Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr.
YING-FEN
WANG
Ying-fen Wang is the founding director and Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Institute
of Musicology, National Taiwan University. She received the Outstanding Research Award
from Taiwan’s National Science Council in 2015. Her research interests include nanguan
music and the history of music in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Her
representative works include Listening to the Colony: Kurosawa Takatomo and Wartime
Survey of Taiwanese Music (1943) (in Chinese, 2008), “The Transborder Dissemination of
Nanguan in the Hokkien Quadrangle before and after 1945” (2016), which won the Rulan
Chao Pian Publication Prize from the Association for Chinese Music Research, and
“Resounding Colonial Taiwan through Historical Recordings: Some Methodological
Reflections,” which received Honorable Mention for the 2023 International Council for
Traditional Music Article Prize.
Prof. Dr.
David
R. M. Irving
David R. M. Irving studied at Griffith University, the University of Queensland, and the University of Cambridge. He held post-doctoral positions at Christ's College, Cambridge, and King's College London, then taught at the University of Nottingham, the Australian National University, and the University of Melbourne. Since 2019 he has been an ICREA Research Professor at the Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC. His research interests include the role of music in early modern intercultural contact, the global history of music, and historical performance practice. He is co-editor of the journal Eighteenth-Century Music (Cambridge University Press) and co-general editor of A Cultural History of Western Music (Bloomsbury, in press). Awards include the Jerome Roche Prize (Royal Musical Association) and the McCredie Musicological Award (Australian Academy of the Humanities).