Research Seminar Series, February - May 2008
Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30 pm in the Lecture Room, Department of Music, 38 Taptonville Road, Sheffield S10 5BR.
The Research Seminar Series is a series of talks by leading researchers at this university and elsewhere. The series is aimed at postgraduate students and staff but undergraduates and external visitors are welcome at every talk.
Selected Research Seminars are now available to registered students as vod-casts. To view seminars, and participate in online discussion, go to the "Research Seminar Vod-casts" course in MOLE.
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February 2008
| February |
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| 11th |
Christopher Powell, Dr George F. Linstead (1908-74) – a centenary tribute to a Sheffield composer (part sponsored by Silhill Solutions Limited) |
| 18th |
Barbara Kelly, (Keele University) Ravel and the aesthetic of imposture |
| 25th |
Desi Wilkinson, (Newcastle University) Amazight film festivals 2006 and 2007 - the developing cultural role of 'berberitude' in the Algerian state. |
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March 2008
| March |
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| 3rd |
Gerald Seaman, (Oxford University). Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: a universal genius |
| 10th |
Nicola Dibben, (Sheffield University) Björk: Nature, technology and Icelandic national identity |
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April 2008
| April |
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| 7th |
Denis Smalley, (City University).
Music, sound and the spatial image |
| 14th |
Robert Saxton, (Worcester College, Oxford). Wandering and return: the relationship between text and music in 5 Motets (2003) |
| 21st |
Armand Leroi, (Imperial College, London).
The history and geography of human song - cantometrics revisited |
| 28th |
Georgina Born, (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
On musical mediation: Ontology, technology and creativity |
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May 2008
| May |
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| 12th |
Erik Levi, (Royal Holloway College, London University) Mozart and the Nazis: the abuse of a cultural icon |
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