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Call For Papers – Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge

Performing Identities: Embodying Knowledge CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of French Studies at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, in collaboration with the Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, MIC, and members of the ‘Performance, Text and Context’ Research Cluster, UL, invites contributions for an interdisciplinary conference to be held at Mary Immaculate College on 20-22 June, 2014. […]

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Merry Christmas from ICTM Ireland

University College Dublin School of Music Belfield Dublin 4, IRELAND 17 December 2013 Dear members, 2013 has been a busy and productive year for ICTM Ireland and we just wanted to take a moment to recap and thank you for your support and membership over the past year. Our annual conference was this year organized […]

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New Website Launched – Digitised Diaries of Irish Composer, Aloys Fleischmann

The digitised 1926 and 1927 diaries of Irish composer, Aloys Fleischmann (1910 – 1992) are now available at fleischmanndiaries.ucc.ie. The site was recently launched at the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork (UCC) by Róisín O’Brien on behalf of the Digital Arts and Humanities Program, with Dr Ruth Fleischmann as […]

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AHRC PhD studentshi​ps at University of Nottingham – deadline 9 January

The Department of Music at the University of Nottingham invites applications for AHRC Doctoral Studentships funded under the new Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. The closing date for applications is Thursday 9 January. Nottingham’s academic staff are acknowledged leaders in their respective fields: Robert Adlington (contemporary music; music and political ideologies; Harrison Birtwistle; Louis Andriessen) Nicholas […]

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Call For Papers – Steppin Steens o Knowledge

Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference (Aberdeen) Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 4–6 July, 2014 We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the inaugural Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference (Aberdeen). FEECA aims to answer the need for an academic forum for postgraduate research students and early-career researchers and to strengthen relations between […]

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New Publication – Brass Bands of the World: Militarism, Colonial Legacies, and Local Music Making

Edited by Suzel Ana Reily, Queen’s University Belfast, UK and Katherine Brucher, DePaul University, USA Bands structured around western wind instruments are among the most widespread instrumental ensembles in the world. Although these ensembles draw upon European military traditions that spread globally through colonialism, militarism and missionary work, local musicians have adapted the brass band […]

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ICTM Ireland Postgraduate Conference 2013

ICTM Postgraduate Conference 2013 Music and Ownership   This year’s Postgraduate conference will take place on Saturday, November 9th, in University College, Dublin. We invite postgraduate students at all stages of their study, with an interest in music, performance, ethnomusicology and education, to attend. The conference will explore: 1. What does it mean ‘to own’ […]

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Call for Papers: Anthropological Association of Ireland

Memory and Recovery: Anthropological Association of Ireland Conference Feb 2014. Annual Conference to be held in Sligo Institute of Technology, 14th and 15th of Feb, 2014. (Details to Follow) Please send abstracts of 300 words max to s.carden@qub.ac.uk by Dec 16th, 2013. Paul Connerton, among others, has analysed the ways in which societies strive to […]

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UCD Seminar Series

UCD Seminar in Musicology presents   Dr Luis Manuel Garcia (Berlin/Chicago) ‘Feeling Utopian on the Dancefloor: a very short history’   This seminar will offer a very brief history of utopianism in electronic dance music culture, from disco onwards, placing a particular emphasis on the affective dimensions of utopianism (through Bloch and Richard Dyer) and […]

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