Dear members,

this message has been forwarded to me by Dr. Laudan Noushin. please
circulate.

regards,

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON - SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
INSTITUTE OF MUSICAL RESEARCH

MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA MUSIC FORUM


Friday April 25th 2008
Room ST 274/5, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B
(adjacent to Senate House)
9.30am – 6.30pm



PROGRAMME

Abstracts of papers available at:
http://music.sas.ac.uk/imr-events/imr-conferences-colloquia-
performance-events/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-
forum/abstracts.html#c1398


Registration (from 9.30am) and Welcome (9.45am)

Session 1 (10 - 11.45am)
Tala Jarjour (University of Cambridge)
Syriac Chant: Problematizing a New-Old Story. Work in Progress

Nahro Zagros (University of York)
Songs for the Dead: Funeral Gatherings of the Ęzdis in Armenia

11.45am - tea/coffee


Session 2 (12.15 – 1pm)
Hany El Hamzawy (Goldsmiths London)
The Oud in the Era of Ethnomusicology

1pm – Lunch break

Session 3 (2.30 - 4.15pm)
Carolyn Landau (City University)
Remembering and Reminiscing: Music and Meaning amongst Moroccans in
London

Parmis Mozafari (University of Leeds)
A Historical Overview of the Condition of Women Musicians in Iran

4.15 - 5.15pm tea/coffee and final discussion session

5.30 - 6.30pm
Evening Recital
Egyptian Oud player Hany El Hamzawi will present a range of
performance styles from across the Middle East and beyond


The Middle East and Central Asia Music forum is open to researchers,
students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the
region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdiscplinarity,
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.)

Advance booking is requested via Valerie James at music@...; a
contribution to costs of Ł10 is requested on the door. Attendance for
students and the unwaged is free.