IMR Reading Group
Classic Texts in Music and Culture
The IMR Research Training Reading Group is led by Prof Anahid Kassabian (University of Liverpool).
Rationale
The rationale of the reading group is
- to stimulate focused reading of classic texts on cultural and social theory
- to provide dedicated time for postgraduates to discuss in depth the broad implications and applications of these writings across a variety of research topics in musicology (meeting twice per term at the IMR)
- to create a sense of intellectual community and develop the research culture for postgraduates around the IMR
Forthcoming Sessions
| Date | Time | Location | Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 August 2014 | 3pm - 6pm | Room G21A, Senate House | Berlant - The Female Complaint [Part II] - Chap 7 / Carolyn Steedman’s Landscape for a Good Woman? |
| 12 September 2014 | 2pm - 5pm | Room 243, Senate House | Spivak - Can the Subaltern Speak? CANCELLED |
| 10 October 2014 | 2pm - 5pm | Room 102, Senate House | Jane Bennett - Vibrant Matter |
| 14 November 2014 | 2pm - 5pm | Room 102, Senate House |
Althusser - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses Critiques of Interpellation |
| 12 December 2014 | 2pm - 5pm | Room 243, Senate House | Stuart Hall on Interdisciplinarity: eg Emergence of Cultural Studies, Toad in the Garden, After Neoliberalism |
The readings are available in advance. For further details please contact the series convener Anahid Kassabian on a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk.
Previous Sessions
- Friday 29 October 2010 - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
- Tuesday 23 November 2010 - The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics by Derek Scott
- Friday 25 February 2011 - A Child is being Beaten by Sigmund Freud
- Friday 1 April 2011 - Introduction to The Affective Turn by Patricia Clough
- Friday 3 June 2011 - Introduction to Queer Voices by Freya Jarman
- Friday 16 December 2011 - A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway
- Friday 10 February 2012 - Myth Today from Mythologies by Roland Barthes
- Friday 25 May 2012 - Scattered speculations on the Question of Value by Gayatri Spivak
- Friday 8 June 2012 - Excerpts from Parables for the Virtual by Brian Massumi
- Friday 30 November 2012 - Free Labor by Tiziana Terranova
- Friday 24 May 2013 - Alien Phenomenology, or What it's Like to be a Thing, Ch. 1 'Alien Phenomenolgy' by Ian Bogost
- Friday 14 June 2013 - Introduction and Conclusion of Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity by Anahid Kassabian
Enquiries
To obtain the readings and for further details please contact Prof Anahid Kassabian at a.kassabian@liv.ac.uk.
