Call for Papers

The Bard College Music Program, in partnership with the Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and Bard in China Programs and CHIME (The European Foundation for Chinese Music Research), presents

The 13th International CHIME Conference on

Music and Ritual in China and East Asia

October 16-19, 2008
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA

This conference aims to explore the complex and diverse intersections between music and ritual in Chinese and other East Asian contexts. It seeks to bring together international scholars working on East Asian musics from various disciplinary perspectives to discuss and explore the big picture of the relationship of music and ritual in this region, historically as well as in the present age.

This four-day meeting will be the 13th edition of the annual conference of CHIME (the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research). Participation is open to anyone interested in East Asian music and ritual. CHIME members can participate for a reduced registration fee. The meeting will be hosted by the Music Program of Bard College, with support from the Asian Studies, Religious Studies, Anthropology and Bard in China Programs and CHIME.

Abstracts of around 300 words are now invited for twenty-minute presentations on the conference theme. Proposers may also submit panel sessions of a maximum of 120 minutes (including discussion)in this case, an abstract of around 300 words should detail the focus of the panel as a whole, with abstracts of 100-200 words for each contribution. The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 15, 2008.

Papers and (especially) panels addressing the theme of the conference (while referring to sufficiently specific research) are explicitly encouraged. The conference will deal with the following major sub-themes (in arbitrary order):

  1. Ritual operas and theater;
  2. Musical rites and cosmology;
  3. Music in rituals for the dead;
  4. The commodification and secularization of ritual music and dance;
  5. The transformative power of music;
  6. Music, gender, and ritual;
  7. Music, ritual and healing;
  8. Performance rites and practices.

 

Abstracts should be sent to:

Prof. Mercedes DuJunco
Bard College Music Program
PO Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000
U.S.A.

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