Paul Mason

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Music and Movements in Indonesian Culture

An interdisciplinary conference combining research presentations from local and international scholars as well as practical music and dance workshops with Indonesian Artists. Applications are now open to postgraduates and post-doctorates who wish to present, attend and participate. Artists with workshop proposals are also invited to submit applications.

SEE THE WEBSITE: MUSIC AND MOVEMENTS IN INDONESIAN CULTURE

• When: October 2008
• Where: Consulate General of Indonesia in Sydney
• What: Morning Conferences and Afternoon Workshops
• Who: Local and International scholars as well as Indonesian and Australian-Indonesian Artists
  
  Music and Dance, while often placed at the peripheries of contemporary research, can provide valuable doorways into the social aspects of other cultures. The rich variety of music and dance in the Indonesian archipelago can inform us about the lives, history and identity of its people. It can provide us with an intimate familiarity with our neighbours as well as being a useful platform for intercultural exchange.
  
  
  Previously, academic research has only focused on either music or dance separately, with a disproportionate weighting towards music alone. This conference will be looking at both music and dance as well as the links between them (choreomusicology) in the context of regional Indonesian cultures.
  
  In October, we are bringing together researchers and artists from a variety of disciplines around the central theme of Indonesian Music, Dance and Culture. The conference will include a mixture of research presentations, traditional performances, music and dance workshops, as well as speed-paper presentations and round-table discussions especially catered for post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers. The sessions will be open to interested members of the local community. This multi-layered symposium endeavours to connect researchers with researchers, researchers with artists, and researchers and artists with the local community.
  
  
  The first day of the conference will feature special speed-paper sessions where attending honours and post-graduate students will briefly present their research area, topic and methods (four power-point slides per speaker). This provides the opportunity to introduce themselves to attendees, facilitating subsequent opportunities throughout the symposium to generate productive discussion and networking.
  
  

Objectives:

• (1) To create awareness of Indonesian culture through music and movement
• (2) To promote Indonesia as a region of diverse artistic, political, economic, cultural and social characteristics.
• (3) To present new research findings in the field of Southeast Asian Studies.
• (4) To encourage exchange of ideas and information among researchers, artists and the general public involved in researching, teaching and performing Indonesian art, music and dance.
• (5) To encourage intellectual discourse and practical collaborations among researchers, academicians, artists, governments, private sector and NGOs on issues pertaining to Indonesia.

More information to follow. Please stay tuned.

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