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The Conference
The Music and Crisis Conference will be principally sponsored by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) and is in the process of being organized by a group of UCSB graduate students from a variety of disciplines. The conference will take place over two days—April 14-15, 2012—at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Run by and intended for graduate students, this conference encourages submissions covering the full spectrum of methodologies, disciplinary approaches and genres of music. The conference will feature the following panel formats:
- Traditional 20-minute papers followed by 10 minutes for questions
- Roundtables (Assembled by the organizing committee)
- Seminar format (Papers distributed to participants prior to conference to allow for in-depth discussions)
- Alternative demonstrations or performances
The conference will also feature a keynote address from Elizabeth McAlister, Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University.
| Music and Crisis Organizing Committee | |
|---|---|
| Jacob Adams, Music Performance | Emma McCullough, Musicology |
| Can Aksoy, English | Sasha Metcalf, Musicology |
| George Blake, Ethnomusicology | Erin Putnam, Ethnomusicology |
| Scott Dirkse, Musicology | Vincent Rone, Musicology |
| Brett Esaki, Religious Studies | Shari Sanders, Comparative Literature |
| Jonathan Gomez, Sociology | Linda Shaver-Gleason, Musicology |
| Michael Joiner, Musicology | Rachel Short, Music Theory |
| Meghan Joyce, Musicology | Azure Stewart, Education |
CISM
The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) is an association of faculty and students at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) that promotes the study of music across academic disciplines. CISM begins with the position that music is an important and powerful cultural practice in which all people participate on some level. By sponsoring diverse projects that engage multiple disciplines, CISM works to expand the boundaries of traditional music research by creating an environment for high-level study and discussion of music that is not restricted to specialists.
Previous conferences hosted by CISM include Music and the Written Word in 2010, Music and Politics in 2008, and Music and the Moving Image in 2006.
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The University of California, Santa Barbara is located on nearly a thousand acres of land on the California coast about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Set on a peninsula, the campus has two ocean beaches on the its south side while the Santa Ynez Mountains, part of the California Coastal Range, provide a dramatic backdrop to the north.
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UCSB is one of only 61 institutions elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities. The Newsweek guide to America's best colleges has named UCSB one of the country's "hottest colleges" twice in the past decade.
In addition to five winners of Nobel Prizes, UCSB's faculty includes many elected members or fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (25), the National Academy of Sciences (32), the National Academy of Engineering (25), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (60). Three UCSB professors also have been named MacArthur Fellows by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
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