1st Conference of the Word and Music Association Forum (WMAF)
Time and Space in Words and Music
4-7 November 2010, Dortmund
Schedule
Thursday, 4 Nov. 2010, Senatssitzungssaal der TU Dortmund
5:30-6:00 Registration
6:00 Conference Opening
6:30 Keynote Lecture Peter RABINOWITZ, Hamilton College “Music, Rhetoric, and Narrative: Listening as an Interpretive Act”
8:00 Reception
Friday, 5 Nov. 2010, Senatssitzungssaal der TU Dortmund
9:00-10:30 Panel I: Space and Music in Novels
Christin HOENE, University of Edinburgh, “Sounding Through Time and Space: Indian Classical Music in Postcolonial South-Asian Literature”
Svenja MENKHAUS, University of Konstanz, “Music as lingua franca: Cultural Contact and Migration in Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet”
Isabel WAGNER, University of London, “Aeolian Harps and Creators of Acoustic Spaces: Self-Reflexive Soundspaces in Gert Jonke’s Trilogy”
11:00-12:00 Panel II: Staging Time and Space
Tyler CASSIDY-HEACOCK, Eastman School of Music, “Poetry Traced in the Air: Gesture in Leroux’s Voi(Rex)”
Simone PAULUN, University of Konstanz, “Theater of the Present: The Performative Quality of Music in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls (1976)”
1:30-2:30 Panel III: Time and Music in Novels
Emily PETERMANN, University of Konstanz, “The Concept of Time Implied by the Theme and Variations Form: Three Novels Based on Bach’s Goldberg Variations”
Beate SCHIRRMACHER, Stockholm University, “Günter Grass’s Paspresenture: The Use of Musical Intermediality in Creating Spatial Temporality”
3:00-4:00 Panel IV: Noises
Markus HUSS, Södertörn University, Stockholm, “Body, Noise, Text: An Intermedial Approach to the Early Prose of Peter Weiss”
Arndt NIEBISCH, UNC Greensboro, “Futurist Technologies of Time Manipulation”
4:30-5:30 Panel V: Open Forum on Works for Voice
Diana KUPFER, Heidelberg University, “A Cycle of Songs and Sorrow: Earl Kim’s Autobiographical Poetry Settings ’Now and Then’”
Burkhard SAUERWALD, TU Dortmund University, “Uhland Settings in the 19th Century and Their Political Implications”
Saturday, 6 Nov. 2010, Senatssitzungssaal der TU Dortmund
9:00-10:00 Panel VI: Time in Works for Voice
Emily ADAMOWICZ, University of Western Ontario, “Suspended Time in Milton Babbitt’s Philomel”
Judith CRISPIN, Humboldt University, Berlin, “The Transcendence of Musical Time: Text and Temporality in Busoni’s Doktor Faust and Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise.”
10:30-12:00 Panel VII: Music in Irish Literature
Adrian PATERSON, National University of Ireland, Galway, “‘Worded or Sung’?: The Thirteen Teeth of Joyce’s Pomes Penyeach”
John MCGRATH, School of Music, University of Liverpool, “Silent Music in Irish Literary Modernism”
Maria RISTANI, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, “The Double-Edged Play of Rhythm: Samuel Beckett’s Late Text-Scores”
1:30-2:30 Panel VIII: Time and Space in Poetry
Helen ABBOTT, University of Bangor, Wales, “The Time for Poetry: Or What Composers Learn from Baudelaire”
Sarah FEKADU, LMU Munich, “Music Filling Space: Ezra Pound’s Spatial Aesthetics of Music”
3:00-4:00 Panel IX: Space and Music in Novels II
Christina GÖßLING, Tübingen University, “Space in the 20th Century Novel: The Phenomenon of an Alternative Lebensraum Examined by Means of Yurij Lotman’s The Structure of the Artistic Text and Exemplified by Alejo Carpentier’s Los pasos perdidos”
Hannah IANIELLO, University of Western Sydney, “What I Wanted": The Role of Violence in Narratives about Jazz Musicians”