Programme
Friday, November 21, 2025, Room 319
10:00-10:30 pm Opening and Introduction
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Jessica Gienow-Hecht (Freie Universität Berlin) Anna Kukatova (Freie Universität Berlin) Lesar Yurtsever (Freie Universität Berlin) |
10:30-12:00 pm Panel 1: Music, Power, and Representation
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Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet (Université de Strasbourg) Twisted Ambitions: Iannis Xenakis between Avant-Garde Democratization and Nation Branding
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Maria Rijo Lopes da Cunha (University of Aarhus) Rethinking Paradigms: On Music's Symbolic Power, Cultural Diplomacy And Value Formation |
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-3:00 pm Panel 2: Belonging and Exclusion in the Avant-Garde
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Peter J. Schmelz (Johns Hopkins University) The Connections and Disconnections of the Kyiv Avant-Garde
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Lesar Yurtsever (Freie Universität Berlin) By the Elite, for the Elite: Turkish Avant-Garde in 1950s New York
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3:00-3:30 pm Tea and Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 pm Panel 3: Performing Power: Music, Spectacle, and the State
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Anna Kukatova (Freie Universität Berlin) “The Freakiest Show in Town”: David Bowie’s Trip through the USSR
Esteban Buch (L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) Javier Milei's aesthetics of destruction
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5:00-5:30 pm Final Discussion