BASEES Slavonic and East European Music Online Seminars start on 15 January
The Slavonic and East European Music Study Group (SEEM) is pleased to announce its inaugural Online Seminar Series. The events will take place online on Zoom, and are open to all. To receive the link for participation, interested participants are kindly asked to email christoph.flamm@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de. SEEM online seminars will be conducted in accordance with the policies on participation adopted for the BASEES 2024 conference.
15 January 2025 | 16.30-18.00 GMT
Iryna Tukova (Ukrainian National Academy of Music, Kyiv), Larysa Ivchenko (National Library of Ukraine, Kyiv): ‘Ukrainian musicology and Ukrainian music archives in times of war’
Since the outbreak of war against Ukraine, the perspectives and working conditions of Ukrainian musicology and Ukrainian archives have changed dramatically. Iryna Tukova will report on the status quo of research and teaching in musicology in Kyiv. Larysa Ivchenko will talk about the musical source materials in the Ukrainian National Library and the measures being taken to safeguard them from destruction.
Iryna Tukova, Candidate of Science (PhD), Doctor of Science (Dr. habil.), is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music (Kyiv) and co-founder of the NGO Lyatoshynsky Foundation. In 2024–25 she is the Petro Jacyk non-residential scholar at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto (Canada). In 2023–24 she held the position of a non-resident visiting scholar at the Indiana University Bloomington (USA). Her research interests include the history of Ukrainian contemporary art music, Borys Lyatoshynsky, creativity and the intersection of natural science and art music. She has published fifty articles, as well as the 2021 monograph, Music and Natural Science: Interaction of Worlds in the Epochs’ Mental Habits (17th–Early 21st Centuries). In 2024 she received the Ukrainian State Lysenko award for her achievement in musicology. She has presented her research at musicological conferences in Ukraine, Germany, Lithuania, Austria, France, Poland, USA and Georgia, and lectured on contemporary Ukrainian art music at the Ljubljana Academy of Music (Slovenia), at the Indiana University Bloomington (USA), and at the Capital University Columbus (Ohio, USA).
Larysa Ivchenko, Candidate of Art History (PhD), is Head of the Music Books and Collections Department at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine in Kyiv (since 2003). She studied theory and history of music at Donetsk State Musical College and at the Ukrainian National Academy of Music (formerly Kyiv Conservatory) where she received her PhD in 2002. She has published on the Razumovsky music collection as well as catalogues of 20th century Ukrainian composers and several dozens of articles. Her scientific interests cover a wide range of topics related to the history of world and Ukrainian musical culture, especially musical source studies and bibliography. She is author and/or editor of the series Z istoriyi muzychnoyi spadshchyny Ukrayiny (From the history of musical heritage of Ukraine, vols. 3–11). She participated at numerous scientific conferences, including congresses of the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) (Poland, Sweden, Russia). She collaborates with the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM).
19 February 2025 | 16.30-18.00 GMT
Christine Tokatlian (Athens), Levon Hakobian (Moscow): ‘Tigran Mansurian’
9 April 2025 | 16.30-18.00 GMT
Valentina Sandu-Dediu, Nicolae Gheorghiță and Ana Diaconu (Bucharest): ‘Rewriting the history of Romanian music’
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Originally founded as the Study Group on Russian and East European Music (REEM), the Study Group on Slavonic and East European Music held its inaugural conference at the University of Bristol in 2006 and has since organised regular study events around the UK and abroad. It brings together scholars working across musicology and Slavonic studies and seeks to establish international and interdisciplinary connections to foster both existing and emerging research questions and methodologies. As well as organising its own events, it prepares panels for major international conferences in order to promote the study of Slavonic and East European music.
Website: http://basees.org/study-group-for-russian-and-eastern-european-music-reem
