Thank you!

The conference is now officially closed but we hope the memory of it will live on. We would kindly like to thank everybody involved but especially the speakers who came from different parts of the world to share their ideas with us.
Here's a selection of pictues from both days:

 Katarzyna du Vall, Jagiellonian University

Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek, University of Warsaw

Mariya Russeva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Ralph Buchenhorst, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Joanna Miklaszewska, University of Wrocław

Naures Atto, University of Cambridge

Małgorzata Ćwikła, Jagiellonian University

Agata Chałupnik, University of Warsaw; Małgorzata Maryl-Wójcik, University of Warsaw

Matt Lawson, Edge Hill University

Raphael Israeli, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Katarzyna du Vall; Matt Lawson; Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek; Ralph 
Buchenhorst; Morag Josephine Grant, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; 
Mariya Russeva; Małgorzata Ćwikła; Wojciech Klimczyk, Jagiellonian University; 
Raphael Israeli; Naures Atto; Agata Chałupnik

Schedule updated!

With great regret we inform that due to personal problems a couple of the speakers will not be able to atend the conference. The schedule had to be therefore revised. You can find the updated plan below.
We are very happy to announce that the conference will be opened by vice-dean of the Faculty of Philosophy dr hab. Leszek Sosnowski. We are very honored and greateful.

Poster!

design by Ada Augustyniak (www.adaaugustyniak.pl)
thank you, Ada!

Artistic program of the conference

International Interdisciplinary Conference "Music and Genocide" is proud to present the accompanying artistic program.

On Friday, 16th at 19:00 in Manggha Centre for Japanese Art and Technology contemporary dance collective Harakiri Farmers will present its brand new piece "Stille". The performance mixes movement and live music written by acclaimed composer Aleksandra Gryka and performed by Cztery Czwarte Quartet.

"Stille" investigates the notions of utopia on the physical level. What happens to the human body in highly utopian environment? Can we treat utopia as a virus? These are the main questions addressed in the piece. Four dancers go on a journey through the history of utopian thinking accompanying by the string quartet. During this journey the audience is more and more immersed in the deep waters of sensual sounds and images. What looks like a presentation becomes a challenge. Just like silence, sinister and comforting at the same time. Silence seen not as lack of sounds but eternal peace which we all seek but which is here on earth impossible. 

direction: Wojtek Klimczyk
choreography: Dominika Knapik (in collaboration with the dancers)
music: Aleksandra Gryka
performed by: Cztery Czwarte Quartet (Karolina Szymbara, Marta Rychlik, Zuzanna Iwańska, Agnieszka Majchrzyk)
dance: Przemysław Kamiński, Mikołaj Karczewski, Dominika Knapik, Natalia Wilk
dramaturgy: Wojtek Klimczyk, Iga Gańczarczyk
produced by Association for Humanistic Initiatives in Arts Sztruks 
co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage 

www.harakirifarmers.com 
www.facebook.com/stowarzyszenie.sztruks

Admission: 20 pln 

 
On Saturday, 17th at 19:00 in Manggha Centre for Japanese Art and Technology Lawrence Kramer with the help of Krakow-based musicians will present his composition "A Short History (Of the Twentieth Century)" for High Voice and Percussion

The text of A Short History is a list of forty-eight place names, each of which marks a scene of atrocity and mass death. The implication speaks for itself. The history spans the period between the First World War and what the composition takes to be the symbolic end of the century on the slightly belated date of September 11, 2001. Interspersed with the place names are a few brief quotations and a paraphrase from T. S. Eliot's 1922 poem The Waste Land--phrases that in retrospect take on the weight of premonitions: iconic place names, the idea of the city as a utopia gone bad, and the image of falling towers. The sequence of names is roughly chronological; some acts of naming occur out of sequence to mark historical connections or ironies.

High Voice: Joanna Radziszewska

Percussion: Maciej Hałoń, Jacek Dwojak

The performance will include comments from the composer and Q&A with the audience

Lawrence Kramer is Distinguished Professor of Music and English at Fordham University. He is the author of many books, including Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History; Opera and Modern Culture;  Why Classical Music Still Matters; Interpreting Music; and Expression and Truth: On the Music of Knowledge. He is also an active composer with numerous performances of vocal and chamber works both in the United States, including Lincoln Center and the campus of the Santa Fe Opera, and Europe, including Vienna, Oxford, and Edinburgh. 

Admission: free

 We kindly invite you to join us also in this very special activities!

Schedule

DAY I, Friday, November, 16th 2012


9:30-10:00 Opening of the conference by dr hab. Leszek Sosnowski, vice-dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University


10:00 – 11:20 Panel I – Topologies of the problem

10:00-10:30 M.J. Grant (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Theorising music’s role in genocide: An interdisciplinary approach

10:30-11:00 Wojciech Klimczyk (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) Impossible Silence? On Genocide as Music

11:00-11:20 Discussion


11:20-11:40 Coffee Break


11:40 – 13:00 Panel II – Third Reich I

11:40-12:10 Katarzyna Du Vall (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) Music and the ‘Aryan Paragraph’ in the Third Reich

12:10-12:40 Katarzyna Naliwajek-Mazurek (University of Warsaw) Roles of Music in the Nazi Genocide System in Occupied Poland

12:40-13:00 Discussion


13:00-13:20 Coffee Break


13:20 – 15:10 Panel III – Third Reich II

13:20-13:50 Mariya Russeva ( Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) The Holocaust requiem - commemoration or redemption

13:50-14:20 Ralph Buchenhorst (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg) „ … as if the shame before the victims would be offended“ – Adorno’s verdict on Arnold Schoenberg’s “A survivor from Warsaw”

14:20-14:50 Joanna Miklaszewska (University of Wrocław) Contemporary Music Documenting the Nazi Terror: Steve Reich's 'Different Trains'

14:50-15:10 Discussion



DAY II, Saturday, November 17th 2012


10:00-11:50 Panel IV – Middle East

10:00-10:30 Naures Atto (Cambridge University) Modern Songs about the Assyrian Genocide

10:30-11:00 Natalia Hapek (University of Warsaw) The Circassian Genocide and its Reflection in Music

11:00-11:30 Azadeh Latifkar & Arman Goharinasab Goek-Depe Maqam and the Narration of Turkmen Massacre

11:30-11:50 Discussion


11:50-12:10 Coffee Break


Panel V – Balkans, Rwanda, Auschwitz

12:10-12:40 Ida Orzechowska (University of Wrocław) The sonic continuity of the Balkan genocides

12:40-13:10 Małgorzata Maryl-Wójcik (University of Warsaw) The role of music  and radio in the Rwandan genocide in 1994

13:10-13:40 Agata Chałupnik & Paweł Dobrosielski (University of Warsaw) The Audiosphere of Auschwitz – you can close your eyes, but you can’t close your ears

13:40-14:00 Discussion


14:00-14:20 Coffee Break


14:20-15:40 Panel VI – Contexts

14:20-14:50 Matt Lawson (Edge Hill University) Scoring the Holocaust

14:50-15:20 Raphael Israeli (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) On non-musician artists in Jasenovac during World War II

15:20-15:40 Discussion

15:40-16:00 Closing of the conference 

Practical information

TRANSPORT
From Kraków Airport to Kraków Main Railway Station
Option 1: Bus Service
Bus lines:
208 – Dworzec Główny Wschód
292 – Dworzec Główny Wschód
902 (night line) – Dworzec Główny Wschód
Useful information to be found here: http://www.krakowairport.pl/en/61/176/36
Option 2: Train
More information available here:
http://www.krakowairport.pl/en/3/176/35
Option 3: Taxi
We recommend that you use Icar:
Tel.: + 48 12 653 5555; + 48 515 87 5555; + 48 888 97 5555

VENUE
Manggha Centre for Japanese Art and Technology
M. Konopnickiej 26, Kraków
http://manggha.pl/en/

HOW TO GET FROM THE MAIN RAILWAY STATION TO THE MUSEUM OF JAPANESE ART AND TECHNOLOGY "MANGGHA"

Tram lines from Dworzec Główny (Main railway station) stop:

72

(direction Łagiewniki). You should get off on the 5th stop (Most Grunwaldzki) and walk for about 6 min (260 m in a straight line).

19

(direction Borek Fałęcki). You should get off on the 6th stop (Most Grunwaldzki) and walk for about 6 min (260 m in a straight line). Search for transport around Kraków and the timetables: http://krakow.jakdojade.pl/?locale=en
ACCOMMODATION
We recommend that the participants planning to stay in Kraków visit the following sites to
find out about the accommodation possibilities in Kraków:
Hotels and hostels:
ANDEL'S HOTEL
Pawia 3
http://www.vi-hotels.com/en/andels-cracow/
ASTON HOSTEL
Długa 41
http://www.astonhostel.pl/en
ATLANTIS HOSTEL
Dietla 58
http://www.atlantishostel.pl/home.htm
DOM TURYSTY
M. Skłodowskiej-Curie 6
http://domturysty.info/en/
FLORIAŃSKA GUESTHOUSE
Floriańska 49
http://www.dg.uj.edu.pl/florianska
MOMOTOWN HOSTEL
Miodowa 28
http://www.momotownhostel.com/index.php
PREMIUM HOSTEL
Pomorska 2
http://www.premiumhostel.pl/
STANISŁAW PIGOŃ VISITING PROFESSORS' HOUSE
Garbarska 7a
http://www.dg.uj.edu.pl/garbarska
TRZY KAFKI GUEST ROOMS, HOSTEL, APARTMENTS
http://www.trzykafki.pl/accommodation/
Complete offer of other hotels and hostels in Kraków available here:
http://cracow.travel/for-tourists/accommodation
http://www.cracowonline.com/
http://welcometokrakow.com/
http://www.nocowanie.pl/noclegi/krakow/

RESTAURANTS

Polish cuisine:
BIAŁA RÓŻA
Straszewskiego 16
http://www.restauracjabialaroza.pl/
CHŁOPSKIE JADŁO
Grodzka 9
św. Jana 3
http://www.chlopskiejadlo.pl/en/restaurants/map?province=All&city=krakow
DOMOWE PRZYSMAKI
Sławkowska 24 A
http://www.domoweprzysmaki.pl/?jezyk=EN
HAWEŁKA
Rynek Główny 34
http://www.hawelka.pl/en/
KOGEL-MOGEL
Sienna 12
http://www.kogel-mogel.pl/en
MIÓD MALINA
Grodzka 40
http://www.miodmalina.pl/
POD ANIOŁAMI
Grodzka 35
http://www.podaniolami.pl/en
POLSKIE JADŁO
św. Jana 30
WESELE
Rynek Główny 10
http://www.weselerestauracja.pl/
WIERZYNEK
Rynek Główny 15
http://www.wierzynek.com.pl/en/wierzynek/about-us.html
Vegetarian cuisine:
CHIMERA
św. Anny 3
http://www.chimera.com.pl/
GREENWAY
Mikołajska 14
http://www.greenway.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=40&Itemid=59&l
ang=en
MOMO
Dietla 49
Others:
U ROMANA (restaurant viewing the city centre)
św. Tomasza 43 (Academy of Music in Kraków, 6th floor)
Selection of restaurants:
http://cracow.travel/places-to-go/restaurants
http://welcometokrakow.com/article,en,restaurants,11.html
Cafes, pubs:
BUNKIER SZTUKI
Plac Szczepański 3a
CAFE JANA
św. Jana 2
KAWIARNIA-RESTAURACJA JAMA MICHALIKA
Floriańska 45
http://www.jamamichalika.pl/index_eng.htm
NOWA PROWINCJA
Bracka 3-5

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CITY TO BE FOUND HERE:
http://www.krakow.pl/english/
http://en.karnet.krakow.pl/
http://www.en.infokrakow.pl/
http://welcometokrakow.com/