Call for Papers: Opera and the Spanish empire. Genres, encounters and translations between 1600 and 1900

The UCD School of Music is pleased to announce the Call For Papers of the Conference ‘Opera and the Spanish empire. Genres, encounters and translations between 1600 and 1900’ organised by our IRC postdoctoral fellow Francesco Milella which will be held at UCD (location TBC) between 1-3 July 2025.

The conference brings musicologists and historians together for a new interdisciplinary discussion about the role that opera played in the history of the Spanish empire, from its origins until its collapse and even after, through the many legacies it left worldwide: opera as a narrative and performative space for imperial dynamics, opera as a social and political tool for the construction and questioning of the Spanish hegemony, but also opera as a permeable space of coexistence of different forms and languages throughout the centuries from Spain to Latin America, Asia, Africa and the rest of Europe.

Submission deadline: 31 August 2024

For more information visit the website (opens in a new window)www.operaspem.com.