REMINDER! The booking deadline for the SEMPRE 40th Anniversary Conference is 14 August. Please visit the SEMPRE website (www.sempre.org.uk) to register for the event as well as to view the programme and other information.
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SEMPRE 40th Anniversary Conference
14–15 September 2012
London (UK)
Keynote Speakers
Professor Johan Sundberg (KTH, Stockholm)
Professor Liora Bresler (University of Illinois, USA)
The 40th Anniversary Conference of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) will be hosted by the Institute of Education, London (UK) from 14–15 September 2012. The event will present leading international research and will also be a celebration of SEMPRE’s activities and achievements over the past 40 years. In order to reflect the celebratory nature of the conference, it will include a range of special sessions bringing together distinguished members of the Society as well as other eminent researchers, enabling discussion of the challenges and opportunities for future work. It will feature keynote presentations as well as addresses and roundtable panels by distinguished members of the Society, including current and former Chairs and Journal Editors: Professors Graham Welch and Eric Clarke, Dr Desmond Sergeant, Professors Raymond MacDonald, Susan Hallam, Jane Davidson, David Hargreaves, John Sloboda, Margaret Barrett and other distinguished colleagues, including Professor Alf Gabrielsson (SEMPRE Lifetime Achiever), Professor John Baily (SEMPRE Ambassador for Afghanistan), Drs Charles Plummeridge and Gordon Cox. The event will afford opportunities for small-group discussion, while postgraduate students will be given the opportunity to sign up for individual tutorial sessions with established scholars from the Society. The Conference Dinner (Friday evening) will take place at The Russell Hotel and it will include the launch of Special Issues of the Society’s journals Psychology of Music and Research Studies in Music Education as well as enable scholars to meet with publishing representatives at SAGE. The conference will also include comprehensive displays of material associated with the Society by SAGE (journals) and ASHGATE (SEMPRE book series).
Conference Committee: Professor Graham Welch (Institute of Education, London), Dr Elaine King (University of Hull), Professor Raymond MacDonald (Glasgow Caledonian University), Professor Margaret Barrett (University of Queensland, Australia), Louise Skelding (SAGE publications)
Main Conference Venue: Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE
Conference Dinner: Hotel Russell, 1–8 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 5BE
Conference Access: those unable to attend the event in person will be able to read papers, engage in the debate and enjoy complimentary access to the SEMPRE journals (Psychology of Music and Research Studies in Music Education) via the conference webpage, to be hosted by SAGE.
Further Information: Elaine King (SEMPRE Conference Director), email [log in to unmask] and visit www.sempre.org.uk