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Omojola, B. 2023. Keynote Speaker: “Musical Emblems of the African Postcolony: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Decoloniality.” International Council for Traditional Music and Dance World Conference, University of Ghana, Accra, July 13-19, 2023.


Omojola, B. 2023. “Tributes to Bode Omojola: Paradigms and Encounters in African Musicology.” MUSON Center, Lagos, Nigeria, July 22. Organized by Bode Omojola’s colleagues and former students.


Convened and directed a 3-day exploratory seminar titled “African Art Music: Composers, Performers, and Scholars in Dialogue.” It was hosted by Harvard Radcliffe Institute in June 2021 and featured participants from Africa, Europe, and the United States.


Featured in a BBC Documentary: Classical Commonwealth (Exploring the fusion of classical music with local traditions across the British Commonwealth, February 24, 2021).

Was a webinar guest speaker at Universität Bayreuth, Germany on January 14, 2021. His lecture was titled, Oper bewegt - Towards an African Operatic Voice.

 

Sherezade Panthaki is the featured soprano soloist with the Washington Bach Consort on a World Premiere recording released this month. Entitled "A New Song", this is a brand new multi-movement work for 3 soloists, choir and orchestra by award-winning African-American composer Trevor Weston, and one of three World Premieres that have been specifically written for Ms. Panthaki this season.


Sherezade Panthaki sang as the soprano soloist in Haydn's "Creation" on tour in Austria and Germany in Summer 2022, with the internationally renowned Vienna-based orchestra, Orchester Wiener Akademie.


Made her Austrian solo performance debut to wide acclaim with the Orchester Wiener Akademie at the historic Vienna Musikverein. Panthaki is internationally renown as an early music specialist, and sang the soprano solo role in Handel's oratorio "Alexander's Feast".


Park, K.-S. (2024). Critical evaluation of KFL textbooks: Are all students represented? American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024 Conference (AAAL 2024) Houston, TX. March 18.


Park, K.-S. & S. Chang. (2023). Integrating social justice into the KFL curriculum. American Association of Teachers of Korean 28th Annual Conference and Professional Development Workshop (AATK 28) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. June 17.