Call for applications: Fellowships at Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies, Venice
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice has issued a new call for applications addressed to PhDs and postdocs for two-month residential fellowships dedicated to interdisciplinary research projects relevant to materials held in the archives of the Foundation and Venice.
Deadline for application is 30th June 2024.
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice has issued a new call for applications addressed to PhDs and postdocs aged 40 and under, for two-month residential fellowships dedicated to interdisciplinary research projects relevant to materials held in the archives of the Foundation and Venice.
The deadline for applications is June 30, 2024.
Founded by Alain Daniélou in 1969, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies (IISMC) has been promoting courses, seminars, conferences and performances since its inception that relate to different world musics and an intercultural approach to music studies.
This activity also includes the documentation of its activities and the acquisition of archival funds of particular relevance pertaining to the study of oral tradition music, Italian, European and non-European.
Funds held at the institute:
- Documentation of events organized by the IISMC in Venice since 1979
- Fund of edited LPs and CDs relating to world musics, including the collection of LPs published by UNESCO in collaboration with the IISMC under the direction of Alain Daniélou in the 1970s
- Collection of paper documents concerning the activities of the IISMC between the years 1969 and 1979 when the Institute promoted meetings between European festival organizers interested in promoting world musics
- Daniélou Fund: donated by Alain Daniélou to the Cini Foundation in 1971 consisting of a library collection devoted to the music, philosophy, arts and religions of India, a collection of more than three hundred manuscript copies of Indian treatises on music from various libraries in India, and about 300,000 catalog cards compiled on topics related to Indian music, philosophy and culture
- Marcello Conati Fund, with recordings, dating from the 1970s, of folk songs from the provinces of Verona, Parma and Reggio Emilia
- 400 books and journals of an ethnomusicological nature
For further information: https://www.cini.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-CVB-SCHOLARSHIP-ANNOUNCEMENT.pdf
For questions: musica.comparata(at)cini.it
Library of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
