BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251120T041143EST-9077eJ3hPi@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251120T091143Z DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:  Adalyat Issiyeva\n\n\n Find out more about attending events at Schulich\n \n \n Title: ‘Out of Silence: Listening to the (Muted?) Voices of Russia's S ubjects’\n\n  \n\n Abstract:\n According to the first - and only - Russian Im perial census of 1897\, less than half of the Empire’s population spoke Ru ssian as their native language. What was the place of ethnic minorities’ c ultures within the ever-growing Russian Empire and later within the tightl y controlled Soviet Union? This talk focuses on musical representations of Taranchi (or modern Uighur) people in late-Imperial Russia and explores h ow their identity was negotiated\, absorbed\, assimilated\, and/or (mis)re presented by the dominant culture. I also discuss the life and music of th e first Soviet Uighur composer Kuddus Kuzhamiarov (1918–1994) in the conte xt of the Soviet Union’s controversial minority relations\, which regularl y involved the extensive manipulation of music for political ends.  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n Biography:\n\n Adalyat Issiyev a holds a Bachelor of Music from Almaty State Conservatoire and completed master’s and doctoral work at ɬ﷬. Shifting from an ethnomus icological focus (“Philosophical and Religious Aspects of Uighur Muqam”) t o western European early music\, her master’s research\, “Ostinato Motets by Josquin des Prez\,” investigated number symbolism and compositional tec hniques in renaissance music. She completed her doctoral dissertation titl ed “Russian Orientalism: From Ethnography to Art-Song in Russian Nineteent h-Century Music.” She has published articles in several journals (Revue du Centre Européen d’Etudes Slaves\, Sacre Celebration: Revisiting\, Reflect ing\, Revisioning\, and Revue musicale OICRM )\, as well as in a collectio n of articles (Rimsky-Korsakov and His World). Her book Representing Russi a’s Orient\, published by Oxford University Press\, explores the political implications of nineteenth-century Russian art songs with oriental subjec ts\, both within and outside the context of Edward Said’s Orientalism.\n\n Her research interests include Russian music\, Orientalism\, nationalism a nd identity formation\, (music) ethnography\, Central Asian music and cult ure\, and the politics of representation. In addition to her academic life \, she has participated in a number of folk festivals\, representing Uighu r traditional dance and songs at the Smithsonian Silk Road Festival\, amon g others.\n \n \n\n \n  \n\n DTSTART:20230120T213000Z DTEND:20230120T233000Z LOCATION:C-201\, Strathcona Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1E3\, 555 rue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music): Adalyat Issiyeva URL:/music/channels/event/doctoral-colloquium-music-ad alyat-issiyeva-344984 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR