Concerts: see the Quebec Concerts page for full details, including ordering information.

Thursday evening: AMS-Committee for Career-Related Issues presents: "Collaborative Internet Tools: Working with Management Issues" (instead of "Teaching with Wikipedia: Pros and Cons")

With the myriad ways that Internet tools organize, distribute, and ultimately control information, the following scholars will discuss collaborative approaches to academic blogging and job wikis.

Ryan Banagale (Harvard University), "The Musicology Job Wiki, Friend or Foe?"
Phil Ford (Indiana University), "Anarchy in the AMS: Blogging as Commons-Based Peer Production"

Co-chairs, Laura Dolp (Montclair State University), Virginia Lamothe (University of Minnesota, Morris), and Jennifer CHJ Wilson (The Graduate Center, CUNY).

Light snacks will be provided.

Thursday, November 1st 5:15-6:15 p.m.
Location: Quebec City Convention Center, Room 208 AB

Committee on the Status of Women, Thursday evening,  8:30 -10:30 PM,   QCCC Room 208 AB:

Gender, Prestige, and the Power of Subject Specialization"

Speakers:

Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan)
Susan Cook (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Kimberlyn Montford (Trinity University)
Berta Joncus (Oxford University)

Friday: Meet with Elizabeth Arndt, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities

I am attending the AMS meeting in Quebec City and will be available to provide information about the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and to discuss ideas for proposed projects.  If you would like to discuss a project, please sign up to meet with me on Friday, November 2.  The sign-up sheet will be on a table reserved for NEH near the conference registration area.  

To help me prepare to discuss your ideas, please send a one- or two-page description of your project via e-mail (earndt at neh. gov). However, I'll be happy to react to a verbal description of a project as well.  I will be on vacation from October 16 until October 29 and won’t be responding to messages until I return, but you may send project descriptions to me by e-mail anytime up until October 30.

One of the reasons I attend the meeting is to identify potential evaluators to serve on NEH panels. If you would like to assist in this capacity, please let me know. I look forward to meeting some of you in Quebec.

Friday 1 p.m. QCCC 205 AB:

The Board of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Study Group (you can see why we abbreviate it) would like to invite all of youto a workshop we will be having for our program this year. The workshop will start at 1:00 p.m. on Friday after our business meeting and run till 1:45.

The workshop will open with some brief comments by scholars (among them Suzanne Cusick, who has written a classic article on the subject) who are incorporating research and theories on LGBTQ topics in their undergraduate and graduate courses (surveys as well as specialized topics). While it is relatively easy to incorporate such topics in specialized graduate classes, it is much tougher to include such material in undergraduate classes (especially the ever problematic survey course with its own unique set of challenges re the canon,
relationships between music as music and the composer's biography, etc.). For example, is there time when discussing Handel to let the students know about Gary Thomas's essay in "Queering the Pitch" and Ellen Harris's AMS award-winning monograph "Handel as Orpheus," and the implications of this work and theorizing for understanding Handel's career as an opera and cantata composer and also as a door to interpreting the music? Other issues that have arisen that may be addressed are: reactions from students (both negative--for religious or other reasons--and positive--because the students are lesbian, gay, etc. and feel that part of their history is being included in the class), or how larger issues of sexuality inform our teaching (how we discuss sexuality when we teach operas, etc.) or topics related to how these issues impact the ways in which we teach women composers, performers, and patrons (if you do!).

We are framing the session as a workshop, and hope to hear from many of you who have been incorporating these topics in your teaching,
regardless of your own sexual orientations.

Bill Meredith

Friday evening: Presidential Forum "Diversity: Strengths and Challenges"

Our president, Charles Atkinson, has organized a very stimulating form to discuss diversity issues in our discipline and in our research: with Gurminder Bhogal, Seow-Chin Ong, Guthrie Ramsey, Leonora Saavedra, and Charles Atkinson. We hope all of you can come and participate in the discussion.

Friday, November 2nd 5:15-6:15 p.m.
Location: Quebec City Convention Center, Room 206 B

If you’re attending the American Musicological Society meeting in Quebec City, you’re invited to the Alexander Street Press breakfast. While you're fueling up for a busy day at AMS, Tim Lloyd and I will present the latest developments in Alexander Street's collection of cross-searchable music and musicology databases, including:

* Our new online scores database, Classical Scores Library
* Our upcoming streaming video databases, Dance in Video and Opera in Video
* Our new streaming audio database Contemporary World Music
* A new service that will enable you to publish your own collections of audio recordings, sheet music, and more
* A slate of exciting new music products featuring streaming audio, video, and text

We've got an extensive breakfast menu planned, so be sure to come early for a hot meal and lots of fresh coffee! Breakfast will be served beginning at 7:00.m., with presentations beginning at 7:30a.m.

Space for this event is limited, so please RSVP by Wednesday, Oct 31st .  We look forward to seeing you in Quebec City!

Saturday, November 3rd at 7:00 a.m.
Location: Beauport, Hilton Hotel (second floor)

Saturday afternoon: American Musical Instrument Society Study Session

Stewart Carter (Wake Forest University), Chair

Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill University) and Susan Forscher Weiss (Peabody Conservatory), “Iconographic Evidence of Kettledrums in Fourteenth-Century Italy.”

Janet K. Page (University of Memphis), “Organs in the Marketplace: Selling and Buying in Vienna, ca. 1784.”

William E. Hettrick (Hofstra University), “A Visit to the Piano Factory of Joseph P. Hale: The Great Industrialist at Work.”

Saturday, November 3rd at 12:15 p.m.
Location: Quebec City Convention Center, Room 208 AB

Saturday evening: AMS-CCRI CV and Cover Letter Workshop

The Committee on Career-Related Issues invites students and junior faculty to a CV and Cover Letter Workshop.  Members of the committee will be available to look at your materials and discuss ways to improve your CV, cover letter, and other application items.  For more information contact Jim Davis, davisj at fredonia.edu.

Saturday, November 3rd 8:00-11:00 p.m.
Location: Quebec City Convention Center, Room 208 AB