Select Fridays
October-June
4:00-6:00 PM
Stanford University
Humanities Center
Board Room
Map & Directions
FALL
October 16 | Nina Ergin
"Ottoman Patrons of Sixteenth-Century Mosques in Istanbul and Their Qur'anic Recitation Programs" (Reading)
(Note: This workshop will take place in the Terrace Room in Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460, not the Humanities Center.)
November 20 | Jonathan Abel & Turgut Ercetin
"Exploring the Acoustics of Hagia Sophia" (Reading)
December 4 | Michel Chion
"From Sound Procession to Sound Traveling: A Musical, Literary, and Cinematic Story" (Reading 1, Reading 2, Glossary)
WINTER
January 22 | Francisco Prado-Vilar
"Silentium Made Visible: The Poetics and Materiality of Silence in Medieval Art" (Reading, Images: Morgan Beatus, Osma Beatus, Beato Fernandol, Silentium in Heaven, Valcabado Beatus)
February 19 | Gabriella Safran
"When Is Vocal Imitation Mockery?: Comedy and Ethnography on the Nineteenth-Century Russian Stage" (Chekhov reading, Aleichem reading)
March 4 | Vincent Barletta
"Rhythm as Form" (Reading)
(Note: This workshop will take place in the Terrace Room in Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460, not the Humanities Center.)
SPRING
April 29 | Anna Friz
"Resonant Subjectivity in Acousmatic and Radio Spaces" ("Two Sleeps" audio & info, "Radiotelegraph" audio & info)
(Note: This workshop will take place in the Terrace Room in Margaret Jacks Hall, Building 460, not the Humanities Center.)
May 20 | Stanford Player Piano Project
"From Freiburg to Poughkeepsie: The Welte-Mignon Rolls in the Denis Condon Collection of Player Pianos and Rolls" (Reading)
(Note: This workshop will take place in Dinkelspiel Auditorium, not the Humanities Center. It will start at 3pm with a casual player piano concert, followed by the usual talk and question session 4-6pm.)
June 3 | Vanessa Chang
"From Playback to Play: Gestural Invention and Digital Music" (Reading)
