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10:30 - 11:00
OPENING SPEECHES

• S.E. M. Mohamed Benaissa
  General Secretary of the Assilah Forum Foundation.
• Chérif Khaznadar
  Director, Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris.
• Musical interlude by Waed Bouhassoune
• Pierre Bois
  Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris.
  Scientific coordinator of the conference.

11:00 - 12:30
INTRODUCTION
Moderator: Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu.

• Jean Lambert
  Maître de conférences, Musée de l'Homme, Paris (France).
  Directeur du Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences sociales de Sanaa (Yémen).
  Retour sur le Congrès de la musique arabe du Caire de 1932. Identité, diversité, acculturation, les prémisses d'une mondialisation ?

• Jean During
  Directeur de recherches, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (France).
  L'oreille mondiale et la voix de l'Orient.

MUSIC ACROSS BORDERS
Wednesday August 8, 2007

14:30 - 16:00
CIRCULATION
Moderator: Prof. James D. Chopyak.

• John Baily
  Professor, Department of Music, Goldsmiths, University of London (United Kingdom).
  The circulation of "New music" between Afghanistan and its Transnational community.

• Habib Yammine
  Musicien, Chargé de cours, Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis (Lebanon/France).
  De l'état actuel du rythme dans le monde arabe. Conservation, évolution, création et interaction avec les autres cultures musicales.

• Larry Francis Hilarian
  Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education (Singapore).
  The migration of lute-type instruments to the Muslim Malay world.

• Jonathan Shannon
  Assistant Professor, Hunter College, New York (United States).
  Composition, tradition and the anxiety of musical influence in Syrian and Moroccan Andalusian musics.

• Margaret Kartomi
  Professor, Department of Music, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia).
  The art of body percussion and movement as an expression of cultural memory and social transformation in Aceh (Sumatra) and its links in countries around the northern rim of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean.

• Lisa Urkevich
  Professor, Head of the Division Humanities and Arts, American University of Kuwait (United States/Kuwait).
  ‘Ardah: Kuwaiti presentation of a Saudi genre.

MUSIC ACROSS BORDERS (cont.)
Thursday August 9, 2007

10:00 - 12:30
INFLUENCES 1 : AFRICA
Moderator: Prof. Lester Monts.

• Michel Guignard
  Ingénieur polytechnicien (e.r.), docteur en psychologie sociale (France).
  Les griots maures et leur musique : origine et évolutions contemporaines.

• Everett Shiverenje Igobwa
  Contract Faculty, York University, Toronto (Canada [Kenya]).
  Taarab and Chakacha in East Africa: transformation, appreciation and adaptation of two popular music genres of the Kenyan coast.

• Annemette Kirkegaard
  Associate Professor, Department of Musicology, University of Copenhagen (Denmark).
  East African Taarab as a contemporary mediator of the diversity and vitality of a musical tradition within Islamic culture.

• Abdalla Uba Adamu
  Professor, Department of Science Education and Curriculum Studies, Bayero University, Kano (Nigeria).
  Transnational influences and national appropriations: the influence of Hindi film music on Muslim Hausa popular and religious music.

• János Sipos
  Senior researcher, Institute for Musicology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary).
  In the wake of Bartók --- common musical layers in Europe and Asia.

• Ardian Ahmedaja
  Researcher, Institut für Volkskmusikforschung und Ethnomusikologie, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien (Austria [Albania]).
  'Ahengu shkodran' and its Balkan contexts.

• Eleni Kallimopoulou
  Teaching Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (United Kingdom [Greece]).
  "Come years, come time, they will be ours once more…": Cultural intimacy and the construction of difference across the Aegean.

• Violetta Yunusova
  Professor, Foreign Music History Department, Moscow State Conservatory (Russie).
  Modern Russian Islamic music traditions: history of the relationships with Islamic regions.

• Irene Markoff
  Associate Faculty, York University, Toronto (Canada).
  A cross-cultural examination of the expressive culture of Turkish-speaking Alevi/Bektashi and Alevi/Babai (Bobai) communities in the Eastern Rhodope mountains of Southern Bulgaria: in search of origins and parallels with Turkish Alevi/Bektashi and Tahtac¶s.

• Mridul Kanti Chakrobarty
  Professor, University of Dhaka (Bangladesh).
  Influence of Islam in the traditional music of Bangladesh.

• Laxmi G. Tewari
  Professor, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA (India/USA).
  Common grounds between Bhajan and Qawwali.

• Amir Hosein Pourjavady
  Assistant Professor, University of Tehran (Iran).
  Indian and Afghan influences on the Persian musical culture during the 18th and 19th centuries.

MAKING MUSIC
Friday August 10, 2007

10:00 - 12:30
TRADITION : SOME APPRAISALS
Moderator: Ahmed Aydoun.

• Jean Lambert
  Maître de conférences, Musée de l'Homme, Paris (France).
  Directeur du Centre Français d'Archéologie et de Sciences sociales de Sanaa (Yémen).
  Le Chant de Sanaa, quel destin au-delà d'une campagne internationale de préservation ?

• Scheherazade Hassan (in arabic)
  Enseignante-chercheure. Fondatrice du premier centre de musiques traditionnelles de Bagdad (Irak/France).
  Un genre majeur menacé d'extinction : le Maqâm irakien.

• Najwa Adra
  Dance Anthropologist, Development Consultant, Glen Cove, Neww York (Lebanon/USA).
  The state of dancing traditions in the Arabian Peninsula.

• Said El-Maghrebi
  Professeur, Université Hassan II, Mohammedia (Maroc).
  Pertinence et rôle explicites des Maghrébins dans la survie de la pratique musicale.

14:30 - 16:30
TRADITION, INNOVATION, MODERNITY
Moderator : Prof. János Sipos.

• Mourad Sakli
  Musicologue, compositeur, concertiste, directeur du Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes, Tunis (Tunisie).
  Musique néo-traditionnelle arabe et contrainte identitaire. Le concept d'intonation musicale.

• Amine Beyhom
  Enseignant-chercheur, Université Antonine, Hadath-Baabda (Liban).
  Arabité et modernité en musique ou de quel modèle se démarquer.

• Fethi Salah
  Maître de conférences, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Kouba, Alger (Algérie).
  Le ‘Néo-andalou’ à Alger. Procédés d'innovation structurale dans la tradition musicale.

• Sanubar J. Baghirova
  Researcher, Institute of Architecture & Art, National Academy of sciences, Baku (Azerbaijan).
  Azerbaijani mugham: Between tradition and innovation.

• Ankica Petrovic
  Adjunct Professor, Department of Ethnomusicology and Department of World Arts and Cultures, University of California in Los Angeles (USA [Bosnia]).
  Islamic echoes in Bosnia and Hercegovina: tradition and modernity.

16:45 - 18:45
PRACTICES AND CONCEPTS
Moderator : Dr. Jean During.

• Nidaa Abou Mrad
  Directeur de l’Institut supérieur de musique, Université Antonine, Hadath-Baabda (Liban).
  Esquisse d'une procédure d'authentification par isosémie de la production musicale du Proche-Orient.

• Federico Spinetti
  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Music, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada [Italy]).
  Sonic practices and concepts in Tajik popular music.

• Mohammad R Azadehfar
  Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Music, Tehran Art University (Iran).
  Conceptualization of melody types of Iranian Radîf:
  a multidisciplinary study in assisting youth to employ traditional Dastgah-ha in improvisation.

MUSIC, SOCIETY AND POWER
Saturday August 11, 2007

10:00 - 12:30
MUSIC, IDENTITIES
Moderator: Prof. John Baily.

• Dieter Christensen
  ssor Emeritus, Columbia University, New York (USA [Germany]).
  Music in Kurdish identity formations.

• Deborah Kapchan
  Associate Professor, Department of Performance Studies, New York University (USA).
  Dar Gnawa: creating heritage and the African diaspora through sound, image and word.

• Nasser Al-Taee
  Assistant Professor, School of Music, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA [Oman]).
  Let me Rai: Politics, Identity, and Sexual Narrative in Algerian Rai.

• Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco
  Professeur, directrice de l'Instituto de Etnomusicologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal [Egypt]).
  Arab music, nationalism, and modernity in twentieth century Egypt.

• Anne Elise Thomas
  Educational Program Coordinator, Jefferson Center, Roanoke VA (USA).
  Intervention and reform of Arab music in 1932 and beyond.

• Nicolas Puig
  Chargé de recherches, Institut de Recherches pour le Développement (France) et Institut Français du Proche-Orient (Liban).
  Musiques de mariage, mariage des musiques. Les mutations des farahs beledis au Caire depuis les années cinquante.

• Dieter Christensen
  Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, New York (USA [Germany]).
  Public performance, professionalism and patronage: politics of cultural heritage in Southern Arabia.

• Sasan Fatemi
  Maître de conférences à l’Université de Téhéran (Iran).
  Musique des élites et genèse de la popular music (étude comparative des cas de l'Iran, de l'Égypte et de l'Azerbaïdjan).

• Ariane Zevaco
  Doctorante à l'Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (France), allocataire de recherche à l'IFRI (Iran).
  Musiques populaires au Tadjikistan : le musicien entre "traditionnel" et "pop".

• Woube Kassaye
  Assistant Professor, College of Education, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia).
  Analysis of the Harari/Aderi (Muslim society) music of Ethiopia.

MUSIC, SOCIETY AND POWER (end)
Sunday August 12, 2007

10:00 - 12:30
MUSIC AND RELIGION
Moderator: Dr. Annemette Kirkegaard.

• Lester Monts
  Professor, Ethnomusicology Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (USA).
  Islam, Music, and Religious Change in Liberia.

• James D. Chopyak
  Professor, Department of Music, California State University, Sacramento (USA).
  Globalization, Westernization and Islamic influence in Music in Malaysia.

• Wim van Zanten
  Staff member of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (Netherlands) - Vice President of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM).
  God is not only in the holy scriptures, but also in the arts: music, cultural policies and Islam in West Java, Indonesia.

• Birgit Berg
  PhD candidate, Brown University, Providence RI (USA).
  Presence and Power of the Arab Idiom in Indonesian Islamic Musical Arts.

• Ahmed El Kheliegh (en arabe)
  Musicologue, producteur à la radio (Maroc).
  Musique et soufisme au Maroc.
  

• Veronica Doubleday
  Visiting Lecturer, School of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Brighton (United Kingdom).
  The role of women and children’s amateur music-making in Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora: considering continuity and change.

• Anna Oldfield Senarslan
  PhD candidate, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA).
  "It's time to drink blood like its Sherbet": Azerbaijani women ashiqs and the transformation of tradition.

• Ilaria Sartori
  PhD candidate, La Sapienza University, Rome. Member of the UNESCO project "Ethiopia. Traditional Music, Dance and Instruments" (Italy).
  Cultural identity, Islamic revivalism and women’s new-found role in preserving and transmitting musical traditions. Suggestions from Harar, Ethiopia.

• Razia Sultanova
  Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (United Kingdom [Uzbekistan]).
  Female sufism in Central Asia: from poetry to music.

• Anne K. Rasmussen
  Associate Professor, Department of Music, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA (USA).
  “The Muslim Sisterhood:” transnational feminism(s), and the work of Indonesian women in cross-cultural perspective.

CLOSING SESSION
Monday August 13, 2007

17:00 - 19:00
BUILDING THE FIELD OF ETHNOMUSICOLOGY IN THE ARAB WORLD AND IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM.
Discussion introduced and moderated by
Prof. Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco & Prof. John Baily

Introduction (English)

Témoignages :

J. Lambert : Archives (French)

M. Sakli : The 'CMAM' (French)

J. During : Transmission (French)

J. Baily : Afghan situation (English)

A. Kirkegaard : Freemuse.org (English)

S. Fatemi : Education in Iran (French)

S. Hassan : Situation in Iraq (Arabic)

 N. Adra : Research, archives and preservation of dance (English)

Interventions :

N. Al-Taee (English)

L. H. Francis (English)

V. Yunusova (English)

W. Kassaye (English)

H. Yammine (French)

D. Christensen (English)

W. van Zanten (English)

S. Baghirova (English)

A. Essyad (French)

Conclusion :

J. Baily (English)

19:00-20:00
CLOSING SPEECHES

• Chérif Khaznadar
  Director, Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris.
• Musical interlude by Haj Younes
• Pierre Bois
  Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris.
  Scientific coordinator of the conference.
• Prof. Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco reads the recommendations
• S.E. M. Mohamed Benaissa
  General Secretary of the Assilah Forum Foundation.