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The South Asia branch of the International Society of Music Education in partnership with the University of the Visual and Performing Arts in Colombo (UVPA) invites abstract submissions followed by full papers and their presentations. The conference will take place in Colombo at the University of Visual and Performing Arts in November 2021.

Theme: Promoting Intercultural Understanding through Music Transmission in South Asia

​South Asia is a region of great diversity. This diversity should be widely respected and nurtured. Although living standards are based on increasing economic outputs, some critical voices should be heard that have to balance the place of music learning, that have to deal with the facts of oral traditions, in primary schools as well as in later types of schools and institutions. This conference may have to re-define a number of issues such as public and private music education, name their goals, and question some basic assumptions of educational principles applied to regionally diverse communities.

Proposals for individual papers presentations, panel sessions (symposia), workshops and multi-media presentations are invited from participants world wide. ISME encourages submissions from researchers and practitioners at all career stages including graduate students and early career professionals that align with the conference theme and the needs and aspriations of music education throughout the region.

VENUE AND DATES

Virtual Conference
​operating with the support of the 
University of the Visual and Performing Arts in Colombo 
No. 21, Albert Crescent, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.
November 23- 25 , 2021

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KEYNOTES PRESENTERS

Emily Achieng’ Akuno is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs)at The Co-operative University of Kenya. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Kingston University, Surrey, UK, a Master of Music of the Northwestern State University, Louisiana, USA and Bachelor of Education (Arts) of Kenyatta University, Kenya. Prof. Achieng’ Akuno has over 30 years University level Teaching, Research and Administration experience. She has served in various senior and middle level management capacities here in Kenya and abroad, including Kenyatta University, Maseno University and the Technical University of Kenya and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.

Trained as a performer-educator, Prof. Achieng’ Akuno is actively involved in the music and music education scene in Kenya and internationally. An astute researcher currently working on a music for literacy development project, she is widely published and read with over 40 academic works in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings.

Prof. Achieng’ Akuno is the current ISME President and a former President of the International Music Council.

Gisa Jähnichen, Prof. Dr. (Ecomusicology, Performance Practices of Asia) at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Chair of the ICTM Study Group on Musical Instruments, Secretary of the IASA T&E Committee, Ambassador of IASA to Malaysia and China, Vice President of the RILM MIXTE Commission, and Member of the DeCoSEA Project, also teaching at Guangxi University of the Arts, Vienna University, Humboldt University Berlin, and as consultant at the National Library of Laos.

​She studied at Charles University, Prague, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Vienna University. Her many writings and editions are widely published and are accessible online and in libraries around the world.

Laureate of international Jazz music festivals and competitions Dr. Rohan Nethsinghe from University of Canberra, Australia is an Assistant Professor in Creative Arts Education, Visiting Professor at the University of Visual and Performing Arts, Sri Lanka and Christ Deemed to be University, Bangalore, India. Rohan has more than thirty years of performing, teaching and researching experience in international contexts and has worked as a musician (at the Donetsk State Academic Opera and Russian Ballet Theatre), teacher in Australian schools (p-12) and in higher education sector (Technical and Further Education institutions and Universities). As a phenomenologist Rohan publishes in scholarly journals and presents his research internationally in the areas of Creative Arts Education, STEAM, Music Education, Arts Education and Higher Education. His research in Multicultural Music Education has contributed to the enhancement of the scholarship in teaching and learning and Rohan has won several prestigious awards for his research in teacher education.

CONFERENCE STEERING COMMITTEE

Conference Chair
Sandra Oberoi (ISME Board Member & ISME Advocacy Committee Chair)

Conference Co Chair
Kaushalya Navaratne (Sevalanka, Srilanka)
Saman Panapitiya (Dean of the Faculty of Music, UPVA)

Committee
Chinthaka Meddegoda
Iranga Weerakkody ​
​Charudaththe Illangasinghe

​SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Scientific Chair:
Chinthaka Prageeth Meddegoda, University of Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo 

Scientific Committee Members
Heidi Westerlund (University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland)
Danielle Treacy (University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland)
Solveig Korum (Kulturtanken, Norway)
Iman Shah (Nepal Music Centre, Nepal)
Robert Lindon Tavis Ashton-Bell (Christ - Deemed to be University, India)
Natalie Serrazin (SUNY at Brockport, USA)
Bindu Subramanian (SaPa, India)
​Adam Greig (KM Music Conservatory, India)
Gisa Jähnichen (Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China) 
Rohan Nethsinghe (University of Canberra, Australia)

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