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Project Activities 2019

23-26 January. In Search of Archives, Silent Green Kulturquartier Berlin; Vanessa Paloma Elbaz delivered her paper Khoya: Archives du Maroc Juif

6 March. Research Seminar for Centre for Study of Global Human Movement. Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Steve Wilford presented research from the 'Past and Present Musical Encounters across the Strait of Gibraltar' project. 

25-27 March. 'Sephardi Jewish Women and Patriarchy'. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented  a keynote for Interfaith Council of Berry College, Georgia USA and Masterclass of Sephardi music for University choral ensembles.

28-29 March. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented at the Conference on Jewish Contributions to Middle Eastern Music, King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Paper title: 'Music, Space, Time and Power in Jewish Morocco'

2-3 April. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented a seminar on 'Past and Present Role of Jews and Judaism in Moroccan Society'. Tangier American Legation and Institute for Moroccan Studies. Paper title: 'Negotiating Minority status through Song: the Function of Jewish Singers in Moroccan Society' Tangier, Moroccoo.

11-14 April. British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference (University of Aberdeen). Matthew Machin-Autenrieth presented a paper entitled 'Ziryab and Us: Tradition and Collaboration in the Interpretation of an Arab-Andalusian Musical Myth'

17-19 June. Jews and Muslims of Morocco: Uncommon Commonalities Annual Conference of the American Sephardi Federation's Institute of Jewish Experience (Center for Jewish History, New York). Vanessa Paloma Elbaz delivered a paper entitled: 'Jewish Moroccan Songs in Haketia and their Core Communal Function.'

24-26 June. British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference (University of Leeds). Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Samuel Llano, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Steve Wilford delivered a panel entitled: 'Musical Encounters between the Maghreb and Europe: Questions, Approaches and Methodologies'.  

24-25 June. Sonic Circulations 1900-1950. Musical Thought, Scientific Fantasies, Global Contexts  (King's College London). Vanessa Paloma Elbaz delivered a paper entitled: 'La Voz de mi Madre en la Mia: Recording Moroccan Women's Sephardi Repertoire in the Interwar Period.'

26-28 June. The Changing Face of Religious Authority: Knowledge, Legotimacy and Power. Woolf Institute. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz participateed in this workshop as a respondent.

2 July. Matthew Machin-Autenrieth participated in a workshop for the research project 'Patrimondial' at the `Université Paris-Sorbonne.  

23-26 July. AVAMUS 'The Mediterranean Migrant Sounds' Conference (Valencia). Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Samuel Llano, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Steve Wilford delivered a panel entitled: 'Musical Encounters between the Maghreb and Europe: Questions, Approaches and Methodologies'.  

1 September. Voyages au cœur du Maroc juif: Héritages berbère, arabe et hispanique as part of the Journées européennes de la culture et du patrimoine juifs (Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme, Paris). Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented a paper entitled «Textes oraux des juives marocaines: identité et religiosité».

20-21 September. Sound in Motion Steve Wilford took part in a workshop at the University of Bern (Switzerland), presenting a paper entitled "Listening for the Past in Eastern Paris"

25 September.  Diwan en Lorraine Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented a conference on «KHOYA: les archives sonores du Maroc juif» (Nancy, France).

26 September. Diwan en Lorraine Vanessa Paloma Elbaz performed a concert entitled "Sur les rives du détroit du Gibraltar" with Françoise Atlan and Fouad Didi (Nancy, France).

1 October. Mirroring Musical Traditions of the Two AndalusiasWorkshop and Lecture-Recital with Marc Loopuyt at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Marc specialises in the musical traditions that straddle North Africa, Southern Europe and the Middle East.

23 October. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz performed a concert entitled HAKKETIA as part of the HAFLA concert series at the FOL in Casablanca, Morocco.

27 October. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented a paper entitled 'Moroccan Judeo-Spanish Women's Songs: Core Function of a Forgotten Repertoire' for the Music Seminar Series at SOAS, University of London.

30 October. E. Allison Peers Symposium 2019 on Minorities in the Hispanic World: Contemporary and Historical Contexts & Perspectives, University of Liverpool. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, keynote speaker, gave the Annual Peers lecture on "Judeo-Spanish women's songs in Morocco: the discovery of the core communal role of a nearly forgotten repertoire".

 

31 October-2 November. British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Société française d'ethnomusicologie Autumn Conference (City, University of London). Steve Wilford presented a paper entitled 'Listening for the Past in Eastern Paris' at a conference with the theme "Music, Sound, Space and Place: Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies".

27 November. Steve Wilford spoke at Wolfson College, Cambridge as part of their Lunchtime Seminar series, giving a paper entitled "Hearing and Seeing Music in Early Twentieth Century Algeria"

28 November. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz was a respondent for the workshop Documentary filming of Cultural interaction of the Religious diversity and the Secular University of project. Junior Parlour, Trinity College, Cambridge. 

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29 November. Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum (SOAS, University of London). Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Samuel Llano, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Steve Wilford delivered a panel entitled "Microhistories of Sonic Encounter in Colonial North Africa: Representation, Symbolic Violence and Diplomacy".

9-10 December. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presented a paper entitled 'Massira El Khadra : Singing the Non-Diasporicity of Moroccan Jewishness' at the Diasporas in the Middle East and North Africa Workshop, The Chaim Herzog Centre, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. 

16-19 December. Oral Traditions in World Literature Organized by the project “Multilingual Locals, Significant Geographies” (SOAS University of London)  held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz  delivered a paper entitled 'Sephardi Orature and the myth of Hispanidad'.

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