Research Seminar - Zoë Loxley Slump
Seminar
1:1 Concerts for a pandemic: Learnings from intimate musical encounters In the midst of Covid19 lockdowns in Europe, the initiative 1:1 CONCERTS was founded in Germany: a single listener and a single musician at a 2-metre distance in a non-traditional performance space, sharing a 10-minute non-…
Books that Changed Humanity: Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Seminar
How did a relatively obscure study of manners and mores in mid 20th century Shetland Islands turn into one of the most influential texts within the social sciences? Shakespeare reminds us that ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.’ Goffman goes deep into how that play…
Research Seminar - Cat Hope
Seminar
Music Rights are Human Rights - Ensuring Musical Expression for All This presentation outlines how the bigger picture of 'Human Rights' can, and should, impact our arguments for the value of music in the lives of all people. First presented at the International Association of Music Libraries,…
Centre for Art History & Theory Seminar: Sarah Scott—Russell Drysdale and First Nations Art and Culture
Seminar
Join the ANU Centre for Art History & Art Theory for a presentation by Dr Sarah Scott, Lecturer; Russel Drysdale and First Nations Art and Culture Due to the lockdown, this event will be online online. Zoom: https://anu.zoom.us/j/85040251751?pwd=RDlGbDVxNmpTUW9TVzdYQXUyVkhyUT09…
Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition 2021
Performance
⚠️ Important Updates to 2021 Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition Due to Covid-19 restrictions the competition this year will transform itself into an online event and will be hosted via Zoom webinar with audience viewing, online judging and a people's choice poll. Through the…
Research Seminar: Christopher Sainsbury
Seminar
The Ngarra-burria First Peoples Composers program shifting the classical and new music industry For generations many Australian composers have tried to assert some kind of sonic distinction in our music, something that might set it apart from the music of Europe or other places. In the search for…
Who’s Afraid of Sigmund Freud? Musicological Responses to Psychobiography
Seminar
Psychobiography has often held an uneasy position in the writing of musical biography. Ernest Newman’s: The Man Liszt: A Study of a Tragi-comedy of a Soul Divided Against Itself (1934) attempted to ride the wave of the debunking biography model laced with a psychoanalytic angle, but few of the…