Mellon Teaching Fellowships 2009-10
MICHAELMAS 2009
Performance: Flesh and Form
Dr Martin Crowley (French, Cambridge)
Dr Alyce Mahon (History of Art, Cambridge)
Mondays in term, starting 12 October, 10.00-12.00pm, for eight weeks
This pilot course will consider intellectual and artistic currents alongside real-life events, focusing on the human body as both a discursive element and as a site of representation. In bringing Art History and French Studies together, it will seek to interweave art practice, modern thought, and critical theory in a historically specific way, teasing out the extent to which new means of visual representation have demanded new aesthetic discourses as well as the influence of new aesthetic theories on artists’ work. (More...)
The course will take the format of eight weekly 2 hour seminars in term, held in Michaelmas 2009. Each seminar will open with presentations focusing on a historical case-study or specific philosophical approach and will then be followed by an in-depth discussion based on set readings. Students will be encouraged to pursue their own research interests within the context of the seminar series’ defining concerns (i.e. its historical frame, set of conceptual problems, and emphasis on performance).
Information on how to register.
LENT TERM 2010
Music and Society
Dr Ben Walton (Music, Cambridge)
In 2002 the sociologist of music Peter Martin concluded a review of
three recent books - all of which sought to intertwine social and
analytical readings of disparate musical repertories - with the comment
that ‘if musicologists, whether “new” or “old”, are serious about
producing a social analysis of music, they had better start reading
some sociology’. It was a provocative remark, coming in the wake of
more than two decades of ‘new’ and ‘critical’ musicological attempts to
reconnect the study of music to a variety of its social, cultural and
historical contexts, frequently channeled through an explicit appeal to
interdisciplinarity. And his exhortation serves as a starting point for
this experimental interdisciplinary course, developed with funding from
the Mellon Foundation, and offered as part of the Disciplinary
Innovation programme at CRASSH.
Information on how to register.
