Programme

[timings are provisional and may change]

11.00-11.15
Thomas Dixon, Queen Mary University of London. 'Music and the history of emotions: Introductory comments.'

11.15-12.45 Panel 1
Andrea Korenjak, Austrian Academy of Sciences. ‘Music for the Restless Soul in 19th-century Viennese Psychiatry’.
Wiebke Thormählen, Royal College of Music. ‘Framing Emotional Responses to Music: Music Making and Social Well-being in Early Nineteenth-Century England’.
Morag Grant. Berlin. Title TBC.

12.45-13.30
Lunch (provided). Foyer of Arts Two Building

13.30-15.00 Panel 2
James Kennaway, Newcastle University. ‘Anna O.’s Cough: Psychoanalysis and the Decline of the Neuro-Stimulation Model of Music’
David Trippett, University of Cambridge. ‘Phrenologists at the keyboard: materialist thought and musical practice ca. 1840’
Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway University of London. 'Context, Emotion and Discontinuity in the History of Islamic Music Therapy'

15.00-15.15
Coffee. Foyer of Arts Two Building.

15.15-16.45 Panel 3
Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester. ‘Moving the Passions through Music: Some 18th-century British Medical Perspectives’
Una McIlvenna. University of Kent. 'Songs, Shame, and the Executioner of Justice in Early Modern Europe'
Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild. University of Cologne. ‘“The Powerful Usefulness of Music”: Music, Medicine and Theology in Veritophili Deutliche Beweis=Gründe (1717)’

17.00-18.00
Wine reception to include singing performance of early-modern ballads with Vivien Ellis.