Appel de conférences pour le colloque « The Theatre of Death. Noble Funerals
with Music in Early Modern Europe », en ligne, 11-13 avril 2025.

« By combining a comprehensive methodology with a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach — one that encompasses social history, the cultural history of art, urban musicology, and historical anthropology — the present conference aims to explore the long history of funerary cultural practices designed to assert and perpetuate power.

Taking music and sound as a point of departure, it seeks to examine the meaning, perception, and transformation of these funerary events that were not only at the heart of the ritualisation of the urban space but were also where the different strata of society intersected.

This conference is open to researchers of all backgrounds, whether musicologists and musicians or historians and researchers in other fields including (but not restricted to) cultural anthropology, the figurative arts, literature, and architecture. »

Date limite de soumission : 16 février 2025.

Pour plus de détails : cliquez ici.

Image : Michelangelo Merisi, dit Caravaggio, Italy, Louvre Museum, Département des Peintures, INV 54.