Professional Activities

Robert Kostick, Honors Program, has been selected as a presenter during the 51st annual conference to be held by the National Collegiate Honors Council in Seattle, Washington, October 12-16. The conference highlights student and faculty research presentations from across the nation, and provides training and development for honors program administrators. Kostick will present a session entitled, “Growing Honors,” which will consider the challenges of growing an honors program in a time of limited institutional resources.

Joseph Darby (Music) presented the paper “Publishing Music by Subscription in 18th-Century Britain: Languages of Authorship, Publishing, and Audience” at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris on July 19, at the conference “Languages of the Book / Les langues du livre,” sponsored by the Society for the History of Authorship, Readers, and Publishing. The paper assesses the role of language in the subscription music trade in eighteenth-century Britain by combining information about composers, publishers, advertisements, and subscribers to produce a comprehensive survey of language and place from the perspectives of authorship, publishing, marketing, and audience. Sources for this study include first-edition music books, subscription lists, newspapers, and music catalogs of the period.