Call for papers : 2nd Intern/nal Conference of the American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology

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Δημήτρης Κουμπαρούλης, Administrator
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PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ANY COLLEAGUE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN PRESENTING ORIGINAL SCHOLARLY WORK ON BYZANTINE HYMNOGRAPHY, PHILOLOGY, MUSIC, LITERATURE AND ART AT THE UPCOMING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN ATHENS THIS JUNE.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOLOGY

Athens, Greece, June 10-14, 2009

The American Society of Byzantine Music and Hymnology (www.asbmh.pitt.edu) is an international organisation devoted to the scholarly study of music and ecclesiastic hymnographic literature of the Byzantine empire and the post-Byzantine period.

In collaboration with the Byzantine Studies Initiative of the University of Pittsburgh and with the organisational collaboration and support of the European Arts Center (EUARCE), we announce the Second International Conference of the Society entitled BYZANTINE MUSICAL CULTURE to be held in Athens, Greece between the 10-14th of June, 2009.

For full details and to participate:
http://www.asbmh.pitt.edu/page13/page13.html

The Conference is dedicated, in memoriam, to Alexandros Moraitidis, 80 years since his passing.

Athens is the main attraction in the prefecture of Attica and serving as Greece's historical center offers a unique setting for the scholar and musicologist including numerous sites of archaeological interest, museums, libraries and ecclesiastic locations.

On-line abstract submission deadline is May 15th, 2009.

On-line registration deadline is June 1st, 2009 for reduced rate and June 1st, 2009 for full rate.

Although registration at full rate is available on site, we regret that we cannot
accept abstracts after the 15th of May, 2009.

The conference will consist of a series of core thematic sessions along with musical interludes and guided tours of sites and venues relevant to the overall theme.

The plenary sessions will feature distinguished invited guests and the thematic sessions will then follow.

The conference will focus on the following thematic cores:

CORE 1. BYZANTINE MUSIC: ANOTHER ECUMENICAL MUSICAL LANGUAGE
(Moderated and Chaired by Achilleas Chaldaiakis, Assistant Professor at the University of Athens)

a. Longitudinal and international influences of Byzantine music

b. Byzantine music and Western musical culture

c. Adaptation of Byzantine music for multiple languages

d. Byzantine music and modern society: potential for new uses

e. Byzantine music: Ecclesiastic and secular


CORE 2. BYZANTINE MUSICAL AND HYMNOGRAPHIC CULTURE
(Moderated and Chaired by ASBMH advisory board members)

1. Ecclesiastic musical composition and poetry of Greek Orthodoxy worldwide

2. Ecclesiastic musical composition and poetry of the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Russia

3. Ecclesiastic music as a topic of Christian archaeology

4. Ecclesiastic musical codices and musical manuscripts

5. Byzantine hymnography and musical composition

6. Byzantine musicology

7. Philosophy and theology of Byzantine music

8. Sociology, social criticism and Byzantine music and hymnography

9. Byzantine music and the union of the arts at the service of religious worship

10. Byzantine psaltic art

11. Relationship among ancient Hellenic music, Byzantine music and folk song

12. The ethnofolkloric character of Byzantine musical and poetic expression

PROGRAM

Wednesday, 10 June, 8 pm

Welcome of participants

Opening comments and remarks

Greetings by distinguished guests

Dedication to Alexandros Moraitidis

Celebration of Emmanual Hatzimarkos

Unveiling and presentation of the optico-acoustic album "Byzantine Choirs of the Hellenic Diaspora"

Opening of exhibit "Historical Byzantine Musical Memoirs"

Reception

Thursday, 11 June

Day 1 of Conference:

BYZANTINE MUSIC: ANOTHER ECUMENICAL MUSICAL LANGUAGE
Achilleas Chaldaiakis, Assistant Professor at the University of Athens is the coordinator and the chairman of the Day 1 session.

Friday, 12 June and Saturday 13 June

Days 2 and 3 of Conference

Program of Soiree and evening events during Conference:


1. Musical soiree featuring the Choir of Hellenic Traditional and Byzantine Music of the Paeanea Municipality, directed by Konstantinos Markos, at the Vorre Museum, Paeanea, Attica.

2. Musical soiree featuring the Byzantine Choir of Athens, directed by George Hatzichronoglou, at the "Synidioktisia" Center of the Paeanea Municipality, Attica

3. Participant excursions:

a. The Koutouki Cave in Mt. Ymittos
b. The Life-Giving Font Church- an iconographic shrine of Fotios Kontoglou
c. The Birth of Christ historical-ecclesiastic museum
d. Lyceum of Hellenides Folklore Museum

Sunday, June 14

1. Festive Service of St. Elissaios, the Glorious and Holy Prophet, with Supplicatory Canon
(at the old Byzantine shrine of St. Athanasius in Paeanea. The service will be celebrated by the Choir of Hellenic Traditional and Byzantine Music of the Paeanea Municipality, directed by Konstantinos Markos)


2. Closing of the Conference, reception and souvenirs of gratitude
(At the grounds of the Alexander Piliounis Folklore Museum)
 
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