Spring 2023
- 2/27/23 — "Sonic Intimacy and Everyday Solidarities in a West African Village." With Sidra Lawrence, associate professor of ethnomusicology, Bowling Green State University.
- 3/6/23 — "Sounding Community Pride in the Mountains: LGBTQ Cultural Placemaking, Publics, and Activism in West Virginia." With Jacob Kopcienski, PhD candidate, Ohio State.
- 3/20/23 — "Fans’ Histories as Part of the Supremes’ Story." With Elena Cruz-López, PhD candidate, Ohio State.
- 3/27/23 — "K as a Floating Signifier: The meaning of K in multiethnic K-pop." With Wonseok Lee, PhD candidate, Ohio State.
- 4/3/23 — “'We Are Not a Refugee Orchestra:' The Syrian Expat Philharmonic Orchestra and its Roots in Cold War Cultural Diplomacy." With Katelin Webster, PhD candidate, Ohio State.
2022
All lectures co-sponsored by the Music and Dance Library, the EMIC Graduate Student Association and the Ethnomusicology program.
- 2/7/22 — Big Enigmas of a Small Finno-Ugric Culture: The Ancient Polyphonic Singing of the Seto (South-East Estonia). With Dr. Žanna Pärtlas (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre; Institute of National and Folk Culture of the Ogarev Mordovia State University, Russia). Co-sponsored by the Music Theory area in addition to the above named co-sponsors. Hybrid format.
- 3/7/22 — Alienation and Marginality in Music: Race, Gender, Sexuality. With Dr. Gavin Lee (Soochow University, China; scholar of music studies at intersection of global musical modernisms, queer and decolonial theory, affect, posthumanism and musical Asias). Presented virtually, this talk will be recorded.
- 3/21/22 — Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco and Cold War Global Nightlife. With Dr. Benjamin Tausig (Stony Brook University Department of Music; Asian and Asian-American Studies; Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies). Hybrid format.
- POSTPONED until 2022–2023 academic year; date TBD — Encountering Afro-Sweden: Ryan Skinner in dialogue with Stevie Nii-Adu Mensah. With Stevie Nii-Adu Mensah, Ghanaian-Swedish teacher, author, producer, musician; and Dr. Ryan Skinner, musicology and African-American and African Studies, Ohio State. Co-sponsored by the Office of Outreach and Engagement in addition to the above-named co-sponsors.
- 10/3/22 — "How to Perform an Archive: Listening and Sonic Ethnography as Methods to Reinterpret Sonic Archives." With Brian Harnetty, post-doctoral scholar and GAHDT Fellow (Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme). Co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
- 10/17/22 — "Approaches to Community-Engaged Research in the Humanities." With Elena Cruz-López and Jacob Kopcienski, PhD candidates in musicology. Co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
- 11/7/22 — "Distance Listening and the Diasporic Imagination." With Van My Truong, post-doctoral fellow in Comparative Studies. Co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and the Department of Comparative Studies.
- 11/28/22 — "Deploying Deadness at Louis Armstrong’s House." With Michael C. Heller, University of Pittsburgh. This lecture is offered in hybrid format. Online registration is required to attend virtually; a Zoom link will be provided upon registration. Co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
2021
- 1/13/21 Workshop: How to Explore Diverse Career Paths: A Workshop for Doctoral Students with Dr. Rob Pearson, Assistant Dean of Professional Development and Career Planning, Emory University.
- 1/25/21: Writing Ourselves into the Future: An Overview of 400: An Afrikan Epic. Mark Lomax II, composer/artist/activist/educator. Co-sponsored by the EMIC Graduate Student Interest Group for Expressive Culture and The Ohio State University Libraries.
- 2/1/21: Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya on the Streets of Osaka. Marié Abe, Boston University. Sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center and the EMIC Graduate Student Group for Studies in Expressive Culture.
- 3/1/21: Latinx-Appalachian Migration Narratives, Borders, and Belonging in the Blue Ridge. Sophia Enriquez, Ohio State.
- 3/8/21: Taylor Swift Becomes Pop: Claiming Adulthood, Leveraging Whiteness. Phoebe Hughes, Ohio State.
- 4/30/21 Special Event: The Barnett "Symposium" Speaker Series presents The Magic is in the Middle: Philanthropy and the Future of Music in American Cities with Elizabeth Cawein. Hosted by the Department of Arts Administration, Education and Policy.
- 9/27/21: Writing Songs You Don’t Much Like: Collective Attribution, Field Spanning, and Rationalizing Artistic Risk in Country Music. With Dr. Rachel Skaggs (Arts Administration, Education and Policy, Ohio State).
- 10/18/21: Undesirable Humanness: An Ethnography of the Uncanny Valley. With Dr. Ritwik Banerji (Film and Media Studies, University of Cincinnati).
- 11/8/21: Contingent Encounters: Improvisation, Everyday Life, and the Music of Eric Dolphy. With Dr. Dan DiPiero (Comparative Studies, Ohio State).
2020
- 1/27/20: Music as Labor; Music as Work: 100 years of Turkish Roman Musician Narratives. Sonia Seeman, University of Texas–Austin. Sponsored by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme of Migration, Mobility and Immobility and co-sponsored by University Libraries.
- 2/10/20 (12–2 p.m. at 100 Ramseyer Hall): Film screening of Wajd: Songs of Separation by Amar Chebib, director, producer, cinematographer and editor. In the wake of unimaginable loss, three Syrian refugees turn to their love of Sufi music. Co-sponsored by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme of Migration, Mobility and Immobility, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, the Middle East Area and Islamic Studies Librarian, and the Ethnomusicology program of the School of Music.
- 2/24/20: Sounds of the Cold War Acropolis: Halim El-Dabh at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Brigid Cohen, New York University. Supported by a generous grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme of Migration, Mobility and Immobility.
- 3/2/20: “Teaching: The Craziest Form of Art" — Magnús Pálsson and The New Art Department. Adam Buffington, Ohio State.
- 4/6/20 (Rescheduled as virtual lecture 1/25/2021) Writing Ourselves into the Future: An Overview of 400: An Afrikan Epic. Mark Lomax II, composer/artist/activist/educator. This event is co-sponsored by the EMIC Graduate Student Interest Group for Expressive Culture. Many Ohio State events scheduled through July 2020 were canceled, rescheduled or reformatted due to COVID.
- 7/9/2020: Professor Danielle Fosler-Lussier — virtual author event to discuss her new book, Music on the Move.
- 9/28/20: Verses and Flows: Migrant Lives and the Sounds of Crossing. Alex E. Chávez, University of Notre Dame, presents virtual author event to discuss his award-winning book, Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño.
- 10/19/20: "Wolf Tones" and Meshworks: Listening for Frictions in Luthiery and Extractive Forestry. Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth, Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State, presents virtual lecture. Co-sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies at the Ohio State University. Lectures in Musicology is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
- 11/9/20: Industrial Hip Hop against Hip Hop Industry: The Critical Noise of XXX. Pil Ho Kim, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Ohio State, presents virtual lecture. Co-sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center and the Institute for Korean Studies. Lectures in Musicology is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries.
- 12/18/20: “But will they pass the exam?” — A Conversation about Graduate Entrance and Placement Exams in Musicology. Workshop presented via Zoom by Samuel Dorf, Louis Epstein and Danielle Fosler-Lussier.
2019
- 2/4/19: “Maybe If I’d Stayed”: Appalachian Outmigration, Narratives of Loss, and Nate May’s Dust in the Bottomland. Travis Stimeling, West Virginia University. Lecture co-sponsored by University Libraries and the Center for Folklore Studies.
- 2/11/19 — The William A. Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition: In a Woman’s Voice: Musical Readings by Women Composers, a lecture-recital. Marian Wilson Kimber and Natalie Landowski. Lecture, funded by the College, sponsored by The William A. Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition.
- 2/25/19: Distant Reading as Process: On the Use (and Misuse) of Corpus Studies. Daniel Shanahan, theory/music cognition, The Ohio State University School of Music.
- 3/4/19: Mahler's Symphonic Modelings of Death. Arved Ashby, musicology, Ohio State.
- 3/18/19: How Does Music Feel? Tactile Listening from Sound Art to Live Performance. Ivan Raykoff, Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts at The New School, New York.
- 4/1/19: Forgetting Out Loud: Musical Flag Convoys and Affective Non-Memorials of Violence at Croatian Weddings. Ian MacMillen, Oberlin College & Conservatory.
- 4/15/19: How Does Music Change our Experience of Time and Space? Yong Jeon Cheong, doctoral candidate in cognitive ethnomusicology, Ohio State.
- Reprise Lectures in Music Series. David Huron, theory/music cognition, Ohio State.
- 9/23/19: Blues In the Black Pacific: Afro-Indigenous Alliance, American Empire, and Global Music History. Gabriel Solis, University of Illinois.
- 9/30/19: Listening as a Contact Zone in the Jesuit Relations: A Global History Approach. Olivia Bloechl, University of Pittsburgh.
- Above lectures sponsored by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme of Migration, Mobility and Immobility and the Department of Comparative Studies.
- 10/7/19: Dance Folklore, Stages and Politics: Slovenian Contexts. Rebeka Kunej, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Co-sponsored by the Slovene Research Initiative.
- 10/15/19 at Martin Luther King Jr. Room, Hale Black Cultural Center: Four Women: The Diasporic Art of Josette Bushell-Mingo. Josette Bushell-Mingo, Stockholm University of the Arts. Sponsored by the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme of Migration, Mobility and Immobility. Co-sponsors: Hale Black Cultural Center, Department of African American and African Studies, School of Music, Department of Theater.
- 10/21/19: Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America. Jake Johnson, Oklahoma City University. Co-sponsored by the American Religious Sounds Project, the Center for the Study of Religion, and The Ohio State University Libraries.
Lectures in Musicology is co-sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries. Lectures will begin at 4 p.m. in the 18th Avenue Library (second floor, Music/Dance Library, Room 205), 175 West 18th Ave., unless otherwise noted. These events are FREE and open to the public.
Campus visitors, please use the Tuttle Park Place Garage or the Ohio Union South Garage. All other garages in the vicinity of the 18th Ave. Library are closed to visitors before 4 p.m.