Awet Andemicael (soprano, Yale University) and Magdalena Stern-Baczewska (piano, Columbia University) will present a concert of rarely-heard abolitionist songs at 5:30 pm on May 6, 2023 at the Columbia Maison Française. This concert will be followed by a panel discussion with the performers and a reception that concludes the one-day interdisciplinary symposium on "Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century."
The "Abolitionism and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century" symposium is being organized by members of the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture (Julia Hamilton, Stephanie Insley Hershinow, and Patricia A. Matthew), in collaboration with the Department of Music at Goldsmiths, University of London (represented by Berta Joncus). The event is co-sponsored by the Columbia University Seminar in Eighteenth-Century European Culture, the Columbia Center for Ethnomusicology, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities., the Columbia Maison Française, the Columbia Department of Music, the Music Department of Goldsmiths, University of London, the Royal Musical Association, and Music & Letters.
You can register for the daytime symposium (on zoom and in-person at the Heyman Center) here and for the evening concert (in-person at the Maison Française) here. For more information about the conference, please see the conference website.