🗓️ Event Announcements & Translations
🎶 Lecture & Discussion with Dr. George Mürer on Kurdish Music & Culture
📅 Monday, December 18
🕕 6:00 PM Tehran Time
📍 Google Meet
Dr. George Mürer will first discuss his research on Kurdish music, followed by a Q&A session. We invite you to watch the three ethnographic films created by Dr. Mürer using the links below and join the discussion.
Lecture Title:
📝 Kurdistan: Constructing Layered Musical Landscapes through Fieldwork and Documentation
“I will share from my own experience some reflections on how the variegated cultural topography of Kurdistan and tensions between often contradictory cultural, linguistic, and political demarcations have encouraged me to think in terms of multiple complementary projects and to take great interest in the work of a broad range of colleagues.”
About the Speaker:
🎓 Dr. George Mürer is a researcher and an adjunct assistant professor of music at Columbia University. His expertise lies in the intersection of music performance and cultural consciousness in Kurdistan, Khorasan, the Gulf, and the Indian Ocean regions.
His doctoral dissertation, now being developed into a monograph, explores patronage networks and cross-cultural musical intersections among Baloch communities in the cosmopolitan urban centers of the Eastern Arabian Peninsula.
He actively engages in documentary filmmaking and collaborates with musicians to bring greater visibility to their cultural expressions.
🏜️ Music of the Arab People of Khuzestan
🎤 Speaker: Mahmoud Mashhudi
📅 Friday, March 8, 2024
🕗 8:00 PM Tehran Time
The largest Arab population in Iran resides in southwestern Iran, specifically in the central, western, and southern parts of Khuzestan Province. The Khuzestani Arabs can be categorized into five groups based on their lifestyle, livelihood, and culture:
1️⃣ Ḥaḍari (Urban)
2️⃣ Reifi (Rural)
3️⃣ Badawi (Nomadic)
4️⃣ Ma’dan (Marsh Arabs)
5️⃣ Jebilat (Arab-Bakhtiari)
In this session, Mahmoud Mashhudi will examine the musical traditions of the Arab people in Khuzestan, providing insight into their musical life and cultural practices.
Additionally, he will present field recordings he recently documented.
About the Speaker:
🎓 Mahmoud Mashhudi holds a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from the University of Art, Tehran, and is a santur player. His thesis focused on:
📜 “The Musical Culture of the Ma’dan (Marsh Arabs) in Khuzestan.”
🏹 Turkmen Narratives: People’s Histories & the Construction of Musical Meaning
📅 Monday, April 15, 2024
🕢 7:30 PM Tehran Time
🎤 Speaker: Arman Gohari-Nasab
Introduction to the Session:
In Turkmen society, the construction of meaning for social and cultural phenomena is always embedded in narratives and storytelling. However, the “Narratlar” (Narratives) are not merely a micro-cultural world—they represent a macro-cultural realm of musical literature, intricately connected to Iranian, Turkic, and Arab cultures.
In this session, Arman Gohari-Nasab will introduce these narrative traditions and discuss a unique approach to folk music studies.
About the Speaker:
🎓 Arman Gohari-Nasab holds a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology and is a documentary filmmaker specializing in music.
📅 Since 2009, he has conducted fieldwork on Turkmen musical culture.
📄 His research has been published in English and Persian academic journals.
🎼 Persian Classical Music & the Possibility of Musical Modernity
📅 Wednesday, December 4, 2024
🕢 7:30 PM Tehran Time
🕚 11:00 AM Eastern Time (USA)
🕓 4:00 PM London Time
🎤 Speaker: Morteza Abedini-Fard
About the Speaker:
🎓 Ph.D. in Musicology, University of Alberta, Canada
🎸 Setar player
🎭 Master’s in Philosophy of Art, University of Art, Tehran
📜 Master’s in Philosophy, University of Alberta
Areas of Expertise:
📖 Philosophy of Music
🎵 History of Western Music
⚖️ Modernity & Its Relationship with Music
✅ All sessions are free to attend!
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