Faculty Friday Events Sept. 16
Join us on Sept. 16 for this week’s Faculty Friday will feature a Faculty Writing Community in the morning and a talk and reception celebrating a new book by Karen Cook, Associate Professor of Music History in The Hartt School.
From 9:30 a.m.-noon, a Faculty Writing Community will meet in the CTEI/Creative Technologies Center, lower level of Mortensen Library. Open to all, The Faculty Writing Community will enhance scholarly productivity by helping faculty carve out a block of time for projects that would otherwise have been sidelined by other commitments. This community meets in person in the CTEI space in the lower level of the Harrison Libraries. Anyone who wants to participate should bring their laptop and/or whatever else they need to work. CTEI provides snacks and refreshments but otherwise leaves faculty alone to write. Open to all faculty.
The Private Dining Room in University Commons will not be available for faculty use this week, but we invite faculty tojoin together again there for lunch next week, Sept. 22.
From 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. on the north patio of The Hursey Center, all are invited to a talk and reception honoring Dr. Karen Cook, Associate Professor of Music History in The Hartt School, and her new book, Music Theory in Late Medieval Avignon: Magister Johannes Pipardi. The manuscript Seville, Biblioteca Colombina y Capitular 5-2-25, a composite of dozens of theoretical treatises, is one of the primary witnesses to late medieval music theory. Its numerous copies of significant texts have been the focus of substantial scholarly attention to date, but the shorter, unattributed, or fragmentary works have not yet received the same scrutiny. In her monograph, Dr. Cook demonstrates that works linked to the otherwise unknown Magister Johannes Pipudi, is in fact much more noteworthy than previous scholarship has observed.Dr. Cook’s talk and the reception that follows are open to all students, faculty, staff and the general public.
Contact Ann Brown (annbrown@hartford.edu) for more information about these and other Faculty Friday events.