Events - Filter:
A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Laura Silverberg (Columbia University) and Ryan Dohoney responding.
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the Columbia Business School present four leading experts in the field of business in a discussion of the role of improvisation in emerging models of organization and leadership.
The Center for the Core Curriculum and the Music Humanities Program present:
The Annual Music Humanities Course-Wide Lecture
featuring the renowned neurologist and writer:
Dr. Oliver Sacks
(Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Columbia Artist).
Dr. Sacks will speak on: "Musicophilia: Music and the Brain."
The lecture will take place on Friday, April 25 at 11AM
in the Roone Arledge Auditorium of Columbia's Lerner Hall, and it is free and open to the public.
Learn more about Oliver Sacks here.
(Photograph by Eileen Barroso for Columbia News.)
A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Joseph Dubiel (Columbia University). Respondant TBA.
All HM Colloquiua are free and open to the public.
Contact dmc2127@columbia.edu for more information.
The Department of Music presents a colloquium by Josh Pilzer (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia University) entitled: A Survivors' Music Manifesto: On the Singing of Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'
The colloquium will take place in 701C Dodge Hall, on Tuesday April 29, at 5PM. It is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the colloquium.
Please note the 5PM start time is one hour later than many of our previous events.
Josh Pilzer is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawai'i and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology's Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere.
