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<div class="column"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">INTERNATIONAL MUSICOLOGICAL CONFERENCE </b></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Essence and Context: A Conference Between Music and Philosophy </b></p><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Vilnius) 31st August–3rd September 2016 </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Organizers: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Musicological Section of Lithuanian Composers’ Union Partners: Hull University, American Musicological Society‘s Music and Philosophy Study Group, Royal Musicological Association, Belgrade University of Arts, Lithuanian Philosophy Association </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">CALL FOR PAPERS </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">This conference brings music scholars and philosophers together to examine the ideas of the essence and context as they apply to music. One central question is: does music have an essence? In philosophy, the notion of essence has seen a renaissance in the last twenty years, yet in many corners of the humanities, essences are still viewed with suspicion. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">A common worry with thinking of music in terms of essence is about the plurality of music. Can the many musics be seen as the manifestations of one essence? Surely the many musics too diverse to be the manifestation of one essence. There is also the worry that thinking in terms of essence is an overly conservative way of imposing fixity on something that evolves. The appeal to essence in the cultural sphere is supposed to be fraught with the danger of imposing a normative straightjacket over divergent and dynamic phenomena. Many think that we must appeal to the varying historical and cultural contexts of music, and the idea of an essence of music is therefore misguided. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">On the other hand, if we despair of finding something in common, are we really left with a chaos of completely different phenomena with nothing at all in common? That seems difficult to believe. Why then speak of ‘music’ in all the cases that we do across many different historical and cultural contexts? Furthermore, perhaps we can be more careful about the kind of essences we affirm, ones that may not have the normative consequences that some fear. Indeed, anti-essentialism may also have its own dangers. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Or can we transcend this opposition? Is there really a tension between the context of music and its having some essence? If music, or our experience of music, or some music, has an essence, does that necessarily exclude any significant role for its context? Once we foreground the context of music, as has been dominant both in recent musicology and philosophy of music, have we necessarily turned away from essence? Or can essence and context co-exist? Can we deal in both notions simultaneously? </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">One way to admit both would be to say that one of the two explains the other. For example,, perhaps the essence of music needs to be added to historical and cultural contingencies to explain its varied manifestations. Or a different approach would be to emphasize cultural context and essence together, but reverse the direction of explanation. Instead of essence explaining context, essence is contextual. That is, one could affirm a relational contextual essence. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Given the current interest in the notion of essence in philosophy, and given that exhaustively contextual approaches to music are now less dominant than they used to be in both musicology and philosophy, this is a good time to reconsider these notions and the relations between them as they bear on music and musical phenomena. We welcome a broad range of views on these questions, either focusing on particular music or taking a more general view. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Keynote speakers include: </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor Paul Boghossian (New York University) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor Vytautas Landsbergis (Lithuania) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor Tamara Levitz (UCLA, Los Angeles)</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor Richard Taruskin (University of California, Berkeley)</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Plenary panellists include: </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor John Deathridge (King’s College London)<br class="">
Professor Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman (Belgrade University of Arts) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor Mario Videira (São Paulo University)<br class="">
Professor Nick Zangwill (Hull University). </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">The official language of the conference is English. You are invited to submit the proposals for round table discussions, study group sessions and individual papers by the 15th April 2016. An abstract (up to 300 words for 20-minute individual paper) and a CV (up to 150 words) should be submitted to the conference coordinator Dr Rima Povilionienė at <a href="mailto:rima.povilioniene@lmta.lt" class="">rima.povilioniene@lmta.lt</a>. For round table discussions and study group sessions a general summary is required. Information about the selected proposals will be announced by the 15th May 2016. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Further information on conference programme and accommodation arrangements will be announced at the end of May 2016, on the internet site of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (<a href="http://www.lmta.lt" class="">www.lmta.lt</a>).<br class="">
Selected papers may be published in collaboration with a scholarly journal. </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Conference participation fee, paid on the site of the conference: Standard 50 EUR<br class="">
Student 15 EUR </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Programme Committee: </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Professor John Deathridge (King’s College London) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dr Michael Gallope (University of Minnesota) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Rūta Stanevičiūtė-Kelmickienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman (Belgrade University of Arts)<br class="">
Mario Videira (São Paulo University)<br class="">
Nick Zangwill (Hull University) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dr Audronė Žukauskaitė (Lithuanian Philosophy Association) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Organization Committee: </b></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Jūratė Katinaitė (Musicological Section of Lithuanian Composers’ Union) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dr Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dr Rima Povilionienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)<br class="">
Rima Rimšaitė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dr Kamilė Rupeikaitė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)<br class="">
Professor Rūta Stanevičiūtė-Kelmickienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Dr Judita Žukienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) </div></div></div></div><div class="page" title="Page 2"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column">
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