The Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice is offering nine residential scholarships, each lasting two months and covering living expenses, for doctoral students, PhD students, and postdocs.
Candidates should propose a research project preferably focused on documents held by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
The Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies (IISMC) of Fondazione Cini promotes awareness of different musical cultures and investigates contemporary musical processes from an intercultural perspective. Its activities also include documenting its own events and projects and acquiring archival collections of particular relevance to the study of Italian, European, and non-European traditional music.
Suggested research guidelines:
- Study of the manuscripts on Indian music theory from the Alain Daniélou Collection held at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini
- History of the European Seminar on Ethnomusicology
- Review and in-depth analysis of the materials of the Bîrûn project.
- Seminars on Ottoman music
- The Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies of the Giorgio Cini Foundation and the dissemination of Indian music in Italy: a history of forty years of courses, seminars, and concerts
- Towards a history of the IISMC: the birth and development of a new idea of dissemination and research on world music
- The Intercultural School of Music: new perspectives on intercultural music education in Venice
- The music of the oral tradition in Veneto. The sound memories of the research recordings of the Conati-Camellini Collection and the Chioggia Collection 1983-1984
- Research on the IISMC discographic collections concerning the oral music traditions of the world
- Specific research on sections or thematic areas of the archive IISMC events
- Study of interactions with those who consult the IISMC online publications and social media
Thank you in advance for circulating,
Best Regards,
Costantino Vecchi