1-2 April. Matthew Machin Autenrieth, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz & Stephen Wilford present in the 'Sonic Sensoria of Al-Andalus Workshop ' at University of Santa Cruz, CA.

 

8 April. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz hosts the Cambridge Festival event 'Ya Lalla: Singing to Birth', West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge University Concert/Lecture & Exhibit collaboration with Bayt Dakira Morocco, the Minerva Festival & Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

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7-10 April. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presents '(en)gendered "ordinary" musical transmission: Sephardi women and their quotidian song' at Ordinary Musicians, the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference at Open University.

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11 April. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presents the keynote address 'The Body, the Voice and the Matriarch: Sonic Transmission of (En)gendering beyond Language and Belief' at (En)gendering Ladino ucLadino, at University of California Los Angeles.

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13 April. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz takes part in the Seminar Series Sephardi Modernities by presenting 'Rhizomic Networks of unruptured continuity from 16th c. Italy to 21st c. Casablanca: Music, Power, Mysticism and Neo-Platonism' at University of Calgary and Brandeis University.

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May 19-21. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presents 'Jewish Women and Sound: Simultaneous Negotiations of Resistance, Power and Passivity' at the Minorities in the Maghrib Conference, hosted by the Center for Maghrib Studies University of Arizona, in Djerba, Tunisia.

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21-22 May. Eric Petzoldt hosts the three-day event 'Jaukadakka Afromed' at Le Gyptis, the cinema of La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille, France, including a film showcase, concert, street performance, round table, and lecture with theme 'Jazz in and from Morocco'. Among the participants are: Yoram Rosilio, Majid Bekkas, Reda Zine, Jauk Armand Elmaleh-Lemal, Rita Stirn, and Mickael Clouet.

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20-21 June. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz delivers the keynote for the conference Away from Home: Ideas, Emotions, Images and Writings on Homesickness in the Mediterranean World (1492-1923) at Universidad Novã de Lisboa.

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11-13 July, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presents "Texts -Practices -Politics: The Sonic Cycles of Time in Moroccan Jewish Life" at the 'Unfolding Time' conference of the British and Irish Jewish Studies Association, King's College London.

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8-11 August, Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presents "The Digital Sphere and the Sensory: KHOYA—Jewish Morocco Sound Archive’s Yalalla Platform as a Repository for Jewish Women’s Silenced Voices" at the 18th World Congress for Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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5-7 September. 'Creative & Artistic Encounters in the Western Mediterranean'. Project conference held at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen. AND the conference contains a range of exhibitions both in person and online. 

 

6 September 2022

Eric Petzoldt presents his paper: ‘Beyond Tokenism: Decolonising Jazz in Morocco and Europe’ at Creative & Artistic Encounters in the Western Mediterranean (University of Aberdeen)

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8-10 September. Vanessa Paloma Elbaz presents 'Music, the Senses and Renaissance Jewish Musical Theurgy' at the Royal Musical Association 58th Annual Conference, Durham University.

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