The University of Sheffield
Department of Music

Research Seminar Series, February - May 2008

Monday Research Seminars, 4.10-5.30 pm in the Lecture Room, Department of Music, 38 Taptonville Road, Sheffield S10 5BR.

The Research Seminar Series is a series of talks by leading researchers at this university and elsewhere. The series is aimed at postgraduate students and staff but undergraduates and external visitors are welcome at every talk.

Selected Research Seminars are now available to registered students as vod-casts. To view seminars, and participate in online discussion, go to the "Research Seminar Vod-casts" course in MOLE.

February 2008

February Details
11th Christopher Powell, Dr George F. Linstead (1908-74) – a centenary tribute to a Sheffield composer (part sponsored by Silhill Solutions Limited)
18th Barbara Kelly, (Keele University) Ravel and the aesthetic of imposture
25th Desi Wilkinson, (Newcastle University) Amazight film festivals 2006 and 2007 - the developing cultural role of 'berberitude' in the Algerian state.

March 2008

March Details
3rd Gerald Seaman, (Oxford University). Nikolay Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov: a universal genius
10th Nicola Dibben, (Sheffield University) Björk: Nature, technology and Icelandic national identity

April 2008

April Details
7th Denis Smalley, (City University).
Music, sound and the spatial image
14th Robert Saxton, (Worcester College, Oxford). Wandering and return: the relationship between text and music in 5 Motets (2003)
21st Armand Leroi, (Imperial College, London).
The history and geography of human song - cantometrics revisited
28th Georgina Born, (Emmanuel College, Cambridge).
On musical mediation: Ontology, technology and creativity

May 2008

May Details
12th Erik Levi, (Royal Holloway College, London University) Mozart and the Nazis: the abuse of a cultural icon