MUSIC, SENSORY ECOLOGIES, AND THE BODY (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR) Andrew Raffo Dewar (University of Alabama). "Mediating the Improvising Body: Art Tatum’s Postmortem Performance in a Posthuman World"
ARCHITECTURE AND KNOWLEDGE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR) David Friedman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). "Images in the Archive: Inventorying Architecture in
Early Modern Rome"
OPERA (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR) The Opera Quarterly Annual Conference
April 8-9, 2011
"Opera and the Space of Performance"
This year's Opera Quarterly Conference, hosted by Tufts University, will be devoted to space and its medial and cultural configurations: from the physical space of stage and theatre, to the virtual soundscapes of video-recordings and live HD broadcasts; from the aural modeling of acoustic engineering, to the socio-cultural coding of set design and video editing. Speakers and participants will include engineers as well as opera, theatre, and film scholars.
Conference organizers: Alessandra Campana (Tufts) and Christopher Morris (University College Cork)
CELTIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR) Rory McTurk (Emeritus Professor, University of Leeds; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque).
"Ferguson’s Fight with the Worm: an Ulsterman’s Viking Death-Song"
OPERA (HUMANITIES CENTER SEMINAR) The Opera Quarterly Annual Conference
April 8-9, 2011
"Opera and the Space of Performance"
This year's Opera Quarterly Conference, hosted by Tufts University, will be devoted to space and its medial and cultural configurations: from the physical space of stage and theatre, to the virtual soundscapes of video-recordings and live HD broadcasts; from the aural modeling of acoustic engineering, to the socio-cultural coding of set design and video editing. Speakers and participants will include engineers as well as opera, theatre, and film scholars.
Conference organizers: Alessandra Campana (Tufts) and Christopher Morris (University College Cork)
