Colloquium Series
The Music Department Colloquium Series is free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Invited speakers have represented a broad range of backgrounds and interests; recently, we have enjoyed visits by Ann Cooper Albright, Milton Babbitt, Scott Burnham, Mark Butler, Suzanne Cusick, Walter Frisch, Kyle Gann, John Gibson, Katherine Hagedorn, Berthold Hoeckner, Melissa Hui, Elisabeth Le Guin, Susan McClary, Louise Meintjes, Roger Parker, Lara Pellegrinelli, Douglas Irving Repetto, Deidre Sklar, Robynn Stilwell, Troika Ranch (a digital dance theater company), Dan Trueman, Gayle Wald, Kendall Walton, James Webster, and Deborah Wong, among many others. Please see below for colloquium guests currently schedule.
Dates and guests are subject to change, so please check back to this page for any subsequent updates to the colloquium schedule.
Unless otherwise noted, Music colloquia take place on Fridays from 3:30-5pm in Old Cabell Hall room 107.
Spring 2025 Colloquia
- February 4: Martin Stokes, 3:30 in 231 Bryan Hall
- April 25: Dr. Gayle Murchison Colloquium "A WondaLand Nightmare: Antebellum's Score and AfroPessimissm"
Fall 2024 Colloquia
- September 6: A Panel on Disability Pedagogy in Higher Education, convened by Fred Maus and Molly Joyce, and featuring Martine Svyantek (SDAC) and Elizabeth Ellcessor (Media Studies, Director of the Disability Studies Initiative)
- September 13: a virtual colloquium with the guitar duo LINÜ, Gulli Björnsson and JIJI. (Link to livestream)
- September 19-20 (Thursday-Friday, at various times and places): Technologies of Silence, a multidisciplinary conference, hosted by UVA’s Sound Justice Lab (co-directed by Anne Coughlin, Nomi Dave, and Bonnie Gordon) and co-sponsored by the Department of Music, which to explore the law’s technologies and tactics that try to silence stories, individuals, and groups. Program details are available here: https://soundjusticelab.org/tos
- October 4: Jade Conlee (Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellow in Music), “Sonic Cartographies in Hawai‘i Exotica”
- October 18: Technosonics Immersion, featuring the electronic musician and artist Rohan Chander
- November 1: Giorgio Biancorosso (University of Hong Kong), “Pasolini, World Music, and the Demise of the Film Composer”
- December 6: Coastal Futures Festival, featuring David Rothenberg (New Jersey Institute of Technology)