Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum
Programme:
9.30am Welcome
10.00am Cristina Moreno Almeida (Queen Mary University of London) – The Political Meanings of al-Andalus in Metal, Rock and Synthwave
10.40am Yasmin Pezeshki (University of Birmingham) - From Tehran to Seoul: Iranian K-pop Fandom, Transnational Affect and Sonic Counterpublics
11.20am Tea and coffee
11.40am Stephen Wilford (University of Cambridge)- Ici on silence les Algériens: Sounding a Parisian Massacre
12.20pm Gascia Ouzounian (University of Oxford) - Disappeared Cities: A Negative Acoustics
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Lunch (provided) 1.00-2.00pm
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2.00pm Film screening and discussion: Memory Collective II - Mosul Maqam
2.40pm Bryar Bajalan (University of Exeter) - Maqam in post-war Mosul
3.20pm Tea and coffee
3.40pm Saeid Kord Mafi (SOAS) - Unveiling the ʿUmar al-Baṭsh Collection of Muwashshaḥāt Song-Texts: Between Orality and Literacy in Twentieth-Century Syrian Music
4.20pm Valentina Ciniglio (University of Cambridge) - Sonic In-Betweenness: Sound, Presence, and Contested Public Space in the Egyptian Dhikr [online]
5.00pm - Closing remarks
The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the Forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc).
