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Visitors, 2005-6
Keynote Speaker, 2006 HUSS Postgrad Conference Forging Ahead: Agenda For Change
May 2006 HUSS Postgrad Conference,
School of
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Exeter
University:
This years Keynote Speaker was Professor Hroar Klempe, Dean of the Department of Psychology at the
Norwegian
University of Science and Technology in
Trondheim. Professor Klempe spoke about the musicalisation of communication in the global world. Musicalisation involves discourse strategies that subvert speech content. It may provide a tool for reconciliation but may also provide a means for persuading people to adopt programs, policies and consumer goods that they would probably not agree to under more explicit speech circumstances. For further details see: http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/postgrad/pgconf2006/klempe_abstract.htm
Lisa McCormick, Department of Sociology,
Yale
University: Lisa is an advanced PhD student, working with Jeffrey Alexander and Ron Eyerman at Yale. She has a double degree in Music Performance (cello) and Sociology from
Rice
University and was a Rhodes Scholar before embarking on the PhD in Sociology of Music at Yale. Her PhD research examines the international music competition and she is seeking to develop a performance perspective for music sociology. Lisa gave a very well-attended Staff Seminar on Music as Social Performance in October and stayed with us for two weeks before going on to
Paris for further fieldwork.
Vegar Jordanger, Making Peaces (NGO in international conflict resolution) and Department of Psychology,
Trondheim
University. Vegar works mainly in Russia and
Chechnya and uses music as a tool for conflict resolution dialogue. He gave a very stimulating seminar on his practical work using music in mediation sessions as a tool for dialogue and emotional transformation and joined us for a field trip to the countryside.
Ardal Powell, Folkers and Powell, Baroque Flutes and Independent Scholar (flute historian). Ardal make a brief visit to complete an application for a postdoctoral fellowship that, if successful, would be held in the Department in collaboration with Tia. Ardals most recent book The Flute (Yale University Press, 2002), which won the Nicolas American Musical Instrument SocietyBessaraboff Prize in 2005.
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