An interdisciplinary conference being held at Yale Friday-Saturday, April 14-15, will explore the very nature of interdisciplinarity itself.
Titled "Baroque Bridges: Music, Poetry and the Visual Arts in 17th-Century Italy," the event is sponsored by the Departments of Music and of Italian.
The conference will focus on the close relationship between the arts in Baroque-era Italy, when music, poetry and the visual arts were first combined into the new artistic form known as opera. "Indeed," write the event organizers, "such permeability of boundary may be taken as an essential aspect of Baroque aesthetics, in which the distinctions between the individual arts are blurred, each aspiring in some way to the condition of the others.
"In challenging the traditional limits of the individual arts," continue the organizers, "Baroque culture offers an ideal ground on which to test the very idea of critical interdisciplinarity."
In their presentations, scholars from several fields will address the general question of interdisciplinarity, particularly from the perspective of their own discipline, and will consider how the tools used to analyse and interpret works in one field are relevant to the other disciplines. Participants include scholars from Yale and other universities in the United States, Canada, Norway, Italy and Switzerland.
The sessions will take place 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m. on Saturday in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.
In conjunction with the conference, there will be a concert titled "Tears and Song: A Musical Debate in 17th-Century Venice" at 7 p.m. on Friday in Sudler Recital Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St.
Both the concert and conference are free and open to the public. Further information is available at (203) 432-2985 or mauro.calcagno@yale.edu.
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