New Areas of Study
As well as building on its existing research strengths and continuing the legacy of its earlier themes, the IAS also sponsored two major conferences to develop new areas of study.
Durham hosted the first International Conference on Music and Emotion with support from the IAS. This was the first conference on music and emotion ever organised by a music department. A cross-disciplinary body of scholars theorised the ways in which the shifting moods and emotional states triggered by music can be mapped and explained, using new insights from psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. This conference successfully broke new ground in music research, leading to the foundation of the International Conference on Music and Emotion. The meeting is set to be repeated at the University of Western Australia in 2012.
Also at the frontiers of new artistic endeavours was a conference on Cosmopoetics, or experimental contemporary poetry. This involves a range of different performance modes, and is not confined solely to the page. As well as being an academic conference encompassing sixty mainstream papers, Cosmopoetics hosted a poem-lecture, installation art, poetry readings, and musical performances. The conference thus reflected the breadth of activities undertaken in contemporary poetry, and the way in which it moves between disciplines and media, from music and the visual arts, to literature, philosophy and neuroscience. As well as indicating the IAS’s sponsorship of new creative research and practice, the conference also signalled the IAS’s endorsement of emerging young academics, as this international event was organised by two postgraduate researchers, Marc Botha and Heather Yeung (both from the Department of English Studies).
Reflections
Reflections
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