Hearing Israel: Music, Culture and History at 60 An International Conference

Conference Schedule

Sunday, April 13

All academic sessions will take place in the Darden School of Business

Please note that parking at the Darden School of Business will be limited on Monday, April 14. A limited number of parking passes are available and interested parties should e-mail Kid Wongsrichanalai (kidw@virginia.edu).

9:00-9:15	Official welcome Remarks: Joel Rubin (Music/Jewish Studies, UVa), James Loeffler (History/Jewish Studies, UVa), Alon Confino (History/Director of Jewish Studies, UVa)
9:15-11:00	Academic Session 1. What’s Israeli about Israeli Music? Chair: Daniel Lefkowitz (Middle East and South Asian Studies/Anthropology/Jewish Studies, UVa) Assaf Shelleg (Hebrew University/Tel Aviv University), Unfolding Polyphonies: Israeli Art Music Contemplates Its Jewish Past David McDonald (Bowling Green State University), Carrying Words Like Weapons: Hip-Hop and the Poetics of Palestinian Identities in Israel Galit Saada-Ophir (University of Toronto), Middle Eastern Compositions: The Performance of the Arab Jewish Musical Borderland
11:30 - 13:15	Academic Session 2. Hebrew Music Reconsidered: Law, Language, and Postmodern Aesthetics Chair: Gabriel Finder (History/German/Jewish Studies, UVa) Ronit Seter (Hebrew University), Postmodernism in Israeli Music, 1961-2006: Mordecai Seter’s Midnight Vigil and Benjamin Yusupov’s Viola Tango Rock Concerto Nissim Calderon (Ben Gurion University), Low and High in Israeli Poetry and Rock Amit Schejter and Michael Elavsky (Pennsylvania State University), “A song for David”: The Role of Israeli Law in the Advancement of Israeli Music.
15:30-17:30	Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra Concert with works by Bloch, Golijov, and Berlioz, featuring cello soloist Uri Vardi (University of Wisconsin)(Old Cabell Hall)
20:00-22:30	Evening concert of traditional and popular music featuring the Moshe Berlin Ensemble and Etty Ankri Band (Abbott Center, Darden School)

Monday, April 14

9:00-10:45	*Academic Session 3. The Sounds of Place: Geography and Identity in Israeli Music* Chair: Michelle Kisliuk (Music/Jewish Studies, UVa) Abigail Wood (SOAS, University of London), Sounding the City: Music, Place and Identity in Contemporary Jerusalem Motti Regev (Open University of Israel), Electric Guitars and the Israeli Soundscape Jehoash Hirshberg (Hebrew University), Vision of the East and the Heritage of the West: A Fourfold Model of Ideology and Practice in Israeli Art Music
11:15-13:00	*Academic Session 4. Arab-Jewish Encounters in Music: Partners or Polemics?* Chair: David Waldner (Politics, UVa) Benjamin Brinner (UC Berkeley), Intersecting Networks and Emergent Musical Competences in Israel Since the 1990s Galeet Dardashti (University of Texas, Austin), Sing us a Mawal: The Politics of Culture-Brokering Palestinian-Israeli musicians in Israel Amy Horowitz (Ohio State University), Israeli Mediterranean Music: the Politics of the Aesthetic
13:00-13:30	Boxed lunches provided for speakers only (attendees can purchase meals at the Darden School's dining facilities*).
13:00-15:00	Keynote Address Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew Univesity of Jerusalem), Approaching the Music of Israel: Processes, Identities and Experiences
15:00-16:45	Academic Session 5. Imagining Zion(s): Diaspora and Homeland in Israeli Music Chair: Asher Biemann (Religious Studies/Jewish Studies, UVa) Francesco Spagnolo (Judah Magnes Museum/Hebrew University), Crossing the Sea of Song: Politics of Mediterranean Music between Israel and Italy Evan Rapport (New York University), Israel and Other Homelands in Bukharian Song Barbara Johnson (Ithaca College), New Life for Old Songs: A Revival of Vernacular “Cochini” Women’s Songs in Israel and India
17:15-18:15	Concluding Roundtable & discussion Chair: Alon Confino (History/Jewish Studies, UVa) Participants: James Loeffler (History, UVa), Joel Rubin (Music, UVa), Edwin Seroussi (Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Bonnie Gordon (Music, UVa)

*The Abbott Center Dining Room is open from 7:00-8:30 for breakfast and 11:30-14:00 for lunch. Café '67 is open from 8:00-15:30 for breakfast and lunch and from 16:30-19:30pm for dinner.