Conference: Voices of Women: Materialities, Cultural Transfer, and Musical Authorship (01./02.12.2022, Groningen)
Voices of Women: Materialities, Cultural Transfer and Musical Authorship
Dec. 1st and 2nd at the University of Groningen (USVA) and the Prince Claus Conservatory
These are some of the questions and concerts motivating the Voices of Women (VOW) project. VOW project is an Erasmus+ funded joint project with the University of Groningen, the University of Stavanger, the Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø), and the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar. The main purpose of this project is to raise cultural awareness of women’s musical and creative output, given the lack of attention paid not only in showcasing women’s compositions but also within academic and professional fields such as in forms of analysis, interpretation, and performance. By aiming to contextualize inclusivity, transnational education, and societal engagement in Europe’s relationship to the arts, VOW will provide innovative courses that will strengthen the connection between practice, research, and EU policy to provide more visibility but also opportunities for women’s voices in music.
The VOW project at the University of Groningen is an initiative of Dr. Janke Klok, Dr.h.c. Petra Broomans and Dr. Kristin McGee. In December 2022, the VOW project organizes a two-day symposium at the University of Groningen to explore this theme of authorship in relation to the sub-themes of music materialities and cultural transfer.
For the upcoming two-day conference, we begin on the first day (December 1st) with a series of workshops for students and educators at the graduate level. The second day (December 2nd) consists of a series of panels with academic papers on the themes of authorship, agency, cultural transfer, and music materialities featuring a keynote by Dr. Mimi Haddon of the University of Sussex and a live podcast with Andrea van Pol and Rae Milford who host the “Nooit van gehoord?!” (“Never heard of?!”) podcast that centres women’s voices in music. We invite all participants to attend both workshops and panels.
This meeting will be the second event organized by the VOW Erasmus+ project in relation to music education at the graduate level. The first training activity was organized in June of 2022 at the University of Stavanger at the Performing Arts School.