"Music and the Inner World"
The conference “Music and the Inner World” will take place at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 23-24.
The conference will address a range of issues related to music and “the inner world,” a phrase open to various interpretations. The program of invited speakers brings together different psychological/psychoanalytic orientations and different scholarly or professional relations to music.
The conference is free and open to the public. To help with our planning, we request that those expecting to attend register in advance by following this link.
All presentations will take place in Minor Hall 125 (Building #25 located in quadrant B4). Parking will be available below the University of Virginia Bookstore in the Newcomb Parking Garage (Building #9 located in quadrant B2).
The keynote presentation Saturday evening will be a one-hour lecture followed by discussion. Other presentations will be a half hour in length, followed by up to a half hour of discussion.
| University of Virginia Music and the Inner World All events are free and open to the public | |||
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| Event | Date | Time | Place |
| Welcoming Remarks | Saturday 9/23/17 | 9:15 - 9:30 AM | Minor Hall 125 |
Session 1: Michael Puri, "Inquiring into Interiority: Re-reading Barthes's 'Rasch'" Jenny Johnson, "Music as Intolerable Desire" | Saturday 9/23/17 | 9:30 - 11:30 AM | Minor Hall 125 |
Session 2: Nomi Dave, "Music, Ethnography, and the Inner World" Seth Brodsky, "Wishful Thinking: Some Challenges in Writing a History of Desire" | Saturday 9/23/17 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM | Minor Hall 125 |
Session 3: Diane Austin, “Music as a Bridge between the Inner Worlds of Client and Therapist” Erin Johnson and Cara Marinucci, “Evoking and Engaging the Inner World through Music and Imagery” | Saturday 9/23/17 | 3:30 - 5:30 PM | Minor Hall 125 |
Keynote Francis Grier, "The Inner World of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Masculine and Feminine?" | Saturday 9/23/17 | 8:00 - 9:30 PM | Minor Hall 125 |
Session 4: Fred E. Maus, “Projection and Containment in Music Listening” Marion A. Guck, “Musical Intersubjectivity in Light of Object Relations” Mitchell Morris, "Orpheus Descanting" | Sunday 9/24/17 | 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | Minor Hall 125 |
The conference is made possible by generous support from the Sorensen Trust for the Study of British Object Relations. Co-sponsors at the University of Virginia include the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Literature Program, Contemplative Sciences Center, Department of Music, Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, and the School of Nursing.