LIST OF SPEAKERS – DAILY SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 11 APRIL
FRIDAY EVENING – 8.00pm – Admission is free and open to all.
An evening concert in the Auditorium of the Higher Institute for Music, University of Sousse. With:
- Traditional musicians from the P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire of Catanzaro [Italy]
- Musicians and singers of the SOAS Rebetiko Band [School of Oriental and African Studies, London]
SATURDAY 12 APRIL
[Sessions in collaboration with the ICTMD Mediterranean Music Study Group] SATURDAY MORNING – 10.00am to 1.00pm
- The sea as a place of musical exchange: shanty singing across the Mediterranean
Mollie Carlyle [University of Aberdeen]
- Aesthetics, functionality and rituality in work songs
Danilo Gatto [Conservatoire of Catanzaro] [ICTMD-MMS panel presentation]
- Physiology and vocality in work songs
Carlo Frascà [Conservatoire of Catanzaro] [ICTMD-MMS panel presentation]
- Performing the work: movements of voices, bodies and memories
Francesco Magaro’ [Conservatory of Campobasso] [ICTMD-MMS panel presentation]
- Catching and selling tuna and swordfish in Sicily: ergological dimension and expressive practices
Sergio Bonanzinga [University of Palermo] [ICTMD-MMS panel presentation]
SATURDAY AFTERNOON – 3.00pm to 6.00pm
- The sea and its manifestations in women’s songs of the Kerkennah Islands
Noura Chelly [University of Sfax]
- Some old fishing songs of Mallorca: repertoire on the common dolphinfish
Bàrbara Duran Bordoy [Universtiy of the Balearic Islands]
- Bambutiyya: The maritime musical identity of Port Said
Kawkab Tawfik [Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale du Caire]
- The lyre in the Mediterranean: Bridging Greek and Arabic Cultures
Anas Ghrab [University of Sousse]
SATURDAY EVENING – 8.00pm
Conference dinner at a local restaurant
SUNDAY 13 APRIL
SUNDAY MORNING – 10.00am to 1.00pm
- The trans-Mediterranean musics of harraga
Ed Emery [SOAS, University of London]
- Rap tunisien et immigration clandestine via la mer méditerranéenne : inscription générique ou expression réaliste.
Imed Ghdemsi [Institut Supérieur de Musique de Sousse. Tunisie]
- Musico-stylistic heterotopias: from Mediterranean island folk traditions to urban rebetiko sea songs
Spiros Delegos [Sibelius Academy Uniarts Helsinki]
- Sea songs of Turkey: a cross-cultural analysis of sea songs and their impact on Turkish folk music and dances
Ali Fuat Aydin [Independent researcher, Izmir]
- Sea songs of the Turkish Black Sea coast. Collections, comparison, analysis
Dorit M. Klebe [Independent researcher, Berlin] [by video]
SUNDAY AFTERNOON – 3.00pm to 6.00pm
- Images of the sea from the edge of the Tunisian Sahara
Alan Karass [US Naval Academy, Annapolis]
- Sea songs of Tunisia and the UAE
Imed Nsiri [American University of Sharjah]
- Time and the body in the Greco-Islamic seas: Qur’anic recitation as the conduit to embodied knowledge of time
