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We congratulate her on the successful defense of her superb dissertation
on April 14.
Event Start:
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Bluegaku: Japanese Gagaku meets American Bluegrass
4 December, 2008, 8 pm
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
The Columbia Gagaku Ensemble performs the classical repertoire of Japanese Imperial Court Music (gagaku, or "elegant music") on ancient and rare instruments. Columbia’s Bluegrass Band, Lion in the Grass, plays the music of Bill Monroe. Reception to follow.
Event Start:
Friday, November 21, 2008 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University
The American Academy of Indian Classical Music (AAICM) and Indian Students Association at Columbia University proudly present
North Indian Classical Vocalist Sri Sanjoy Banerjee in concert with Nitin Mitta, tabla.
Friday Nov 21, 2008, 7:00 pm.Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center, Columbia University.
Directions: Take the 1 train to 116th St. Enter Columbia Campus at 116th St & Broadway
Map:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssr/davis_directions.htmlAdmission: Students with Valid ID: Free ; Others: $15
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Event Start:
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
An Introduction and Demonstration of Satsumabiwa: A Japanese Tradition of Recitation to Lute Accompaniment
November 13, 5pm
701C Dodge Hall
This event will showcase music performer Charles Marshall and introduce
participants to the sounds of the Satsumabiwa. This event is
co-sponsored by the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the
Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University.
Event Start:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
301 Philosophy Hall
The Center for Jazz Studies invites you to join us for the inaugural lecture of the fall 2008 semester of our Louis Armstrong Visiting Professorship program
"You Can't Listen Alone":
On The Sociality of Listening in a Vernacular South African Jazz Worldfeaturing
Brett Pyper
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Introduced by Gwen Ansell
the Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor
at the Center for Jazz Studies, Fall 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 7:30 pm
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
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Event Start:
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
The presentation will address social conflict from the perspectives opened by ongoing research projects being carried out in marginalized areas of the city of Rio de Janeiro.
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Event Start:
Friday, October 17, 2008 - 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:
Roone Alredge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, Columbia University
Dimensions,
Columbia University's Center for Ethnomusicology &
Barnard College's Center for Research on Women
Present
The 5th Annual Guria Benefit
Friday October 17th, 2008
8pm | Roone Alredge Auditorium
Lerner Hall, Columbia University
An evening of classical South Asian music and dance.
Event Start:
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location:
SIPA (International Affairs Building/IAB), Room 802
The Columbia University Center for Ethnomusicology invites you to attend an event in the series "New Evidence, 1400-1800" (co-organized by Columbia's Interdepartmental Committee on Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Bard Graduate Center).
Thursday, Oct. 30, 6-8PM, IAB Room 802
Jaime Lara (Yale University): "Aztec Christians: Reluctant Collaborators or Enthusiastic Partners?"
José Pardo Tomás (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain): "Medical Knowledge and Practices in a Creole Society: Texts, Objects and Images from New Spain 1576-1626"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; the Department of Religion; the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; the Institute for Latin American Studies; the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; and by the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
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Event Start:
Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
701C Dodge Hall
“Oyinbo, I go chop your dollar”: Yahoo Boyz, dirty money, and 419 politics in Nigerian popular musicA talk by Christopher Waterman
Dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture, UCLA
Thursday, October 9
5:00 PM
701C Dodge Hall
In Africa as elsewhere, popular music has long been complexly articulated with the struggle to create, texture and defend viable life-spaces under challenging economic circumstances. This talk is a reflection on recent developments in Nigerian popular music, focusing on songs dealing with the 419/internet scammer controversy ("Yahoozee," by Olu Maintain, "No More Yahoozee [The Reply]," by Harri Best Moradiyo, and "Oyinbo, I Go Chop Your Dollar," by Nkem Owoh), and on musicians' reactions to the Central Bank of Nigeria's recent attempt to outlaw the "spraying" of cash at ceremonies.
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Event Start:
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
420 Hamilton Hall
Co-sponsored by The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and The Center for Ethnomusicology
Monday, Oct. 6, 2008
4PM-6PM
420 Hamilton Hall
In this talk Denilson Lopes discusses the theoretical basis of his current research called Transcultural Landscapes in Contemporary Cinema, establishing a dialogue with the ideas by Silviano Santiago, Néstor García Canclini and Arjun Appadurai. At this talk he also mentions the theoretical efforts of film criticism to address the issues of interculturality and multiculturalism. In exploring this issue, Denilson places Latin American critical theory in relation to authors who have addressed the topic of multiculturalism in film such as Robert Stam, Hamid Naficy, Laura Marks and Andréa Franca.
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