12-14 January. Eric Petzoldt presents a paper about "Jauk Elmaleh’s Dakka Jazz and the Casablanca jazz scene of the 1950s and 1960s" at the online 2021 BFE/RMA Research Students Conference at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

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3 Febuary. Online Series: Sonic Conversations in the Western Mediterranean: Cynthia Becker: Trans-Saharan Slavery and the Gnawa Guinbri. From Concealment to Exhibition. Lecture and Q&A

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12 -14 February. Steve Wilford presented a paper at the Music, Sound and Trauma: Interdisciplinary Perspectives conference, hosted by Indiana University.

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15 February. Online Series: Sonic Conversations in the Western Mediterranean: Screening of Moroccan produced short films. Curated by Jamal Abdennassar with Q&A

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22 February. Steve Wilford presented a paper entitled ‘“Je suis un schizophrène de l'humanité”: Imagining and Negotiating Identities in Franco-Algerian Hip Hop’ for the University of Cambridge Nationalisms and Identities Research Group (UNCANI)

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1 March. Online Series: Sonic Conversations in the Western Mediterranean: Dwight F. Reynolds: Medieval Music Around and Across the Western Mediterranean. Lecture and Q&A

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9 March. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will present the paper “Popular Music in Morocco: A Common Language between Jews and Muslims”, University of Connecticut and International University of Rabat (online)

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15-16 March. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will give a lecture about “La música de la mujer sefardí como vector de transmisión contemporáneo” Congreso sobre la mujer sefardí, at the Cervantes Institute, Bremen, Germany (online)

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31 March. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will host an online panel at the Cambridge Festival 2021 for the launch of her project "Sonic Accompaniment to Birth in the Jewish Sahara".

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April 7-9, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will present at a seminar at Tangier American Legation's Bicentennial Celebration, "Controlling Jewish Voices in World War Two" in Tangier

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April 8-11, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will present a paper at American Comparative Literature Association “Moroccan Jewish Texts of Sonic Territoriality” in the seminar “Between Migration and Diaspora: Formal Meditations on SWANA Narratives of Displacement"

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15 April. Online Series: Sonic Conversations in the Western Mediterranean: Jonathan Glasser: Muslims, Jews, and the Problem of Musical Boundaries in Algeria and France

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27 April. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will give a lecture ”Jewish Music in Northern Morocco and the Building of Sonic Identity boundaries” Bar-Ilan Faculty of Music Colloquium, Israel (online)

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30 April. Eric Petzoldt will present his paper ‘La création du dakka jazz afromed de Jauk et le jazz à Casablanca et au Maroc des années 1950 et 1960‘ during the International Jazz Day event ‘Jauk: 60 ans de jazz-fusion et worldmusic du Maroc‘ at the Papers Club in Casablanca.

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6 May. Steve Wilford gave a seminar for Wolfson College Cambridge's Music Society, on 'Listening for the Past in Eastern Paris, 1931. Exploring Musical and Sonic Borders through French Colonialism'.

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22 June. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will talk at the International Forum for Jewish Music Studies about "Judeo-Arabic Saharan women's songs for birth", hosted by UCLA and EZJM Hannover (online)

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1-2 July. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will be presenting at 2021 Biennial Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music & Philosophy Study Group, which will take place at the Strand Campus, King's College London.

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9-11 September. MESG is hosting the Academic Workshop "Musical Afterlives of al-Andalus: Identities and Encounters beyond History", online.

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24 September. Eric Petzoldt will present at the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group: ‘Mediating Dakka Jazz in Morocco: Jauk Elmaleh, the Old Slaughterhouses of Casablanca and Afro-Mediterranean Music’.

 

26 September. Eric Petzoldt will take part in the panel discussion ‘New directions in the arts and cultural promotion in postmigrant Germany’ at ‘Planet Ears Festival – rethink international music’ in Mannheim, Germany.

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27 September. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, Matthew Machin-Autenrieth and Steve Wilford presented a panel at the 13th Symposium of the ICTM Mediterranean Music Studies Group on 'Microhistories of Sonic Encounter in Colonial North Africa: Representation, Symbolic Violence and Diplomacy'

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19 November. Eric Petzoldt will be presenting at the rainy days festival’s conference ‘Kunstbegegnungen’ at the Philharmonie Luxembourg. The title of his presentation is ‘Euro-marokkanische Jazz-Begegnungen’.

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26-28 November. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz will be presenting at "Archivos digitales, memoria y futuro musical de diversidad” Musicología en Transición, Sociedad Española de Musicología, Universidad de Andalucía, Jaén.

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26-28 November. Eric Petzoldt will co-host and take part in the three-day workshop ‘Marokkanische Musik und Jazz’ at Kulturhaus Dock4 in Kassel, Germany. The invited guest is Moroccan musician Jauk Armand Elmaleh-Lemal, whose musical approach will be discussed. The event will be live streamed via MESG's YouTube channel, sign up for the live stream here. 

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