Art History Lecture Series presents Esteban Buch

*Scandal at The Rite: Games of distinction and dreams of barbarism*

Esteban Buch is directeur détudes at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. A specialist on the relations between music and politics in the twentieth century, he is the author of six books, namely, in French, Le cas Schönberg (Gallimard, 2006), La Neuvième de Beethoven (Gallimard, 1999; English tr. by The University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Histoire d’un secret (Actes Sud, 1994); in Spanish, The Bomarzo Affair (Adriana Hidalgo, 2003), O juremos con gloria morir (Sudamericana, 1994) and El pintor de la Suiza argentina (Sudamericana, 1991). He is currently director of the Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et les Langages (CRAL), and director of the Master in Music programme of the EHESS.