Event overview
With Keynote Presentation by Professor Tina K. Ramnarine "Musical and Botanical Activism"
Plus presentations by Ed Hicks, Christopher Morris, James Flint Jr, Michael Giaquinto and Nicholas Herzberg.
Keynote Presentation Abstract
Tina K. Ramnarine: Musical and Botanical Activism
This paper explores the role played by music in promoting ecological awareness in a botanical context. It focuses on several recent musical installations in the world heritage site of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Today, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew is an international centre of conservation ecology, identified by UNESCO as a site of ‘Outstanding Universal Value’. A museum in the Gardens features exhibits on musical instruments. Music festivals are regularly hosted in the Gardens. Both the museum exhibits and the festival performances reveal, in different ways, how this site has been part of Britain’s scientific, trading and imperial histories since the 18th century. The Gardens also house extensive plant collections and pioneer developments in botanical science, which are brought into the domain of public knowledge through, in part, musical installations. The paper draws on biopolitical thought to analyse different examples and frame them in terms of botanical activism.
Tina K. Ramnarine is a musician, anthropologist and global cultural explorer. She has undertaken field research across the Nordic countries, the Caribbean, India and Indonesia. Publications include the books Creating Their Own Space: The Development of an Indian-Caribbean Musical Tradition (2001), Ilmatar's Inspirations: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Changing Soundscapes of Finnish Folk Music (2003), Beautiful Cosmos: Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspora (2007), and an edited volume Musical Performance in the Diaspora (2007). She is Professor in Music at RHUL.
All welcome to attend this symposium.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 6 Jun 2017 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
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