Musique et transcendance, conférences, Finlande

The 1st UskoMus Seminar: "Music and Transcendence" to be held 2-3
December 2010, at the Sibelius Museum, Piispankatu 17, Turku, Finland.

Music is surrounded by ideas and beliefs for instance about its pure
symbolism, emotionality and origins. Various belief systems and
institutional religions, in turn, rely on diverse sonorous aesthetic
practices, whether or not conceptualised as music. Music is used in a variety of religious rituals, enabling experiences of trance in some occasions.

To address these and other dimensions of music and transcendence, the
UskoMus research network organises a two-day seminar with both academic
speakers and representatives of different religious communities.

Programme

Thursday, 2 December

11:00    Opening of the seminar
11: 05  Keith Kahn-Harris (Birkbeck College, London): On the
Significance of Music Stands.  Religious Popular Music between the
Transcendent and the Instrumental
12:00    Lunch
13:30    Annemette Kirkegaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): Music
and Transcendence in Popular Sufi Performances – Case studies East
Africa and Morocco
14:30    Coffee
15:00  Panel discussion: The other side or the common ground. Personal
reflections on (the
academic study of) religion and music:  Prof. Veikko Anttonen
(Comparative Religion, University of Turku), Prof. Johannes Brusila
(Musicology, Åbo Akademi University), Prof. emeritus Nils G. Holm
(Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University), Prof. Jukka Sarjala
(Musicology, University of Turku).
16:00  Panel discussion: Music and transcendence: Ruth Illman
(Comparative Religion, Åbo
Akademi University, chair), Deniz Bedretdin (chair of the Cultural
Association of the Finnish Tatars), Haka Kekäläinen (diacony pastor,
Parish of Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki), Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche (spiritual
director of Danakosha Dharma Center), Hridananda Andrés Ramòn (The Sri
Chinmoy Centre).
18:00  Music performance: SangitDesh

Friday, 3 December

10:00     Thomas Bossius (University of Gothenburg, Sweden): Disco Heaven.
Dancing as a Tool for Self-Fulfilment and Transcendence
11:00    Coffee
11:30    Andreas Häger (Comparative religion, Åbo Akademi University):
Music and shrinking transcendence
Yrjö Heinonen (Musicology, University of Turku): Representations of Sami
Shamanism in Finnish Post-War Classical and Popular Music
13:00    Lunch
14:00    Marjaana Virtanen (Musicology, University of Turku): From
Rehearsal Room to Premiere. The Composing Process of Jyrki Linjama's
Completorium
Jenni Urponen (MMus): Christian Hymns in Basic Education in Finland.
Fostering the Religious and the Cultural
15:30    Closing discussion

The UskoMus research network:

http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/musiikkitiede/tutkimus/uskoMus.html

Music and Transcendence programme and abstracts:

http://www.hum.utu.fi/oppiaineet/musiikkitiede/tutkimus/uskoMus_seminar2010.html