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Upcoming: The Uses of Utopia
Thirkill Room, Clare College, Cambridge 26 June 2016 10 am - 5 pm Registration £ 40 / 20 In Archaeologies of the Future, Fredric Jameson wonders: "can we invent a way of reading Thomas More's Utopia (1516) so as to recover something of the shock and freshness of its elegant new Latin for the first European readers?” This symposium is both an interdisciplinary response to this question, and a celebratory reading for the 500th anniversary of More’s text. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Andrew Zurcher (Faculty of English, Cambridge University) Professor Gregory Claeys (Professor of History and Political Thought, Royal Holloway) Professor Davina Cooper (Professor of Law and Political Theory, University of Kent) Fee includes symposium talks, lunch, and evening performance. ///////PERFORMANCE/////// Round Church on Bridge Street, Cambridge 7:30 pm Tickets £ 10 / 5 featuring a NEW WORK by Louis D'Heudieres Learn more at www.tt-tt-tt.com or join us on Facebook. Symposium and performance curated by Sasha Amaya and Naomi Woo. |
poster by Hannah Taylor
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Academic CV
Education
Cambridge University. PhD. Musicology. Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Supervisor: John Rink.
Université de Montréal. DÉPA. Piano performance.
Teacher: Marc Durand.
Cambridge University: MPhil. Music Studies. Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Yale School of Music: M.Mus. Piano Performance
Yale University: B.A., magna cum laude, Music (Intensive) and Math & Philosophy.
With Distinction in both majors. Phi Beta Kappa (top 10% of graduting class).
Enrolled in Directed Studies, highly selective humanities programme for first-year students.
Senior project advisor: James Hepokoski. Mathematics advisor: Gregg Zuckerman.
Awards and Scholarships
2013 Gates Cambridge Scholarship: “for intellectually outstanding postgraduates with a capacity for leadership and a commitment to improving the lives of others.”.
2012 Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts (Yale University), awarded to the student who has contributed most to the performing arts at Yale
2011 Branford Class of 1960 Summer Fellowship, for study in France with Pascal Rogé
Max Kade Foundation Scholarship, for German language study in Berlin
Joseph Lentilhon Selden Award (Yale University), for “verve, idealism and constructive interest in music and the humanities”
Lecture-Recitals and Conference Papers
2016 "Spectra of Marx: The Temporality of Revolution in the Music of Gérard Grisey". Paper at Making Time in Music, University of Oxford, 2016.
2016 "'...at the limit': an étude in possible impossibility". Lecture-recital at Performing Knowledge, Emmanuel College Cambridge, 2016.
2014 “Difficulty in Musical Performance". Lecture-recital at Performance Philosophy Biannual Conference, Unversity of Chicago, 2014.
2012 "Ravel’s ‘Une barque sur l’océan’: a study in the aesthetics of transcription". Lecture-recital for Senior Project in Music. Advisor: James Hepokoski.
Academic
2016 The Uses of Utopia, co-convenor.
500th anniversary conference on Thomas More’s Utopia
2015-2016 Centre for Musical Performance Studies, reading group co-coordinator.
Languages
French: fluent.
German: conversant.
Italian: beginner.
Education
Cambridge University. PhD. Musicology. Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Supervisor: John Rink.
Université de Montréal. DÉPA. Piano performance.
Teacher: Marc Durand.
Cambridge University: MPhil. Music Studies. Gates Cambridge Scholar.
Yale School of Music: M.Mus. Piano Performance
Yale University: B.A., magna cum laude, Music (Intensive) and Math & Philosophy.
With Distinction in both majors. Phi Beta Kappa (top 10% of graduting class).
Enrolled in Directed Studies, highly selective humanities programme for first-year students.
Senior project advisor: James Hepokoski. Mathematics advisor: Gregg Zuckerman.
Awards and Scholarships
2013 Gates Cambridge Scholarship: “for intellectually outstanding postgraduates with a capacity for leadership and a commitment to improving the lives of others.”.
2012 Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts (Yale University), awarded to the student who has contributed most to the performing arts at Yale
2011 Branford Class of 1960 Summer Fellowship, for study in France with Pascal Rogé
Max Kade Foundation Scholarship, for German language study in Berlin
Joseph Lentilhon Selden Award (Yale University), for “verve, idealism and constructive interest in music and the humanities”
Lecture-Recitals and Conference Papers
2016 "Spectra of Marx: The Temporality of Revolution in the Music of Gérard Grisey". Paper at Making Time in Music, University of Oxford, 2016.
2016 "'...at the limit': an étude in possible impossibility". Lecture-recital at Performing Knowledge, Emmanuel College Cambridge, 2016.
2014 “Difficulty in Musical Performance". Lecture-recital at Performance Philosophy Biannual Conference, Unversity of Chicago, 2014.
2012 "Ravel’s ‘Une barque sur l’océan’: a study in the aesthetics of transcription". Lecture-recital for Senior Project in Music. Advisor: James Hepokoski.
Academic
2016 The Uses of Utopia, co-convenor.
500th anniversary conference on Thomas More’s Utopia
2015-2016 Centre for Musical Performance Studies, reading group co-coordinator.
Languages
French: fluent.
German: conversant.
Italian: beginner.