Agents and Actors: Networks in Music History
June 3–5, 2020, Helsinki
Deadline for proposals: September 30, 2019
Sixth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History
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Conference venue: Music Centre Helsinki, Finland
The Sixth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History will focus on issues relating to agents, actors and networks and the ways in which they relate to music in order to discuss changes in focus towards more collective and complex objects of study.
Proposals for papers and group sessions are invited on any of the following topics:
The construction and formation of networks in music history
The history of networks in music from antiquity to the present
The power exerted by networks in music history
The institutionalization of networks in music
The theoretical underpinnings of working with networks (actor-network theory; art worlds, cultural fields, assemblages, mediation theory)
Close reading of musical scores against understandings of networks
The place of networks in diachronic and synchronic histories of music
The inner workings and dynamics of networks of music
The keynote speakers of the symposium are
Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US)
Antoine Hennion (Mines ParisTech, FR)
Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University, US)
Proposal length:
individual presentation proposals: max 2200 characters, incl. spaces;
panel session proposals: max 2500 characters, incl. spaces + each panelists proposal 2000 characters, incl. spaces.
The organizing committee will be in touch no later than November 4, 2019 with the information about acceptances.
Contact for inquiries (no proposal submissions): networks2020 -at- uniarts.fi
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