Colloquium Series

The Music Department Colloquium is free and open to the public, and convenes on select Fridays from 3:30pm to 5pm in Old Cabell Hall Room 107, and all colloquia are free to attend, unless otherwise noted. Invited speakers have represented a broad range of backgrounds and interests; recently, we have enjoyed visits by Ann Cooper Albright, Milton Babbitt, Scott Burnham, Mark Butler, Suzanne Cusick, Walter Frisch, Kyle Gann, John Gibson, Katherine Hagedorn, Berthold Hoeckner, Melissa Hui, Elisabeth Le Guin, Susan McClary, Louise Meintjes, Roger Parker, Lara Pellegrinelli, Douglas Irving Repetto, Deidre Sklar, Robynn Stilwell, Troika Ranch (a digital dance theater company), Dan Trueman, Gayle Wald, Kendall Walton, James Webster, and Deborah Wong, among many others. Please see below for colloquium guests currently scheduled.

Dates and guests are subject to change, so please check back to this page for any subsequent updates to the colloquium schedule.

FALL 2012

Fred Moten - "Fantasy in the Hold"
Friday, September 21, 2012, 3:30pm; Kaleidoscope Room (Newcomb Hall)

Carol Silverman - "Global Gypsi: Romani Music, Representation, and Appropriation"
Friday, October 12, 2012, 3:30pm; 107 Old Cabell

Nate Wooley - "DRAM and Sound American"
Demystifying "difficult" music and making connections to build community in the 21st century.
Friday, October 19, 2012, 3:30pm; 107 Old Cabell

Amnon Wolman - "Time-Information"
Deciphering sonic and visual time-based information; recent works and the theory behind them.
Friday, November 2, 2012, 3:30pm; 107 Old Cabell

Kate van Orden - "Musica Transalpina: Janequin and the French in Italy"
Friday, November 30, 2012, 3:30pm; 107 Old Cabell

SPRING 2013

Annegret Fauser
Friday, January 25, 2012, 3:30pm; 107 Old Cabell

More colloquia for the 2012-13 year will be announced shortly!

Past Colloquia Events

The Colloquium schedule is subject to change. All changes and additions will be announced as soon as they have been made.