Friday, May 25, 2012

Journée mondiale de la diversité culturelle pour le dialogue et le développement / World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Develop ment / Día Mundial de la Diversidad Cultural para el D iálogo y el Desarrollo

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Message de la Directrice générale de l'UNESCO, Irina Bokova, à l'occasion de la journée mondiale de la diversité culturelle pour le dialogue et le développement, UNESCO, le 21 mai 2012
 
La culture est ce que nous sommes. Elle porte nos identités et nos rêves d'avenir. Les cultures se nourrissent mutuellement et contribuent à rendre l'humanité plus riche et plus féconde. Cette diversité est une source de renouvellement des idées et des sociétés. Elle représente un immense potentiel de croissance, de dialogue et de participation sociale.
 
Protéger et promouvoir la culture, c'est faire vivre cette diversité. Les nouvelles technologies, l'accélération de la mondialisation rapprochent les cultures comme jamais auparavant. La diversité culturelle s'affiche tous les jours sur les écrans des nouveaux médias et dans nos sociétés métissées. Ce brassage est un enrichissement, mais il peut aussi alimenter les malentendus et servir de prétexte à la division. Nous devons doter les jeunes générations de compétences interculturelles plus fortes pour apprendre à vivre ensemble et tirer le meilleur du foisonnement des cultures.
 
La raison d'être de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, les sciences et la culture (UNESCO) est d'offrir les moyens de libérer le potentiel de la diversité culturelle. Les conventions culturelles de l'UNESCO montrent que la culture a le pouvoir de tisser des liens entre le passé et l'avenir, par la protection du Patrimoine mondial et du patrimoine immatériel, la promotion de la diversité des expressions culturelles. La culture aide à surmonter les conflits en éclairant ce qui nous rassemble. Elle stimule la créativité qui est un moteur d'innovation et de développement. Dans les termes de la Déclaration universelle de l'UNESCO sur la diversité culturelle, adoptée en 2001, « la diversité culturelle est, pour le genre humain, aussi nécessaire que la biodiversité dans l'ordre du vivant ». Cette déclaration constitue le socle d'une gouvernance mondiale inclusive, capable d'assurer le respect des droits humains universels, partout sur la planète.
 
La culture et la créativité sont des ressources renouvelables par excellence. A l'heure où les Etats cherchent des leviers de croissance et de développement durable, j'appelle les responsables politiques et les acteurs de la société civile à reconnaître ce rôle de la diversité culturelle et à l'intégrer dans les politiques publiques. Notre environnement naturel est fragilisé : sachons mettre en valeur notre environnement culturel. Le potentiel économique des industries créatives les désigne comme une locomotive de la croissance verte. Et l'expérience prouve que les modèles de développement efficaces sont ceux qui savent intégrer les spécificités culturelles locales pour susciter la participation des populations concernées. Les Nations Unies s'apprêtent à définir un nouvel agenda pour la coopération internationale après 2015, la culture doit absolument figurer comme un pilier de toute stratégie de développement durable car elle permettra le dialogue entre les peuples et l'appropriation de leur avenir.
 
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Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, UNESCO, 21 May 2012
Culture is what we are. It embodies our identities and our dreams for the future. Cultures are mutually sustaining and contribute to the enhancement of humanity's wealth and productivity. Such diversity is a wellspring for the renewal of ideas and societies. It holds great potential for growth, dialogue and social participation.
By protecting and promoting culture, we sustain diversity. New technologies and rapid globalization are bringing cultures together as never before. Cultural diversity features prominently every day on new-media screens and in our mixed societies. Such intermingling is enrichment, but it can also fuel misunderstandings and be used as an excuse for division. We must equip the rising generations with stronger intercultural skills so that they may learn to live together and make the most of the profusion of cultures.
The chief purpose of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is to provide ways and means of unlocking the potential of cultural diversity. UNESCO's cultural conventions show that culture can forge ties between the past and the future by protecting the world's tangible heritage and intangible heritage and by promoting the diversity of cultural expressions. Culture helps us to rise above conflicts by elucidating the factors that bring us together. It boosts the creativity that drives innovation and development. The UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, adopted in 2001, states that "cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature". The Declaration has laid the foundation for inclusive world governance capable of ensuring observance of human rights worldwide.
Culture and creativity are renewable resources par excellence. Now that States are looking for mainsprings of growth and sustainable development, I call on policy makers and civil society stakeholders to acknowledge this role of cultural diversity and to factor it into public policies. Our natural environment has been weakened: let us find ways and means of optimizing our cultural environment. Owing to their economic potential, creative industries are engines of green growth. Furthermore, experience shows that efficient development models are those that actually integrate local cultural specificities, thus eliciting the involvement of the communities concerned. Preparations are under way at the United Nations to set the new post-2015 international cooperation agenda, and culture must absolutely be included as a pillar of any sustainable development strategy, for it will enable peoples to dialogue with each other and be masters of their future.
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Mensaje de la Directora General de la UNESCO, Irina Bokova, con motivo del Día Mundial de la Diversidad Cultural para el Diálogo y el Desarrollo UNESCO, 21 de mayo de 2012
La cultura es lo que somos. Es lo que sustenta nuestras identidades y nuestros sueños de porvenir. Las culturas se nutren mutuamente y contribuyen a que la humanidad sea más rica y más fecunda. Esa diversidad es una fuente de renovación de las ideas y las sociedades. Constituye un inmenso potencial de crecimiento, de diálogo y de participación social.
Proteger y promover la cultura es hacer vivir esa diversidad. Las nuevas tecnologías y la aceleración de la mundialización acercan a las culturas como nunca antes. La diversidad cultural aparece todos los días en las pantallas de los nuevos medios de comunicación y en nuestras sociedades mestizadas. Esa mezcla es un enriquecimiento, pero puede también suscitar malentendidos y servir de pretexto para la división. Debemos dotar a las jóvenes generaciones de competencias interculturales más robustas para aprender a vivir juntos y sacar el mejor provecho de la multiplicidad de las culturas.
La razón de ser de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO) es brindar los medios de liberar el potencial de la diversidad cultural. Las convenciones culturales de la UNESCO muestran que la cultura tiene la facultad de estrechar lazos entre el pasado y el futuro, gracias a la protección del patrimonio mundial y del patrimonio inmaterial, y a la promoción de la diversidad de las expresiones culturales. La cultura ayuda a superar los conflictos resaltando lo que nos reúne. Estimula la creatividad, factor de innovación y desarrollo. Según la Declaración Universal de la UNESCO sobre la Diversidad Cultural, aprobada en 2001, "la diversidad cultural es tan necesaria para el género humano como la diversidad biológica para los organismos vivos". Esta Declaración constituye el fundamento de una gobernanza mundial inclusiva, capaz de garantizar en todo el planeta el respeto de los derechos humanos universales.
La cultura y la creatividad son recursos renovables por excelencia. En momentos en que los Estados buscan medios de crecimiento y de desarrollo sostenible, insto a los responsables políticos y a los agentes de la sociedad civil a que reconozcan ese papel de la diversidad cultural y lo integren en las políticas públicas. Nuestro entorno natural está fragilizado: sepamos valorizar nuestro entorno cultural. El potencial económico de las industrias creativas las designa como una fuerza impulsora del crecimiento ecológico. Y la experiencia demuestra que los modelos de desarrollo eficaces son aquellos que saben integrar las especificidades culturales locales para suscitar la participación de las poblaciones interesadas. Las Naciones Unidas se disponen a definir un nuevo programa para la cooperación internacional después de 2015. Es indispensable que la cultura figure como elemento esencial de toda estrategia de desarrollo sostenible, ya que posibilitará el diálogo entre los pueblos y la apropiación de su futuro.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Hip hop education identities - Roundtable discussion to be held on 30th May 2.30-4.00




'Hip hop, education, identities'

 

Wednesday May 30th 2012

From 2.30 to 4.00 –  Large seminar room.
London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street LondonWC1N 3QS

 

Coffee and tea will be available from 2.00

 

A roundtable discussion, chaired by Lucy Green, with David Kirkland, Rupa Huq, Francis Winston, Patrick Turner, Chris Richards

 

This event will explore developments in the British educational context in conversation with David Kirkland of New York University.

 

David Kirkland has written widely on urban youth culture, language and digital media. His new book, A Search Past Silence, will be published by Teachers College Press.

 

Rupa Huq is the author of Beyond subculture: pop, youth and identity in a postcolonial world and, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic, Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture.

 

Francis Winston is a musician (Souljahz) and a student on the MA in Music Education at the Institute of Education. 

 

Patrick Turner completed his PhD in 2010, at Goldsmiths' College - Hip Hop Versus Rap: An Ethnography of the Cultural Politics of New Hip Hop Practices.

 

Chris Richards is the author of Teen Spirits: Music and Identity in Media Education; Forever Young:Essays on Young Adult Fictions and, most recently, Young People, Popular Culture and Education.

 

Lucy Green has recently edited Learning, Teaching and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures (2011). She is the author of Music on Deaf Ears: Musical Meaning, Ideology and Education; Music, Gender, Education; How Popular Musicians Learn: A Way Ahead For Music Education; Music, Informal Learning and the School: A New Classroom Pedagogy.

 

 

At the Institute of Education, Bedford Way: Elvin Hall

5.00 Tea

5.30: David Kirkland, Assistant Professor, New York University
Faculty Lecture Series - Rhythms of justice: using hip hop to teach global awareness and for social change

 

6.30 Drinks, canapés



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Institute of Education
Dept for Culture, Communication & Media
London Knowledge Lab
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Friday, May 4, 2012

CfP: MIRUM '12 - 2nd Int'l Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies at ACM Multimedia 2012

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on Music Information Retrieval with
User-Centered and Multimodal Strategies (MIRUM)
held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia 2012 conference
November 2, 2012, Nara, Japan
http://mirum12.tudelft.nl
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-- Motivation --

Music is an outstanding example of a content type with many different,
complimentary representations in multiple modalities. Each of these
contribute to the way in which music is conveyed and experienced.
Furthermore, the consumption of music is strongly guided by affective
and subjective responses, which are personal and context-dependent,
occur at different conceptual specificity levels, and for which no
universal, uncompromising ground truth exists. Thus, in order for
music retrieval systems to yield satisfying results, insight into the
information needs and demands of the actual users of the systems
becomes very important.

To allow comprehensive and flexible exploitation of the multifaceted
aspects of music, both the availability of complementary music-related
information in multiple modalities and the role of the human user
should be considered. At the same time, challenges such as the
identification and optimal combination of useful information from
different modalities and algorithmic approaches to user-dependent
subjective assessments of music retrieval results still are largely
unsolved. These challenges are certainly not unique to music content,
but actual and prevalent in the broad multimedia community.

The MIRUM workshop, held on November 2, 2012 in conjunction with ACM
Multimedia 2012 in Nara, Japan, provides a platform at a premier
multimedia venue for discussing open challenges and presenting
state-of-the art work on music information retrieval adopting
user-centered and multimodal strategies. The workshop explicitly aims
to initiate a cross-disciplinary idea exchange between experts in the
fields of music and multimedia information retrieval (and other
related fields)

-- Topics of interest --

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Music multimedia content analysis
- Visual and sensory information for music processing
- Multimodal music search, retrieval and recommendation
- Social networks and indexing for music applications
- Music similarity measures at different specificity levels
- Fusion of multimodal music information sources
- Music knowledge representation and reasoning
- Interactive music systems and retrieval
- (Adaptive) user interaction and interfaces
- User (context) models and personalization
- Real-world issues (unstructured and noisy data, scalability, formats, …)
- Evaluation methods and data understanding
- Cross-domain methodology transfer

-- Contributions --

MIRUM welcomes **technical papers** and a limited number of **position
papers** (both max. 6 pages) with novel, thought-provoking work and
ideas relating to the workshop topics. In addition, **extended
abstracts for technical demonstrations** (max. 2 pages) are solicited.
Accepted contributions will be presented in oral sessions and in a
dedicated demo session. Position papers should consider visionary
ideas based on a solid argumentation, and technical demonstrations
should consider demonstrably working systems. In all cases, there
should be clear relevance to the workshop focus areas.

All submissions must be formatted according to the ACM Proceedings
style and contain original work that is not being published or under
review elsewhere. Each submission will undergo a double-blind
reviewing process by at least 3 PC members. All accepted papers will
be published together with the ACM Multimedia 2012 main conference
proceedings and will be made available through the ACM digital
library.

The submission system is open at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ACMMMWS2012.

-- Important dates --

Workshop paper submission: June 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance: July 24, 2012
Camera-ready submission:August 15, 2012
ACM Multimedia 2012: October 29 - November 2, 2012
MIRUM workshop: November 2, 2012

-- Workshop organization --

Cynthia Liem, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Meinard Müller, Bonn University & MPI Informatik, Germany
Steve Tjoa, iZotope, Inc., USA
George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria, Canada

-- Program committee --

Xavier Anguera, Telefónica Research, Spain
Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, Columbia University, USA
Elaine Chew, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Ching-Hua Chuan, University of Northern Florida, USA
Emanuele Coviello, University of California, San Diego, USA
Christian Dittmar, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany
Slim Essid, Télécom ParisTech, France
Sebastian Ewert, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Takuya Fujishima, Yamaha Corporation, Japan
Rebecca Fiebrink, Princeton University, USA
Masataka Goto, AIST, Japan
Fabien Gouyon, INESC Porto, Portugal
Peter Grosche, Saarland University and MPI Informatik
Perfecto Herrera, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Jason Hockman, McGill University, Canada
Paul Lamere, The Echo Nest, USA
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jin Ha Lee, University of Washington, USA
Mark Levy, last.fm, UK
Lie Lu, Dolby Sound Technology Research, China
Eric Nichols, Indiana University, USA
Geoffroy Peeters, IRCAM, France
Markus Schedl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Björn Schuller, TU München, Germany
Joan Serrà, IIIA-CSIC, Spain
Yi-Hsuan Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ju-Chiang Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ye Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

PhD Scholarship

PhD SCHOLARSHIPS – ICCMR / COMPUTER MUSIC

Closing date: 12 noon, Monday 21 May 2012

The School of Humanities and Performing Arts (HuMPA) seeks to award 2
fully funded full time research studentships in key strategic areas of
research, which included Computer & Contemporary Music.

The studentships, funded for 3 years, cover Home/EU tuition fees and
stipend in line with RCUK levels.

Non Home/EU students are eligible to apply but, if successful, will
have to fund the difference between Home/EU and International fees.

The school welcomes proposals to study for a PhD at the
Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR). Please
refer to ICCMR's website for a glance at our research activity, but
proposals do not necessarily need to be associated with an ongoing
project. We welcome suggestions for new research topics, particularly
those related to composition aided by new technologies.

http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/

Link to application information through here:

http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/jobs.html

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Prof Eduardo R. Miranda
Plymouth University / ICCM