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AHC SG05
John Hand Room		AHC PG01AHC PG02AHC PG10
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THURSDAY 9TH JULY
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8:45-9:15 Arrival and registration (DCU All Hallows Campus, Senior House)
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09:15Plenary: Conference Welcome / MPSG Committee
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9:30 - Parallels 1Vocal Valences
Chair: Francesca Maria Villani
19th-Century Philosophy
Chair: Joseph M. Ortiz
New Perspectives on Adorno
Chair: François Cloete		Philosophy of Music in the Age of AI
Chair: Eran Guter

Associate Session (European Network for the Philosophy of Music)

contributions Christoph Hafter, Lisa Gombini, Nemesio Puy, & Pierre Saint-Germier
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Medusa Forever: Singing Hélène Cixous / James Redelinghuys[Lecture Recital] Transcendence and Romantic Idealism in Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata / Yaowen MeiDisenchantment in Music Philosophy: Towards a Critical Concept of Re-Enchantment / Hannah Sophie Käthler
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We Do Not Know What a Voice Can Do: ‘Der Doppelgänger’ beyond Doubles / April WuThe Virtuoso as Musical Big Toe: Idealism and Materialism in 19th Century Aesthetics / Caleb Labbe PhelanSchoenberg, Adorno, and the Collapse of Vermittlung / Lucas Correia Lima da Silva
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Listening Off the Map: Unruly Echoes and Entangled Time in Animal K / Carlos Gutiérrez CajaravilleZarathustra and the Twelve Tones: New Light on Richard Strauss’s Notable Fugue / Tilman WilliamsIs Resistance Futile? Adorno vs The Borg on Material-Formal Assimilation in Mahler’s Symphonic ‘Breakthroughs’ / Michael Mitchell
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11:10 - Break
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11:40 - Parallels 2Musical Materialities
Chair: Ed Cooper
Music, Language, Text
Chair: Morteza Abedinifard
[session finishes 13:20]		Music, Politics, and Criticality
Chair: Wolfgang Marx		Hearing Emotion and Empathy
Chair: Ardi Echevarria
[session finishes 13:20]
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Oil, Ore, and Overdubbing: The Im/materiality of Magnetic Tape / Kristopher HilbertThe Poeticization of Prose in Musical Compositions on Philosophical Texts: Fragmentation, Aesthetics, and Argumentation / Jennifer RonyakAdorno, Border Fascism, and the New Music / François CloeteEmpathy in Music: A Philosophical Perspective / Wan-Hsin Cheng
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In Touch with Reality: Objects and Relations in Anthropocenic Percussion Music / Michael Jones[Lecture Recital] Wittgenstein and Labor: The Significance of the Vacuous Absurd / Eran Guter & Inbal Guter“Als ich mich im Spiegel sah”: Mimesis and gender in Alban Berg’s Lulu / Adrian Fühler[Collaborative Paper] Hearing the Composer through the Music: Musical Emotion Transfer as Social Expression / Peter J. Varga & Sally J. Atkins
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Technological Agency and the Ontological Status of Audio Glitches: A Post-Humanist Analysis of Pokémon Yellow / Victor ArulPhilosophies as a Method for Contemporary Music-Making: Lachenmann’s Sonic Self and Its Crux / Mingyue LiCarl Schmitt, Roman Catholicism, and the antiliberal Reception of Die Zauberflöte / Sebastian Pstrokoński-KomarFrom Expressive Appearance to Proper Function: A Teleosemantic Account of Musical Emotion / Tomasz Szubart
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13:10 - Break for Lunch
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13:25-14:00 Room: AHC PG02
Lunchtime ECR training session: 'Next Steps for the Early Career Researcher'
led by Barbara Dignam and Derek Matravers
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14:10 - Parallels 3Liminal Musicking

Themed Session

convened by
Christine Dysers & Malte Kobel

contributions from
Ed Cooper, Stella Sideli, Kyle Kaplan, Morteza Abedinifard, Martin Iddon, & Jingyi (Samantha) Du		Music and Philosophy Studies in Contemporary China

Themed Session

convened by
(Luna) Yue Sun

contributions from
Xiao Ouyang, Cui Ying & LV Xinzhi, Lijun Yuan, Yue Sun & Huaiyu Shang, Changchun Feng & Yunfei Li		Musical Identity and Being
Chair: Macon Holt		Phenomenology and Musical Meaning
Chair: Friedlind Riedel
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14:40[Collaborative paper] Challenging canons: Feminist Ethics and Decolonial thought in history and philosophy of music / Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik & Francesca Maria Villani “Music as the model for meaning” in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy / Nadja Gabriela Plein
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15:10Is There A Queer Music? Reading the Signs of Musical Kinship / Joseph M. OrtizReapproaching the Rhythmic Ontologies of Henri Bergson and Gaston Bachelard through Cosmotechnics / Maurice Windleburn
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15:40Ceremonies of Being: Caribbean Music, Poetics and Philosophy for Climate Futures / Charissa GrangerWhat Do We “Hear” During Rests? / Sedef Beşkardeşler
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16:10 - Break
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16:40
Plenary Keynote 1 (AHC SG05, John Hand Room)
Sounding Futurity:
Women’s Time and the Alternative History of Music & Philosophy
Nicole Grimes
Chair: Dominik Mitterer
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18:00Conference drinks reception
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FRIDAY 10THAHC SG05
John Hand Room		AHC PG01AHC PG02AHC PG10
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09:00 - Parallels 4Music as Philosophy
Chair: Mauro Fosco Bertola		Referring to/from Music
Chair: Xiao Ouyang		Cyborgs, Bodies and Technologies
Chair: Kristopher Hilbert
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09:00 - 09:30Balances, measured tensions and releases. Frank Zappa’s formalist philosophy of music composition / Filippo Marani TassinariWhat does it mean to see music? / Anne Yibing BaiSymbolic gestation: minor art and natural-born cyborgs in Arca’s “Nonbinary” (2020) / Irene de Blas
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9:30 - 10:00[Lecture recital] Musicosophy: Rock Performance as a Way of Philosophical Thinking / Ignacio Garay Music and Direct Reference / Ben CurryCyborg Sonatas / Ardi Echevarria
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10:00 - 10:30Demonstrative Plucking: Organology in Al-Fārābī’s Philosophy of Music / Daniel RegnierA joystick scratching her own voice': Agency, labour and intra-activity in Unander-Scharin's 'Oh My Body!' / Katya Davisson
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11:10 - Break
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11:35Plenary Keynote 2 (AHC SG05, John Hand Room)

From Physics to Metaphysics: Musical ‘Profundity’, Acoustics, and a new Perspective on the Mind-Body-Problem
Simone Mahrenholz
Chair: Derek Matravers
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12:55 - Lunch
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13:35-14:05 Room: DCU Chapel
Lunchtime Recital, performed by Yaowen Mei, including music by Poulenc, Debussy, and Fauré.
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14:10 - Parallels 5Recession Pop

Themed Session

convened by
Jacob Downs

contributions from
Emil Egenbauer, Macon Holt, &
Rossella Pia Scotti		Beyond the Sonic
Chair: Victor Arul
Music, Cultural Memory and Time

Associate Session
(British Society of Aesthetics)

contributions from
Andy Hamilton, Miglė Miliūnaitė, & Šarūnas Šavėla		Music, Ethics, and Justice
Chair: Férdia Stone-Davis
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Elway Bevin’s “Five Wounds” Canon: The Game-Player’s Perspective / Renée BarbreTowards a Radical Iconography of Manuscript Paper: A Case Study in Violence, Ethics, and Liveness / Tom Metcalf
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Sounding the Void: Jóhann Jóhannsson, the Sublime and the Generic / Mauro Fosco BertolaMusical Orientalism as Acoustemic Injustice: A Reading through Miranda Fricker and Steven Feld / Carlota González Sánchez-Moliní
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Approaching the Ineffable in Music: Right Speech (Sammā-Vācā) / Vasco Andre DiasCultural Appropriation in Music: Identifying injustice and developing Strategies for Ethical Practice / Ben Moll
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16:10 - Break
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16:40Plenary Keynote 3 (AHC SG05, John Hand Room)

Can we play anti-fascist music. Together.
Or are authoritarians better musicians?
Salomé Voegelin
Chair: Friedlind Riedel
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18:00Conference ends, followed by informal drinks at local pub
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