The 3rd International Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University: "A century of recordings, materials for study and transmission" - June 4-5, 2010 (in collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University)

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A century of recordings, materials for study and transmission" (under the high patronage of the Lebanese Minister of National Education and Higher Education, in collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV), Arab Academy of Music (League of Arab States), Foundation for Arab Music Archiving and Research (AMAR), the Zaki Nassif Music Program (Faculty of Arts and Sciences - American University of Beirut), was held on June 4 and 5, 2010 at Antonine University and AMAR Foundation in Lebanon).

The 4th International Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University: Perceptual and semantic approaches to modality - June 2, 2011 (in collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University)

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The aim is to explore the perceptual/significant dimension of the systemic (structural and dynamic) and formal data inherent in musical utterance within the musical traditions of the Arab and Mediterranean worlds and related spheres, from a model perspective. Integrating analytical, psychocognitive, semantic, semiotic, historical, and/or anthropological musicological approaches and making it possible, in certain cases, to formulate educational proposals.

The 5th International Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University: Semiotics and psychocognition of modal modalities", May 30-31, 2012 (in collaboration with Paris-Sorbonne University)

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The purpose of this conference was to report on semiotic and psychocognitive approaches to the musical production of monodic modal traditions, the former finding there an articulated non-verbal utterance, capable of being analyzed at neutral (or immanent) level in units with of significance, the seconds study this enunciation at the poïetic level (that of production), and at the aesthetic level (that of reception), in particular from the perceptual point of view, with its possible inclusion in an educational perspective.

The 6th International Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University: “The Situation of Music in the Arab World in the New Millennium” (in collaboration with ICTM)

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A meeting of the International Council of Traditional Music Study Group for the Music of the Arab World (http://www.ictmusic.org/group/music-arab-world) took place on March 20-21, 2013 under the 6th Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University, Hadat–Baabda, Lebanon (http://www.upa.edu.lb/de/unites-universitaires/instituts/institut-superieur-de-musique/l-ism.html).

Its purpose was mainly to regroup Arab researchers from West Asia, the Gulf region and North Africa who were not able to meet in order to restore contacts with scholars from other parts of the World that for political and economic difficulties in their region during the last few decades.

The theme is about “The Situation of Music in the Arab World in the New Millennium”: Since the last decade of the 21st century, the Middle East has been dominated by successive wars and severe sanctions, which led to the displacement of millions of people. The aim of the meeting was to draw a comprehensive overview of the impact of these events on Music, its traditions, its concepts, practices, training and on research and to examine the consequences of the new regional situation on the different aspects of the regional musical traditions.

The 7th International Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University: "What musical education for Lebanon? (2)”- June 2-4, 2014 (in collaboration with the Arab Academy of Music)

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Ten years after the conference: “What musical education for Lebanon? (1)”, this conference aims to draw up an inventory of music education in Lebanon and in the Arab world, particularly in the context of basic school education, and this, in the light of criteria renewed in the sciences of music education, of musicology and of anthropology. The aim is in particular to reflect on the relevance of contemporary musical didactic approaches borrowing significant elements from the scheme of aural initiation, specific to the musical traditions of the Mašriq, and to integrate them into the modern educational pedagogical context of Lebanon and Arab world, and this, alongside the discovery of world music, especially Western art music. The efficiency of the reinvestment of traditional musical data in the pedagogical process is at the center of this questioning and this, from the plural angles of cognition, learning psychology, didactics and musicology, and in terms of the development of musical cultural identity for children.

The 8th International Musicological Meeting of the Antonine University (8RMIUA) on "The art of taqsīm and the Sami Chawa school (1885-1965)" - June 17-18, 2015 (in collaboration with the Arab Academy of Music, USEK and AMAR Foundation)

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This conference aims to pool in a multidisciplinary spirit research focused on the practice of traditional Arab instrumental improvisation during the Nahḍa era. It is first of all an analysis and a contextualized modeling of the recordings (on 78 rpm discs) of taqsīm, taḥmīla and raqṣ, by the violinist Sami Chawa and his colleagues, in particular, the qānūnist Muḥammad al-'Aqqād, the' ūdist Muḥammad al-Qaṣabjī, the nāyist Amīn al-Būzarī and the buzuqist Muḥyī d-Dīn Ba'yūn. Likewise, this conference is interested in the relationships (actual and/or comparatist) between this instrumental tradition of the Mašriq and its counterparts in the Maghreb, Iran and Turkey, and even in medieval Europe.

The 9th International Musicology Conference of the Antonine University on "French Musicology of the Orient" (co-organized with the Institute for Research in Musicology (IReMus, UMR 8223))

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The ninth International Musicology Conference of Université Antonine on "French Musicology of the Orient” was held from the 6th till the 8th of November, 2016, at the French Salon du Livre of Beirut and on the main campus of Université Antonine, Hadat-Baabda. This International Musicology Conference, of high-importance, was organized by the Research Center for Musical Traditions related to the Faculty of Music and Musicology at the Université Antonine, in collaboration with the IReMus, the largest international musicological institute, and in partnership with the Institut Français du Liban and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.

Two important events took place at the Salon du Livre; the launching of the conference on Sunday 6th, by the Rector of Université Antonine, Fr. Germanos GERMANOS and the Vice-President of Université Paris-Sorbonne, Professor Frédéric BILLIET and the round table on musical semiotics (including Nicolas MEEÙS, a leading figure in international musicology), on the occasion of the publication of Éléments de sémiotique modale by Professor Nidaa ABOU MRAD (Vice-President of Research and Dean of Faculty of Music and Musicology at Université Antonine) and Essai de modélisation sémiotique modale des hymnes de l’office maronite of Father Toufic MAATOUK (Director of the Antonine School of Music).

The second event occurred on Tuesday 8th, where a round table was held on "the significance of tradition in the Oriental music", on the occasion of publishing the 10th issue of the Revue des traditions musicales “Mélanges offert à Jean During”, a great figure of ethnomusicology.

These publications are co-published by Éditions de l’Université Antonine and Éditions Geuthner. The conference’s six sessions, held at Université Antonine, have gathered twenty researchers from six French-speaking countries and have helped us to reflect on the concept of French musicology in the Orient and study the history of the emergence of musicological paths in Lebanon (with tribute to Father Louis HAGE OLM and Sister Berthe ANTAR, OAM) and the Maghreb (with tribute to Mahmoud GUETTAT).

The 2nd Meeting of the international seminar of the Épistémuse network "Actors and actresses of French-speaking musicologies: prosopography and filiations" - November 29-30, 2018 (co-organized with the Institute for Research in Musicology (IReMus, UMR 8223))

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The international research network "Épistémuse" brings together researchers working on the history, historiography and epistemology of musicology, considered in its broadest sense, as it is and was practiced in French speaking space. This network is managed by the Institute for Research in Musicology (IReMus, UMR 8223, France) and associates universities and research centers in countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Lebanon, Tunisia, Switzerland) where musicology is practiced in French, within institutional structures.

The 2nd meeting of the international seminar “Épistémuse” has as its theme “Actors and actresses of French-speaking musicologies: prosopography and filiations”. It wishes to contribute to establishing the foundations of an archeology of the discipline, by showing the national and international filiations and networks of training and collaboration, as well as the emergence of public or private institutional structures. In addition, the biographical survey will be thought of here in close connection with the musicological practices of individuals and their production of knowledge. Finally, and due to its geographical location, this meeting is more particularly interested in French-speaking musicologists and musicographers from the East and the Maghreb. It is co-organized by IReMus and the CRTM-FMM-UA, with the support of the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and the Institut Français du Liban .

International Musicological Conference "Monodies, Modalities and Cognitive Research in the Mediterranean" (2020) (The 10th International Musicology Conference of Antonine University)

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The Centre for Research on Musical Traditions of the Antonine University (CRTM-FMM-UA, Lebanon), the International Musicological Society (IMS), Sorbonne University (SU), with the Institute for Research in Musicology (IReMus), are co-organizing an international musicological conference on the theme “Monodies, modalities and cognitive research in the Mediterranean”, from 2 to 4 November 2020, in UA, Lebanon, in a hybrid face-to-face and online mode.

This Conference is part of the Mediterranean Music Studies working group of the IMS for the year 2020, as well as the 10th international musicological meeting of the UA.

This event is organized in collaboration with the Institute of Music Therapy of the University of Nantes (France), and the Higher Institute of Music and Musicology of Sousse (Tunisia).