We are excited to invite theorists, musicologists, ethnomusicologists and all interested to the upcoming conference organized by the Music Studies and the Anthropocene Research Network, "Provocations in Conversation". It will take place via Zoom the weekend of May 4-5, and you can find the program and registration link here: (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m1YatVGl2vSCC32uaW0TEbQl9sBIj-aoDky69qoCCXY/edit)
Our vision for this conference was to explore what would happen if we asked for "provocations, not papers" for music studies, but with an eye to encouraging conversation across disciplines and areas of specialization. Instead of delivering traditional research papers, presenters will thus draw on insights from their research to respond--with the audience--to provocations staged by scholars, artists, and students from around the world. These include guided listening to extreme music, an experiment in audiovisual storytelling, the production of a collectively authored summative manifesto, and a mentoring conversation about some of the challenging issues of our time.
We hope you will find this an inspiring, creative, bracing--and not too taxing!--way to end the semester.