12.00 Registration (individual lunch), Foyer, build. 1585 

(all activities thursday in this building) 

 

13.00 Opening remarks, Lille sal 

 

13.30 Keynote lecture: Sybille Krämer: Script and Sound. Some Reflections on the Creative Function of Visualization and Spatialization for Time-bounded Processes like Word and Music

(chair: Jakob Schweppenhäuser)

 

14.30-14.45 Coffee break

 

 

14.45-16.15 Paper session (chair: Lea Wierød)

• Hekal, Nadja (Germany): Listen to Literature. A Cognitive Approach
• Vanhanen, Janne (Finland): Noise between Voice and Word? The Case of Florian Hecker’s Articulação (2014)
• Lyhne, Søren (Denmark): Towards a Cognitive-semiotic Aesthetics of the (Popular) Song

 

16.15-16.30 Coffee break

 

 

16.30-18.00 Paper session (chair: Birgitte Stougaard)

• Alewine, Kenneth (USA): Unseen Muses. Voice Hearing and Artistic Inspiration in Music and Poetry
• Stricker, Jeppe Klitgaard (Denmark): The Notion of Musical Gestures in Contemporary English-Language Novels
• Hart, Heidi (USA): Uneasy Semiospheres. A Spatial Approach to Words and Music

 

18.00 Reception

 

In the evening, it will be possible to go to the opera at the Concert Hall Aarhus, which shows La Boheme. Another option is Lyd+Litteratur Festival (Sound+Literature Festival) which presents a number of collaborations between poets, writers and musicians:

La Boheme 

Lyd+Litteratur Festival 

 

9.00 Keynote lecture: Lawrence Zbikowski: Words, Music, and Meaning (Lille sal, build. 1585).

(chair: Lea Wierød) 

 

10.00  Coffee (Foyer, build. 1585).

 

10.30-12.00 Paper session (chair: Ane Martine Lönneker)

• Schirrmacher, Beate (Sweden): Structural Interplay and Discourse of Contrast. Intermedial References to Music in Literature in Violent Contexts
• Vandsø, Anette (Denmark): The Voice of the Mechanical Body. Enunciation in a Transdisciplinary Field
• Eriksen, Uffe Holmsgaard (Denmark): Same but Different. Translating Word and Melody in Byzantine Music

 

• 12.00 Lunch (Foyer)

 

13.00-14.30 Parallel paper sessions

 

I (chair: Beate Schirrmacher)

• Englund, Axel (Sweden): Onstage Interpretation. How Does One Write about Opera in Performance?
• Larsen, Christian Oluf Verdoner (Denmark): Kierkegaard and the Musically Non-engaged Perspective of Modern Musicology
• Kmiecik, Michalina (Poland): Words that are not Words. Avant-garde Poetry as a Verbal Score

 

II: Building 1584, room 120 (chair: Emily Petermann)

• Linder, Gunnar Jinmei (Sweden): A Model for Analysis of Transmission in Traditional Art Forms
• Lönneker, Ane Martine (Denmark): The Peculiar Case of Elegiac Feeling. Genre, Rhythm, Affect
• Delazari, Ivan (Hong Kong): Musical Memory for Memorable Fiction: Mental Score and Faulkner’s The Wild Palms

 

14.30 Coffee

 

15.00-16.30 Paper session (chair: Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen)

• Reznik, Alexandra (USA): Listening, Reading, and Performing Decolonization. Music in Arican and African-American Literature
• Oros, Adrian (Romania): Words and Music for Communism
• McDolan, Molly (Switzerland): The Musico-rhetorical Setting of Words of Silence in the Works of Early 18th Century German Composers

 

18.30 (sharp!) Conference dinner

Sans med Früd in Mejlgade 35b, 8000 Aarhus C.