[AMS-announce] CFP: SMT Special Session on Jean-Luc Nancy

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This past year, Jean-Luc Nancy's book Listening was translated into English and published by Fordham University Press.  Following up on this publication, the SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group led a very successful and stimulating discussion at the Baltimore 2007 annual meeting.  In response to the excitement this discussion produced, the interest group welcomes preliminary proposals from music theorists, musicologists, and philosophers for a proposed special session relating music, musicology, and music theory with Nancy's thought for a presentation at the AMS/SMT 2008 joint meeting in Nashville.  Any topics exploring the relationship between Nancy's thought and music are welcome, but here are a few suggestions:

Hearing and Listening (entendre, ecouter); Sight, Sound, Meaning, and Sense; Resonance; Renvoi; The Ontology of Music; The Resonant Subject/Self; "Music Listening to Itself"; Music and the Political; Music's relation to and of Nancy's philosophical themes (freedom, community, myth, literary communism, ex-tasis, body, presence, ecotechnics, love, touch, being-with, being singular plural, etc.); Music and Phenomenology (Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas,; Heidegger, Husserl, Hegel); The "Nancian" Musical Work; "The Muses"; Mousike and the Plural Arts; Music and Community; Nancy and Electronic Dance Music; Any other topic relating Nancy's thought and Music 

Please send us short proposals (around 200 words) to our email address -- philosophymusic_at_gmail.com -- by December 30, 2007.  Based on the number of proposals we receive, we will assemble a full special session proposal, and then request full abstracts and proposals according to SMT guidelines for the conference deadline of January 15.  Please email us with any questions.  Looking forward to it!

Michael Gallope: Michael.Gallope_at_nyu.edu
Stephen Smith: Stephen.Smith_at_nyu.edu
Amy Cimini: Amy.Cimini_at_nyu.edu
John Koslovsky: jkoslovs_at_mail.rochester.edu