Schedule

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE 

WEDNESDAY (October 5th, 2016) is pre-conference events/welcome for delegates/ launch of a larger Applied Ethnomusicology project associated with the conference

3 pm CBU Library

Featuring the Maroun-El Kady Music Monograph Collection

With guest speaker Dr. Anne K. Rasmussen, Bickers Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, College of William and Mary. A short musical performance will follow the address.

4 – 6pm – Governor’s Pub (Sydney Waterfront District)

• Launch of Global Musics – Local Connections public outreach program, live-to-air on CBC: Mainstreet Cape Breton program (various musicians)

6 – 8 pm – Governor’s Pub

• Global Musics open mic party! (hosted by Dr. Chris McDonald, CBU)

*8pm at the Pub is a regular weekly Irish session

 

***CONFERENCE***

 

—THURSDAY  October 6th (James McConnell Memorial Library –Sydney Waterfront District)

10-10:30 WELCOME

Traditional “Welcome” with drummer and culture-bearer Michael R. Denny

(and other dignitaries, officials)

SESSION 1 (1.5 hrs) 10:30-12 noon

1. PANEL 1: Community Radio: Sharing and Sustaining Local Musics and Cultures
2. PANEL 2: Vitality and Sustainability of Music Traditions

SESSION 2 (1 hr) 12 noon – 1pm

1. ROUNDTABLE 1: Community Radio: Local Voices and Local Sounds

SESSION 3 (2 hrs) 1- 3 pm

1. PANEL 3: Applying Ethnomusicologies in Times of Dramatic Demographic Change: Refugees, Immigrants and Community Diversity

SESSION 4 (1 hr) – 3-4 pm

1. Workshop: Virtual Reality, Spatial Sound and the Future of Ethnomusicology: The Music Legacy Project (Ons Barnat)
2. SPECIAL NETWORKING SESSION: Developing Resources to Support Successful Syrian Refugee Arrival, Resettlement and Integration to Canada

SESSION 5 (1.5 hrs) 4-5:30 pm

1. PANEL 4: Sustainability and Heritage Relationships
2. PANEL 5: Music Festivals

*Community Event: An evening in Whitney Pier – Dinner, and participatory music and dance in one of Cape Breton’s most culturally diverse communities.

—FRIDAY October 7th (CBU campus)

• Music Teacher Professional Development Day – Boardmore Theatre (all day)
• Youth4Music workshop in the Multiversity Centre (all day)
• Conference panels/workshops on CBU campus

SESSION 6 – 9-10:30 am

1. KEYNOTE 1: Patricia Campbell, Title TBA

SESSION 7 (1 hr) 11-12 noon

1. PANEL 6: Critical Applied Ethnomusicology and the Roles of Institutions

LUNCH 12 noon – 1 pm

SESSION 8 (1 hr) 1-2pm

ROUNDTABLE 2: Applied Ethnomusicology: Current Developments

SESSION 9 (1 hr) 2-3 pm

CoMM LAB: Workshop: Global Musics-Local Connections in partnership with Celtic Colours Learning Opportunity 1: Appalachian Clogging (Anne Elise Thomas)

CBU LIBRARY LOUNGE: Workshop: Virtual Reality, Spatial Sound and the Future of Ethnomusicology: The Music Legacy Project (Ons Barnat)

SESSION 10 (1.5 hrs) – 3:30-5 pm

1. PANEL 7: Issues in Higher Education
2. PANEL 8: Transforming Ethnomusicological Praxis through Activism and Community Engagement

Conference Banquet: Cocktails 5:30pm, Dinner 6pm. This banquet includes dinner, as well as traditional Mi’kmaq culture sharing and participatory dance with Michael R. Denny and Eskasoni dancers. (Verschuren Centre, CBU Campus)

—SATURDAY October 8th

SESSION 11 (1 hr) – 9 – 10 am

1. KEYNOTE 2: Naila Ceribasic, Title TBA

SESSION 12 (2 hrs) 10:30-12:30

1. PANEL 9: Collaborative Applied Ethnomusicology Methods
2.  PANEL 10: Critical Issues in Education and Pedagogy

LUNCH AND BUSINESS MEETING 12:30-2 pm

SESSION 13 (1.5 hrs) – 2-3:30pm

1. Global Musics-Local Connections in partnership with Celtic Colours Learning Opportunity 2: “Celtic Piping Connections”

SPECIAL SESSION – 3:30-5:30pm

“Songs and Stories of Syrian Immigration to Canada”

 Community Reception and Networking event, with participatory musicking and dance

*OPTION: Celtic Colours Concert at 7:30 pm, “Unusual Suspects of Celtic Colours” (Joan Harriss Cruise Pavilion, Sydney Waterfront)

— SUNDAY OCT 9th-

SESSION 14 –  9:00-10:30

1. PANEL 11: Intangible Cultural Heritage and Institutional Practices
2. PANEL 12: Archiving and New Media

SESSION 15 – 10:45-12:15

1. PANEL 13: Applied work and (Post) Conflict Situations
2. PANEL 14: UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Program

12:30– 1 pm noon LUNCH

SESSION 16 (1 hr) – 1-2pm

1. ROUNDTABLE 2: Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Tourism

SESSION 17 (1.5 hrs) – 2-3:30 pm

1. Global Musics – Local Connections in partnership with Celtic Colours Learning Opportunity 3: “Squeeze This! A cultural history of the accordion in the Americas” (Marion Jacobson, with Stewart MacNeil)

Conference Closing Remarks

*OPTION: Canadian Thanksgiving Dinner (details, cost TBA)

*OPTION: Celtic Colours Concert at 7:30 pm, “Celtic Cabaret” (Membertou Trade and Conventions Centre, Membertou First Nation, Nova Scotia)

 

MONDAY October 10th

*OPTION: Cabot Trail Excursion (details, cost TBA)