Prof. Dr. Santosa Soewarlan
Professor Ethnomusicology, Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta
Prof Santosa graduated with a Ph.D.University of California (UC) Berkeley, USA ethnomusicology programme in 2001 with a dissertation entitled “Constructing Images in Javanese Gamelan Performances.” He is a frequent speaker either at locally or abroad such as: “Music, Events, Imagination: Some Examples from Javanese Gamelan Music” (West Coast Gamelan Festival at the University of Oregon, USA, 2000); “Culture and Perception: A Case of Media in Indonesia” (The Managing of the Integration of Cultural Development Programme, Bangkok, August 28 – September 4, 2004); “Documenting Music in Indonesia: The Purpose and Its Implication in Methods of Recordings (Seminar and Consulting Meeting on‘ Between Tradition and Documenting Southeast Asian Music, ’Bangkok, July 13 – 15, 2005); “Sandosa: Innovation in Wayang Kulit Performance” (The 10th Anniversary of Southeast Asia Studies Regional Exchange Programme, ”Chiangmai, Thailand, December 8 – 9, 2005); “Negotiating Javanese Views among Students in Denmark: Some Cases in Performing Art Mission 2010;” Wisdom 2010: World Conference on Culture, Education and Science, Yogyakarta, December 5 – 8, 2010; “Art Communication,” JSPS Seminar, October 28, 2011, at Osaka City University; “Resounding Songs: Macapat in New Contexts,” at Osaka City University, Japan; “Interpreting Meaning of Literary Texts in New Environments,” ATINER 3rd Annual International Seminar on Visual and Performing Arts, June 4-7, 2012, Athens, Greece, ATINER 5th Annual International Seminar on Visual and Performing Arts, June 2-5, 2014 , Athens, Greece, The Fifth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH), April 3-6, 2014, Osaka, Japan. “In Search of Justice Narratives in Music Performances”, The European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH 2017), https://papers.iafor.org/submission25523/; Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH 2020) with the title: “Keroncong Music and Social Identity in Surakarta, Indonesia” (Tokyo, May 2020), https://papers.iafor.org/submission56315/. As a keynote speaker at ISI-ART 2020 with the title: “Solidarity Formation among Youth Keroncong Musicians in Baron Area, Surakarta, Indonesia”. Some of his writings include: “Aspects of Communication in Gamelan Performance,” Indonesian Performing Arts: Considering the Approach of Emik Nusantara, editor Waridi and Bambang Murtiyoso (2005); “Revealing Musical Meaning with Titles of Gendhing: Javanese Gamelan Examples,” Mudra, Jurnal Seni Budaya Special edition (2005); Ethnomusicology of the Archipelago: Its Perspective and Future (2007); “Gamelan Music: Meanings and Contexts in Village Rituals and Celebrations,” Asian Musicology vol. 13 (2008); “Initiating Musical Communication in Gamelan Performances,” Journal of Communication Sciences vol. 5 no. 1 (December 2008); “The Effect of oral performances In audiences’ mind and behaviour, ”Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia vol. 12 no. 1 (April 2010). Art Communication: Applications in Gamelan Performance (2011); Social Drama: Imagination in Art (2014); Building Perspectives: A Note on Art Methodology (2015); Contemporary Ethnomusicology: The Implementation of Perspectives in Society (2018); Barona: Building the Identity of Keroncong Youth Groups on the outskirts of Solo (2019); “Re-creating rural performing arts for tourism in Indonesia” Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Volume 17, 2019-Issue 5, pp: 577-593. Prof Santosa is also active in teaching gamelan either locally or abroad, such as the Asian Institute of Liturgy and Music, Manila, Phillipina (1991); La Sale College, Singapore (2004), University of New England, Armidale, Australia (1998); World of Music, San Francisco (1999); Northern Illinois University, USA (1998 – 1990); Southeast Asian Summer Institute (SEASSI), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1990); University of California Berkeley (1994-2001), University of Michigan (2015) as well as acting as a consultant in Musical Diversity research by UNESCO (2006).
Associate Professor Emily Wilcox Dr. Emily
Director of Chinese Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, William & Mary
Associate Professor Emily Wilcox Dr. Emily is a tenured Associate Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Chinese Studies Programme at William & Mary in January 2021. Wilcox was formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Chinese Programme at William & Mary from 2011-13 and served as Programme Director of the William & Mary Summer in Beijing Programme in 2013. She taught at the University of Michigan from 2013 to 2020, where she was most recently tenured Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies and Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, as well as Affiliate Faculty in the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Dr. Wilcox received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 2003, her MPhil from the University of Cambridge in 2004, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011. She has received major grants and fellowships from the Blakemore Foundation, the U.S. Fulbright Programme, the U.S. Foreign Language and Area Studies Programme, the American Council of Learnt Societies, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars. Wilcox publishes actively in both English and Chinese. Dr. Wilcox is an award-winning scholar of modern and contemporary China whose work spans PRC history, inter-Asia cultural studies, Chinese ethnic minority studies, and transnational Sinophone and Chinese diaspora studies. Dr. Wilcox’s first book, Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy, was published by the University of California Press in 2018 and won the 2019 dae la Torre Bueno Prise® from the Dance Studies Association. Dr. Wilcox’s second book, Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia, co-edited with Dr. Katherine Mezur, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2020. Since 2014, Dr. Wilcox has collaborated with U-M Chinese Studies Librarian Dr. Liangyu Fu to create the University of Michigan Asia Library Chinese Dance special collection, now the largest collection of primary sources on Chinese dance history outside China. Following her move to William & Mary in 2021, Dr. Wilcox continues as a Centre Associate of the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Centre for Chinese Studies and an external faculty collaborator for the University of Michigan Centre for World Performance Studies. Wilcox regularly organises artist residencies, lectures, classes, and performances by dancers and choreographers from China in the United States. In 2019, Wilcox received the Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award for outstanding teaching of undergraduates at the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, she served as an advisor for master’s and doctoral students in the Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures, the MA in Chinese Studies, the Graduate Certificate in World Performance Studies, and the MFA in Dance.