[Commlist] Chasing Rhythm 2019 Symposium

        *International Symposium on Rhythm*

*Margaret St. Lecture Room, School of Art, Birmingham City University, 
Birmingham, UK*

*29 May 2019 - 9am-5pm*

This Symposium acknowledges, records and responds to a period of revived 
interest in the philosophical understandings and methodological 
affordances of the category of rhythm across a range of subjects and 
disciplines.

The history of the study of rhythm is in itself denoted by a rhythmic 
cadence, as historian of rhythm, philosopher and social theorist Pascal 
Michon observes (2016).// Michon identifies three fundamental periods of 
rhythmic renaissance: a first one, in ancient times, coinciding with the 
so called Hellenization of culture, characterised by a surge in written 
communication (Eikelboom, 2018). A second one, in modern times, that 
charted the social, economic and cultural effects of the Industrial 
Revolution; and a third, contemporary one, that coincides with the 
intensification of globalization as we are currently experiencing it, 
but whose origins can be traced back to the twentieth century 
(Bachelard, 2000; Benveniste, 1966; Meschonnic, 1982).

It is the latter that frames and situates the themes explored in this 
Symposium, allowing us to interrogate the historical, cultural and 
societal conditions and moods that seem to invite and propel the return 
of rhythm. In particular, the Symposium aims to introduce novel 
theoretical and methodological explorations of rhythm within adult 
education & higher education; sociology; urban studies; 
cultural-historical research; critical, contextual and media studies.

Embracing a variety of theoretical-methodological approaches and moving 
beyond traditional disciplinary ‘enclosures’, this one-day International 
Symposium asks four fundamental questions:

  * Why has Rhythm ‘always haunted our tradition, without ever reaching
    the centre of its concerns’ (Derrida, 1989)?
  * What is /our/ relationship to Rhythm and how does Rhythm interact
    with us (Eikelboom, 2018)?
  * What future trajectories and cross-disciplinary pathways informed by
    rhythm can we envision?
  * Can and should rhythm(analysis) help overcome traditional
    disciplinary boundaries and aspire to philosophical/methodological
    centrality, alongside well-known categories such as time, space,
    consciousness and language?

*/Invited Speakers/**:*

Michel Alhadeff-Jones, Professor in Adult Learning & Leadership, 
Columbia University, New York; Psychosociologist & Rhythmanalyst at the 
Temporalities, Rhythms & Complexity Lab, Sunkhronos Institute, Geneva.

Dawn Lyon, Reader in Sociology, University of Kent.

Yi Chen, Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies, University of 
the Arts, London (UAL).

Julian Henriques, Director of the Topology Research Unit (TRU), 
Goldsmiths, London. Film producer, writer-director and sound artist.

Sunil Manghani, Professor of Theory, Practice & Critique, Winchester 
School of Art, University of Southampton.

Filip Vostal, Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, 
Czech Republic.

Paola Crespi, Visiting Research Fellow, TRU, Goldsmiths, London

For more details and registration go to:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/international-symposium-on-rhythm-chasing-rhythm-encounters-at-the-edge-of-academic-epistemological-tickets-59947570798 



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