Music as Petroculture and the Sound of Just Transition
Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminars
Music as Petroculture and the Sound of Just Transition
This event is part of the Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series.
Speakers: Sherry Lee and Emily MacCallum (University of Toronto)
Tuesday 25th April 2023, 11.00am -1.00pm
Biographies:
Sherry Lee is an Associate Professor of Musicology, a Fellow of Trinity College, and an Associate of Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where she also serves as Associate Dean, Research for the Faculty of Music. Her research and teaching interests are focused in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and include music and cultures of modernism, opera, music and technology, sound studies, and musical discourses of nature and landscape. Informed by literary and critical theory, gender studies, philosophy and aesthetics, she has specialised in the music of Wagner, Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Schreker, Zemlinsky, and Britten, and especially in the musical thought of Theodor W. Adorno. She has received multiple grants and awards from SSHRC, the Jackman Humanities Institute, the American Musicological Scoiety, Oxford University Press, and others, and her publications appear in 19th-Century Music, the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal, Music & Letters, the University of Toronto Quarterly, the Germanic Review, and several edited volumes. Cambridge University Press will produce her monograph Adorno at the Opera in 2016.
Emily MacCallum is a second-year PhD student in musicology. Her doctoral research explores the understanding of nineteenth-century orchestral music as indicative of historical soundscapes. More broadly, Emily’s research interests include programmatic music, sound studies, historical soundscapes, and sonic conceptions of landscape. In 2020, Emily completed an MA in Musicology from the University of Toronto and previously was awarded a Bachelor of Music (2017) from the University of Victoria. Outside of academic life, Emily is involved in her local outdoors club and plays violin in the Summerhill community symphony orchestra.
All are welcome.
As always, if anyone would like to offer a lunchtime talk, film, reading, musical performance, conference proposal, or anything else relevant to the environmental humanities, please email envhums@torch.ox.ac.uk or fiona.stafford@some.ox.ac.uk. We would also welcome expressions of interest from potential DPhil students planning to work on Environmental Humanities topics.
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