Dates: 11-12 June 2018

Venue: University of Turin (Italy)

Organizers: Maria Semi – Alberto Rizzuti

 

Proposal deadline: 30 July 2017

 

Conference website: https://xviiithcenturymusicalaesthetics.wordpress.com/

 

Keynote speakers: Vanessa Agnew, Suzanne Aspden, Philip Bohlman, Tomas McAuley

 

The last forty years of scholarly research on the Eighteenth century and on the Enlightenment have deeply modified, enriched and maybe also confused our understanding of that century, softening the disciplinary boundaries and bringing social, gender and economic issues to the fore.

What impact, if any, have these studies had (or could these studies have) on the history and study of XVIII^th Century Musical Aesthetics? Is it still possible to pursue the study of XVIII^th Century Musical Aesthetics as if it were a separate, independent, autonomous realm?

 

This International conference wishes to tackle these issues, in order to build a more complex and varied picture of XVIII^th Century Musical Aesthetics and to further a fruitful dialogue between musicologists and eighteenth century scholars coming from other disciplinary perspectives.

 

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Please email abstracts of no more than 500 words to msemi -at- unito.it by the 30^th of July 2017. Acceptance of proposals will be confirmed by the 30^th of September.

 

Please read the complete call on the conference’s website.