Conference again

OK, I've done the round table.

Still to do:

Concert.
There's a problem with getting the chamber organ delivered and tuned in time for rehearsal; same issue w/ the harpsichord. I need to think about this some more.

Honan - too many weddings
ORH - not nice enough acoustic
St Vincent's Church poss alternative

I still don't have a script & am running out of time for this.

My Conf Paper.
I'll work on this from 3-5 today.

Keynote speaker's travel and accomm.
Need to contact the travel office again and remind them that I need quote urgently. Can't really make accomm reservation until the travel date is fixed.

Poster is done & ready to circulate.
Registration almost ready. Need quote for buffet lunch. Will go ahead with organising that anyway since I can do this even before venue is absolutely finalized.

Need to decide how many people we can take.

Think that's it for now.

my conference contributions

Conference to dos are rather longer than I made out.

I need to write & circulate the questions for the round table.

I need to write my own paper.

I need to write blurb to go with Deborah's concert.


So, let's start with the round table. I have Guido Ruggiero (history), Laura Macy (music), and Julia Hairston (literature). Only three. Art history isn't represented, but I guess it's too late now.

Kinds of questions I'm interested in:

1. Discussion over validity of the concept of sexuality/ies for this period. Obviously if same sex preferences and practices are historically contingent then different sex preferences and practices are also historically contingent. The term sexualities implies stable sexual identity but that might be inappropriate for the period. (What's that word, something about time/chronology??)

2. How do literature, art, & music contribute to these historically contingent sexual practices? (Regardless of whether they are sexualities?) We've heard (I hope) a fair bit about how they relate to practices of the time; do they have any regulatory function? How do they complement or undermine or otherwise relate to law?

3. What can the different disciplines learn from eachother? Is there an aspect of sexual practices that is (un)covered by examining literature/art/music, that isn't available any other way?

April

1. My own conference to organize
i Suzanne Cusick's travel and hotel--waiting for reply from travel agent; hotel yet to be reserved
ii Coffee/tea - ask Carmel
iii Venue problems for concert - perhaps switch to music dept for Fri or whole event? (Would mean organising lunch(es).)
iv Press release (talk to UCC PR folk?)
v Registration / concert tickets
2. Body/music seminar
i. Email colleagues
ii. Arrange time/place
iii. First topic???
3. Encyclopedia article on gender in Irish pop - negotiate new deadline
4. Holiday. We need a holiday.
5. Write Med & Ren paper
6. Journal article on sprezzatura to submit by June/July (before well-deserved holiday)
7. Book chapter for eros & euterpe will be due in August.
8. Book review for JSMI now due end of June
9. Marking marking marking
10. Admin admin admin
11. Think about proposals for AMS 2008!

Another wee update

1. My own conference to organize
i Book room - ask Carmel?
ii Arrange masterclass (confirm date and arrange travel and accommodation)
iii Suzanne Cusick's travel and hotel [waiting for reply]
iv Coffee/tea - ask Carmel
v Registration fee
vi Chitarrone--contact person RS recommended
vii Press release (talk to UCC PR folk?)
viii Honan Chapel for concert
2. Body/music seminar
i. Email colleagues
ii. Arrange time/place
iii. First topic???
3. Get funding to bring 'Fallen' to Ireland.
4. Conference proposal for Med&Ren 2007 (due date?)
5. Encyclopedia article on gender in Irish pop (what am I going to write?)
6. Holiday. We need a holiday.
7. Journal article on sprezzatura to submit by June/July (before well-deserved holiday)
8. Book chapter for eros & euterpe will be due in August.
9. Book review for JSMI now due end of June
10. Teaching teaching teaching teaching teaching - only 4 weeks left to go until this becomes marking marking marking
11. Admin admin admin
12. Think about proposals for AMS 2008!

A wee update

1. My own conference to organize
i Book room - ask Carmel?
ii Arrange masterclass (confirm date and arrange travel and accommodation)
iii Suzanne Cusick's travel and hotel [waiting for reply]
iv Coffee/tea - ask Carmel
v Registration fee
vi Chitarrone--contact person RS recommended
vii Press release (talk to UCC PR folk?)
viii Honan Chapel for concert
2. Body/music seminar
i. Email colleagues
ii. Arrange time/place
iii. First topic???
3. Get funding to bring 'Fallen' to Ireland.
4. Conference proposal for Med&Ren 2007 (due date?)
5. Encyclopedia article on gender in Irish pop (what am I going to write?)
6. Holiday. We need a holiday.
7. Journal article on sprezzatura to submit by June/July (before well-deserved holiday)
8. Book chapter for eros & euterpe will be due in August.
9. Book review for JSMI now due end of June
10. Teaching teaching teaching teaching teaching - only 4 weeks left to go until this becomes marking marking marking
11. Admin admin admin
12. Think about proposals for AMS 2008!

another to do

This is rapidly become a to-do list blog. Useful for me and I don't need to carry it around in a notebook.

Very excited about possibilities of putting on a great film & live music event next year (or later this year). Really hope I can make this work.

1. My own conference to organize
i Book room - ask Carmel?
ii Arrange masterclass (confirm date and arrange travel and accommodation)
iii Suzanne Cusick's travel and hotel [waiting for reply]
iv Coffee/tea - ask Carmel
v Registration fee
vi Chitarrone--contact person RS recommended
vii Press release (talk to UCC PR folk?)
viii Honan Chapel for concert
2. Body/music seminar
i. Email colleagues
ii. Arrange time/place
iii. First topic???
3. Get funding to bring 'Fallen' to Ireland.
4. Conference proposal for Med&Ren 2007 (due date?)
5. Encyclopedia article on gender in Irish pop (what am I going to write?)
6. Holiday. We need a holiday.
7. Journal article on sprezzatura to submit by June/July (before well-deserved holiday)
8. Book chapter for eros & euterpe will be due in August.
9. Book review for JSMI
10. Teaching teaching teaching teaching teaching
11. Admin admin admin
12. Think about proposals for AMS 2008!

To do (cont)

Still too many things to do.

1. Finish chapter for a book.
2. Propose a chapter for another book (eros & euterpe; due end of Jan).
3. Conference paper proposal for FTM9 (due Feb 1) (Didn't do this in the end.)
4. My own conference to organize
i Book room - ask Carmel?
ii Arrange masterclass (waiting for reply)
iii Suzanne Cusick's travel and hotel [waiting for reply]
iv Coffee/tea - ask Carmel
v Registration fee
vi Richard Sweeney (chitarrone) [waiting for reply]
vii Press release (talk to UCC PR folk?)
viii Honan Chapel for concert
5. Conference proposal for Med&Ren 2007 (due date?)
6. Holiday. We need a holiday.
7. Book review for JSMI
8. Encyclopedia article on gender in Irish pop (what am I going to write?)
9. Body/music seminar
i. Email colleagues
ii. Arrange time/place
iii. First topic???
10. Journal article on sprezzatura to submit by June/July (before well-deserved holiday)
11. Book chapter for eros & euterpe will be due in August.
12. Teaching teaching teaching teaching teaching
13. Admin admin admin
14. Think about proposals for AMS 2008!

holiday ideas

ok, i know we said we weren't going to economise for a holiday and that's fine. but if we can afford it. . . .

bruges

stockholm for my birthday (built on islands like venice and cork)

mel xx

Things to do (again)

Too many things to do as per usual.

Current list:

1. Finish chapter for a book. (Well, bar 5 missing page refs, it's done. It's gone to editors anyway.)
2. Propose a chapter for another book (eros & euterpe; due end of Jan).
3. Conference paper proposal for FTM9 (due Feb 1)
4. My own conference to organize
i Book room
ii Arrange masterclass
iii Suzanne Cusick's travel and hotel
iv Coffee/tea
v Registration fee
vi Richard Sweeney (chitarrone)
vii Press release (talk to UCC PR folk?)
5. Conference proposal for Med&Ren 2007 (due date?)
6. Holiday. We need a holiday.
7. Book review for JSMI
8. Encyclopedia article on gender in Irish pop (what am I going to write?)
9. Journal article to submit by June/July (before well-deserved holiday)
10. Teaching teaching teaching teaching teaching
11. Admin admin admin
12. Think about proposals for AMS 2008!

eros and euterpe proposal

I'm drafting a proposal for my contribution to Massimo Ossi's edited book of essays on eroticism in music. I'm thinking of combining a chapter from my PhD with my AMS paper. My starting point could be my AMS abstract, but it'd need heavy revision.

Power, Pornography and Entertainment in a Cinquecento Academy

Although controlled by Venice from 1404, mid-cinquecento Vicenza was a city of independent spirit. As in other republican cities in the Veneto, the structure of the academy replaced the court as the space for fostering both culture and identity. The Accademia dei Costanti—a group of Vicentine noblemen whose families harboured anti-Venetian feeling—attempted to regain an element of autonomy by pursuing courtly ideals in their work as in their play. In addition to philosophical discussions and literary pursuits, the academicians made music and played games in an intimate setting reminiscent of the modern gentlemen’s club.

The Costanti’s political sympathies are reflected in a volume of villotte alla padoana that bears their impresa. The collection includes references to treason and exile; however, throughout the political allusions are overshadowed by playful sexual metaphors. The villotte’s bawdy dialect verse challenges our preconceptions of “academic” activites, suggesting private rather than public performance, for entertainment rather than edification. Publication problematizes these works, for sentiments acceptable in private may become significant and unacceptable when placed in public space.

As Paula Findlen has demonstrated, the audience for what we now term “pornography” and “art” was one and the same: the literate, monied élite. The Costanti may have commissioned madrigals from prominent composers, but they were also involved in the anonymous production of obscene songs. Giorgio Vasari’s comments on the erotica of Marcantonio Raimondi, differentiating between onesto and disonesto, provide a framework for a culturally sensitive approach to these songs—which bind politics and pornography for entertainment.