Call for papers: Musical practices of Armenians in present-day Istanbul. Sensory memory and sonic presence
International Conference March 12th (Thursday) and 13th (Friday), 2015, Jean Monnet University, Saint-Étienne (France) Conference Languages : French/English Scientific Committee : Anne Damon-Guillot (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne) Nicolas Élias (Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes, Istanbul) Jérôme Cler (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Organizing Committee : Anne Damon-Guillot (Université Jean Monnet de Saint-Étienne) Nicolas Élias (Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes, Istanbul) Talia Bachir-Loopuyt (Institut de Recherche sur les Musiques du Monde, Paris) Statement of intent Recent studies in Turkey – the work of Aram Kerovpyan and Altug Yilmaz (2010) and the PhD thesis of Burcu Yıldız (2012), for example –, show that musicology takes on the subject of musics played, sung, composed, listened to by the Armenians in Istanbul with a new methodology and