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A symposium sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Department of Music, Dartmouth College.
Please RSVP by April 18, 2022, by completing this short form. These events are open to registrants in the Dartmouth community, but are not open to the public.
Download the full program with abstracts and biographies here.
Saturday AM Sessions, Hayward Lounge
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast provided for visitors
9:00 - 9:15 Opening Remarks, Michael Casey and Theodore Levin, Department of Music.
Session 1: Future Sonic Clinics
Moderator: John Schaefer, WNYC Public Radio, New York
9:15 - 9:45 Barbara Jobst and Michael Casey, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Eliciting the Neural Basis of Music Medicine in Epilepsy
9:45 - 10:15 Kamran Fallahpour, Vital Neuro. Integration of Music and Visual Feedback with Real Time Brain Monitoring
Coffee Break 10:15 - 11:00
Session 2: Ethnomusicology of Wellness
Moderator: Ken Moore, Curator emeritus, Dept. of Musical Instruments, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
11:00 - 11:30 Aaron Colverson, University of Florida. Toward a Neuro-Ethnomusicology of Aging: Relationship Building at the Intersections of Mixed-methods Research
11:30 - 12:00 Jean During, CNRS, France. From Speculative Music Therapy to Ritual Effectiveness: Music and Healing in Muslim Contexts
Lunch Break 12:00 - 1:30 lunch provided for visitors and registered attendees, Hayward Lounge
Saturday PM Sessions
Session 3: Music, Neuroscience, and Health
Moderator: Michael Casey
1:30 - 2:00 Yune Lee, University of Texas at Dallas. The BMW Story: The Brain, Music, and Well-Being
2:00 - 2:30 Petr Janata, University of California at Davis. Brain Systems that Support Musical Experiences
2:30 - 3:00 Psyche Loui, Northeastern University. Curious Cases in Musical Behavior, and What They Tell Us about Music for Brain Health
Coffee Break 3:00 - 3:45
Session 4: Music Therapy During the Pandemic
Moderator: Michael Casey
3:45 - 4:15 Lisa Wong, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School. Music in Covid Times: Caring for the Community and Caregivers
4:15 - 4:45 Suzanne Hanser, Berklee College of Music. The Growth of Music Listening via Technologies: Is it for Everyone?
Reception: 5:00 - 6:00, Hanover Inn, Brewster Room
Concert: 6:30 - 8:00, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center for the Arts (capacity: 90)
Elaine Chew, CNRS France (IRCAM); King’s College, London. Music as Mechanism for Cardiology Insights
Tanaka Chikati, Kurapwa neMbira (Shona: “being healed by the Mbira”)
Jean During and Leyli Atashkar, Musical affect as Apollonian and Dionysian: examples from Iranian dastgah and Baluchi “trance” music
Dinner provided for visitors: 8:15 - 9:30, Hanover Inn, Brewster Room
Jam session: 9:30 - 11:00, improvisation in Faulkner Recital Hall
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.