(Online-)Tagung: Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum Programme, (20.06.2025, Queen Mary University of London), Anmeldung offen
(Online-)Tagung: Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum Programme, (20.06.2025, Queen Mary University of London), Anmeldung offen
Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum Programme, (20.06.2025, Queen Mary University of London)
The programme for the next MECAMF-Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum is published and registration is open.
Date: Friday, 20 June 2025
Location: Colette Bowe and Martin Harris Rooms, Queen’s Building, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS.
Attendance is free but please register for planning purposes: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mecamf-middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum-qmul-tickets-1336411255039?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Schedule
09:30 – 10:00 | Registration & Welcome Breakfast
Join us for coffee, tea, and pastries to start the day and meet fellow participants.
10:00 – 10:10 | Opening Remarks
Welcome by the organisers, introducing the day’s themes and programme.
Panel I – 10:10 to 11:10
Sonic Histories and Transmissions (Q&A included)
• Stephen Wilford (University of Cambridge)
“Ici on silence les Algériens: Sounding a Parisian Massacre”
• Farid Ghrich (King’s College London)
“Music on the Air from/to Baghdad in the 1930s”
11:10 – 11:30 | Coffee Break
Panel II – 11:30 to 12:30
Voicing the Margins (Q&A included)
• Polly Withers (TBC)
• Felícia Campos (University of Edinburgh)
“Palestinian Futurities through rap: singing return and building legacy as temporal subversion”
12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch (provided)
13:30 – 15:30
Film Screening & Discussion
“Trances” by Ahmed El Maamouni
Followed by a discussion moderated by Cristina Moreno-Almeida
15:30 – 15:45 | Short Break
Panel III – 15:45 to 17:15
Spaces, Sounds, and Resistance (Q&A included)
• Gabrielle Messeder (Merton College, Oxford)
“The ‘Carnival Café Najjar’: Coffee, Confessionalism, and the Carnivalesque”
• Irene Fernández-Ramos (Queen Mary University of London)
“Shapeshifting Regionalism: Cross-Mediterranean Alterity and the Politics of Anger in María Peláe’s "Perra de Despeñaperros"”
• Günseli Ferel Ucar
“Listening Through the Nightlife Amidst Tightening Authoritarianism: Socio-Sonic Methodologies in Istanbul’s Electronic Dance Music Scene”
17:30 – 18:00 | Reception – Nibbles & Wine
18:00 – 18:30 | Live Performance: Arfoud Brothers & Sisters
The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the Forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc).