COLLOQUIUM: Comparative Lament Traditions Research Focus Group
Saturday, May 15 / 12-5 / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

UCSB's IHC sponsored Comparative Lament Traditions Research Focus Group concludes this academic year with a colloquium in the spring quarter. Professor Martin Schwartz, (Near-Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley), will present the keynote lecture: "Charon's Charisma: Ancient Mediterranean Poetics of Death in Early 20th Century Rebetic Songs." Presenters from UCSB include: Dr. Andrea Fishman (Classics) on the topic of women's lament as "anti-music" in the ancient and modern Greek tradition; William Hodges (Ethnomusicology) on the lament tradition in contemporary Indonesia; and Dr. Sonia Seeman (Ethnomusicology) on the aesthetics of the musical expressions of grief among urban Turkish Romany (Gypsy) communities.

For more information, contact Dr. Andrea Fishman at: afishman@classics.ucsb.edu

Co-sponsored by the IHC, the Department of Classics, and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music

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