Perpetual encounter: globalization, cosmopolitanism, and acculturation in music

Perpetual encounter: globalization, cosmopolitanism, and acculturation in music is the conference hosted as an online event by Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy on April 7, 2022 and coordinated by musicologist Bianca Țiplea Temeș.

The one day symposium is organized as part of the "Cluj Modern" Festival and allows the participants to take part in a threefold discussion, from multiple geographic perspectives, affording an intercontinental outlook on issues that concern our past, present, and future cultural lives.

We welcome participants from around the world to attend the symposium via ZOOM (free of charge), by filling in the following REGISTRATION FORM, by April 3rd.

Program
10 a.m.–2.30 p.m.;  3.30 p.m.–7 p.m.   EEST/Bucharest time


 * Nicholas Cook (University of Cambridge) – keynote speaker: Taking your roots with you: On musical cosmopolitanism
 * Daniel Chua (University of Hong Kong) – keynote speaker: Global Musicology Has No Key Note
 * Egberto Bermúdez Cujar (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá): Jewish emigrés and music in Colombia, 1925-50. A preliminary report
 * Alexander Rehding (Harvard University): Ellis’s Instruments between Empiricism and Empire
 * Ramón Sobrino Sánchez; María Encina Cortizo Rodríguez (Universidad de Oviedo): The Musical «Alhambrismo»: a transformative Encounter between Spanish Western and Arab Traditions
 * Björn Heile (University of Glasgow): Decentring National History: The Role of Migration and Mobility in a Global History of Musical Modernism
 * Adam Kielman (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Producing Worlds: Popular Music and New Mobilities in Southern China
 * David R.M. Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats–CSIC, Barcelona): The Early Music Movement and Peace Activism: Historical Performance across Cultures in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
 * Nicolae Gheorghiță (National University of Music Bucharest): Acculturation in musical practices in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in the first half of the 19th century
 * Pavel Pușcaș (National Music Academy ”Gh. Dima”, Cluj-Napoca): Where is the originality in an age of globalization?
 * Ioan Haplea; Ioan Ștefan Haplea (National Music Academy ”Gh. Dima” Cluj-Napoca; U.M.F. ”Iuliu Hațieganu” Cluj-Napoca): When musical folklore becomes a civil religion. The process of acculturation from the positioning of Bartók to the theories of today
 * Bianca Țiplea Temeș (National Music Academy ”Gh. Dima” Cluj-Napoca): ”Of Foreign Lands and Peoples”: exploring Ligeti’s Kylwyria


 * Oleg Garaz (National Music Academy ”Gh. Dima” Cluj-Napoca): The Cargo Cult concept and the meaning of György Ligeti’s oeuvre