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“Attention, Cognition, and the Auditory Self, 1770-1920” a virtual symposium with fourteen speakers co-convened with Francesca Brittan on August 5-6, 2021.

This conference was sponsored by my MPIEA Research Group, “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body.”

Please visit the symposium webpage here.




“Future Histories of Music Theory: Problems and Possibilities” a virtual workshop with nearly 100 participants, co-convened with Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, and Nathan Martin on June 17, 2021.

This conference was sponsored by my MPIEA Research Group, “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body.”

Please visit the conference webpage here.




“Histories of Musical and Poetic Meter” a 2-day workshop organized at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, March 14-15, 2019.

This conference was sponsored by my MPIEA Research Group, “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body.”

Please visit the conference webpage here.




“Histories of Rhythmic Theory, 1600-present” a 2-day workshop organized at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, November 19-20, 2018.

This conference was sponsored by my MPIEA Research Group, “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body.”

Please visit the conference webpage here.




“Future Histories of Music Theory,” a 2-day workshop organized at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, July 19-20, 2018.

This conference was sponsored by my MPIEA Research Group, “Histories of Music, Mind, and Body.”

Please visit the conference webpage here.




“‘Altered States’: Mind, Embodiment, Aesthetics,” co-organized with Céline Frigau Manning (Université Paris 8 — Institut Universitaire de France) and Nicholas Manning (Sorbonne Université), a 2-day conference at the Sorbonne and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), June 1-2, 2018.

This conference was co-sponsored by the Sorbonne Université, Université Paris 8, The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, Columbia Global Center Paris, the Institut universitaire de France, and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art.

Please visit the conference website here.






“Instruments of Music Theory,” co-organized with Roger Grant (Wesleyan University), Andrew Hicks (Cornell University), Nathan Martin (University of Michigan), Caleb Mutch (Indiana University), and Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University), a 2-day conference at the Eastman School of Music, November 8-9, 2017.

This conference was co-sponsored by The Central New York Humanities Corridor (from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University, The Journal of Music Theory, The Eastman School of Music, Cornell University, The Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory, The American Musicological Society’s History of Theory Study Group, and a subvention grant from the Society for Music Theory.

Please visit the conference website here.






“Sound and Sense in Britain, 1770–1840,” co-organized with James Grande (King's College London), 2-day conference at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, May 12-13, 2017.

This conference was co-sponsored by the European Research Council’s “Music in London, 1800-1851 Project” directed by Roger Parker, King’s College London.

Please visit the conference website here.






“Music and the Body between Revolutions: Paris, 1789–1848,” co-organized with Céline Frigau Manning (Université Paris 8) and Julia Doe (Columbia University), 2-day conference on at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, March 31-April 1, 2017.

This conference was co-sponsored by Université Paris 8, The Center for Science and Society, the Institut universitaire de France, the European Commission Horizon 2020, and the Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (IHRIM).

More information here.




“Global Histories of Music Theory,” co-organized with Dr. Lan Li, a 1-day conference at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, February 20, 2017.

This conference was co-sponsored by the Music Department at Cornell University, the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, the Music Department at Columbia University, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Center for Korean Research.

Please visit the conference website here.