Preliminary Symposium Schedule

Friday Humaties 1008
12:00 PM Registration
12:15 PM Opening remarks
12:30 PM Private Rituals Evelyn Troester DeGraf “Bridges between real life and art”: The Rituals of Master Choral Conductors
Chair: Anna Reguero Paul Sommerfeld Ritual in Star Trek’s Musical Icons: The Fanfare in American Popular Culture
1:30 PM Break
2:00 PM Electronic Transcendence Gillian Carrabre Do You Even PLUR Bro? A Comparative Analysis of Underground and Mainstream Perspectives in Canadian Rave Culture
Chair: Hayley Roud Ryan Laliberty Alpha states and VCAs: New Age rituals and the history of the synthesizer
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM Keynote Jeffers Engelhardt Ambient Religion, Arvo Pärt, and a Precarious Europe
Chair: Dr Maggie Adams
Staller Second floor lobby
5:00 PM Reception
Saturday Harriman 214
9:30 AM Breakfast
10:00 AM Nationalisms Nicholas Shea Anticipation and Assertiveness: The Dramatic Impact of Nationalistic Metrical Orientation in Verdi
Chair: Taylor Ackley Vincent Rone The French Catholic Sound and the Liturgy
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM Equatorially Adjacent Jeff Dyer Nationalist Transformations: Ritual and Music Common to Cambodia and Thailand
Chair: Jay Loomis Enrique Menezes Trance facilitation in some Brazilian musical structures
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM Round table
Chair: Ben Tausig
3:30 PM Break
4:00 PM New Devotional Spaces Gail Lowther “To make theater”: Ritual and innovation in Bohuslav Martinu’s The Greek Passion
Chair: Michael Boerner Abigail Fine The Nativity of Beethoven: Staging Devotion in the Birth-House Museum in Bonn (1890-1920)
5:00 PM Break
5:30 PM Rehearsing Revolution Samuel Golter Los Angeles Gangsta Rap and the Imagined Destruction of Space: Ice Cube’s Death Certificate as Dress Rehearsal for the Rodney King Uprising
Chair: Matt Brounley Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis The Accidental Hero: Depictions of the Anti-Hero in the Music of Hip-Hop Collective Cashless Society
Allyse Knox Decolonizing Protest: The Idle No More Movement and the Round Dance
7:00 PM Closing Remarks, Dinner
Staller Center Main Stage
8:00 PM Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition