[AMS-announce] CFP: Eduard Hanslick: Aesthetic, Critical, and Cultural Contexts, University College, Dublin, June 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Call For Papers

Eduard Hanslick: Aesthetic, Critical, and Cultural Contexts

On 24 and 25 June 2009, the first international conference on Eduard Hanslick will take place at University College Dublin. This is being hosted by the UCD School of Music, in association with the School of Music and Sonic Arts (Queen’s University Belfast), Conservatory of Music and Drama (Dublin Institute of Technology) and German Studies, UCD School of Languages and Literatures. It will explore the work and legacy of Eduard Hanslick, the most influential critic in the Austro-Germanic sphere of the late-nineteenth century. The conference has the following aims: to analyse Hanslick’s writings and discuss their importance for musicology, and the study of aesthetics and cultural issues; to scrutinise the structure of Hanslick’s critical thinking and aesthetic theories; and to present and develop new research on Hanslick.

The keynote speaker is Professor James Deaville (Carleton University)

Proposals  for individual papers should be no more than 300 words.  Abstracts for sessions/panels/roundtables should be no more than 800 words. Please indicate the number and title of each individual paper with its abstract. All proposals must be sent to cfp at hanslickconference.com by 9 January 2009. 

For further information please see the conference website 

www.hanslickconference.com 

Submission deadline: 9 January 2009