Music and Visual Cultures International Conference

21-23 juillet 2016, Maynooth (irlande)

Deadline 15 February 2016 (proposals to be sent to Antonio.Cascelli -at- nuim.ie)
Conference Dates: 21-23 July 2016
Maynooth University, Maynooth – Ireland

The aim of the conference is to reflect on the links between music and visual cultures in the acts of significations, across a wide range of historical frameworks, theories, methodologies, artistic practices and genres, with the intent to promote a more encompassing approach to the studying of the different disciplines.

Invited speakers are Prof. Alessandra Campana (Department of Music, Tufts University) and Prof. Giovanni Careri (Director of CEHTA, Centre d'Histoire et Théorie des Arts at L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS and Professor at the L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon).

Professor Campana's research ranges from opera, staging, visuality to film and media studies. Author of Opera and Modern Spectatorship in Late Nineteenth-Century Italy (CUP, 2015), she is currently writing a book on the aesthetics of sound-image synchronization in film and video, entitled Aural Anamorphosis and Sound Clues.

Professor Careri's research focuses on the multimedia qualities of artistic objects such as the assemblage of arts in Bernini's baroque chapels, the emotional dimension of episodes from Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered as realised in paintings from Carraccio to Tiepolo, and more recently the Sistine Chapel as a theoretical object to examine humanity in its Jewish and Christian embodiments (La torpeur des Ancêtres, Editions EHESS, 2013).

Proposals are invited for individual papers and themed sessions on any area in the field of music and visual cultures, addressing as large a range of topics and methodologies as possible including (but not limited to):

Art History and Musicology
Music and Screen Media
Painting and Music
Opera
Sight, Sound and Space
Music and New Media
Film Studies
Music, Arts and Metaphors

The conference programme will be announced in March 2016.

Conference Committee: Dr Antonio Cascelli (Chair), Dr Denis Condon, Dr Sarah Hibberd, Prof. Christopher Morris, Dr Susanna Pasticci, Dr Holly Rogers, Dr Tim Shephard