People, Papers, Presentations

Honey Meconi,
associate professor of musicology and music history and
director of Medieval Studies, gave the keynote address,
“Petruci Versus the Manuscripts: What Is a Music Collection?,”
at the international conference Legacies: 500 Years of Printed
Music, held at the U. of North Texas Oct. 25-28. In addition,
Meconi’s paper, “The Naming of Things: Petrucci’s
Mass Prints and the Commodification of Music” was read
at the international conference Venezia 1501: Petrucci e
la stampa musicale, held in Venice, Italy, Oct. 10-13.

Will Robedee,
KTRU general manager, was elected to the Collegiate Broadcasters
Inc. board of directors and named vice chair by the board
at the organization’s third annual convention Oct.
26-28 in New Orleans. Robedee also gave presentations on
a number of panels, including “How Much Compression
Can You Stand?,” “War Stories,” “Ask
the Experts,” “The Future of College Broadcasting,”
“We Wanna Stream” and “Just How Many People
Do We Pay To Stream?”

Steven H.
Wilson, assistant director of development communications,
presented a paper titled “Proximity to the Frontier
Does Not Automatically Place a 100-mile Strip of Citizenry
Within a Deconstitutionalized Zone: a Federal Judicial Dissension
in the War on Drugs” at the Borderlands in Transition
conference in Laredo, Texas, Nov. 9-10. The conference was
presented by the Texas State Historical Association and
Texas A&M International University Center for the Study
of Western Hemispheric Trade.

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