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2025
December
November
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Research Seminar Series - Dr John De Simone
-In conversation with Professor Phillip Cooke, John will reflect upon his status as a mid (possibly late) career composer who works in academia. He will explore how his work is framed within an institutional research context whilst trying to pursue an authentic musical and artistic voice grounded in lived experience.
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Research Seminar Series - Dr James Cook
-Join Dr James Cook (ECA Director of Research and Senior Lecturer in Early Music at the University of Edinburgh) to talk about the interplay between fantasy and "authenticity," especially considering the ways in which the composers work creatively to give an immersive and coherent soundworld, within the limits of what...
October
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Gender, Arts and Culture. Punk, post-punk and gender in Portugal
-This presentation aims to contribute to the understanding of the emergence of (sub)/(post)-subcultures in Portugal, focusing particularly on female participants, and analysing the territorialisation of punk’s egalitarian and interventionist ethos as both an aesthetic and a reflexive praxis. Although women have been present since the beginnings of punk, their visibility...
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Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and The Other Side of Money
-Objects are not difficult to acquire because they are valuable, but we call those objects valuable that resist our desire to possess them. - George Simmel Nobel prize winner Elias Canetti says, “the crowd…wants to experience for itself the strongest possible feeling of its own animal force and passion,” and at...
