University of Arts in Belgrade
Faculty of Music
Department of Musicology
XIII. International Conference of the Department of Musicology
Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Transpositions: Music/Image
12–15 October 2016
As always sensitive to the constantly moving and changing contemporary world, of
which it is said to be dominated by images, yet also to be the world of ubiquitous musics,
Department of Musicology of the Faculty of Music in Belgrade, announces its XIII.
International Conference: Transpositions: Music/Image. Revisiting the different
relations of music/sound/aural and image/visual, while embracing the notion of their
everchanging positions, and possibilities of numerous (re)positionings of their
interpretations, we “claim the right” of music(ology) to the “transposition” here offered
as the term for capturing different procedures/protocols/processes of production,
distribution and reception of artistic and academic practices. The term “transpositions” is
understood as an “in-between space of zigzagging and of crossing: non-linear, but not
chaotic; nomadic, yet accountable and committed; creative but also cognitively valid;
discursive and also materially embedded – it is coherent without falling into instrumental
rationality”. (R. Braidotti, 2006)
Following the discussion we initiated two years ago with our “Musical Practices:
Continuities and Transitions” Conference, we are interested in transpositions as
procedures of: translations; transformations; transitions; translocations; transfers;
transfusions; transmutations; transfigurations; transmediations of the music/image.
The slash of music/image here stands as a sign of multiplicity of relations,
accentuating their différence/différance. It should suggest the possible thematic areas
such as:

music and image;

music or image;

music as image;

music of image;

music in image;
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music beyond image;

music behind image;
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vice versa
and
Academics of all fields of musicology are invited, including those dealing with music
from the position of other disciplines.
Please submit your paper topic (including the thematic area as listed above) to
Ivana Petković or Radoš Mitrović or Stefan Cvetković at e-mail address:
belgradeconference2016@fmu.bg.ac.rs.
The submission deadline has been extended to December 15, 2015.
Please include your short biography and an abstract of 250 words. You will be
notified by 31 January 2016 if your topic has been accepted.
The official language of the conference is English. It is possible to deliver papers
also in German, French, Russian, and Serbian, but the authors are kindly requested to
provide translation in English.
The time limit for the presentation and discussion of your paper is set at 30 minutes
in total.
Selected papers presented at the conference will be published in the proceedings.
Conference fee: 70 €. Both participation at the Conference and the publication of a
text whose topic has been accepted by the Program Committee are conditional upon the
payment of the participation fee.
The travel expenses, per diem expenses and hotel accommodation are to be covered
by the participants.
Keynote Speakers:
Antonio Baldassarre, PhD
Hochschule Luzern – Musik,
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts – School of Music
Siglind Bruhn, PhD
Life Research Associate, Music in Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Institute for the
Humanities, University of Michigan
Albrecht Riethmüller, PhD
Professor of Musicology, Freie Universität Berlin;
Institutfür Theaterwissenschaft, Seminar für Musikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
Philip Tagg, PhD
Retired at the Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal;
Visiting Professor, University of Huddersfield and University of Salford (UK);
The conference will include invited sessions on the topic of Jean Monnet module
supported by the European Commission, entitled “Musical identities and European
perspective: an interdisciplinary approach”. Invited sessions will welcome scholars and
researchers from diverse fields of humanities, (ethno)musicology and interdisciplinary
studies for vigorous dialogue and exchange on subjects related to musical identities and
European perspective.
Program Committee:
Antonio Baldassarre, PhD, Hochschule Luzern – Musik, Lucerne University of Applied
Sciences and Arts – School of Music
Siglind Bruhn, PhD, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan
Marcel Cobussen, PhD, Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Academy of
Creative and Performing Arts
Marija Masnikosa, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Vesna Mikić, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Ivana Perković, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Tijana Popović Mladjenović, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in
Belgrade
Albrecht Riethmüller, PhD, Institut für
Musikwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin
Theaterwissenschaft,
Seminar
für
Dragana Stojanović-Novičić, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in
Belgrade
Philip Tagg, PhD, Retired at the Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal;Visiting
Professor, University of Huddersfield and University of Salford
Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in
Belgrade
Organizing Committee:
Stefan Cvetković, PhD candidate, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Biljana Leković, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Marina Marković, PhD candidate, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in
Belgrade
Marija Masnikosa, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Vesna Mikić, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Radoš Mitrović, PhD candidate, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Ivana Perković, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Ivana Petković, PhD candidate, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Tijana Popović Mladjenović, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in
Belgrade
Mirjana Veselinović-Hofman, PhD, Faculty of Music of the University of Arts in
Belgrade