CFP: Britain and the British in World Culture: Celebrating Benjamin Brittens Centenary, St. Petersburg, Oct-Nov 2013

Conference title - Britain and the British in World Culture.
Celebrating Benjamin Britten’s Centenary
CFP Deadline – June 15th, 2013
Conference dates - 31st October – 1st November 2013

Conference web site URL - http://artparking.org/en/research/conferences/britain/

Conference venue (institution and city) - Rimsky-Korsakov St.
Petersburg State Conservatoire, St Petersburg, Russia.

Details

The two-day international conference “Britain and the British in 20th
Century Culture” will take place in St. Petersburg at the
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire from 31st October to 1st November 2013.
The conference is designed as a dialogue between musicology, art
history and cultural history. A central theme will be how Britain and
her people have been portrayed over the last century in various
trends, spiritual movements and artistic styles, covering all kinds of
arts, including music, literature, theatre, architecture, sculpture
and cinematography. The symbolism of the homonyms – Britten and
Britain – allows us to put the British Britten at the heart of the
conference. Intercultural and intertextual connections will be made by
reflecting the multifaceted phenomenon of “Britishness” in British
culture.

The Conference forms part of the Thirteenth International Festival
“The International Conservatory Week Festival”, opening with a
performance of one of Benjamin Britten’s masterpieces, “Spring
Symphony”, on the 1st of November.

The Conference Organisers: The Center for New Technology in the Arts
“Art-parkING”, Liudmila Kovnatskaya, Mikhail Gantvarg, Lidia Volchek,
Lidia Ader, Nataly Kolesova.

Proposals for academic papers and posters are invited (requirements –
A3 format, should be sent by October 1st).
The working languages of the conference will be Russian and English.
The time-limit for papers is 20 minutes plus a discussion time of 10
minutes. Please submit abstracts for papers of no less than 200 and no
more than 300 words, together with a short CV of 100 words; both
should be sent by e-mail to Lidia Ader (lidia.ader at artparking.org).

The deadline for abstracts is 15 June 2013. Selected conference papers
and materials will be published in the journal “Opera Musicologica”.
For some participants organizers will be able to provide a free accommodation.