2011 - 2012
Symposium - The Instrument in Musical Performance
Choreographing the Instrument, Body and Ensemble
Speaker: Neil Heyde (RAM)
‘Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence' (Marsilio Ficino, c.1485)
Speaker: Anthony Rooley
'The least expressive instrument' (Harold Bauer, 1917)
Speaker: Mine Dogantan Dack (Middlesex)
Conference - (M)other Russia: Evolution or Revolution
Russia Now
Speaker: Sir Rodrick Braithwaite (former UK Ambassador to Russia)
Conference - Musical Geographies of Central Asia
East vs West: regional styles of dombyra performance and their representation in music practice and discourse in modern Kazakhstan
Speaker: Saida Daukeyeva (IMR)
The Geography of Possibility: Mapping the Future of the Past in Central Asian Music
Speaker: Theodore Levin (Dartmouth College)
Narratives of Ancientness and Kazakh Nationhood in the Music of the 'Turan' Ensemble
Speaker: Megan M Rancier (Bowling Green State University)
The body and the landscape in Kyrgyz poetics: topography resonance and image in contemporary Kyrgyz epic
Speaker: Stephanie Bunn (St Andrews)
