| Programme for SocArts symposium 2011 |
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The programme for the 2011 SocArts symposium on Music - Conflict - Transformation is now ready. This year's topic encouraged a large number of submissions of a very high quality, and we are proud to present the largest SocArts symposium so far with 21 presentations in all as well as a large number of additional attendants. The interest in this field and the approaches we see in the contributions also show that SocArts key concern with how music matters in social life is shared by many others around the world. We are also very pleased to host a number of practioners and musicians as well as researchers. A dialogue between us will help improve our understanding of how music works in social situations and groups. We welcome you all to Exeter and hope you will have a fruitful seminar. The full program is listed below.
MONDAY 9th MAY 10:00: Welcome by Tia DeNora 10:05: Introduction by Arild Bergh 10:15 to 11:45 Community Community music and the promotion of social inclusion: An English-Vojvodinian (Serbia) partnership by Catherine Pestano (Croydon Intercultural Singing Project, UK) The Living Together Lounge for People Who are Both HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative: A Monthly Live Music Event as “Ritualistic Art” in Tokyo by Mia Nakamura (Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan) Music and Conflict Resolution: Exploring the Use of Music in Community Engagement by Mindy Johnston (Insight Development Group, USA) 12:00 to 12:30 New directions (1) Can music in help socio-culturally deprived children in Colombia? by Gloria Patricia Zapata (Roehampton University and Corpas University, UK/Colombia)
13:00 to 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 to 16:00 Identity Musical ammunition: flexing neonationalist muscles through performance of reimagined Lithuanian folk songs by Emily Daina Saras (Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy/Wellesley College, Lithuania/USA) Musical practice and the construction of cultural identity by Martin Winter & Richard Parncutt (Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria) Crossing the bridge: Conflicting social identities and RnBesk music by Pinar Güran (University of Exeter, UK/Turkey) Music as a social control mechanism by Irene Gallego (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
16:30 to 18:00 Mediation/reconciliation Music and Mediation by Barbara Dunn (Whidbey General Hospital, USA) Musicking as a Means of Accessing Tacit Cultural Understanding in Conflict Transformation Settings by Craig Robertson (University of Exeter, UK/Canada) Music and Reconciliation: Songs composed by Victims and Ex-Combatants in Colombia and their implications by María Elisa Pinto García (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan/Colombia)
TUESDAY 10th MAY
9:30 to 10:30 Future projects (In this session participants can do an informal presentation future ideas and get feedback from all attendants.) Using music as a vehicle to prompt behavior changes in young adults living in high conflict areas by Thomas P: Valenti (Valenti Law, USA) Communication, community and communion: collaborative music-making as “alternative wisdom” in conflict resolution by Linda Ippolito (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada) Emotional literacy for the iPod generation by Charlie Irvine (The Law School, The University of Strathclyde)
11:00 to 12:30 New directions (2) Presentation of the “Corporacion Son Batá” project by Jhon Jaime Sánchez Mosquera & Juan Carlos Sánchez (Corporacion Son Batá, Colombia) Firemaking in the Lebanon: building social resilience through the arts in times of low-intensity conflict by Mercedes Pavlicevic (Nordoff Robbins, UK) Presentation of the “Crew Peligrosos” project by Henry Artega & Juan Carlos Sánchez (Crew Peligrosos, Colombia)
12:30 to 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 to 14:30 Transmission The transmission of conflict: The Kurdish dengbêj tradition by Argun Cakir (Center for Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter, UK/Turkey) “We listened to it because of the message”: Juvenile Soldiers and Music in the Sierra Leone Civil War by Cornelia Nuxoll (Music, Conflict and the State, University of Göttingen, Germany)
15:30 to 16:30 Issues and ethics when intervening in conflicts Presentation and discussion by Joan McGregor from “Responding to Conflict”. Joan McGregor has been working in the field of conflict transformation for more than 20 years, focusing on participatory approaches to conflict analysis, strategic planning, mediation and negotiation, methodologies, training of trainers, and counselling in countries ranging from Nepal and Sudan to Palestine and the UK.
17:00 to 18:00 Plenary Discussion |