Penn Music Colloquium Series | Department of Music

The Department of Music's main Colloquium Series showcases new research by leading scholars in music and sound studies and composers both in the United States and internationally. All Music Colloquia takes place in Room 101 of the Lerner Center on Tuesdays at 5:15 PM.

SPRING 2023

January 24

Richard Wicksteed, Cinematographer and Director

February 21

Yun Emily Wang, Assistant Professor of Music, Duke University

February 28

Marcos Balter, Professor of Musical Composition, Columbia University

March 14

Huda J. Fakhreddine, Associate Professor of Arabic Language, University of Pennsylvania

April 4

Ioanida Costache, Ethnomusicologist and Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania

FALL 2022

September 13

Cesar Favila, Assistant Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angelos

November 1

Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of Latin American, Caribbean & U.S. Latino Studies, SUNY Albany

December 6

Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpeter and Composer

Upcoming Events

Feb
21
2023

Yun Emily Wang

Listening Incommensurably: Sounding “out” and Queer Taiwanese Toronto’s Multiple Sexual Modernities

Feb 21, 2023 at 5:15pm - 7:30pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Yun Emily Wang is Assistant Professor of Music at Duke University, where she also holds a secondary appointment in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. In this talk, she will present her paper that draws on fieldwork from 2013 to 2018 (the pivotal years during which Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalized same-sex marriage) and traces how a group of queer Taiwanese immigrants listen to and for multiple incommensurable sexual modernities in Toronto.

Mar
14
2023

Huda Fakhreddine

Umm Kulthum and the Arabic Qasidah: Selection, Curation, and Performance

Mar 14, 2023 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Huda Fakhreddine is associate professor of Arabic literature in the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. In this lecture, part of the Penn Music Colloquium Series, Dr. Fakhreddine will discuss the celebrated Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum, the celebrated Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is one of the most successful re-animators of the Arabic qas̩īda in the twentieth century.

Apr
04
2023

Dr. Ioanida Costache

Hearing Romani-ness: Affect, Subjectivity, and Musical Histories

Apr 4, 2023 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Dr. Ioanida Costache is an ethnomusicologist and sound studies scholar specializing in Romani artist practices. Her work explores the legacies of Romani historical trauma, and the feminist and de-colonial critiques of the present, inscribed in Romani music, sound, and art.

Past Events

Jan
24
2023

Richard Wicksteed

Making the documentary "SanDance!" in the context of San life in southern Africa today

Jan 24, 2023 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

SanDance! celebrates the ancient dance and musical culture of San/Bushman peoples in southern Africa, focusing on the trance healing dance at the core of San cultural expression. The award-winning film features San dance groups rehearsing in remote areas in the Kalahari in preparation for performance at the annual Kuru Dance Festival in Botswana, and follows them to performance at the festival. Richard will discuss the making of the film itself, and San dance culture, in the context of the historical oppression and ongoing marginalization of San culture across southern Africa.

Dec
06
2022

Wadada Leo Smith

Dec 6, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Wadada Leo Smith joins us as part of this year's Penn Music Colloquium Series. Smith will play excerpts and exhibit sections from scores that illustrate what the “sonic-field” looks and sounds like. This information will demonstrate the why and what conditioned him to focus on composing string quartets for over fifty years.

Nov
01
2022

Alejandra Bronfman

Vibroacústica: Music and Remediated Violence in Puerto Rico

Nov 1, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Sep
13
2022

Cesar Favila

Nuns, Chant, and the Voice of God in New Spain

Sep 13, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Mar
29
2022

Thomas Meadowcroft

Composing Under the Sign of Commodity

Mar 29, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Mar
22
2022

Annea Lockwood

Working with Rivers

Mar 22, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Feb
22
2022

Anna Schultz

Of Magic Lanterns and Kirttan Bands

Feb 22, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Feb
08
2022

Amanda Weidman

Brought to Life by the Voice: Thinking with Playback

Feb 8, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Feb
01
2022

Eric Drott

A New Political Economy of Music?

Feb 1, 2022 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Nov
02
2021

Roshanak Kheshti

Pocodisco: The Sonic Performativity of Grief, Grievance and Joy in Diaspora

Nov 2, 2021 at 5:15pm - 7:30pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Oct
05
2021

Remi Chiu

Illness, Metaphor, and Bells: Campanology Under COVID-19

Oct 5, 2021 at 5:15pm - 7:30pm | Lerner 101, Music Department 201 S. 34th St.

Apr
13
2021

The Emergence of Sō-on in Industrial Japan: Kōjō Ongaku and An/aesthetic Strategies for Factory Management

Keisuke Yamada, University of Pittsburgh; Andrew Niess, University of Pennsylvania

Apr 13, 2021 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Apr
06
2021

Gabriela Lena Frank

Apr 6, 2021 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Mar
16
2021

Carol Muller

"Ethnomusicological Becoming: Deep Listening and the Erotics of Fieldwork"

Mar 16, 2021 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Jan
26
2021

Daphne Brooks

“‘See My Face On the Other Side’: Cecile McLorin Salvant and the Art of Catching Up with Geeshie & Elvie”

Jan 26, 2021 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Nov
17
2020

Christina Baade

"Vera Lynn in Nashville (1977): White Working Class Femininity and Transatlantic Affinities"

Nov 17, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Oct
20
2020

Pamela Z

"Blurred Boundaries"

Oct 20, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Sep
29
2020

Stefan Helmreich

"Listening to Waves: Tuning to Cosmic, Oceanic, and Sociogenic Noise, Sound, and Music"

Sep 29, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Sep
15
2020

Roundtable and Book Discussion on "Decolonizing the University"

With Glenda Goodman and Carol Muller

Sep 15, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm

Apr
07
2020

2019-2020 Penn Colloquium Series: Christina Baade

CANCELLED

Apr 7, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Mar
31
2020

2019-2020 Penn Colloquium Series: Gabriela Lena Frank

CANCELLED

Mar 31, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Mar
17
2020

2019-2020 Penn Colloquium Series: Stefan Helmreich

CANCELLED

Stefan Helmreich

Mar 17, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Mar
03
2020

2019-2020 Penn Colloquium Series: Richard Jankowsky

Richard Jankowsky

Mar 3, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Feb
11
2020

2019-2020 Penn Colloquium Series: Kate Soper

Kate Soper

Feb 11, 2020 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Nov
12
2019

Penn Colloquium Series: Ashley Fure

Ashley Fure

Nov 12, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Oct
22
2019

Penn Colloquium Series: David Grubbs

David Grubbs

Oct 22, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Sep
24
2019

Penn Colloquium Series: K.E. Goldschmitt

K.E. Goldschmitt

Sep 24, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Sep
17
2019

Penn Colloquium Series: Eric Wubbels

Eric Wubbels

Sep 17, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Apr
09
2019

Penn Colloquium Series: Elizabeth Upton

Dr. Elizabeth Upton, Associate Professor of Musicology, University of California, Los Angeles

Apr 9, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Mar
26
2019

Penn Colloquium Series: Alex Chávez

Alex Chávez, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame

Mar 26, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Feb
05
2019

Penn Music Colloquium: Nancy Yunhwa Rao

Nancy Yunhwa Rao, Rutgers University

Feb 5, 2019 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Nov
08
2016

Penn Music Colloquium: Arne de Boever

Arne de Boever, CalArts

Nov 8, 2016 at 5:15pm - 7:30pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Oct
25
2016

Penn Music Colloquium: Emma Dillon, King's College London

Emma Dillon

Oct 25, 2016 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Oct
18
2016

Penn Music Colloquium: Vanessa Williams and Maria Murphy

Vanessa Williams / Maria Murphy

Oct 18, 2016 at 5:15pm - 7:30pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Sep
27
2016

Siel Agugliaro and Ruthie Meadows, University of Pennsylvania

Siel Agugliaro; Ruthie Meadows

Sep 27, 2016 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Sep
20
2016

Reiko Fueting, Manhattan School of Music

Sep 20, 2016 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Sep
13
2016

Martha Feldman, University of Chicago

Martha Feldman

Sep 13, 2016 at 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Apr
03
2014

Penn Music Colloquium: John Harbison

John Harbison, composer

Apr 3, 2014 at 5:30pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Mar
25
2014

Shayna Silverstein

Feb 6, 2014 - Feb 20, 2014 at 5:15pm - 5:15pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Jan
30
2014

Penn Music Colloquium: Yael Sela-Teichler, University of Pennsylvania

Yael Sela-Teichler

Jan 30, 2014 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Jan
28
2014

Penn Colloquium Series: Orlando Fiol

Orlando Fiol

Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department

Jan
16
2014

Penn Colloquium Series: Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University

Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University

Jan 16, 2014 at 5:15pm - 7:00pm | Lerner 102 Music Department