Syracuse University, April 18-20 2008
Conference Schedule for Friday,
Saturday, and
Sunday.
friday, april 18
8:00 p.m. keynote concert
Everson
Museum of Art, Syracuse
Padmashree Prabha Atre, internationally acclaimed singer
and composer of Indian classical music.
saturday, april 19
8:30-9:00 breakfast
Killian Room, 500 Hall of Languages
9:00-10:30 panel 1
Music, Migration and Memory: Negotiated Identities
Tazim Kassam, Syracuse University
Opening comments and introduction to the conference.
Richard Wolf , Harvard University
"Responding to the sounds of Shiism in greater South Asia"
Julia Banzi, Al-Andalus and Reed College
"Andalusian Women’s Orchestras:
Seven Centuries of Silence"
10:30-11:00
break
11:00-12:30 panel 2
Creative
Encounters in Transnational Muslim Networks
Birgit Berg,
Voice of America International Broadcasting"The Music of Arabs, the Sound of Islam: Arab-Indonesian Music and
Islamic Expression in Indonesia."
Christopher Lee, Canisius College
"Globalization Moves the Mushaira"
James Chopyak, California State University, Sacramento
"Islamic Fundamentalism, Globalization, Technological Change, and
Music in Malaysia"
Chair: Tom Gibson, University of Rochester
12:30-2:00 lunch and
performance
Tarik and Julia Banzi of Al-Andalus
, contemporary Andalusian music
2:00-3:30 panel 3
Creative Encounters in Transnational Music Networks
Amy
Catlin-Jairazhboy, University of California, Los Angeles
"How Sidi Music Moves Religion:
African-Indian Sufi Embodiments in
the New Transglobal Mendicancy"
Ted Swedenburg, University of Arkansas
"Fun^Da^Mental: Punjabi Folk, Post-Bhangra and Islamic Rap, from the
Subcontinent to the Metropole"
Natalie Sarrazin, State University of New York, Brockport
"Allah-who?: Indian Cinematic Representations of Filmi Qawwali"
3:30-4:00 break
4:00-5:00 roundtable conversation
Moderator: Anne Blackburn, Cornell University
| Discussants: | Paul Morris, Department of Religion, Syracuse University; |
| Sharmadip Basu, Social Science, Syracuse University; | |
| Carter Higgins, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. |
5:30-7:30 dinner Maxwell, Room 204
8:00 p.m. keynote concert Grant Auditorium, College of
Law
Farid Ayaz Qawwal and Brothers, acclaimed Pakistani qawwali ensemble.
SYRACUSE CONCERT CANCELLED
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sunday, april 20
8:30-9:00 breakfast Killian
Room, 500 Hall of Languages
9:00-10:30 panel
4
Spiritual
Practice as Aesthetics and Performance
Judith Becker,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor"Religious Ecstatics: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian"
Michael Frishkopf,University of Alberta
"Music Moves Islam in the Indian Ocean"
Anne Rasmussen, College of William and Mary
"From Seashore to Department Store: Musics of Indonesian Islam"
Chair:
Daniel Gold, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
10:30-11:00 wrap-up/future projects
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Questions? Please contact Juliana Finucane: jkfinuca@syr.edu