Ana Hofman will hold a lecture at the Humanities Center, Bucknell University on “Antifascism, activism and politics of the past after Yugoslavia”; November 13, 2019
XXXVth meeting of the European ethnomusicologists seminar “Performing Bodies”
Projektna skupina se je udeležila XXXV srečanja Evropskega seminarja etnomuzikologov “Uprizarjanje telesa” (“Performing Bodies”), ki je potekalo v času od 3-7 September 2019, na Oddelku za glasbo, Durham University, UK.
Izledke svojih raziskav so predstavili na skupnem panelu “Sounds, Bodies and Affects in Music Performing and Listening,” ki ga je vodil Martin Stokes, Kings College London.
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Roundtable “Sound survivals: affective structures of musical (self)care and solidarity across borders” at the 45th ICTM World Conference (11–17 July 2019, Bangkok, Thailand)
This roundtable set out to explore whether, when and how music and sound can contribute to practices of (self) care that oppose bodily and mental exhaustion, and structural feelings of social disintegration.
Participants: Marko Kölbl (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University), Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Tom Western (University of Oxford)
6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Multipart Music
At one of the suggested topics of the ICTM group for multipart music (23‑27 September 2019, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), which dealt with emotions and aesthetic experiences in music practices, Mojca Kovačič presented a paper titled Emotional and Affective Experiences in Collective Singing , in which she presented the theoretical starting points and methodological challenges for the research of emotions and affect elicited by collective singing.
International symposium “Sound, song, politics”
The international symposium titled “Sounds, Songs, and Politics” took place from 29th to 31st August 2019 in Ljubljana. The symposium is part of the annual international street festival “Nights in the Old Ljubljana Town”.
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14th International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF)
Ana Hofman and Mojca Kovačič presented the project at the 14th International Society for Ethnology and Folklore(SIEF) congress entitled: “Track Changes: Reflecting on a Transforming World.” They presented the paper “Affective politics in a time of political exhaustion: a sonic view” in the panel Affect and atmospheres in the ethnographic betweenorganized by the SIEF Working Group on Body, Affects, Senses, and Emotions (BASE), organized by Deborah Kapchan (New York University) and Birgit Abels (Georg August University Göttingen).
More about the panel: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2019/p/7120
The project team joined the SIEF Working Group on Body, Affects, Senses, and Emotions and participated at the group meeting.
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New book: Democratisation from below (Delibašić, Nikolić, Vasiljević)
Balša Delibašić, Sara Nikolić and Jelena Vasiljević published a book, Demokratizacija odozdo: formiranje i delovanje novih društvenih pokreta u Srbiji i Makedoniji(Democratisation from below: formation and workings of new social movements in Serbia and Macedonia).
Free book (pdf) available here: https://goo.gl/Q1iCjX.
English summary available here: https://goo.gl/7AWWcq.
3rd project meeting and reading seminar
The 3rd meeting was dedicated to reading and discussing Tanja Petrović’s draft paper “Laibach and laughter”.
Ana Hofman, lecture at the Music Department, King’s College London, 19 February 2019
Ana Hofman gave a lecture “The Romance with »affect«: sonic politics in a time of neoliberal exhaustion”, 19 February 2019.
The Romance with “affect”: sonic politics in a time of neoliberal exhaustion
Rajko Muršič, lecture at CZKD, Belgrade
Dr. Rajko Muršič lectured about the alternative music scene in Štajerska, Slovenia, during the 1980s. He also presented his lates book, Glasbeni pojmovnik za mlade (Musical glossary for the youth), published in 2018.
