Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) – Missione 4 “Istruzione e Ricerca” – Componente 2 “Dalla Ricerca all’Impresa” Investimento 1.1 “Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)”.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
New Perspectives in Audiovisual Ethnomusicology: Between Archives and New Technologies
February 2–4, 2026
University of Cagliari – Faculty of Humanities
PROGRAMME
Monday, February 2, 2026
Aula Magna “Motzo”
14:30 – Welcome Address
Tiziana Pontillo (Director of the Department of Literature, Languages and Cultural Heritage, University of Cagliari)
14:45 – Introductory Remarks
Marco Lutzu (University of Cagliari)
Giovanni Giuriati (Sapienza University of Rome)
15:15 – Keynote Lecture
Benjamin J. Harbert (Georgetown University, Washington DC)
Ethnomusicology as Artistic Practice
16:15 – Coffee Break
Session One
Chair: Rolf Bader (University of Hamburg)
16:30 – Nicola Renzi (Centre of Excellence in Multibeing Indigenous Societies, University of Helsinki)
The Environmental Turn in Ethnomusicology: New Recording Technologies for a Plurality of Sound Worlds
17:00 – Giovanni Cestino (University of Milano)
Tracking (Audiovisual) Fieldwork with an App: The TopField Project
17:30 – Film Screening
NGGAYUH INDHANG: Religious Syncretism, Music and Trance in the Ébég of Banyumas (Central Java)
Daniele Zappatore, 2026, 57 mins
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Aula Magna “Motzo”
9:30 – Keynote Lecture
Martin Clayton (Durham University)
Observation, analysis, education, art, archiving: Changing approaches to audiovisual media in ethnomusicology
10:30 – Coffee Break
11:00 – Roundtable
Doing Audiovisual Ethnomusicology in Sardinia
Chair: Ignazio Macchiarella (University of Cagliari)
Participants:
Antioco Floris, Felice Tiragallo (University of Cagliari);
Gianfranco Cabiddu (director);
Ignazio Figus (director);
Sebastiano Pilosu (independent scholar);
Benedetta Zucconi, Irene Coni (University of Cagliari)
13:00 – Lunch Break
Session Two
Chair: Giovanni Giuriati (Sapienza University of Rome)
14:30 – Daniele Zappatore (Sapienza University of Rome – Wenner Gren Foundation, NY)
Mapping and Networking Italian Visual Ethnomusicology Archives: Challenges and Preliminary Outcomes
15:00 – Marco Lutzu (University of Cagliari) & Simone Tarsitani (Durham University)
Audiovisual Ethnomusicology in Practice and Theory
15:30 – Grazia Tuzi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Diego Carpitella: An Audiovisionary
16:00 – Coffee Break
Session Three
Chair: Marco Lutzu (University of Cagliari)
16:30 – Zhiyi Qiao Qiao Cheng (Shanghai Conservatory of Music)
Re-editing and Return as Embodied Method: Practice of Inheriting Audiovisual Archives in Ethnomusicological Film
17:00 – Yuri Prado (University of São Paulo)
From Collaboration to Archiving: Multimodal Ethnobiography and Its Afterlives
17:30 – Nico Staiti (University of Bologna)
Voice-over in Ethnomusicology: A Critical Reading
18:00 – Film Screening
Musica Sarda
Georges Luneau & Bernard Lortat-Jacob, 1990, 69 mins
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Aula 6
Session Four
Chair: Yuri Prado (University of São Paulo)
9:30 – Rolf Bader (University of Hamburg)
Computational Phonogram Archiving
10:00 – Petr Nuska (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)
Films by and for Ethnomusicologists: Introducing and Reflecting on Three Years of visual.ethnomusicology.net
10:30 – Coffee Break
Session Five
Chair: Martin Clayton (Durham University)
11:00 – Lorenzo Chiarofonte (University of Bologna)
From Archives to Multimedia: Audiovisual Strategies in the “World Music Listening Guides”
11:30 – Diego Pani (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
“Bella Cantada!”: Video and Audio Dissemination as Applied Ethnomusicological Practice. The Experience of the “Modas” Project
12:00 – Conclusion and Final Discussion
