Dear colleagues,

Applications for the Early-Career Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowships at the Forrest Research Foundation (located near the University of Western Australia)  are due on Oct. 31st.

For details on how to apply see: https://www.forrestresearch.org.au/fellowship-creative/#about

If you would like any collegial support…[Read more]

BOOK LAUNCH: A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds, edited by Linda Kouvaras, Maria Grenfell and Natalie Williams

When: Monday 24 October at 6pm

Where: Room 709 in the Ian Potter Southbank Center, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, 33 Sturt Street, and online via Zoom (register at…[Read more]

Musicology Australia is now calling for submissions for consideration for our 2023 issues. Submissions are accepted at any time, and contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be Australian-based.

Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia. Since its inception in 1963, the journal…[Read more]

Dear all

The two open access articles I published in 2021 may be of interest to the group:

Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret

https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4724/

AND

Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

Please find attached a CFP from Frédérik Lesage and Michael Terren for a book called Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production, as part of Palgrave Macmillan’s “Creative Working Lives” series.

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production

Edited by Frédérik Lesage an…[Read more]

Dear MSA forum members,

I would like to bring to your attention the competition for the Schwarz Fellowship for Research on Music. The fellowship is for a full academic year at the School in Athens, Greece. The deadline is January 15, 2023.

See the attached PDF for more details.

All best,
FK.

Dear MSA Forum members, see CFP below which has come through from the AMS list:

As the third anniversary of the COVID-19 global pandemic approaches, we invite proposals for a virtual symposium on music and global epidemics, to be held on March 10-11, 2023. We invite proposals of up to 200 words for 20-minute papers. The deadline for proposals is…[Read more]

Call for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors  in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Special Collection Editors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, Julia Round (Bournemouth University, UK). With support from the journal editorial…[Read more]

(Article by Danielle Smelter, with photos of 3 of the 7 cabinets in the current Exhibition)

The Margaret Kartomi Gallery of Musical Instruments and Artefacts at Monash University.

The newly established Margaret Kartomi Gallery of Musical Instruments and Artefacts is now open free to the general public. It is situated within the foyer of the…[Read more]

At the meeting or the MSA opera study group at the National Conference last December members expressed interest in organising a symposium to coincide with the National Opera’s production of Alcina in Canberra in December 2022. It will be a significant production, dedicated to the memory of Dame Joan Sutherland, and Richard Bonynge (now patron of t…[Read more]

Please join us in person or online on Thursday 22 September for the University of Sydney’s 2022 Alfred Hook Lecture: “The Sovereign Ghost: Antonio Caldara and the Eclipses of Cultural History”, presented by Professor Harry White (University College Dublin).

Abstract: The Venetian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) has endured an afterlife of a…[Read more]

The symposium Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) and the Performance of Power will be held on Zoom on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September, 2022, hosted by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.

Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) was one of the pre-eminent composers of the late Baroque. Born in Venice, he was court composer to the Duke of…[Read more]

 
Conference
The Colour of Fire
Sinophone Performance across Australia and Cultural Exchange
Host: JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide

Date: 3-4 November 2022

Weblink http://thecolouroffire.net

Sinophone performance across Australia has a rich history and cultural significance that has not been fully documented…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members

On behalf of the French Society of Musicology I would like to bring to your attention the following announcement:

Publication Grant—Margarita M. Hanson Fund (France)

The French Society of Musicology (Sfm) received in 2021 an important bequest from the Cuban-born British musicologist Margarita Menendez Hanson, who d…[Read more]