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Jolanta Pekacz

Associate Professor (retired)

Hist-pekacz-profile

Email: jpekacz@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3698
Fax: 902-494-3349
Mailing Address: 
Room 3174, Marion McCain Building, 6135 University Ave
PO Box 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • 18th and 19th-century European history
  • History and memory
  • History of sociability
  • Social history of music
  • Musical biography
  • Frederic Chopin


Education

  • MA, Ethnomusicology (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
  • PhD Musicology (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
  • PhD History (Alberta)

Selected publications

Books

  • Musical Biography:聽 Towards New Paradigms. Edited by Jolanta T. Pekacz, Aldershot, U.K.:聽 Ashgate 2006; 2nd ed. in paperback Routledge, 2017 聽
  • Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772-1914. Rochester Studies in Central Europe. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002.
  • Conservative Tradition in Pre-Revolutionary France: Parisian Salon Women. The Age of Revolution and Romanticism: Interdisciplinary Studies. Gita May, General Editor. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
  • Polonia in Alberta, 1895-1995.聽 The Polish Centennial in Alberta.聽 Edited by Andrzej M. Kobos and Jolanta T. Pekacz.聽 Edmontn:聽 Polish Centennial Society, Canadian Polish Congress, Alberta Branch, 1995.

Data Base

World Maps 1200鈥1700: A Bibliography of Scholarship on Mappaemundi and Early World Maps, 1997鈥. Jolanta T. Pekacz and Andrew C. Gow. Available at

Selected Articles & Books Chapters

  • 鈥淐hopin and the Discourse on the Old Regime under the July Monarchy,鈥 Chopin 1810鈥2010: Ideas鈥揑nterpretations鈥揑nfluence (Warsaw: National Frederic Chopin Institute, 2017), 111-118.
  • Les Amies des philosophes: The Making of Enlightenment Salon in Nineteenth-century France,鈥 French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rud茅 Seminar, vol. 5 (2014), 53鈥61.
  • Foreword to Franz Liszt, F. Chopin in The Collected Writings of Franz Liszt, 9 vols., ed. and trans. by Janita R. Hall-Swadley, vol. I (Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2011鈥), ix鈥搙ii.
  • 鈥淐hopin as a National Composer: A Story of an Appropriation,鈥 in Foramu porando kaigiroku 2009 [Forum 鈥淧olska鈥 2009/Forum 鈥淧oland鈥 2009], ed. by Tokimasa Sekiguchi and Masachiro Taguchi (Tokyo, 2010), 12鈥25 (Japanese version) and 87鈥98 (English version).
  • Chopin and the Discourse on Salons,鈥 in Chopin in Paris: The 1830s (Warsaw: National Frederic Chopin Institute, 2009), 297鈥312.
  • 鈥淢usic, Identity and Gender in France in the Age of Sensibility,鈥 in French History and Civilization. Papers from the George Rud茅 Seminar, vol. 3 (2009), 44鈥55.
  • 鈥淢usical Biography鈥擣urther Thoughts鈥 in Music鈥檚 Intellectual History, ed. by Zdravko Bla啪ekovi膰 and Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie (New York: R茅pertoire International de la Litt茅rature Musicale, 2009), 843鈥852.
  • 鈥淐hopin and the Parisian Salons,鈥 in Chopin鈥檚 Musical Worlds: The 1840s (Warsaw: National Frederic Chopin Institute, 2007 [sic for 2008]), 39鈥53.
  • Editor鈥檚 Introduction to Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms, ed. by Jolanta T. Pekacz (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 1鈥16.
  • 鈥淭丑别 Nation鈥檚 Property: Chopin鈥檚 Biography as a Cultural Discourse,鈥 in Musical Biography: Towards New Paradigms, ed. by Jolanta T. Pekacz (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), 43鈥68.
  • 鈥淢emory, History, and Meaning: Musical Biography and Its Discontents,鈥 Journal of Musicological Research 23 (2004): 39鈥80.
  • 鈥淭丑别 French Salon of the Old Regime as a Spectacle,鈥 Lumen. Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Travaux choisis de la Soci茅t茅 canadienne d鈥櫭﹖ude du dix-huiti猫me si猫cle 22 (2003): 83鈥102.
  • 鈥淥n the Fiction of Ancients and Moderns, the Public Sphere, and Women as Agents of Corruption in Pre-Revolutionary France,鈥 in Proceedings of the Western Society for French History. Selected Papers of the 2000 Annual Meeting, vol. 28, ed. by Barry Rothaus (Greeley, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2002): 157鈥167.
  • 鈥淕endered Discourse as a Political Option in pre-Revolutionary France,鈥 in Progr猫s et violence au XVIIIe si猫cle, ed. by Val茅rie Cossy and Deidre Dawson. Etudes Internationales sur le dix-huiti猫me si猫cle /International Eighteenth-Century Studies (Paris: Honor茅 Champion, 2001), 331鈥346.
  • 鈥淒econstructing a 鈥楴ational Composer鈥: Chopin and Polish Exiles in Paris, 1831鈥1849,鈥 19th-Century Music 24/2 (2000): 161鈥172. Reprinted in Music and Ideology, ed. By Mark Carroll (Ashgate, 2012).
  • 鈥淭丑别 厂补濒辞苍苍颈猫谤别蝉 and the Philosophes in Old-Regime France: Authority of Aesthetic Judgement,鈥 Journal of the History of Ideas 60/2 (1999): 277鈥297.

Selected Review Awards

  • Jann Pasler鈥檚 Composing the Citizen: Music and Public Utility in Third Republic France (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) for H-France Forum (a quarterly publication, with a forum on a recently published book of note), H-France Forum, Volume 5, Issue 2, No. 3 (Spring 2010), 33鈥39. Available at .
  • 鈥淥n the Enlightenment.鈥 Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment (New York: Continuum, 1999); Julie Candler Hayes, Reading the French Enlightenment: System and Subversion (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and Vincenzo Ferrone and Daniel Roche (eds.), Le monde des Lumi猫res (Paris: Fayard, 1999); in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 8/3 (2003), 353鈥355.
  • Arno J. Meyer, The Furies. Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2000); Patrice Gueniffey, La politique de la Terreur. Essai sur la violence r茅volutionnaire 1789鈥1794 (Paris: Fayard, 2000); Antoine Agostini, La pens茅e politique de Jacques-Ren茅 H茅bert (1790鈥1794) (Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires d鈥橝ix-Marseille, 1999); Michael L. Kennedy, The Jacobin Clubs in the French Revolution 1793鈥1795 (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2000); and Rodney Allen, Threshold of Terror. The Last Hours of the Monarchy in the French Revolution (Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999); in Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire 37/1 (April 2002), 120鈥126.
  • 鈥淭wentieth-Century Communism鈥擳he Rise and Fall of an Illusion.鈥 Fran莽ois Furet, The Passing of an Illusion. The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999); The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999) and Vladimir Tismaneanu (ed.), The Revolutions of 1989 (London and New York: Routledge, 1999); in Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire 36/2 (August 2001), 311鈥315.

Selected Keynote Addresses and Invited Lectures

  • 鈥淰isual Representations of Musical Salon as a Cultural Discourse,鈥 keynote address at the 16th conference of Association RIdIM (R茅pertoire International d鈥橧conographie Musicale) on 鈥淢usical Salon in Visual Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2016.
  • 鈥淚nventing Chopin in Nineteenth-Century France,鈥 in David Schroeder Music Lecture Series, Department of Music, 新加坡六合彩开奖直播, 2011.
  • 鈥淐hopin as a National Composer: A Story of an Appropriation,鈥 keynote address at the conference 鈥淣ew Images of Frederic Chopin,鈥 organized by FORUM POLAND, Polish Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, 2009.
  • 鈥淢usic and Modernity: The Case of Nineteenth-century Polish Galicia,鈥 seminar for the research group 鈥淢odernism in Central Europe鈥 and the Western Branch of the Japanese Society of Musicologists, University of Osaka, Japan, 2009.
  • 鈥淢usic and Modernity: The Case of Nineteenth-century Polish Galicia,鈥 seminar for the Japan Association of Occidental-Slavic Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 2009.
  • Invited to give a keynote address at the Ninth International Conference 鈥(Auto)Biography as a Musicological Discourse,鈥 organized by the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, 2008. Declined due to the political situation in Serbia (the Kosovo conflict).
  • 鈥淐hopin and the Discourse on Salons,鈥 keynote address at the 6th International Conference 鈥淐hopin in Paris: The 1830s鈥 organized by the Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina (National Frederic Chopin Institute), Warsaw, Poland, 2006.
  • 鈥淚nventing Europe: Myths, Conflicts, Reality,鈥 public lecture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2005.
  • 鈥淢emory and the Production of Historical Knowledge: The Case of French Enlightenment,鈥 public lecture, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2005.
  • 鈥淢emory, Identity and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France,鈥 lecture at the Colloquium Series, Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2004.
  • 鈥淭丑别 Relevance of Musicology for the Twenty First Century,鈥 Department of Music and Theatre, University of Oslo, Norway, invited lecture 2002.
  • 鈥淧arisian Salons as Sponsors of Music: Strategies of Empowerment,鈥 Doctoral Colloquium Guest Lecture, Department of Music, McGill University, Montr茅al, 2002.
  • 鈥淐hopin i polska emigracja w Pary偶u po powstaniu listopadowym, 1831鈥1849鈥 [Chopin and the Polish Exiles in Paris after the November Uprising, 1831鈥1849], invited lectrure at The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in Canada and the Polish Library, Montr茅al, 2002.
  • Guest lecturer in a seminar The Learned Lady (taught by Professor Gina Luria Walker), Department of Social Sciences, The New School University, New York City, 2002.
  • 鈥淭丑别 Enlightenment as Anti-Feminism,鈥 keynote address at the Interdisciplinary Conference of the Women in Political Studies Group, Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research, New York City, 2001.
  • 鈥淲riting the Biography of a Composer: Fr茅d茅ric Chopin,鈥 The 2000/2001 Fine Arts Research Lecture Series, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 2001.

Selected Awards, Fellowships and Distinctions

  • Canada Research Chair in European Studies (Tier II), 2005鈥2010.
  • Standard Research Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Principal Investigator: 2005鈥2008.
  • American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS)/Orbis Books Prize for the best English-language book in any discipline on any aspect of Polish affairs awarded in 2003 for the book Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772鈥1914.
  • Rochester Studies in Central Europe. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002.
  • Standard Research Grant, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Principal Investigator, 2000鈥2003.