Conference Program

The conference formally starts on Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 1:30 PM and ends on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 12:15 PM.

Thursday, October 16

1:30–5:30 p.m.
1:30–5:30	Registration
2:30	Prayer & Chanting by Tibetan Monks of the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Monastery in Woodstock, NY
3:30	Welcome Remarks Robert L. Martin (Vice President of Academic Affairs, Bard College) Mark Halsey (Deputy Dean of the College) James Bagwell (Chair, Music Program, Bard College) Frank Kouwenhoven (Director, CHIME Foundation)
4:00	Keynote Address: “Confluences” Ter Ellingson (University of Washington)
5:00	Balinese Gamelan Performance Gamelan Giri Mekar (Artistic Director: Tjok Gde Arsa Artha)
5:30–7:00	Dinner Reception at the Faculty Dining Room, Kline Commons (for Ticket-holders & Guests) Hosted by the Office of the Dean and the Music Program

Friday, October 17

9:00–10:00 a.m.
Session 1	Music, Rites, and Cosmology Chair: D. Neil Schmid
9:00	Connecting to the Cosmos: Associative Magic in Musical Instrumentation, Stage Space, and Performance at Some Pre-Bronze Age Sites in China Dallas McCurley (Queens College, CUNY)
9:30	Emotional Geographies: Music and Movement in the Writings of Xi Kang (223-262) Curie Virag (University of Toronto)
10:00–10:15	Coffee/Tea Break
10:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Session 2	Tradition and Innovation in Ritual Music and Practice Chair: Ruard Absaroka
10:15	From Religious to Secular: An Enduring Sub-structure in Chinese Opera Marnix Wells (London, UK)
10:45	The Shawm Bands of Southwest Shandong Jan Chmelarčík (Charles University, Prague)
11:15	Variety and Pattern in Temple Festivals of Gansu and Qinghai Antoinet Schimmelpeninck (CHIME Foundation)
11:45	Sounds of the Human World: The New Authentic Sounds of Global Buddhist Liturgy? Hwee-San Tan (SOAS & University of Surrey)
12:30–1:30	Lunch
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Session 3	(En)gendering Ritual Chair: Beth Szczepanski
1:30	“Women’s Voice” in the Banquet Music of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 C.E.) Yi-fang Ko (University of Maryland)
2:00	Worshipping the Mountain Goddess: Lamaist Ritual Music and the Matriarchal Tradition of the Mosuo Joy Lu Chia-yu (Wesleyan University)
2:30	Playing Games & Growing Up: Song, Space and Age-set Rituals in the Amis Kiloma’an Festival Shzr Ee Tan (School of Oriental and African Studies, UK)
3:00–3:15	Coffee/Tea Break
3:15–4:45 p.m.
Session 4	Ritual Dramas and Performativity Chair: Shzr Ee Tan
3:15	A Late Tang Theatrical Script on the Life of Śākyamuni D. Neil Schmid (North Carolina State University)
3:45	Visualizing Expiation: The Xinggan Xi Ritual Opera of Yongkang, Zhejiang Eugene Cooper (University of Southern California)
4:15	Rewriting History through Model Operas: Constructing Ritual, Gender, and Avant-garde Style Yawen Ludden (University of Kentucky)
5:30–7:30	Conference Dinner at Cappuccino (on Rte. 9G, opposite the Bard College Main Entrance)
8:00–9:30	Concert of Traditional Music from Vietnam (Multipurpose Room, Campus Center)

Saturday, October 18

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Session 5	Historical Migration Between the Worlds of Ritual and Popular Performance Chair: Dallas McCurley
9:00	Tang Music Theory of Ritual Calendrical Transposition Applied Rembrandt Wolpert (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
9:30	Manchu and Mongolian Music and Dance at Ritual Occasions of the Qing Court Yu Siu-wah (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
10:00	Conceptualizing Musical Space for Ritual “Afterlifemusic” in Early Japanese Buddhist Liturgy Elizabeth Markham (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)
10:30–10:45	Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Session 6	Music, Ritual, and Politics Chair: Antoinet Schimmelpeninck
10:45	Ritual music and national identity: A study of the promotion of Japanese ritual songs in colonial Taiwan and its influence after World War Liou Lin-yu (National Institute for the Humanities, Japan)
11:15	Possession Rituals and the Politics of Forgetting in Vietnam Phong Nguyen (College Education Research Academy & Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City), Truong Ngoc Thang (Music Academy in Hue), Van Thi Minh Huong (Conservatory of Music in Ho Chi Minh City)
11:45	Apocalypse of the Study of Ritual Music in China Qiao Jianzhong (Music Research Institute, National Academy of Arts, Beijing)
12:00–1:30	Lunch
1:30–3:00 p.m.
Session 7	Ritual Transcendence and Transformation Chair: Hwee-San Tan
1:30	The Model of Two-Ambit Structure in Chinese Sacred and Ritual Music Xue Yibing (Music Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing)
2:00	Film as Ritual, Film Music as Ritualistic Music: A Case Study of Jiang Jun Ling in Wong Fei Hung Films Po-wei Weng (Wesleyan University)
2:30	The Power of Transformation: Chen Yi’s Symphony No. 2 Nancy Yun-hwa Rao (Rutgers University)
3:00–3:15	Coffee/Tea Break
3:15–4:30 p.m.
Session 8	Plenary Talk: Embodying Rituals Cultural and Somatic Transformations Tomie Hahn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
5:30–6:30	Concert of Music by Contemporary Chinese Composers at Olin Auditorium
7:00–	Informal dinner with Chinese food and music-making at Blum Hall

Sunday, October 19

9:00–10:30 a.m.
Session 9	Music in Death Rituals Chair: Jan Chmelarčík
9:00	Music of the Buddhist Funerary Rite: the Sôtô Zen Buddhist Sect in Japan Rinko Fujita (University of Vienna)
9:30	In Search of a Cultural Fulcrum: Talking from the Case of the Xianghua Ritual Music of the Kejia of Meizhou Guan Jie (Harbin Normal University, CHINA)
10:00	Bodies in Motion, Spirits in Transition: Ritual Labor, Migrancy, and Chaozhou Musicians in Thailand and Malaysia Mercedes DuJunco (Bard College)
10:30–10:45	Coffee/Tea Break
10:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Session 10	Straddling the Line Between the Religious and the Secular Chair: Yawen Ludden
10:45	Secular Music in Monastic Buddhist Ritual Beth Szczepanski (Ohio State University)
11:15	Miracles for Pleasure: Shadow Puppetry and Ritual in Gansu and Shaanbei Frank Kouwenhoven (CHIME Foundation)
11:45	Images of Ritual Life and Cultural Identity in the Music and Video Productions of Akhu Choedrag, a Monk of Kumbum Monastery Jonathan Kramer (North Carolina State University)
12:15	Closing