On Monday 11 and Tuesday 12 April 2011, the Musicology Departments of Utrecht University, and Royal Holloway, University of London, will jointly host a conference at Utrecht University addressing ‘the West’ in music(ologic)al production and consumption.
The theme: Negotiating ‘The West’ Music(ologic)ally
The destabilisation of ‘the West’ as a self-perceived entity has marked the last decade at nearly every front – economically, politically, and culturally. Meanwhile, questions about ‘the West’ as a category for construction and political deployment have significantly broadened research agendas in the humanities, unravelling the ways in which various artistic, literary, scholarly and popular media have been complicit in the cultural politics that have shaped, and continue to shape, the global infrastructure we experience today.
More details in the attached call for papers.
Abstracts limited to 300 words should be sent before 1 October 2010