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Program Day One
Program - Day 1
Day One (Friday, November 28, 2025 / 11:00 – 19:00)
11:00 – 11:05 Welcome Remarks
11:05 – 12:05 Panel 1 (Feline Symbolism)
1: 11:05 – 11:20 Cats and Codices: Unveiling the Symbolic Role of Felines in Historical Music Manuscripts
(Madlen Poguntke / University of Music and Theatre Munich, Seoul National University)
2: 11:20 – 11:35 The Cat in the Box: Schrödinger's Cat and Musical Metaphors of Uncertainty
(DJ W. Hatfield 施永德 , Stanley S. Chang / GIM National Taiwan University, Wellesley College)
3: 11:35 – 11:50 The Cat as Artistic Cipher: Exploring Feline Symbolism Across Twentieth Century
Modernism and Artistic Musical Identity
(Clare Wilson / Dublin City University)
11:50 – 12:05 Discussion
12:10 – 12:50 Panel 2 (Ethics and Spectacle)
4: 12:10 – 12:25 The Paradox of the Cat Organ: Music, Madness, and Nonhuman Ethics in Early Psychiatry
(Shang Gao / Communication University of China)
5: 12:25 – 12:40 “Magic, Music and Big Cats”: Spectacle and the Use of Music in the Magic Shows of
Performing Duo Siegfried & Roy
(Roxane Lindlacher / Paris Lodron University Salzburg)
12:40 – 12:50 Discussion
12:50 – 13:20 Break
13:20 – 14:20 Panel 3 (Cats as Listeners)
6: 13:20 – 13:35 Sounds of the Seaside: A Multi-Species Sonic Ethnography of a Cat Colony on the Costa
del Sol
(Kristine Hill / University of Hradec Králové)
7: 13:35 – 13:50 Do Cats Entrain to Music?
(Tom Solomon / University of Bergen)
8: 13:50 – 14:05 Sonic Catnip: Composing Biphonation Through Pure Data
(James Edward Armstrong, Akira Brown, J. Harry Whalley / University for the Creative Arts)
14:05 – 14:20 Discussion
14:25 – 15:05 Panel 4 (Pedagogy)
9: 14:25 – 14:40 Multimodal Narratives and Affective Triggers: A Study of the Roles of Cat Memes in
Music History Education
(Beini Liu / Universiti Utara Malaysia)
10: 14:40 – 14:55 The Cat and the Fiddle: Feline Imagery in String Pedagogy
(Ivan Tan, Lisa Sailer / Brown University, Community MusicWorks)
14:55 – 15:05 Discussion
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