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Programme

Thursday 01

0900 1000 Registration/coffee

1100 Official opening with welcome speech by:

Paul Archbold, Irving Finkel and Richard Dumbrill

1200 Lunch (University restaurants at Senate House, Birkbeck College or at the School of Tropical Medicine)

The Oud in Near-Eastern Antiquity

CHAIR: FRÉDÉRIC BILLIET

1400 Piotr Michalowski: Strings and Things: The Cultural Space of String Instruments in Early Mesopotamia.

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~piotrm/cv1.html

1500 Theo Krispijn: The Lute in Ancient Mesopotamia and its Socio-Cultural Context.

http://hum.leiden.edu/lias/organisation/assyriology/krispijntjh.html

1600 Coffee/tea break

1630 Richard Dumbrill: The Oud from its possible Uruk origins origins in the iconography and the philology, and subsequent developments during the Akkadian period.

http://sas.academia.edu/RichardDumbrill/Books

1730 Margaux Bousquet: A small lute from the Sukkalmah period of Susa and its reconstruction.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=303685122977103&set=a.303685059643776.82325.221860351159581&type=1&theater

1800 Round table on the topics of the session.

Friday 2

The Oud in the Middle East

CHAIR: AMINE BEYHOM

1000 Malcolm Miller: The ‘Ud as a symbol of Middle-Eastern Cultural Dialogue: Radical Fusions in Recent Concert Music in Israel.

http://www.jmi.org.uk/israelimusic/index.html

1100 Coffee Break

1130 Kiki Kennedy-Day: The veil and the oud: female musicians in the Islamic world

Assistant professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies at Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY

1230 Amine Beyhom: Presentation of NEMO-Online.

http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/publications/publications-on-the-site/publications-amine-beyhom

1300 Lunch break

The Oud in Ancient Egypt

CHAIR: PIOTR MICHALOWSKI

1400 Ricardo Eichmann: Extant lutes from the New Kingdom and the Coptic Period of Ancient Egypt.

http://www.dainst.org/en/member/ricardo-eichmann?ft=all

1500 Peter Zamarovský and Dagmar Krejčí: An unusual depiction of a lute in the tomb of Rekhmire.

https://ekonom.feld.cvut.cz/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240&Itemid=171

http://www.rozhlas.cz/leonardo/vstupte/_zprava/956856

1600 Tea break

1630 Philippe Brunet: The absence of the lute in Archaic and Classical Greek organology.

http://www.antebiel.com/fortunajuvat/Pages/DEMODOCOS.html

1730 Round table on the topics of the session.

Saturday 3

The Oud in the Western and Eastern Mediaeval Period

CHAIR: IRVING FINKEL

0900 Amine Beyhom: Two persistent misapprehensions about the ‘ūd.

http://foredofico.org/CERMAA/publications/publications-on-the-site/publications-amine-beyhom

1000 David Halperin: The Rasâ’il Ikhwân al-Safâ’of the Ikhwan al-Safa: The seventh section on the making of instruments and their tuning, their construction and stringing.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=david+halperin+Senior+Lecturer+in+Musicology%2C+Tel-Aviv+University

1100 Coffe break

1130 Yaron Klein: Musical instruments as laboratories: experience and experimentation in al-Fārābī’s kitāb al-mūsīqī al-kabīr.

http://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/mela/faculty/

1230 Lunch break