University College Cork, Ireland Faculty Residency at Wheaton College

The Center for Global Education and the Department of Music is proud to present a ten day residency featuring guest faculty members from the University College Cork, ethnomusicologist Mel Mercier and folklorist Diarmuid O Giollain. The residency that runs from April 19-29 is made possible by a Fulbright Alumnae/i Initiative Grant and will include class lectures, performances and a symposium. The Wheaton faculty, students and the UCC guest faculty will also be joined by four music graduates of UCC in a special concert of Irish traditional music as part of the series of events.
All events listed are open to the public without charge.

Schedule of public events:

Tuesday, April 20
5:00-7:00 p.m. ''Folklore and Modernity'', lecture by Diarmuid O Giollain, Chase Small. Contact: Todd Pang (tpang@wheatonma.edu) or Emily Horne (ehorne@wheatonma.edu).

Thursday, April 22
7:30-9:30 p.m. Coffee house style performance of Irish traditional music. Four music students from UCC join Mel Mercier, Wheaton Assistant Professor of Music Matthew Allen and other musicians.

Monday, April 26
4:00-5:30 pm. ''Transmission in Music and Folklore'' Symposium, Woolley Room, Mary Lyon. Co-sponsored by Center for Global Education and Music Department. Presentations by Diarmuid O Giollain and Mel Mercier address the relationship between the individual and the collective in folklore, the implications of that relationship for concepts of originality and authorship, the tension between discourse and practice in music, and the challenge of embodying that tension in the undergraduate classroom. Discussion and reception to follow.

Wednesday, April 28
7:30-9:00 p.m. Wheaton's World Music Ensemble concert with special guest musician Mel Mercier.

Professor Mel Mercier, Music Department, University College Cork (UCC). Mel is a percussionist, director of UCC's Javanese Gamelan orchestra, West African drumming ensemble, and Indian music programs; composer of music for theatre and film.
Professor Diarmuid O Giollain, Folklore Department, UCC. Diarmuid is the author of ''Locating Irish Folklore: Tradition, Modernity, Identity'' (Cork University Press, 2000).

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