University of the Pacific’s Conservatory is honored to announce that Philip Ewell will serve as the Conservatory’s Virtual Scholar in Residence for 2020–21. Pacific’s invitation is extended in light of years of research culminating in Ewell’s essential plenary talk “Music Theory’s White Racial Frame” at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory, his subsequent blog articles entitled “Confronting Racism and Sexism in in American Music Theory,” and his long article “Music Theory and the White Racial Frame,” which recently appeared in Music Theory Online. His explorations of these topics were heralded immediately as candid discussions of the ways in which American music school settings have perpetuated systemic racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination.
As virtual scholar in residence, Ewell will give six talks at Pacific over the course of the 2020–21 academic year, the overarching theme of which is entitled “Confronting Racism and Sexism in the Music Academy.”
The talks scheduled for the fall will be held via Zoom, dates and times will be published by August 1, 2020 on the University of the Pacific’s Conservatory website.
Fall Semester, 2020
- September, 2020: Conservatory Convocation Keynote: Racism, I
- October, 2020: Racism, II
- November, 2020: Sexism
Spring Semester, 2021
- February, Antisemitism
- March, Discrimination Against LGBTQIA +
- April, The Way Forward
Learn more about the residence here.
