Fridays, 12:30-1:30 PM — HYBRID
This semester we will resume meeting in person in Room M267 (Music Library, second floor). PLEASE NOTE: a mask mandate is currently in effect for indoors gatherings at IU. We are also working to find a way to broadcast the events via Zoom. Please email musicol@indiana.edu for registration information or with questions.
SPRING 2022 SCHEDULE
January 14
Halina Goldberg “Music and Charity in Nineteenth-Century Lwów: The Concept and Context of Princess Jadwiga Sapieha’s ‘Musical Album of Polish Composers’”
January 21
Professional Development Series: “Mental Self-Care in Graduate School,” with Dr. Brad Stepp, HSPP (Associate Director of IU Counseling & Psychological Services)
January 28
Professional Development Series: “Choosing a Ph.D. Program and Crafting an Excellent Application”
February 4
Phil Ford, “Some Thoughts on Public Musicology”
February 11
Ana R. Alonso Minutti, “Writing as an Affective Practice: Mario Lavista, a Relational Composer”
February 18
Professional Development Series: “Career Resources at IU.” Special guest, Trevor Martin Verrot (Career Coach, IU Walter Center for Career Achievement)
February 25
Massimo Ossi, “Monteverdi’s Self-Borrowings, Secular to Sacred”
March 4
Paul Borg, “Beyond the Composer Catalog: Describing Content in Lesser-Known Manuscripts”
March 11
Deanna Pellerano, “The Many Lives of Death: A Functional Perspective on the Early Sixteenth-Century Déploration”
[March 18 – Spring Break, no colloquium]
[March 25 – GTA/GMA symposium, no colloquium]
April 1
INAUGURAL PETER BURKHOLDER LECTURE
Ford Hall (located in the Simon Music Center), Reception to follow
Anna Maria Busse Berger (University of California, Davis, emerita), “Bruno Gutmann, the WaChagga, and Jugendbewegung”
April 8
Sarah Sabol, “Was Isaac an Austrian?: The Construction of National Musical Identity in the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich”
April 15
Giovanni Zanovello, “Monk See, Monk Do?”
April 22
Kaylee Simmons, ““I Can Show You Incredible Things”: What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Commonplace Teenage Trauma”
April 29
Miguel Arango Calle, “Sets, Settings, and Stage Décor in Die Zauberflöte and Contemporary Magical Operas”
FALL 2021 SCHEDULE
August 27
Grace Pechianu, “War of the Waves: Radio Free Europe’s Crusade for Freedom in Early Socialist Romania”
September 3
Elizabeth Frickey, “Schoenberg’s (De)Compositions: Destruction of Tonality, Woman, and Nature in Das Buch der hängenden Gärten”
September 10
Devon Nelson, “Preserving Authenticity and Exposing Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain.”
September 17
Kirby Haugland, “La famiglia svizzera and Operatic Genre in Dresden and Milan.”
September 24
Nicolette van den Bogerd, “The Composer as Intellectual: Biblical Interpretation and Jewish Martyrdom in Alexandre Tansman’s Isaïe le prophète”
October 1
Chelsey Belt, “Performing Humanism: Nostalgia for a Poetic Golden Age in Early Seventeenth-Century Solo Song.”
[October 8 – Fall break, no colloquium]
October 15
Sergio Ospina Romero, “The Jazz Age in the Caribbean: Musical Transactions and Jazz Modalities in New Orleans, Havana, and Beyond”
October 22
Judah Cohen, “The Invention of Synagogue Music (1760-1840) and What That Says About Musicology”
October 29
Professional Development Series: “Life After Coursework”
November 5
Professional Development Series: “Hot Topics and Classroom Discussion”
[November 12 – AMS Virtual Meeting, no colloquium]
[November 19 – AMS Virtual Meeting, no colloquium]
[November 26 – Thanksgiving Break, no colloquium]
December 3
Elizabeth Hebbard, “Where do books belong? Empires of cultural heritage”
[December 10 – No colloquium]