Venue: Scandic Bergen City Hotel
 September 13 –
14, 2007
 
Thursday, September 13
Host: Ragna Sofie Grung Moe, Director Grieg 07 
 
08:00 – 08:50    Registration 
09:00 – 09:15     Opening
Einar Mjølsnes, hardanger-fiddle and Torleif Torgersen,
piano 
Sigmund
 Grønmo, rector at the University of Bergen
 
 
 
 
 
09:15 – 10:00     Key-note
speaker Harald Herresthal, professor, musicologist and organist, the Norwegian
State College of Music 
 
Freedom, that is the Fight for Freedom! 
Social and political engagements among musicians, with examples from the lives
of Edvard Grieg and Ole Bull
 
 
10:00 – 10:45     Key-note
speaker Susan McClary, Professor of musicology,  University of California
Playing the Identity Card
 
 
10:45 – 11:00      Coffee
break 
 
 
11:00 – 11:45      Key-note
speaker Katia Tchemberdji, composer and pianist 
Change of Nation and
Language – Implications on Compositional Language?
  
 
11:45 – 12:15       Discussion.
Chaired by Erik Steinskog, Associate professor of Musicology, the Grieg Academy, 
University of Bergen
 
 
12:15 – 13:15       Lunch
 
13:15 – 15:30      Session
I – Presentations 
 
Chaired by Peter Larsen, professor, Department of Information Science and Media
Studies, University of Bergen 
 
 
Yngve Næss, Associate professor, Bergen University College /
the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen 
Music and Identity-or was it the other way around?
 
 
Ole Reitov, programme officer, Freemuse – The World Forum on Music and
Censorship 
Music Censorship - the clash within civilisations 
 
Randi Rolsvjord, Associate professor, the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen 
Finally it is something I can do! Experiencing self-identity through
resource-oriented music therapy 
 
Øyvind Aase, pianist and writer 
Do pianists exist to play piano concertos? Grieg's a minor Concerto as a
national canon 
 
Brynjulf Stige, professor in music therapy, the Grieg
Academy, University of Bergen 
Grieg Effects: on hypertextuality and musical identity in music therapy 
15:30 – 16:00  Coffee
break 
 
16:00 – 16:15  Music: 
Ole Hamre and Gabriel Fliflet 
 
16:15 – 17:00  Key-note
speaker Paul Gilroy, professor of social theory, London School of Economics 
A 
non-national nation? Diaspora, Globalisation and Human
Rights 
17:00 – 17:30  Discussion.
Chaired by Peter Larsen.
 
 
Friday, September 14
Host: Ragna Sofie Grung Moe, Director Grieg 07 
 
08:00 – 08:50  Registration 
09:00 – 09:15  Hilde
Sveen, soprano and Signe Bakke, piano 
09:15 – 10:00  Key-note
speaker Hans Weisethaunet, professor, Department of Musicology, University of
Oslo
Music and National Identity: Grieg and beyond
  
 
10:00 – 10:45  Key-note
speaker Patrick Dinslage, President of the International Grieg Society and director 
of the Grieg Research Senter at The University of Art, Berlin
Franz Liszt, Mentor for Edvard Grieg 
10:45 – 11:00  Coffee
break 
 
11:00 – 11:45  Key-note
speaker Erling Sandmo, senior researcher, historian, University of Oslo:
The
Power of Emotions – and the Emotions of Power: Music, Subjectivity,
and Politics in a Historical Perspective
 
12:00 – 13:00  Lunch 
 
13:00 – 15:30  Session
II – Presentations 
Chaired by Mette Andersson, Associate professor, Department
of Sociology, University of Bergen 
Erik Steinskog, Associate Professor, the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen 
Towards a Critique of Harmonic Reason: Ellington, Grieg and Peer Gynt 
 
 
Hedda Høgåsen-Hallesby, PhD candidate, Centre for Women’s
Studies and Gender Research, University of Oslo, 
Anitra’s Dance Music, Identity and Orientalism in the 1870s 
 
Thomas Solomon, Associate professor, the Grieg Academy, University of Bergen 
Whose Diaspora? Hybrid Identities in "Turkish Rap" in Germany 
 
 
Ingvill Morlandstø, student, the Grieg Academy, University
of 
Bergen 
Communication of National and Transnational Identities in
Cuban Music
 
Annemette Kirkegaard, Associate professor, University of
Copenhagen 
African Islamic pop – what kind of musical identity?
 
15:30 – 16:00  Coffee
break 
 
16:00 – 17:30  Panel
debate. Chaired by Mette Andersson 
17:30   Conclusion.
Hilde Sveen, soprano and Signe Bakke, piano