SYMPOSIET - PROGRAM
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