Tagged: conference
Schedule for 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Location:
February 8
Boston University Photonics Center, Room 906
8 St. Mary’s Street
Boston, MA 02215
Coffee, 9am
Session 1, 9:30-12am (with midsession break), session chair, Theodora Goss
“Gothic Currents of Barbaric Sexuality in George Lippard’s Quaker City” Heather Barrett, BU, Dept of English
“Dominus exaudiet cum clamavero ad eum”: The Monumentalization of Faith, Sound, and the Proxemics of Space” John Forrestal, BU musicology
“Knights of the Dining Room Table: The quest for a medieval life in the English Victorian home” Michelle Wilson, Dept of Art history, BU
LUNCH ON OWN 12-1:30
Session 2, 1:30-3:00pm, session chair, Jeannette Jones
“’Hovering Between’: Louisa May Alcott’s Sensational Gothics, The Governess and Women’s Work” Lauren Wilwerding, Dept of English, Boston College
“Redefining the Sounds of Horror: The Musical Legacy of Hitchcock’s Psycho” Rose Bridges, BU musicology
“The Gothic as “monstrous mother”: Using Bram Stoker’s Dracula to examine the Gothic/reader relationship” Stephen Tsai, Dept of English, UMassBoston
Keynote, Renée Bergland, Dept of English, Simmons College, 3-4:30
Reception following.
View the Abstracts here.
Abstracts for 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Below are the abstracts for the 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference: "Tracing the Goth/ic: Viewing Culture through the Lens of Barbarity."
AMS and SEM news
Several of our members will be participating in the upcoming national meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology.
At AMS:
Jeannette Jones will present “Lyrics in the Air: The Role of Music Videos in Deaf Culture”, at a session titled “Music and Disability on Screen” Thursday November 7th from 8-11:00 pm. She will also be serving as student representative to the AMS Council for the New England Chapter.
Robert Crowe, soprano, will give a concert, "Carissimi to Croft: The Influence of the Italian Solo Motet in English Sacred Solo Music of the Restoration," Friday, November 8th, 2-3:30pm, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 328 Sixth Avenue. Robert will be accompanied by Peter Sykes, organo portative, and Victor Coelho, theorbo, both of Boston University.
At SEM:
Andrea Lieberherr Douglass will present “The performance of cultural tourism in the Appenzell, Switzerland” in the session called “Challenges of Cultural Heritage” on Thursday, November 14th at 10:45-12:15 .
Karl Haas will present “Music and Matter, Time and Space: Considerations of the Materiality of a West African Performance Tradition” at 3:15 pm on Thursday, November 14th.
Ulrike Prager will present "When Loss Sounds: Forced Migration and the New German Sonic Homeland" at 8:30 am on Friday, November 15th.
Amanda Daly Berman is chairing the Celtic Music SIG (Special Interest Group) and has been elected to the SEM Student Union as a Member-at-Large.
