Research Seminar Series, February - May 2008

  • February 2008
  • March 2008
  • April 2008
  • 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.

    February 2008

    FebruaryDetails
    11thChristopher Powell, Dr George F. Linstead (1908-74) – a centenary tribute to a Sheffield composer (part sponsored by Silhill Solutions Limited)
    18thBarbara Kelly, (Keele University) Ravel and the aesthetic of imposture
    25thDesi Wilkinson, (Newcastle University) Amazight film festivals 2006 and 2007 - the developing cultural role of 'berberitude' in the Algerian state.

    March 2008

    MarchDetails
    3rdGerald Seaman, (Oxford University). Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: a universal genius
    10thNicola Dibben, (Sheffield University) Björk: Nature, technology and Icelandic national identity

    April 2008

    AprilDetails
    7thDenis Smalley, (City University).
    Music, sound and the spatial image
    14thRobert Saxton, (Worcester College, Oxford). Wandering and return: the relationship between text and music in 5 Motets (2003)
    21stArmand Leroi, (Imperial College, London).
    The history and geography of human song - cantometrics revisited
    28thGeorgina Born, (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
    On musical mediation: Ontology, technology and creativity

    May 2008

    MayDetails
    12thErik Levi, (Royal Holloway College, London University) Mozart and the Nazis: the abuse of a cultural icon