CFP: The Rake's Progress: Stravinsky, Hogarth, Hockney, Auden, and Kallman, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, Oct 2012

Call for Papers

Conference:

The Rake's Progress: Stravinsky, Hogarth, Hockney, Auden, and Kallman

October 26-27, 2012
The University of Colorado at Boulder, Art Museum, College of Music, and Center
for British and Irish Studies

To be held in conjunction with the CU-Boulder Opera's performances of The
Rake's Progress and the CU Art Museum's exhibit, Hockney and Hogarth:
Selections from the CU Art Museum's Collection of British Art (featuring
Hockney's A Rake's Progress, 1961-63)

The program committee seeks papers relating to Stravinsky's music, Hogarth
and Hockney's art, and/or Auden's and Kallman's libretto to The Rake's Progress.
The conference seeks to be interdisciplinary, and will consider relevant papers
from the standpoint of music history, musical analysis, art and art history,
aesthetics, literary studies, and stagecraft. Papers will be limited to 20 minutes,
with ten minutes for further discussion.

Deadline for paper proposals: May 1, 2012
Notification for participation: June 15, 2012
Conference date: October 26-27, 2012

Those interested in participating are asked to submit a 500-word proposal in
MsWord or pdf format. E-mail (by May 1, 2012) to:

CBISassistant at gmail.com

All conference events will be held in the Center For British Studies Room (Norlin
Library, CU-Boulder)

Please direct any questions about the conference to conference organizers:
Jeremy Smith (Director, Center for British and Irish Studies, CU-Boulder):
jeremy.smith at Colorado.EDU
Keith Waters (Department of Music Theory, CU-Boulder):
keith.waters at colorado.edu)

For further information, please see the conference website at:
http://www.colorado.edu/artssciences/british/rake/