FDA celebrates World Music Day with the international symposium “Female leadership in music”
Faculty of Music and Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade are carrying out a research project “Female Leadership in Music” (FLIM) with the support of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia through the program for excellent projects of young researchers PROMIS.
As a part of the FLIM project, an international conference under the same title is held on the World Music Day, June 21st 2021 at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts and virtually, in order to further advance the exchange of knowledge and research orientations regarding female musicianship, gender, and leadership, among the researchers from Serbia and the wider region, as well as within the global academic community. The Conference can be followed on the Facebook online event “Female leadership in music” on the Facebook page of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
Programme of the Conference
10.30 am CEST Opening of the Conference
dr Mirjana Nikolić, President of the University of Arts in Belgrade
Miloš Pavlović, Dean of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts
mr Ljiljana Nestorovska, Dean of the Faculty of Music Art
dr Nevena Daković, Director of the Institute of the FDA
dr Mirjana Zakić, Head of the Ethnomusicology Department of the FMA, President of the Scientific Committee of the Conference
Representative of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (tbc)
dr Iva Nenić, Project Leader, FLIM
11.00 am CEST Keynote Presentation with Q&A
Uneven Terrains of Struggle: Towards the Transformative Notion of Female Music Leadership
Dr Iva Nenić, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
Main Session 1
12.00 pm CEST Women’s Actions to Revitalize the Practice of Kaval Playing in Serbia
Dr Mirjana Zakić, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
12.15 pm CEST The Role of Women and Sustainability in the Practice of Playing Tambura Instruments in Vojvodina
Dr Sanja Ranković, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
12.30 pm CEST Glass Ceilings, Glass Harmonicas: Challenges for Women in Musical Leadership
Dr Helen Rusak, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University, Australia (6.30pm AWST)
12.45 pm CEST Back to Leisure: Gender, Labor and Everyday Singing in a Post-Socialist Town
Dr Ana Hofman, Institute for Culture and Memory Studies, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia
1 – 1.30 pm CEST Q&A
Main Session 2
2.30 pm CEST Between Home and International Scenes. Sarah Ndagire’s Ugandan Way to World Music
Dr Linda Cimardi, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2.45 pm CEST Women Musicians from Syria in Europe: Agency, Intersectionality, and Networks
Dr Anja Brunner, Music and Minorities Research Center, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
3.00 pm CEST Piano Jazz – Transcending Three Strikes With Duets
DME Monika Herzig, Indiana University, USA (9am EDT)
3.15 pm CEST Reinvented Traditional Balkan Songs by Immigrants to the West
Dr Indira K. Škorić, City University of New York, USA (9.15am EDT)
3.30 – 4 pm CEST Q&A
PhD Candidates Session
4.15 pm CEST Female Leadership, Performance and Knowledge Transmission of Traditional Singing from Kosovo and Metohija – The Portrait of Jadranka Jagličić
Ana Petrović, PhD Candidate, Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
4.30 pm CEST Participation, Labor, and Leadership of Young Women in Music: Limitations and Possibilities of Cultural Policy
Tatjana Nikolić, PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
4.45 pm CEST The War is On: On Female Leadership in Serbian Metal Music
Bojana Radovanović, PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, Musicology Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
5.00 pm CEST Artistic Research in Jazz — a New Polygon for Female Artistic Researcher Positioning
Jasna Jovićević, PhD Candidate, Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Serbia
5.15 pm CEST The Creative Fan Culture and ‘Soft Power’: The Agency of Female K-pop Fan in Serbia
Violeta Jokić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
5.30 – 6.00 pm CEST Q&A
6 pm CEST Closing of the Conference
The Book of Abstracts can be downloaded here.
