The 2018 Music & Art Research Symposium will take place on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Lamar Dodd School of Art. This day-long student-run symposium will include research presentations and performances related to music and/or art by graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as a small exhibition in the atrium on the third floor of HHSOM. The research papers and performances will be presented in four sessions:

EDGE HALL, HHSOM

9:30-10:45 Interdisciplinary Inspiration

Caroline Owen, Claude Debussy and the Arts of Exoticism: Japanese Art and “Pagodes”
Matthew Burkhalter, Black Sorrow Songs on White Canvas: Lamar Baker’s Ezekiel Saw the Wheel and Southern Vernacular Religion
Alison Redman, Magical and Mysterious Resonances: Circularity in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Kreisler Works and Robert Schumann’s Kreisleriana

11:00-12:15 Transforming Perception

Kathryn O’Shaughnessy, Awakening the Injured Brain: Music as a Healing Tool for Traumatic Brain Injury
Mallory Lind, Heterotopia in the Art Museum: An Exploration of Different Spaces in Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tête-à-tête
Shelby Marquardt, And Andrey Isn’t Here: The Problem of Adapting War and Peace for the Stage Without the War

12:30-1:45 LUNCH BREAK & FIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION (DANCZ CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC, HHSOM 264)

Andres R. Luz, Premonitions, Landscape at Twilight for fixed media, op. 12
Shaped by Music Exhibition, 3rd floor atrium of HHSOM (March 7-9, 2018)

ROOM S150, LDSOA

2:00-3:15 Language and Authorship

Kwanza Williams, Erykah Badu: A Mix of Music and Auteurism
Quintina Carter-Ényì, The Language Agenda in Post-Colonial African Music
Cameron Steuart, Rediscovering the Music of Signora Corilla

3:30-4:45 Allegory and Symbolism

Megan Neely, Artistic Apotheosis: The Allegory of Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas
Joshua C. Johnson, Power and Purity: Maternal Authority in the Virgins of Leonardo and Michaelangelo
Usha Rahn, Chinese Porcelain in Still-life Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age

5:00-6:00 Keynote Presentation

Dr. David Garcia, Mapping Black Music in Modernity
Associate Professor, Department of Music, UNC at Chapel Hill