{"id":6193,"date":"2024-06-06T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=6193"},"modified":"2024-06-06T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T16:12:46","slug":"faculty-notes-sean-williams-2023-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2024\/06\/faculty-notes-sean-williams-2023-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Notes | Sean Williams | 2023-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2022\/05\/FacultyNotesBanner.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2022\/05\/FacultyNotesBanner.png 800w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2022\/05\/FacultyNotesBanner-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/440\/2022\/05\/FacultyNotesBanner-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/seanwilliams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Williams<\/a> was an invited speaker on the subject of food and music at a conference on food and culture at UC Davis in October. She received the 2023 award for best article in the field of ethnomusicology for her publication titled &#8220;Poetry Writing as Transgressive Ethnography&#8221; (published in Ethnomusicology 66\/3: 361-378) at the annual Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Ottawa in November, where she also gave a presentation on the links between musical autobiographies and temporary awareness among dementia patients. She also presented an invited talk titled &#8220;Song, Food, and Longing in Irish America&#8221; in Washington, D.C. at the residence of the Irish Ambassador to the United States\u2014Geraldine Byrne Nason\u2014in February. She served as a keynote speaker at the 40th anniversary of the death of her Irish singing teacher, Joe Heaney, at a festival in Connemara, Ireland in May. She currently has five articles in various stages of publication: &#8220;Vernacular Catholicism in Ireland: The Keening Woman&#8221; (Religions Journal); &#8220;From DeAnglicization to Riverdance: Irish Revivals in Music and Dance&#8221; (Irish Revivals [Cambridge]); &#8220;Excellent in Point of both Music and Words: The Music of Keening&#8221; (The Oxford Handbook of Irish Song); &#8220;World Music&#8221; (The Oxford Handbook of Musical Biography); and &#8220;From Singing to Speaking: A Song-Based Irish-Language Pedagogy&#8221; (Ethnomusicology Forum). Lastly, her ninth book\u2014Music at the Threshold: From the Sacred to the Dangerous\u2014is under contract with Oxford University Press, has been through the first round of revisions, and is expected to go to press in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Williams was an invited speaker on the subject of food and music at a conference on food and culture&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9682,"featured_media":5298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"no"},"categories":[1,188],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}