Name: CWRU Music Colloquium Series (Fall 2025)
Start: 2025-10-10T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Florence Memorial Harkness Chapel

CWRU Music Colloquium Series (Fall 2025)

Our weekly Friday colloquia showcase current research by distinguished visiting scholars alongside our own faculty and graduate students in musicology, historical performance practice, and music education. Sessions are free and open to the public. A brief reception follows each talk to keep the conversation going.
📅 When: Fridays at 4:00 p.m. (during the academic term)
📍 Where: Harkness Chapel, Classroom
👥 Who: Open to the public
🔗 Learn more: https://case.edu/artsci/music/news-events/music-colloquium-series
Fall 2025 Schedule
September 5
Lisa Nielson (CWRU)
“Henry George Farmer and the Invention of ‘Arabian’ Music”
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September 12
Carlos Gamez (CWRU)
“Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico and King Ferdinand VI of Spain: The Politics of Liturgy in Spanish Chant Sources”
Courtney Nichols (CWRU)
“‘The Freak who Sings in the Tubs’: Camp Performance and Gay Empowerment in New York’s Continental Bathhouse”
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September 19
Elea Proctor (Ohio State University)
“Black Women and Blackface Minstrelsy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
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September 26
Camilo Lozano Velasquez (CWRU)
“‘It’s she who holds her tongue who gets a man’: Performativity, Music, Gender, and Sexuality in a Selection of Animated Disney Films”
Anna Somerville (CWRU)
“Poisonous Personae: Operatic Sorceresses and Witchcraft in Late Seventeenth-Century France”
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October 3
Stephanie Doktor (Temple University)
“Reproducing Inequality in Pop Music Scholarship”
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October 10
Deirdre Loughridge (Northeastern University)
“They Can, So What Now? Music and Machines 1740/2025”
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October 24
Simi Olabode, Ellen Sauer Tanyeri, Mary Galvin (CWRU)
Lightning Talks from the Library of Congress
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October 31
Cara Bernard (University of Connecticut)
Title TBA
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November 14
Rafique Illyas‑Watson (CWRU)
“‘One for Ghosts’: Conjure, Black Temporality, and Self‑Expression in Instrumental Sample‑Based Hip Hop”
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November 21
Benjamin Helton (CWRU)
“The Perceived State of Secondary Music Programs Amid Uncertainty and Enrollment Shifts”
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December 5
Music Education Students (CWRU)
Qualitative Poster Session
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