Harvard Club of Puerto Rico

Distinguished Speaker Series: Professor Alexander Rehding

Dear Members of the Harvard Club of Puerto Rico:

Good morning! We are pleased to announce that the next chapter of our Distinguished Speaker Series will take place on Wednesday, February 19, 2025!

Our distinguished guest will be Professor Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music at Harvard University.

Brief Bio: Professor Rehding obtained a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1998 and went on to postdoctoral fellowships at Cambridge, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton, before joining Harvard's Music Department in 2003. Anchored in German and European cultural and intellectual histories of the 18th-21st centuries, Rehding's research and teaching interests include topics such as music and identity, cultural transfer, historiography, ecocriticism, sound studies, media theory, and digital humanities. Rehding has served as editor for Acta musicologica (2006-11) and editor-in-chief of the Oxford Handbooks Online series in Music (2011-19); he is series editor of the six-volume Cultural History of Western Music by Bloomsbury. His contributions have been recognized with such awards as a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Dent Medal of the International Musicological Society and the Royal Musical Association. His interest in integrating digital technology into teaching and research led him to found Harvard's Sound Lab in 2012. His forthcoming monograph examines the Voyager Golden Record -- a collection of world music -- that NASA shot into outer space in 1977, and he is currently working on two monographs, one on the role of instruments in the shaping of musical thought, and one on music and the Anthropocene.

The Harvard Club of Puerto Rico is proud to continue its tradition of hosting distinguished guests for our alumni community's enjoyment. We are looking forward to Professor Rehding's visit!

You can RSVP for the event by replying to this email or sending us a note to harvardclubpr@gmail.com. Thank you very much. We'll see you at the Distinguished Speaker Series!

Abrazos,
Andres
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