ONLINE SYMPOSIUM HERE

Language : French and English 
This Symposium will be broadcast live on "Philharmonie à la demande", then recorded on the same platform at the end of the event.

Programme  

9.45 am - Greetings and introduction 
Marie Pauline Martin, director, Musée de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris
Anaïs Flechet, Contemporary History teacher, Sciences Po Strasbourg

Session 1 - Collections and empires 
Session chair : Alexandre Girard-Muscagorry (Musée de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris)

10.00 am - Ariane Théveniaud (CHCSC, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris-Saclay), The role of colonial agents in the constitution of French instrumental collections: the case of West African lutes acquired by the musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1880-1910)

10.15 am - Louis Petitjean (École d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne), Circulation of musical instruments in the Indochinese peninsula. Colonial and scientific networks (1883-1902)

10.30 am - Joana Peliz (Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, University of Lisbon), Non-European Instruments in the Collection of the Artist Alfredo Keil: Methods of Acquisition and Significance

10.45 am - Questions Time

11.00 am - Break

11.30 am - Keynote - David R.M. Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Barcelona), Cultural Identity, the Environment, and Industrial Modernity: Global-Historical Perspectives on Musical Instruments in the Long Nineteenth Century

12.15 am - Question Time

12.30 am - Lunch Break 

Session 2 - Exchanges and appropriations 
Session chair :  Martin Guerpin (RASM-CHCSC, Université d’Évry, Paris-Saclay) 

2.00 pm - Dr Michael Lea (University of Sydney, Australia), Antipodean Aspirations – the early European musical instrument trade in Australia

2.15 pm - Francis Lapointe (Laboratoire d'histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal), Musical instrument making and trade in pre-industrial British North America: the case of Montreal, 1800-1851

2.30 pm - Rym Mansour (Institut Supérieure de Musique de l’Université de Sousse, Tunisie), The repercussions and discourse surrounding pianos invented for arabic music in the early 20th century

2.45 pm - Questions Time

3.00 pm - Break

Session 3 - Sourindro Mohun Tagore, a maker of collections
Session chair :  Gabriele Rossi Rognoni (Royal College of Music, London)

3.15 pm - Guillaume Lecoester (Musée de l’Armée, Paris), The making of Tagore collections: outline of a distribution strategy

3.30 pm - Fañch Thoraval (Musée des instruments de musique de Bruxelles, UC Louvain), Themusical box of rajah Sourindro Mohun Tagore (MIM inv. 1946): mediating the other and the self in the British Raj in the late 19th century

3.45 pm - Questions Time

Session 4 - A world economy of instruments
Session chair : Thierry Maniguet (Musée de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris)

4.00 pm - Fanny Gribenski (New York University, Department of Music), The Elephant in the Piano: Music, Ecology, Empire

4.15 pm - Anaïs Fléchet (Sciences Po Strasbourg), Tropicalizing Pianos: the Conquest of American markets in the Nineteenth Century

4.30 pm - Jimena Palacios Uribe (Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora, Mexico), Mexico City as a bastion of musical instruments international trade (1870-1910): companies, commercial agents, and objects

5.00 pm - Questions Time

5.15/5.30 pm - Conclusions

6.00/7.00 pm - Private visit of the Musée de la musique (Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris)