? Music can be a powerful tool in the negotiation of difference and the discussion of the roots of conflicts. It can also be used to manipulate individuals into taking sides in a conflict, believing the conflict is resolved, enhancing nationalist behaviour, or even triggering more conflict.

This one-day conference seeks to bring together voices and positions from various theoretical and ethnographic perspectives and moments of diverse conflict-ridden histories and geographies in an attempt to understand how the national, and the social, have been and are being understood, rebuilt and reasserted through creative musical outcomes in post-conflict contexts.

This conference builds on the 2017 BFE one-day conference in Cambridge, “Listening to Difference: Music and Multiculturalism”, where issues of conviviality, migration and social difference were addressed.

We are delighted to announce our keynote panel with Prof. Rachel Beckles Willson, Dr. Felicity Laurence and Prof. John O’Connell. Further details are available in the programme and on the conference website: https://bfeoneday2018.wordpress.com/keynote-speakers/ 

 

The final programme is attached, and can also be downloaded in High Resolution format from the conference website:

https://bfeoneday2018.wordpress.com/programme-2/

Here you will also find details regarding travel and accommodation.

 

Delegate fees are as follows:

Student Bursaries

The BFE is keen to provide financial help for student members to assist with their attendance at the 2018 BFE One-day Conference in Keele. To this end, the BFE has created a small bursary fund that will provide a £40 contribution towards travel to the conference and conference fee for up to ten successful applicants. Applicants must be BFE members in good standing, and will need to send a short statement of interest that includes the reason for their application.

Prospective presenters can apply for bursaries when submitting an abstract, and applications should be sent to the BFE conference email address: bfeoneday2018@gmail.com). In the event of a greater number of applications being received than there are bursaries available, student presenters will be prioritized.

Deadline for non-presenter submissions is Friday 1^st September 2018, and bursary award winners will be notified in early October.

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We look forward to welcoming you to Keele!

 

On behalf of the conference committee,