Deadline for applications for the first MUCH conference in March 2011 is coming up!

General information

Due to our funding from Nordforsk, we are happy to be able to invite about 30 participants from all Nordic countries. Accomodation and travel costs will be free.

The first Nordic network conference on Music, Culture, and Health (MUCH) will be held at Olavsgården (outside Oslo)

PhD-students are invited to participate and to present their ongoing research.

Panels is set up allowing researchers from all Nordic countries to present and discuss their research.

Topic

The topis is Music and Health: Generative mechanisms

Application

Deadline for application to participate is  December 1, 2010
Please send e-mail to muchconference@nmh.no

Please attach max 1 page word file with the following information:

a. Name, e-mail, workplace, academic position
b. Current interest in Music, Culture and Health-research
c. Your willingness as a PhD-student to present
d. Your willingness as a researcher to participate in a panel of researchers and/or act as opponent for a ph.d.student.

Correspondance

Kristin Kjølberg, PhD, Norwegian Academy of Music, will assist in the process of planning the conference. She will be serving the address muchconference@nmh.no. Please use this address when applying for participation! 
 

Program

Guest lecturers:

• Professor Tia DeNora, Exeter university
• Professor Stephen Clift,Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, UK
• Professor Suzanne  Hanser  from Berklee College of Music, Massachusetts, USA will be the keynote speaker on the subject of “Music, Health and Well-Being”.      

From the MUCH-Network:

• Professor Brynjulf Stige, University of Bergen, Norway, will speak about criteria for the use of qualitative research methods.
• Associate professor Kari Bjerke Batt-Rawden, Østlandsforskning, Norway,  will speak about her action research on the use of music with persons with long-term illness.
• In addition PhD-researchers are invited to present their ongoing research and we will set up panels allowing participants from all Nordic countries to present and discuss their research.

   

  More information?

  Please use muchconference@nmh.no for further communication!

   

  The conference is supported by NordForsk!
  
   

  We are looking forward to welcome you to this great event!

Even Ruud/KS, October, 2010

Photo: Karette S