Principal Investigators

Linda Phyllis Austern, Associate Professor, Historical Musicology, Department of Academic Studies and Composition, School of Music, Northwestern University.
Specialist in social and cultural musicology of Europe and North America from the later Middle Ages through the twentieth century. Fields of expertise include early opera and related music-drama, musical-literary relations in early modern England, music and the visual arts, music and early science and medicine, gender and feminist theory, and the sociology of rock music.
(l-austern@northwestern.edu)

Kristian J. Hammond, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Intelligent Information Laboratory, Northwestern University.
Specialist in the role of examples and experience in reasoning; the use of encapsulated experience, or "cases," to inform planning, problem solving, and the control of action. Specific research interests include the application of artificial intelligence to human reasoning and information retrieval as well as development of computational models for sensibility and intellectual processes.
(hammond@infolab.northwestern.edu)

Claudia Swan, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University.
Specialist in northern European visual culture, 1400-1700, and art criticism and theory. Specific research interests include the relation between art and science in the early modern period, the problem of scientific representation, pictorial accounts in the seventeenth century, and witchcraft.
(c-swan@northwestern.edu)


Participants

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

William Conger
Professor, Department of Art Theory and Practice

Robert Gooding-Williams
Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Afro-American Studies

David Michael Levin
Professor, Department of Philosophy

Davide Stimilli
Assistant Professor, Department of French and Italian

David Van Zanten
Professor, Department of Art History

Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

Benjamin Watson
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

School of Music

Richard Ashley
Associate Professor of Music Cognition, Department of Academic Studies and Composition

Candace Brower
Associate Professor of Musicology, Department of Academic Studies and Composition

Inna Naroditskaya
Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology/Music History, Department of Academic Studies and Composition.

Mary Springfels
Director, Newberry Consort
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Music Performance Studies

Amnon Wolman
Associate Professor of Music Composition, Department of Academic Studies and Composition