2007 Dena Epstein Award

2007 DENA EPSTEIN AWARD REQUIREMENTS

The Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music was created in 1995 through a generous gift from Morton and Dena Epstein to the Music Library Association. Requests are currently being accepted for one or more grants to be awarded for the year 2007. The amount to be awarded is $2000. The decision of the Dena Epstein Award Committee and the Board of Directors of the Music Library Association will be announced at the 2007 MLA annual meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which will be held from February 26 to March 3.

A grant may be awarded to support research in archives or libraries (both nationally and internationally) on any aspect of American music. There are no restrictions as to applicant's age, nationality, profession, or institutional affiliation. All proposals will be reviewed entirely based on merit. Awards may be presented to an individual applicant or divided among multiple applicants. At its discretion, the committee may choose not to award a grant during any particular year. An applicant who has not received an Epstein Award for the first year of application may resubmit a proposal in the two following years for any one project. An applicant may receive only one award for any one project.

Applicants must submit the following documents:
1) A brief research proposal (under 10 pages) that includes:
a) a description of the project
b) a detailed budget for the project, indicating:
1. the amount of funding requested (capital purchases such as computer equipment and furniture are ineligible)
2. justification for the funding
3. additional sources of funding
c) a demonstration of how the applicant's research will contribute to the study and understanding of American music
2) A curriculum vitae of the applicant.
3) Three letters of support from librarians and/or scholars knowledgeable about American music.

The committee will accept both print and electronic submissions. If submitting by mail, please include four copies of all documents. If submitting electronically, proposals must be in Microsoft Word or PDF formats and be sent as e-mail attachments.

Please send the required documentation to the chair of the Dena Epstein Award Committee at the following address:

Andrew Leach
Center for Black Music Research
Columbia College Chicago
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605-1996
aleach@cbmr.colum.edu

The deadline for receipt of proposals and letters of support is July 1, 2006.

CFP - French Orientalism (CUNY)

Call for Papers - Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other

The editors invite contributions on all aspects, literary and non-literary, of French Orientalism for a proposed publication following up on the 2005 conference sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French at the City University of New York.

Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words, including notes. Submissions must conform to MLA style, and must be in English, or prepared for translation into English. Quotations from non-English language texts must be translated in the body of the essay and accompanied by the original in the notes. Illustrations are acceptable if they are germane to the essay (authors must obtain glossy prints and reproduction rights if the essay is accepted). Submissions will be blind read by three readers, and the author’s name and institution should appear only on the title page. Authors are required to submit a 150-word abstract.

In Orientalism, Edward Said wrote of the Orient as a locale requiring Western attention, reconstruction, even redemption. The Orient existed as a place isolated from the mainstream of European progress in the sciences, art, and commerce. Thus whatever good or bad values were imputed to the Orient appeared to be functions of some highly specialized Western interest in the Orient. Working from this standpoint and within the current global context, the publication will explore the French and Francophone construction of the Orient. Papers on all historical periods and disciplines are welcome. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Exploration, conquest, and the nation
• Literature: confrontation, appropriation, and resistance
• Religion, territory, and political relativism
• Flora and fauna: possession, domestication, classification
• Food and cultural consumption
• The French stage: Performing the Orient
• Harems, fetishism, and exotic sex
• The feminization of the Orient
• Women and agency
• Occidentalism: The returned gaze
• Orality and history
• Self-representation in literature

The deadline for submissions is 28 July 2006. Please send proposals to Desmond Hosford (dhosford@gc.cuny.edu) and Chong J. Wojtkowski (cjwojo@gmail.com).

Desmond Hosford
Ph.D. Program in French
City University of New York
365 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10016
dhosford@gc.cuny.edu

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CALL for PAPERS

The Society for New Music announces a Call For Papers for a special symposium on the topic of music and nature, to be held at Syracuse University, September 23 and 24, 2006. The symposium will occur in conjunction with the September 24th premiere performance of acclaimed composer Robert Morris's multi-media outdoor work in and around the quad at Syracuse University. The performance will feature the Syracuse University Symphony Band, Syracuse University Marching Band, members of the Syracuse University Orchestra, Syracuse Children's Choir, an area High School choir, Syracuse University organist Christopher Marks, members of Open Hand Theatre and the Society for New Music chamber ensemble. The Syracuse University carillon atop Crouse College will serve as conductor.

The relationship between music and nature has long been a favorite subject of Morris's, stemming from his time spent hiking in natural surroundings and his interests in non-western religion, philosophy and aesthetics. His experiences echo those of many other composers throughout history, such as Beethoven, Bartok, Ives, Messiaen, Cage, the British impressionists, Stockhausen, R. Murray Schafer and others, who have forged deep connections between music and nature. Their musical endeavors have attracted the attention of numerous scholars, ranging from musicologists and music theorists to those interested in the philosophy of biology and ecology. This symposium hopes to add to this growing dialogue. As such, we welcome paper and panel submissions that deal with any aspect of music and nature, and especially the following areas:

Music/Philosophy
Music/Nature
Music/Ecology
Music/Physics
Music/Religion (Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism, etc.)

Paper abstracts should be no more than 250 words. Please send submissions to the symposium program chair, Theo Cateforis tpcatefo@syr.edu. Email submissions are strongly encouraged. However, those preferring to submit by ground mail may send their abstracts to Theo Cateforis, Department of Fine Arts, 308 Bowne Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1200. The submission deadline is June 1, 2006.

CFP: Fortune and Fatality

Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France (1553-1715)

The Graduate Center, City University of New York
20 October 2006

The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites paper proposals for its annual student conference. This year’s conference will be held on Friday 20 October 2006. Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length.

Distinguished Professor of French, Domna C. Stanton will be our keynote speaker, and events will include a performance of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French music on period instruments.

As an aesthetic notion and literary genre, tragedy has enjoyed a privileged place in French culture, particularly during the early modern period. According to Jean Rohou: “Tragic is the misery inherent in being, constitutive of the human condition and personality, insurmountable outside of a transformation that is impossible at first sight.” The tragic manifests not only in tragedy, but in funeral orations, novels, theoretical arguments, poetry, music, visual art, and even comedy. But why tragedy? What fundamental elements of the tragic reflect the inherent instability of the human condition, and to what end were the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic appropriated in early modern France?

Proposals for papers from all disciplines are welcome. Papers may be either in French or in English. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Tragic/doomed women
• Women writing tragedy (theater, correspondence, memoirs, etc.)
• Gender and tragedy
• “Fureur” and disordered passion
• Bossuet and the oraison funčbre
• Death and mourning
• Gisants and the theatrical tomb
• Staging and performance (theater, funerals and religious ceremonies)
• Tragédie en musique
• Visual art
• Conflict, free will, and morality
• Tragedy and tragicomedy
• Medicine and tragedy (mélancolie, folie, déraison, etc.)
• The poetics of tragedy
• Theories of/on early modern theater and theatricality

The deadline for submissions is 14 July 2006. Please send proposals to Desmond Hosford (dhosford@gc.cuny.edu) and Charles Wrightington (chasgreg@msn.com)

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/French/events/tragedyconference.html

Desmond Hosford
Ph.D. Program in French
City University of New York
dhosford@gc.cuny.edu