We are delighted to announce the schedule for our Research Seminars in Music series for the 2011–2012 academic year. Organised by Robert Rawson, Senior Lecturer in the music department, the series brings scholars from across a variety of research-based approaches to present to students, staff and public in the historic setting of Canterbury.

The seminars take place in Laud 16 (Lg16) at 5:00, lasting around 45 minutes plus time for questions and discussion. These events are then followed by an informal reception with drinks and light snacks.

2011—Michaelmas

20th October

Kevin Karnes (Emory, USA) ‘Recollecting Jewish Musics from the Baltic Bloodlands’

3rd November

Malcom Miller (IMR, London) ‘Radical Fusions: Middle-eastern Musical Influences and Instruments as Symbols of Cultural Dialogue in Concert Music in Israel’  

1st December

Geoff Chew (Royal Holloway), ‘The Enchanting Music of Blades and Bullets: The Vision of Violence in Janáček’s World-War Symphonic Poems’

2012—Lent

19th January

Laurence Dreyfus (Oxford), 'Craving action: The Analysis of Orlando Gibbons's Consort Music'

9th February

J. P. E. Harper-Scott (Royal Holloway), 'The Revolutionary Kernel of Reactionary Music'

1st March

Elizabeth Kenny (Univ. Southampton) ‘ The English Masque: more or less than the sum of its parts?’

22nd March

David Irving, (King’s College London) ‘Historiographies of Malay Music, 1750–1900’