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Dear colleague,
I would like to draw your attention to two International Symposiums where you are invited to share and deepen your knowledge of the modern colonial empires. These seek to build on the research conducted under the ERC advanced grant, The Sound of Empire in 20th c. Colonial Cultures: Rethinking History through Music (MusiCol), where team members learned that creativity itself defies colonial binaries.
MusiCol’s first international symposium, “Music as Relation” (Nice, 13-15 April 2026), welcomes study of music, musicians, and musical practices in the urban capitals of 20th c. empires, particularly from the perspective of musicians’ agency. It invites contributions to four themes–what formed people’s ears for music and the methods and uses of music education; musical ensembles, careers, and collaborations, amateur to professional; and music in religious and theatrical contexts, together with their impact on local and global traditions–or other subjects deemed relevant.
MusiCol’s second international symposium, “Music and Media” (Paris, 16-18 April 2026) invites researchers from diverse disciplines to consider a panoply of questions, perspectives, and methodologies in the study of recordings and music on colonial radio. How did these empower and document the evolution of both indigenous and western aurality and whose interests did they express and represent? These media present opportunities to explore tastes shared across countries, regions, and continents and how the complexity of social and musical colonial coexistence was negotiated and from which post-colonial identities evolved.
At these two symposiums, we seek to generate in-depth comparative analysis of diverse contexts and among all the modern empires to better understand the history of cultural relations in today’s diverse societies.
Let’s exchange, collaborate, and foster discussion with scholars from throughout the world. Those in music, studying local and global history, media studies, and other related fields, particularly from the Global South, are encouraged to submit proposals, due October 15. Papers can be presented in English or French and a selection will be published.
Visit the following link for details and the submission form: https://musicol.ucsd.edu/wp6b/
Best wishes,
Jann
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Jann Corinne Pasler, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, ERC advanced grant MusiCol,
“The Sound of Empire in 20th-c. Colonial Cultures: Rethinking History through Music,” (2019-2026)
Distinguished Professor Emerita
Music Department
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0099
USA
