Day 3 | Friday, September 16, 2022
CONFERENCE DAY 1
Senate Chamber, 3rd Floor, Old Arts Building, North Campus
Session 1: Intercultural Improvisation
8:30am-8:50am Jeffrey Roberts, Michael Frishkopf, U Alberta
Introductory Remarks
8:50am-9:40am Hankus Netsky, New England Conservatory of Music
Keynote Speech: The Challenge of World Music for the Creative Musician
9:40am-10:30am Ned Rothenberg, PAN Project, Basel Rajoub, Aga Khan Musician, Jeffrey Roberts, University of Alberta
Responses
10:30am-11:00am Nutrition Break
11:00am-12:30pm Performer Roundtable Discussion:
What is intercultural/transcultural music?
12:30-2:00 Break (catered lunch for conference participants)
Session 2: Silk Road
2:00pm-2:30pm Mojtaba Mahdavi, U Alberta
GloCalizing MENA: Can Post-Islamist Muslims Speak?
2:30pm-3:00pm Kanykei Mukhtarova, Independent Scholar
Music without borders: Central Asian Ethnojazz laboratory –
blending traditions and creating intercultural connections
3:00pm-3:30pm Manijeh Mannani, Athabasca University
Mawlānā and Turkey: The Past and the Present
3:30pm-4:00pm Nutrition Break
Session 3: Indian Ocean
4:00pm-4:30pm Deepak Paramashivan, U Alberta
Music of India and Arabia - Interactions and Influences: A Study based on paṇdarīka viṭṭhala’s Rāgamālā, Rāgamañjarī and Sadrāgacandrodayaḥ from the 16th Century
4:30pm-5:00pm Michael Frishkopf, U Alberta
Performing Qasidat al-Burda: How music moved Islam throughout the Indian Ocean
5:00pm-5:30pm Julia Byl, U Alberta
Chants of Rock and Water: Cross-Religious Devotion in Maritime Southeast Asia
CONCERT: …rivers flow to boundless seas…
Convocation Hall, Old Arts Building, North Campus
Tickets: https://submissionsonline.artsrn.ualberta.ca/Registration/Create/58?eventItemDef=622
7:30pm Jeffrey Roberts & Michael Frishkopf, U Alberta
Concert Introduction
8:00pm Aga Khan Master Musicians & Pan Project Ensemble
Concert: ...water flows to endless seas...
Day 4 | Saturday, September 17, 2022
CONFERENCE DAY 2
Senate Chamber, 3rd Floor, Old Arts Building, North Campus
Session 2: East Asia Outward
8:30am-9:00am Jeffrey Roberts, U Alberta
(Re)discovering East Asian Historical-Intercultural Connections Through Creation: Improvising on Chinese guqin using Korean gayageum and geomungo techniques
9:00am-9:30am Ned Rothenberg, The New School
The Challenge of World Music for the Creative Musician
9:30am-10:00am Gamin Kang, UCLA
Korean Music and Intercultural Collaboration
10:00am-10:30am Nutrition Break
Session 2:Trans-Sahara
10:30am-11:00am Joseph Hill, U Alberta
The Pious Sufi Gangster Rapper: Experimenting with Cosmopolitan Muslim Masculinity in Senegal
11:00am-11:30am Samira ElAtia, Campus Saint-Jean, U Alberta
Interactions between Music and Language Variations in the Moroccan Landscape
11:30am-12:00pm Eric Awuah, U Alberta & Emmanuel Cudjoe, St. Olaf College
Migrating performance cultures from the north to south: Exploring the Ghana Dance Ensemble’s ‘Northern’ re-creations
10:30am-11:00am Nutrition Break
12:30pm-1:30pm Break (catered lunch for conference participants)
1:30pm-2:00pm Shuttle for conference participants from Lot U, North Campus to Botanic
Garden, Devon, AB
BOTANIC GARDEN
University of Alberta Botanic Gardens, Devon, AB
Entrance to Botanic Garden events are free, with purchase of an admission into the Botanic Garden. https://botanicgarden.ualberta.ca/
2:00pm-4:00pm Intercultural/Transcultural Music Performances by workshop participants, locations throughout the Botanic Garden
4:30pm-5:00pm Theodore Levin, Dartmouth College
Keynote Speech: The Pleasures and Perils of Intercultural Music-Making, Then and Now
Aga Khan Garden, Diwan Pavilion
5:00pm-6:00pm Reception for musicians, conference attendees and invited guests at Aga Khan Garden, Diwan Pavilion
CONCERT: …mountains fall to endless plains…
Aga Khan Garden, Amphitheater
6:30pm-7:00pm Theodore Levin
Introductory Remarks: The Pleasures and Perils of Intercultural Music-Making, Then and Now
7:00pm-8:00pm Pan Project Ensemble & Aga Khan Master Musicians
Concert: ...mountains fall to endless plains...
8:30pm Shuttle Back to hotel & North Campus for Musicians and Conference
Participants