Inaugural Nordoff Robbins Plus Conference
Music and Communication: Music Therapy and Music Psychology
20th September 2013, Nordoff Robbins, London Centre
One of the key reasons people engage with music, whether as therapists, performers, listeners, researchers, or teachers, is because of its communicative potential. We would like to explore together with you what we mean by music and communication and would like to invite you to our conference on Music and communication: Music Therapy and Music Psychology, at Nordoff Robbins, London Centre, UK, on the 20th of September, 2013.
This will be the first in a series of Nordoff Robbins Plus Conferences. The series aims to provide multi-disciplinary and cross institutional thinking – each time we will be organising the conference with another institution. This time we are working with the Centre for Music and Science, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.
The conference will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from different areas related to music and communication. We will begin with two invited keynote speakers (Ian Cross – Music Psychology and Felicity North – Music Therapy) and four responses from the perspectives of music therapy and music psychology (Jörg Fachner, Lauren Stewart, Gary Ansdell and Tessa Watson). These will be followed by poster presentations and group and panel discussions arranged around the following question:
What should we all know about music and communication?
Abstracts for submissions of posters that report on empirical and theoretical research on music and communication are invited. These contributions are welcome from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to the following: Cognitive science, Composition, Education, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Performance studies, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychoacoustics, Sociology, and Therapy.
Submission guidelines and dates
Maximum length of the abstracts is 250 words for posters of size A1.
Abstract submission deadline: 14th June 2013.
Notification of acceptance: 17th July 2013
Registration deadline: 1st of September 2013.
Regular fee: £60 / Student fee: £30 / Nordoff Robbins students: FREE
Please go through your line manager / regional head to apply for contributions towards the cost of the conference in the usual way.
Please visit http://www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/conferences for more information, or contact Neta Spiro at conferences@nordoff-robbins.org.uk.
The conference website will be updated regularly over the coming months, so please check back for up-to-date information concerning the speakers and more.
Looking forward to seeing you in September,
Neta and Mercédès
Dr Neta Spiro
Conference Chair
Prof Mercédès Pavlicevic
Director of Research
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Giorgos Tsiris
Research Assistant
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The Inaugural Nordoff Robbins Plus Conference, 20th September 2013
Music and Communication: Music Therapy and Music Psychology
www.nordoff-robbins.org.uk/conferences
We look forward to seeing you!
