Newswise — On Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2011 Stony Brook Manhattan will host an international conference called “Rival Sisters: Art and Music at the Birth of Modernism.” The event is organized by Professor James Rubin of the Department of Art in conjunction with the Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University, directed by E. Ann Kaplan. The event will be held at Stony Brook Manhattan, located at 387 Park Avenue South (27th Street), 3rd Floor, from 10 AM to 6 PM on both days, and is free and open to the public. Collaborations between art and music are a regular part of today's interdisciplinary and multimedia arts, but at the beginning of modernity they were very separate forms, and there was rivalry between them regarding which was the most meaningful experience. The conference will explore the changing nature of the relationship between the “sister arts” during the period 1815-1915 and will involve leading scholars in art, music, literature and philosophy. “The breakdown of barriers—from the technical to the philosophical—characteristic of today's ‘intersensory’ and performative artworks has its roots in the history our conference will explore,” explained Rubin. “This will be a stimulating and informative conference on a topic that is of eternal interest as art and musical forms evolve and change, and as their relationship adjusts to new technologies, new theories, new practices,” added Kaplan. The keynote speaker will be Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, speaking on “Just how sisterly are the sister arts?” Other speakers will include Timothy Barringer, Yale University; Therese Dolan, Temple University; Delphine Grivel, Observatoire musical de Paris; Anne Leonard, The Smart Museum, The University of Chicago; Olivia Mattis, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University; Charlotte de Mille, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Julie Ramos, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris; James Rubin, Stony Brook University and Simon Shaw-Miller, Birkbeck College, University of London. The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook was established in 1987 to promote interdisciplinary research. Its varied programs have built, and continue to build, bridges between the human sciences and the medical, technical and natural sciences, and to reach out to the local community. Support for this event has been provided by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, along with the following units at Stony Brook University: Humanities Institute at Stony Brook, FAHSS, Office of the Vice President for Research, and the Departments of Art, Music, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, English, European Languages and Literature, and Philosophy.
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