Music and Mediation Conference

Mediation, in all its possible senses, from transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music and the study of music contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.

Keynote speakers:

Professor Naomi Sunderland is Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith University. She is a proud descendant of the Wiradjuri First Nations People of Australia alongside her mixed European heritage. Naomi has an expansive research and publishing record in arts-health, well-being, and First Nations social justice with a particular focus on creative, anti-oppresive, and trauma-informed research approaches.

Professor Svanibor Pettan is Chair in ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His past and present research sites include central and south-eastern Europe, Australia, Egypt, Norway, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the USA. His principal research topics are music and politics on a war-peace continuum, music and minorities, applied ethnomusicology and institutional history of ethnomusicology. He has served as President of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance and he is Chair of its Study Group on Music and Minorities.

Special guests: 

Judith Casselberry, Geoffrey Canada Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bowdoin College

Alisha L. Jones, Associate Professor | Director of Research, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge

Sally Macarthur, Adjunct Professor of Musicology, Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide 

Musician, singer-songwriter, author and broadcaster Dave Graney

Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, arranger and producer Clare Moore 

Complimentary morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea will be provided.

This event is generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia’s Special Funding Scheme. The conference stems from a research project that is generously supported by the Elizabeth Wood Research Fellowship in Musicology at the Elder Conservatorium of Music.

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