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4 December, Thursday

8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00 Welcome

I Session A, Concert Hall, 9:30-11:00

Inclusion vs Exclusion

Chair: Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz

09:30 Owen Belcher (USA), Inclusion and the Culture Industry

10:00 Agnieszka Draus (Poland), Inclusions doomed to exclusion

10:30 AbdulQuddus Mohammed / Venous Moslem Shojaei (UAE), AI and Creativity in the UAE: How Technology Supports an Inclusive and Inspiring Artistic Future

I Session B, Chamber Hall, 9:30-11:00

Music Theory and Culture

Chair: Andrzej Mądro

09:30 Marcin Strzelecki (Poland), The Materiality of Music and Its Role in Shaping Musical Culture

10:00 Lucia Reiprich Maloveská (Czech Republic), Between sanctity of score and individual experiences. Dilemmas and roles of contemporary music theory

10:30 Mateusz Borkowski (Poland), Broadway, Race, and Cancel Culture

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

II Session A, Concert Hall, 11:30-13:00

Aspects of Performance

Chair: Marcin Strzelecki

11:30 Chris David Westover-Muñoz (USA), “To be (wa)or not to be?” The conductor/curator in confrontation with genre

12:00 Chae-Lin Kim (Austria), “Deaf Performance Now!”: Voices from the Deaf Community

12:30 Renate Bräuninger (Germany), Musique dansante uncancelled

II Session B, Chamber Hall, 11:30-13:00

Composers

Chair: Agnieszka Draus

11:30 Božena Čiurlionienė (Lithuania), #(Un)canceled Artist: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

12:00 Olha Myronenko- Mikheishyna (Ukraine), Musical Time in W Lutosławski’s Works Through the Prism of Audience Perception

12:30 Anna Rusin (Poland), When Two Worlds Collide: The Musical Laughter Facing The Nazi Camps

13:00-15:00 Lunch

Keynote lecture I, Concert Hall, 15:00-16:15

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Uncancelling Cancel Culture

Introduction: Iwona Sowińska-Zając

16:15-16:45 Coffee break

III Session A, Concert Hall, 16:45-18:15

Inclusion vs Exclusion

Chair: Iwona Sowińska-Zając

16:45 Ewa Czachorowska-Zygor (Poland), The individual versus the system. Cinema of moral concern and its music

17:15 Eduardo Solá Chagas Lima (Canada), #Uncancel Music Education: Integrating Autobiographical Theory in Kodály Frameworks

17:45 Jerzy Luty (Poland), Canceling by Cognition? How Knowledge, Reputation, and Morality Shape Aesthetic Inclusion and Exclusion Across Cultures

III Session B, Chamber Hall, 16:45-18:15

Sociology, Politics, Law

Chair: Marcin Strzelecki

16:45 Zbigniew Pinkalski (Poland), Can provisions of copyright law cancel the cancel culture?

17:15 Barbara Jabłońska (Poland), Exclusion in Communication on Musical Topics from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis

19:00 Concert, Florianka Recital Hall

Piotr Orzechowski. Pianohooligan – Critique of Swing in Two Parts

5 December, Friday

9:00-10:00 Registration

I Session A, Concert Hall, 10:00-11:30

Contemporary Music

Chair: Agnieszka Draus

10:00 Alexandra Magazin (Romania), Marcel Mihalovici: From Exclusion to Universal Expression – A Case Study in 20th Century Artistic Identity

10:30 Zuzanna Daniec (Poland), Disappointment Category and Devaluation of Status. “Chain of Undermining” in Lachenmann and Peszat’s Work

11:00 Klaudia Gawronek (Poland), Polish Folklore in View of the 20th Century Cultural Offensive

I Session B, Chamber Hall, 10:00-11:30

Opera and Dance

Chair: Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz

10:00 Anna Dańda (Poland), Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865-1950). A portrait sketch with the art of dance in the background

10:30 Mariachiara Grilli (Italy), Inclusion as symbiosis in LIFE (1999), an Opera by Ryuichi Sakamoto

11:00 Yurim Ko (Austria), Rethinking Turandot: Orientalism, Confucian Virtue, and the Myth of Cultural Enlightenment

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

Keynote lecture II, Concert Hall, 12:00-13:15

Mark Andre, „About music by/of disappearing: „…selig ist…“ for piano and electronics, „…selig sind…“ for clarinet and electronics

Introduction: Michael Heinemann

13:15-14:45 Lunch

II Session A, Concert Hall, 14:45-16:15

Cultural memory

Chair: Iwona Sowińska-Zając

14:45 Christina Guillaumier (UK), Marion Scott and the Politics of Cultural Memory: Reclaiming a Marginalised Musical Life

15:15 Krzysztof Bielawski / Mariusz Koluch (Poland), Eleusis: Unspeakable – a scientific-artistic project

II Session B, Chamber Hall, 14:45-16:15

Background Diversity

Chair: Marcin Strzelecki

14:45 Nolan Miranda (USA) – online, Three Participatory and Collaborative Improvisation Environments: Reflections on Composing for Performers with Diverse Musical Backgrounds

15:15 Geneviève Bélanger-Nantel (Canada), Speaking from the Margins: Cancelled Artists and the Aftermath of #MeToo in Quebec

Moving to AST – Experimental Scene, Warszawska Street 5

III Session, AST, 16:45-18:15

Theatre and Film

Chair: Marta Bryś

16:45 Olga Katafiasz (Poland), The New Map with the Augmentation of the Indies

17:15 Iwona Grodź (Poland), Musicians and music in Polish cinema. Strategies of inclusion and exclusion

17:45 Tomasz Kienik (Poland), CANcelled and UNcancelled – Prominent Music Theorists and Musicologists as Composers – a Reconnaissance

Performance, AST Classical Scene, Warszawska 5 St, 19.00

Songs of the Polish Bakers [Pieśni piekarzy polskich] by Mariusz Gołosz, dir. Klaudia Gębska

6 December, Saturday

Keynote lecture III, ASP, Auditorium, 09:30-10:30

Magdalena Ujma-Gawlik, Is Culture of Support and Care Possible?

Introduction: Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

Curator-guided tour of the exhibition, ASP, 10:45-11:30

II Session, ASP, Auditorium, 11:30-13:00

Visual Arts

Chair: Robert Sowa

11:30 Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska (Poland), Threads of Controversy: Analyzing Cancel Culture in Fashion Design and Media

12:00 Artur Tajber (Poland), Culture of exclusion vs. counterculture – disambiguation

12:30-14:30 Lunch

Moving to AMKP

Panel discussion & Conference close, AMKP, Chamber Hall, 14:30-16:00

prof. dr hab. Mariusz Sielski (Rector AMKP), dr hab. Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz, prof. AMKP, dr Maria Wilczek-Krupa, dr hab. Grzegorz Mielczarek, prof. AST (Rector AST), prof. dr hab. Dorota Segda, dr hab. Olga Katafiasz, prof. AST, prof. dr hab. Andrzej Bednarczyk (Rector ASP), dr hab. Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska, dr hab. Robert Sowa

Moderators: Agnieszka Draus, Iwona Sowińska-Zając

Performance, AMKP, Concert Hall, 16:30

Music painted with movement ((Oliwia Adamska, Anna Basista, Anna Dańda, Faustyna Filipska, Anna Głogowska, Joanna Goc, Maria Gumularz, Patrycja Hamera, Joanna Kozłowska, Maja Krawczyk, Anita Krywoborodenko, Stefania Kupiec-Chrupczalska, Oliwia Makuła, Aniela Marczyk, Magdalena Pawełek, Julia Piasecka, Róża Piotrowska, Zofia Prytuła, Kinga Rolka, Aniela Sikora, Katarzyna Smoleń, Zuzanna Sobczak, Adrianna Stefan, Agata Styczyńska, Aleksandra Szaron, Wiktoria Toporkiewicz, Izabella Vinent Abreu, Karolina Zagórska)

Introduction: Anna Rusin

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