Symposium: Islam and the Performing Arts in Indonesia
Date and time
Location
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design (GWU), Hammer Auditorium
500 17th St., NW Washington, DCDescription
Symposium: Islam and the Performing Arts in Indonesia
How music, dance, and theater thrive in the world’s most populous Muslim society will be discussed. This panel of scholars from Indonesia, Japan and the U.S. features: Sumarsam (Wesleyan University), Chiara Formichi (Cornell University), Ako Machino (Tokyo University of Arts), and Hajjah Maria Ulfah (Jakarta). Moderator: Andy McGraw (University of Richmond).
Co-presented by the Freer and Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian Institution), the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, the George Washington University, and the SEM Local Arrangements Committee.
Directions from SEM:
- Meet volunteer guide at 6:50 pm in the Omni Shoreham Lobby, OR
- Metro from Library of Congress: walk 4 min to Capitol South Metro, take Blue Franconia Springfield / Orange Vienna train (11min), get out at Farragut West, 8 min walk to Corcoran to 500 17th St. About 25 min travel time. Metro from Omni Shoreham, walk 3 min to Woodley Park-Zoo Metro, take Red Glenmont train (5 min), get out at Farragut N, walk 9 min to 500 17th St. About 19 min travel time.
Image credit: Enfo (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons).
Organized by
Terry Liu (NEA) and Jonathan Dueck (GWU) are co-chairs of the Local Arrangements Committee for the Society for Ethnomusicology's fall 2016 meeting in Washington, DC, which is hosted by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and The George Washington University. 2016 Local Arrangements Committee members include: Nate Gailey-Schiltz (Volunteer co-ordinator; UMCP), Larry Witzleben (UMCP), Vin Novara (UMCP), Kendra Salois (American University), Harold Anderson (Goucher College & Bowie State University), Judith Gray (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), Nancy Groce (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), Benjamin Harbert (Georgetown University), Eileen Hayes (Towson University), Anne Rasmussen (College of William and Mary), Gregory Robinson (George Mason University), Dan Sheehy (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Atesh Sonneborn (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Huib Schippers (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Liz Tolbert (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University), Dawn Avery (Montgomery College), and Luvenia George.