Programme

Conference Schedule

11.06.2018

 

8.30-9.15

Registration and Reception

9.30-10.00	Introduction – Maria Semi, Turin
10.00-11.00	Keynote Lecture: “The Voice of the People, a Song, a Notable Phrase, a Rhyme, Managed to Survive”: The Birth of Musical Aesthetics and the End of Global History Philip Bohlman, Chicago
11.00-11.30	Break
Free papers – Session I Chair Maria Semi, Turin
11.30-12.30	National Aesthetics in Cosmopolitan Enlightenment Mårten Nehrfors Hultén (Stockholm)   Arrangement as a Category in late XVIIIth Century German Musical Discourse: Work, Canon, and Commerce Elena Pons Capdevila (London, Royal Holloway)
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Keynote Lecture: ‘All in the mind’: Eighteenth-century opera and the idea of psychological depth Suzanne Aspden, Oxford
Free papers – Session II Chair Alberto Rizzuti, Turin
15.00-15.30	Rethinking the Aesthetics of Voice at the End of the “Century of Women” Jessica Gabriel Peritz (Chicago)
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.00	Opera in the Reformist Agenda of the Polish Enlightenment Anna Parkitna (NY, Stony Brook)     Borrowing as Listening Inscription: Handel and the Pasticci in London Carlo Lanfossi (University of Pennsylvania)

12.06.2018

 

9.30-10.30	Keynote Lecture: Is Music Good for You or Not? Enlightenment Debates about Music, Illness and Knowledge Making Vanessa Agnew, Duisburg
10.30-11.00	Break
Free papers – Session III Chair Pietro Kobau, Turin
11.00-12.30	Musical Immersion: a New Methodological Approach to Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics Anne Holzmüller (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)   Reappraising the Role of Religion in the Musical Aesthetics of the Late Eighteenth Century Olga Sánchez-Kisielewska (Northwestern University – University of Chicago)   When Imitation Became Nachahmung: Translation as Cultural Transfer in German Music Aesthetics of the XVIIIth Century Benedikt Leßmann (Wien)
12.30-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.00	Keynote Lecture: Hearing the Enlightenment: Musical Affects and Mechanical Philosophy in England and Scotland, 1663-1749 Tomas McAuley, Cambridge
Free papers – Session IV Chair Paolo Gozza
15.00-15.30	Taste, Geschmack, Gusto, Goût: Shifting Connotations of Taste in Eighteenth-Century Musical Thought Katherine Walker (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY)
15.30-16.00	Break
16.00-17.00	Rameau Matérialiste? Nathan John Martin (University of Michigan)   Aristotelianism, Platonism, and Empiricism in Giuseppe Tartini’s Correspondence Giorgia Malagò (Padova)
17.00-18.00	Closing Keynote: Castrato / Trans*: Thoughts from the 21st Century Martha Feldman, Chicago