Friday, 3 May – Saturday, 4 May 2019
9:00 – 17:30
mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Fanny Hensel Hall
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Vienna
The discussion about the need for a decolonisation of knowledge production and critical reflection on “epistemic violence” as described by G. Ch. Spivak has become a central aspect of the postcolonial discourse in recent years. Assuming that this need is also an urgent and ongoing task in academia, the symposium wishes to elaborate the conditions for a “Decolonising of Knowledges” particularly at art universities and in the artistic and cultural field. Investigating the relations between knowledge and power, it looks into the proposal of a “Meeting of Knowledges” and suggests “Decolonising ‘World Music’” as a way of critically re-framing the musics of the world in the context of current practices, struggles and conditions of production and consumption.
Please register (participation free of charge): transkulturalitaet@mdw.ac.at
Preparatory team: Julia Fent (Coordination), Ursula Hemetek, Harald Huber, Therese Kaufmann, Gerda Müller, Hande Sağlam.
For requests and further information, please contact:
Julia Fent | Tel.: +43 1 71155-4216 | E-Mail: transkulturalitaet@mdw.ac.at
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Programme
Friday, 3 May | Meeting of Knowledges
9:00 Registration
9:30 Opening
Welcome address by Gerda Müller, Vice Rector for Organisational Development, Gender & Diversity, mdw
Introductory remarks by Ursula Hemetek, Director of the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, mdw
10:00-11:00 Lecture (Chair: Ursula Hemetek)
José Jorge de Carvalho
► Meeting of Knowledges: A Movement to Decolonize the
Modern Western University in Latin America
Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Lecture (Chair: Marko Kölbl)
María do Mar Castro Varela
► What to Do with the University?: A Tricky Question
Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Panel Discussion
► José Jorge de Carvalho, María do Mar Castro Varela,
Rasika Ajotikar (discussant) and Marko Kölbl (moderator)
Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Workshop
► Basma Jabr, Nataša Mirković, Golnar Shahyar, Sakina Teyna
South-Eastern Vocal Styles
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Saturday, 4 May | Decolonising “World Music”
9:00 Welcome Coffee
9:30 Opening
Introductory remarks by Harald Huber, Department of Popular Music, mdw
10:00-11:00 Lecture (Chair: Therese Kaufmann)
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
► “World Music” from Home and Local Music from Abroad:
Cosmopolitan Case Studies from Colombia
Coffee break
11:30-12:30 Lecture (Chair: Harald Huber)
Gabriele Klein
► Decolonising Dance: The Example of “African” Dancer
and Choreographer Germaine Acogny
Lunch Break
13:30-15:00 Panel Discussion
► Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Gabriele Klein, Frank Klaffs (discussant)
and Julio Mendívil (moderator)
Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Concert
Kurdophone
►Amir Ahmadi, Omid Darvishi, Helene Glüxam, Sarvin Hazin,
Sebastian Simsa
impressions
