All are welcome to attend the Research Higher Degree Seminars.
The Research Higher Degree Seminars will be held in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room in the Duhig Building (#2), UQ St. Lucia Campus. Go through the entrance beside Cafe Merlo, go down the stairs and turn right.
Program - Semester 2, 2009
Free Research Higher Degree Seminars
Friday 21 August 2009, 2-4pm
The session will commence with a keynote address presented by a distinguished visitor, Professor Hartmut Lindemann, entitled "Bel canto style applied to string performance: evidence from historical recordings".
To be followed by a confirmation of candiditure presentation:
Paul Hodge (MPhil candidate in Music Composition) - "The Compositional Process of Terra Australis"
Friday 4 September 2009, 1.30-3.30pm
This seminar will feature keynote addresses presented by Professor Mark Everist, entitled "Mozart and Us: Why is the Composer's Music Important Today?", and Professor Jeanice Brooks, entitled "'New links between them': Modernist Historiographies and the Concerts of Nadia Boulanger".
Both are Professors of the University of Southampton and McGeorge Fellows at the University of Melbourne for 2009.
Friday 16 October 2009, 2-4pm
The session will commence with a keynote address presented by a distinguished visitor, Professor Ellen Dissanayake, entitled "Home Musicus: How Music Began" focusing on "the universally-observed interaction between mothers and infants, commonly and even dismissively called ‘baby talk’, is composed of proto-aesthetic, temporally-organized elements that Ellen Dissanayake suggests are the origin of human music."
To be followed by a confirmation of candiditure presentation:
Astra Chatwood (MPhil candidate in Music Education) - "Parental engagement in stringed instrument learning, a case study of investigation of familial factors that shaped stringed instrument learning."
Research Development Seminars (for provisional research higher degree candidates)
Research Development Seminars are specifically designed for New Postgraduates as they prepare for confirmation of their degrees (and will take up most if not all of the first semester program).
These Seminars form a block within the Graduate and Staff Seminar Series, and are intended specifically for new students and are part of the requirements for confirmation of candidature. Each seminar has specific requirements.
The Faculty of Arts will soon have this information available online.
For further information contact Dr Denis Collins, 3365 3512, denis.collins@uq.edu.au