Join us for an evocative performance featuring poet Esther Dischereit and Jacobs School dancers and instrumentalists who will improvise to poetry. The poet and performers will tackle issues of anti-Semitism and alienation and will welcome discussion and questions. “Jews, Memory, and Inclusion” A Jacobs Community Conversation Guest & Student Performance Sunday, November 7, 2021 4:00–5:30… Read more »
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IU Musicology Graduate Student Recovers Lost Episode of Weird Studies
Congratulations to PhD student Meredith Michael for her work on episode 99 of the Weird Studies podcast. This episode, which was released on May 26th of this year, is a never before seen “lost episode” that was recorded back in 2019. Meredith took it upon herself to take the existing conversation footage (almost three hours… Read more »
Post-Symposium Highlights and Recording Access
Many thanks to Meredith Michael and Molly Jo for their leadership and involvement in the IU Graduate Theory and Musicology Association’s Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium of Research in Music. The free and public Symposium attracted numerous student and faculty participants from IU and beyond. Highlights from the conference included a graduate student workshop and keynote speech… Read more »
American Handel Society Conference: March 11-14, 2021
The American Handel Society Conference will take place Thursday-Sunday, March 11-14, 2021. The event, hosted by Indiana University Bloomington, will be entirely virtual. Highlights include an opening lecture by Dr. Berta Joncus, scholarly panels by Handel scholars, and access to performances by the Jacobs School’s Opera & Ballet Theater and Historical Performance Institute. The conference schedule can be found here. Registration (here)… Read more »
Prof. Jillian Rogers leading conversations on music, sound, and trauma with new book and conference
This weekend, February 12-14, 2021, IU Musicology Prof. Jill Rogers and graduate students Jacqueline Fortier and Jessica Bachman will see the fruits of weeks and months of labor come to life as “Music, Sound, and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” gets underway. This first-of-its-kind conference will explore many facets of the long and complex relationship between sound… Read more »
Prof. Phil Ford’s article featured in Representations
Congratulations to Prof. Phil Ford, whose 2008 article, “Taboo: Time and Belief in Exotica,” is being featured in a virtual issue of Representations, a journal, which “seeks to transform and enrich the understanding of cultures.” This special issue, titled “Weird Scholarship: From Curious to Rare,” is part of a larger promotional effort, and the essays… Read more »
Sergio Ospina Romero Awarded Top SEM Prize
We are pleased to share that Prof. Sergio Ospina Romero has been awarded the 2020 Klaus P. Wachsmann Prize for his recent article “Ghosts in the Machine and Other Tales around a ‘Marvelous Invention’: Player Pianos in Latin America in the Early Twentieth Century.” The prize was established by the Society for Ethnomusicology to recognize… Read more »
Stewart Duncan Receives Honorable Mention for Nicholas Temperley Prize
IU Musicology PhD student, Stewart Duncan, recently received an Honorable Mention for the North American British Music Studies Association’s Nicholas Temperley Student Paper Prize. His paper, titled “The Role of Choral Music in British Diplomacy, 1934-1939: The British Council and National Identity Abroad” was presented online during the 2020 North American British Music Studies Conference,… Read more »
Prof. Rogers Receives Two IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Awards
Professor Jill Rogers has been awarded an IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Production Grant to support her book project, Resonant Recoveries: French Music and Trauma Between the World Wars (forthcoming, OUP), and the book’s companion website, Sonic Constellations: Circulations of Music, Sound, and Emotion in Interwar France. In her book Dr. Rogers demonstrates that coping with trauma was… Read more »