Daily Archives: 27 April 2015

Challenges and Conundrums: New Research Into a Little Known Music Theory Manuscript

Challenges and Conundrums: New Research Into a Little Known Music Theory Manuscript
Dulcie Hollyock Room, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
29 May, 2015

This one-day symposium offers the opportunity to hear international and Australian early music researchers present new findings on LHD 244, an extraordinary manuscript from the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library rare collections at the University of Melbourne.

LHD 244, despite its diminutive size, comprises more than 20 theoretical texts on musical rudiments and performance from the late 14th to early 17th centuries. Its oldest texts are a compilation of well-known and otherwise totally unknown treatises from the late 14th and 15th centuries. The many later additions include psalm-tones, prayers and more unknown treatises, on composition and organ playing.

Join us for the whole day, or just for the morning of individual paper presentations, or be part of the afternoon’s round table discussion, ‘Placing LHD 244: Answers and future tasks’.

Co-convenors are Dr Jason Stoessel (University of New England) and Professor Kerry Murphy (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music). LHD 244 will be on display during the Symposium.

Full details, including abstracts, programme, and registration are available through the symposium web page: http://library.unimelb.edu.au/LHD244/home.

Art, Anatomy, and Medicine Since 1700 – Call For Papers

Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1700
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina
31 March — 1 April, 2016

The symposium organizer seeks proposals for papers that address visual, theoretical, cultural, historical and/or contemporary connections, relationships, conflicts and/or collaborations among the visual arts, anatomy/dissection, and medicine from the eighteenth century to the present. Participants may be historians of art, medicine, science or technology, art educators, medical professionals, artists (who may propose to contextualize their own work), etc. Successful papers may also be invited for publication in an edited volume of the same theme.

Broad topics may include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • The role of anatomy in artists’ training (past, present and/or future)
  • Artists’ roles in the creation/dissemination of anatomical knowledge
  • Artistic representation of anatomical and medical professionals
  • Anatomical and medical models: from écorché figures to nano-imagery
  • Anatomy as art, art as anatomy
  • Anatomical displays, exhibitions (e.g. Body Worlds), and collections: from curious to educational to controversial
  • Corpses, dissection and grave-robbing in art, literature and medical history
  • Imaging bodily surface and anatomical depth: from sculpture to M.R.I.s and beyond
  • Beyond human, superhuman, inhuman(e)?: technological ‘improvements’, additions and extensions of human anatomy from prosthetics/implants to Google glasses
  • Zombies and vampires, and the creative/fantastic defiance of or resistance to anatomical, medical and worldly reality
  • The evolutionary human in art and science: looking backward and looking ahead
  • Parts vs. whole: the functions of specificity and generality in aesthetics and visual medical information

Please send cover letter, abstract (no more than 3 pages, double-spaced typed), and CV to:

Dr. Andrew Graciano, Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Director
School of Visual Art & Design
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208

Or by email to: graciano@mailbox.sc.edu.

Proposals due by 1 July 2015.