Graduate Music Forum Conference: THE MATTER OF THE POROUS
Date and Time
April 17 - April 18, 2026
09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT
Location
Fanny P. Mason Music Building
Harvard Graduate Music Forum Conference 2026:
THE MATTER OF THE POROUS
Keynote Lectures:
Katherine In-Young Lee
Kerim Yasar
Báyò Akómoláfé
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
The recent "material turn" challenges us to reconsider the foundations of the humanities, the production of the voice, [anti/]biography of bodies (human or non-human; musical or otherwise), embodiment and the social and politicized relationship an object holds to its surroundings. We are invested in exploring the tension between performer/audience, ethnographer/informant, instrument/player, and so forth. A central question which arises from this endeavour is what are the potentials and pitfalls of an analysis that privileges the agency of matter?
For more information, visit the GSAS Engage website.