Call for Papers: Guidance Notes for Proposal Submissions

4th International Conference – Creativity and Changing Cultures

Thursday 26 February – Sunday 1 March 2015

Host: Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Partners include:Society for Education, Music & Psychology Research (SEMPRE)

Venue:Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Barbican Arts & Conference Centre, London

Below are the four key themes for the Conference, with possible areas of interest within each:

  • Creativity, playfulness and improvisation
  • artistic development
  • experiential learning
  • Interdisciplinary connections
  • meeting points
  • shared values
  • collaboration
  • interrogating differences between art forms
  • The world in 2020 and beyond
  • conservatoires in society
  • Viewpoints on the developing artist
  • flow of exchange between teachers, alumni and professionals

We welcome the following categories of proposals related to the Conference themes (Proposal Guidelines and members of Scientific Committee listedbelow):

  1. research papers & performance papers
  2. practical workshops
  3. symposia
  4. roundtable discussions; plus
  5. other proposals

We will seek to create a balance of sessions from practitioners, researcher-practitioners and researchers. The intention is to set up several extended sessions that focus on key questions, with diverse inputs.

The deadline to submit an abstract proposal is Monday 14 July 2014.

All outcomes will be known by Friday 26 September 2014.

Please send completed proposal forms as an email attachment to Professor Helena Gaunt at

Proposal Guidelines

Spoken Research Papers

Spoken research papers will be allocated 30 minutes; presentations should last no more than 20 minutes, leaving time for questions, discussion and change-over between presenters.

Performance Papers

Performance papers may be submitted for either 20 minutes or 45 minutes, to include a spoken paper as part of their contribution. Presentations should last no more than 10 minutes (for 20 minute paper) or 15 minutes (for 45 minute paper), leaving time for questions, discussion and change-over between presenters.

For spoken research papers and performance papers, the abstract should cover the aims and context of the work, the methodology/processes involved, and the key outcomes and their implications. It is also important to indicate in the abstract the stage that the research/enquiry will have reached for the Conference.

Practical workshops

Practical workshops may be submitted for 1 hour or 90 minutes (to include set-up time) and should clearly address research in practice, practice as research or the relationship between practice and research.

For practical workshops, the proposal should outline the topic and its significance to a conservatoire context. It should also indicate the content of the workshop and how it will be structured, including whether students/audience members will be active participants.

Symposia

Symposia will be allocated 90 minutes, to consist of a maximum of three speakers and a chair. Panels will consist of a set of integrated spoken papers related to a theme and are encouraged and expected to make a distinctive and creative contribution to the conference.

Round Tables

Round Tables will be allocated 90 minutes, for a maximum of five contributions of no more than 5 minutes each. These short contributions will relate to a theme, and include significant time for discussion between the contributors and with the floor.

For symposia and round table discussions, the proposal should identify the aims of the session, key issues or questions to be addressed, who will be involved in the session and the nature of their contribution. For research symposia, full individual abstracts should be submitted for each presenter (as for the research papers). It would also be valuable to indicate how the outcomes of the session may best be crystallized and disseminated.

Other

We welcome other styles of presentation: please specify your request in detail, including what the topic will cover and other relevant information. Sessions can be 90 or 120 minutes in duration.
Scientific Committee

All abstracts and proposals will be anonymously peer reviewed by the Scientific Committee, which will include:

Prof. Helena GauntGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Prof. John SlobodaGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Christian BurgessGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Jonathan VaughanGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Jane BoothGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Julian PhilipsGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK
Eliot ShrimptonGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Donald WetherickGuildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Sean GregoryBarbican and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London UK

Prof. Jane GinsborgRoyal Northern College of Music, Manchester UK

Prof. John RinkUniversity of Cambridge, UK

Jeffrey SharkeyRoyal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow UK

Susanna EastburnSound & Music, London UK

Mark PembertonAssociation of British Orchestras, London UK

Eleanor GussmanLondon Symphony Orchestra UK

Dr Jeremy CoxAssociation Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen (AEC)

Martin PrchalKoninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag, Netherlands

Prof. Rineke SmildePrince Claus Conservatoire, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, NetherlandsUniversität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien

Dr. Thomas AuvinenSibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland

Prof. Reinhard KopiezUniversity of Music, Drama and Media/Hanover Music Lab, Germany

Prof. Ingrid HankenCenter of Excellence in Music Performance Education/Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway

Prof. Bernard LanskeyYong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore

Ariane CoekCern Cultural Policy with the Arts, Switzerland

Prof. David MyersSchool of Music, University of Minnesota, USA

Tony WoodcockNew England Conservatory, USA

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