BASEES Study Group for Slavonic and Eastern European Music Annual Conference 2024
17 February 2024 - 17 February 2024
9:30AM - 5:30PM
Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin's Hall, Palace Green; and PG20 & PG21, Pemberton Room, Pemberton Building, Palace Green
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Free
The 2024 Annual Conference of the Slavonic and East European Music Study Group of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies takes place in Durham on Saturday 17 February 2024.
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BASEES Study Group for Slavonic and Eastern European Music Annual Conference 2024
Convenors: Philip Ross Bullock, Katerina Levidou, Ivana Medić and Patrick Zuk
Attendance at the conference is free, however places must be registered via reemstudygroup@googlemail.com in advance.
Programme
09.30-09.45 | Welcome and introductory remarks |
IAS, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green | |
09.45-10.45 | Keynotes (plenary session) (Chair: Christoph Flamm) |
Pemberton Rooms, PG20 | |
Writing and rewriting music histories: Changing mentalities in Romanian musicology | |
Valentina Sandu-Dediu (New Europe College, Bucharest) | |
National Identity of Ukrainian Music on the Modern Stage | |
Olha Kushniruk (University of Cambridge) | |
10.45-11.00 | Break |
IAS Common Room, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green | |
11.00-13.00 | Parallel session I : Avant-garde legacies (Chair : Kevin Bartig) |
Pemberton Rooms, PG21 | |
Music in Natural-Tone System – Josip Slavenski, Microtonal Folklore, and Electroacoustic Music | |
Miloš Bralović | |
Iva Bittová and the ‘umbilical cord’ | |
Miloš Zapletal | |
Grażyna Bacewicz | |
James Savage-Hanford | |
The 'forgotten' Symphonies of Vasilije Mokranjac | |
Ivana Medić | |
Parallel session II: Women in music (Chair: Philip Bullock) | |
Pemberton Rooms, PG20 | |
[Re]Visiting Greek Women Composers: The case of Maria Kalogridou (1922-2001) | |
Magdalini Kalopana | |
Madona or femme fatale? Musical Characterisation of the Female Protagonist in Manolis Kalomiris’s Konstantinos Palaiologos | |
Katerina Levidou | |
The Operatic Career of a Ukrainian Singer, Ina Bourskaya (1886–1954) | |
Yoriko Morimoto | |
Agency through Liturgical Music: The Role of Eastern European Migrant Women in Rome’s Liturgical Worship | |
Blanche Lacoste | |
13.10-14.00 | Lunch |
IAS Common Room, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green | |
14.00-16.00 | Parallel session III: Intermediality and cultural exchange (Chair: Ivana Medic) |
Pemberton Rooms, PG21 | |
Partitura as Record: Bronislava Nijinska’s Textual Reconciliation of Innovation and Tradition | |
Jordan Lian | |
An East-European Revival of Hellenism? Orchestics and choreia in theory and practice | |
Irina Sirotkina | |
The dawn of Japanese Western music history and Ukrainian musicians | |
Fumiko Hitotsuyanagi | |
Sculpting in Sound: Valentin Silvestrov’s Symphony No. 5 | |
Richard Louis Gillies | |
Parallel session IV: Music and politics (Chair: Valentina Sandu-Dediu) | |
Pemberton Rooms, PG20 | |
‘Free Association’: The Association of Hungarian Musicians during the Revolution, the State Socialist Retaliation, and the Restoration (1956–1959) | |
Lóránt Péteri | |
Vladimir Putin and the Weaponization of Music | |
Daniel Elphick | |
The yuródivyy and the Vātēs: two premodern artistic roles in the East European modern culture | |
Ákos Windhager | |
The Politics of Dikanka Operas in the Late Russian Empire | |
Rutger Helmers | |
16.00-16.20 | Break |
IAS Common Room, Cosin’s Hall, Palace Green | |
16.20-17.30 | Round-table discussion: The current state of Slavonic and Eastern European Music Studies (plenary session) |
Participants: Kevin Bartig, Christoph Flamm, Olha Kushniruk, Valentina Sandu-Dediu | |
Pemberton Rooms, PG20 | |
17.30 | End |
Enquiries may be made to: reemstudygroup@googlemail.com (www.basees.org.uk/sgreem.shtml and https://www.facebook.com/groups/298919210166456/).
Useful Information
Travel
- Information on travelling to Durham can be found here: https://www.durham.ac.uk/visit-us/location/.
- Information about the region and accommodation options, if required: https://www.thisisdurham.com/
Venue
The conference venues are both situated on Palace Green, close to Durham Cathedral. The event will commence in the Institute of Advanced Study, which is on the ground floor of Cosin’s Hall (https://www.durhamworldheritagesite.com/learn/architecture/palace-green/cosins-hall).
SEEM gratefully acknowledges the financial support of BASEES and Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study and School of Modern Languages and Cultures.