Category: Lectures, Films, Readings, Panels
October 2024
Prof. Brigid Cohen - Class of 1960 Music Lecture
Professor Brigid Cohen of New York University offers a Class of 1960 Lecture. Brigid Cohen is a historical musicologist who specializes in the historiography of musics and musicians in migration. Her research and teaching examine the mass dislocation of peoples over the last two centuries, addressing conditions of empire, globalization, genocide, exile, and minoritized citizenship. This intellectual program stems from her conviction that music … Continue reading "Prof. Brigid Cohen – Class of 1960 Music Lecture"
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Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil
Join Mari Rodríguez Binnie, Assoc. Professor of Art, and Brynn Hatton, Kindler Family Asst. Professor of Global Contemporary Art at Colgate University, in conversation around Prof. Binnie's new book, The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde.
Find out more »November 2024
The Ancient Law
The Ancient Law: A silent film with live music by violinist Alicia Svigals and pianist Donald Sosin. Ewald André Dupont’s 1923 silent film The Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz) is an important piece of German-Jewish cinematic history, contrasting the closed world of an Eastern European shtetl with the liberal mores of 1860s Vienna. With its historically authentic set design and … Continue reading "The Ancient Law"
Find out more »March 2025
Matthew Aucoin - Class of 1960 Music Lecture
Matthew Aucoin is an American composer, conductor, and writer, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. He is a co-founder of the pathbreaking American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), and was the Los Angeles Opera’s Artist in Residence from 2016 to 2020. As a composer, Aucoin is committed to expanding the possibilities of opera as a genre. His own operas, which include Eurydice … Continue reading "Matthew Aucoin – Class of 1960 Music Lecture"
Find out more »April 2025
Prof. Zachary Wallmark - Class of 1960 Music Lecture
Professor Zachary Wallmark of University of Oregon offers a Class of 1960 Lecture. Zachary Wallmark is a musicologist with an interest in popular music, timbre, and music cognition. Prior to his appointment at UO, Wallmark served on the music faculty at Southern Methodist University, where he also held a courtesy appointment in psychology. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses … Continue reading "Prof. Zachary Wallmark – Class of 1960 Music Lecture"
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