{"id":258,"date":"2025-01-06T22:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T22:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.organology.ams-net.org\/?page_id=258"},"modified":"2026-07-04T03:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:18:57","slug":"virtual-organology-discussion-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.organology.ams-net.org\/?page_id=258","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Organology Discussion Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Spring 2025, the Organology Study Group of the American Musicological Society held our first Virtual Organology Discussion Groups, starting with two topical panels followed by Q&amp;A and discussion. These Zoom sessions were envisioned as a means to link scholars who center musical instruments in their work, providing opportunities for junior scholars to interact with leading members of the field, and a way for &#8220;lone organologists&#8221; to engage with interlocutors outside their home institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our next session will be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Organology<\/strong> <strong>Office Hours&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wednesday, August 5th, 2026<\/strong> 10:00 AM PT \/ 11:00 AM MT \/ 12:00 PM CT \/ 1:00 PM ET \/ 6:00 PM BST \/ 7:00 PM CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This student work session will feature three students with work-in-progress who will briefly pitch their project and its challenges to a panel of scholars, followed by a discussion about next steps and suggestions.  Our panelist mentors for this novel session format are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Emily Dolan,<em> Professor of Music, Brown University<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Edmond Johnson, <em>Senior Director of Advising, Affiliated Faculty in Music History, Occidental College<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our first two sessions were: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fictophones: Exploring Imaginary Instruments <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lKOiTVnCpRQ\">Video Recording<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thursday, February 12th, 2026<\/strong> 11:00 AM PT \/ 12:00 PM MT \/ 1:00 PM CT \/ 2:00 PM ET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Deirdre&nbsp;Loughridge, <em>Professor of Music, Northeastern University<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Thomas Patteson, <em>Lecturer of Music, University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAt the Museum\u201d: Working with Instrument Collections<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Yi6v5xnCuxs\">Video Recording<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday, April 24th,<\/strong> <strong>2026<\/strong> 10:00 AM PT \/ 11:00 AM MT \/ 12:00 PM CT \/ 1:00 PM ET \/ 6:00 PM BST \/ 7:00 PM CET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Emanuele Marconi, <em>Director of the Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Staatliches Institut f\u00fcr Musikforschung<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, <em>Senior Conservator of the Heritage Collections of the University of Edinburgh<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Robert Bigio, <em>Flute Maker and Scholar<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, <em>Assistant Professor of Cultural Musicology, University of Leuven<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Zoom links will be distributed in advance of each session via the OSG newsletter (sign up at the bottom of the page).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can access video recordings of last year&#8217;s panel sessions below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Careers in Organology<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/v6QGg98KQ6E\">Video Recording<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 <\/strong>12:00 PM MT \/ 1:00 PM CT \/ 2:00 PM ET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Eliot Bates, <em>Associate Professor of Music &amp; Head of Ethnomusicology, CUNY Graduate Center<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, <em>Curator, Department of Musical Instruments, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Sebastian Kirsch, Director, <em>Collection of Historic Musical&nbsp; Instruments, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Boaz Berney, <em>Historical Flute Maker, Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pedagogy &amp; Outreach<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5ts7l-JExSQ\">Video Recording<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 <\/strong>11:00 AM MT \/ 12:00 PM CT \/ 1:00 PM ET<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\">Emily Dolan,<em> Professor of Music, Chair of Music, Brown University<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Sarah Deters, <em>Curator, St Cecilia\u2019s Hall Concert Room &amp; Music Museum, University of Edinburgh<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Lidia Chang, <em>Assistant Professor of Music, Colorado College<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panelists (as well as Arnold Myers) have shared syllabi and course overviews from their own teaching.&nbsp; They can be accessed <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1WeMwaqcYMxcC-iLnOY6z9D21nliXSg43?usp=drive_link\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spring 2025, the Organology Study Group of the American Musicological Society held our first Virtual Organology Discussion Groups, starting with two topical panels followed by Q&amp;A and discussion. 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