<div dir="ltr"><div>This message sent on behalf of Vera Wolkowicz <br></div><div>=====================================</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Dear friends and colleagues,</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I
hope this message finds you well. I am sending you this message in my
role as current chair of the Ibero-American Music Study Group
(IAMSG-AMS). As you know, our dear colleague Ana Sánchez-Rojo has
finished her term as outgoing chair and it is time to elect a new
incoming chair for our study group to work jointly with me and Juan
Fernando Velásquez. After consultations with several members, we have
three outstanding candidates: </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><span style="background-color:white" lang="EN-US">Cintia Cristiá</span></b><span style="background-color:white" lang="EN-US"> holds
a PhD in Music History and Musicology (2004) and an MA in Music (2000)
from the Université de Paris-Sorbonne and has developed an international
career in research, administration, and education. She has lived and
worked in Argentina, Paris and London (UK), and is now based in Toronto,
Canada. At Ontario College of Art and Design, she applies her wealth of
knowledge of the academic research environment to support faculty
members and emerging researchers in their funding applications and
partnership contracts.</span> She has led interdisciplinary research
projects in Argentina (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) and Canada
(Toronto Metropolitan University), where she was the Principal
Investigator for a SSHRC-funded Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) between
TMU and the National Arts Centre that looked into orchestral music
audience remote engagement during COVID-19 social restrictions using new
media. She served twice as a SSHRC’s PEG Merit Review Committee Member
and is regularly invited as a peer-reviewer in specialized journals.<span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"> </span></span><span style="background-color:white"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)">As
the author of a ground-breaking book on Argentinean artist Alejandro
Xul Solar, and the editor of a critical volume on interart aesthetics,
she explores the relationship between music, visual arts, and
literature. Her collaborations include lecture-recitals and audiovisual
events with pianist Alexander Panizza. As an academic lead on the
executive team of the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, Dr.
Cristia collaborates with Dr. Irene Gammel. Her latest research
explores multimodal aesthetics and politics of identity, nation, and
gender in popular song in North America (1920s) and Argentina (1960s).
Her work has been published internationally and has received awards in
musicology and art critique.</span></span><span style="background-color:white"><u></u><u></u></span></span></font></p><span style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="ES"><u></u><font face="Arial"> </font><u></u></span></b><b style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Bernard Gordillo Brockmann</span></b><b style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">, </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black" lang="EN-US">a
native of Nicaragua, is a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the
Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He holds a Ph.D. in historical
musicology from the University of California at Riverside. His
scholarship lies at the crossroads of music and politics in Latin
America and its historical relations with the United States. Under
contract with the Oxford University Press, his book project, <i>Canto de Marte: Art Music, Popular Culture, and U.S. Intervention in Nicaragua</i>,
examines the cultural impact of early twentieth-century United States
intervention in Central America. Other current projects include a
semiotic study of cast suspended bells in the Spanish and Mexican
colonial missions of California, which will be a part of the
forthcoming <i>Critical Mission Studies: California Indian Community Voices </i>(University of California Press). He serves as area editor for Central America on the in-progress <i>Grove Dictionary of Latin American and Iberian Music</i>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"><u></u><font face="Arial"> </font><u></u></span></b><b style="font-family:Arial"><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US">Javier Marín-López</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black" lang="EN-US"> is Full Professor of Music at the University of Jaén, Spain, former editor of the <i>Revista de Musicología</i> (Spanish Society for Musicology [SEdeM], 2013-2021), and </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background-color:white" lang="EN-US">co-general editor of <i>Ignacio Jerusalem (1707-1769). Obras Selectas - Selected Works</i> (Dairea, 2019-)</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black" lang="EN-US">.
He has studied various aspects of Mexican, Latin American and Spanish
musical cultures from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, with
particular emphasis on their transatlantic exchange processes in the
broader global context. He has published seven books, several book
chapters and a number or articles in <i>Early Music</i>, <i>Revista Musical Chilena</i>, <i>Resonancias</i>, <i>Anuario Musical</i> and <i>Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review</i>, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background-color:white" lang="EN-US">among other journals. Awards include the Extraordinary PhD Award from the Universidad de Granada, the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black" lang="EN-US">Samuel
Claro Valdés Musicology Prize from the Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile, and the Honorable Mention of the Otto Mayer-Serra Award from
the University of California, Riverside. Interested in fostering
musicological dialogues between the Americas and Europe, he founded the
Música y Estudios Americanos (MUSAM / SEdeM) research network in 2016. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;background-color:white" lang="EN-US">In addition to his scholarly work, since 2007 Marín-López is </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black" lang="EN-US">artistic
director of the internationally recognized Early Music Festival of
Úbeda & Baeza. For more info and publications see: </span><span style="font-family:Arial" lang="ES"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://linktr.ee/javiermarinlopez" target="_blank">https://linktr.ee/javiermarinlopez</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please
indicate your preferred candidate in the link you will receive on a
next email by no later than April 8th. Thank you Cintia, Bernard and
Javier for accepting the invitation to participate in this election.
Also, we would like to express our gratitude to Ana for her service and
valuable contribution to the growth of the </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">IAMSG-AMS.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Kind regards,</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Vera</span></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div>