Date 10–11 11–12 12–131 July Anthea Skinner, Playing in the

line of fire: Changes in Australian military bands between peace and wartime, comparing the pre-war period (1930–1938) with World War II (1939–1945) and the post-war period (1945–55)

7 Aug Workshop 1How to write a successful abstract. Convenor: Dr Paul Watt

Ahmad Sarmast, Afghanistan National Institute of Music: A young educational entity with enormous cultural, educational and social impact

14 Aug Workshop 2How to get a journal article accepted for publication: or ‘What Journal Editors Don’t Usually Tell You!’ Convenor: Dr Paul Watt

Alastair McGrath-Kerr, Is there a Brazilian clave, and does it matter?: Two-bar rhythmic structures in samba and bossa nova

21 Aug Workshop 3How to present a conference presentation that doesn’t send your audience to sleep. Convenor: Dr Joel Crotty

Ian Parsons, Indeterminate logic: Cornelius Cardew's Treatise and Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus

28 Aug Reading Group TBC Kenny Werner, Effortless mastery

4 Sept Reading Group TBC Benjamin Golby, Music about Don Bradman

11 Sept Honours showcase Honours showcase Rob Stove, Sixty years on: Villa-Lobos, a suicide, and a late harvest

18 Sept Honours showcase Honours showcase25 Sept Honours showcase Honours showcase Thomas Reiner, Lehrstück:

Lacan’s Symbolic (and who is the Subject?) – In Cabaret Style

9 Oct Workshop 4How to pitch a successful book proposal and get a contract. Convenor: Dr Paul Watt

John Whiteoak, The Tango in Australia as popular entertainment and music and dance of ‘Place’ before 1970s Latin-American immigration

16 Oct Reading Group TBC Sam Curkpatrick, Crossing Roper Bar: Musical orthodoxy and creativity in Arnhem Land

23 Oct Reading Group: (Paul) John Garzoli, Identity and tradition in the Thai fusion music of Bruce Gaston