Friday 10th March 2023
Gilliatt Lecture Theatre, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square House, London, WC1N 3BG
Morning Plenaries
9:35 Registration (including workshop registration)
10:25 Introduction to the conference
Chair, Dr. Gordana Milavic, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Chair of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, President of the Psychiatry Section of the Royal Society of Medicine
10:35 The neuroscience of music
Professor Morten L. Kringelbach, Professor of Neuroscience, Universities of Oxford and Aarhus (Center for Music in the Brain)
11:20 A psychoanalytically informed improvisational music therapy approach for people living with dementia
Professor Helen Odell-Miller OBE, Professor of Music Therapy and Director, Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research
12:05 Discussion
12:25 Lunch (for those booked)
October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
Afternoon Workshops
13:55 Community-based music-making for wellbeing: Insights from musicians working in socially engaged practice, and implications for medical practice
Dr Jo Gibson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Research Associate, The International Centre for Community Music, York St John University
Professor John Sloboda, OBE, Research Professor, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
(1st floor Seminar Room 7QS - max participants 20 - 90mins)
13:55 Music therapy in clinical practice
Katya Herman, Music Therapist at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
(Gilliatt Lecture theatre - 60mins)
15:25 Afternoon break
15:55 The voice and the psyche: Sounds of the self
Tina Warnock, Vocal Psychotherapist, Post Graduate Researcher, Anglia Ruskin University, Founder and Director, Belltree Music Therapy
Professor Helen Odell-Miller OBE, Professor of Music Therapy and Director, Cambridge Institute for Music Therapy Research
(1st floor Seminar Room 7QS - max participants 20 - 2hrs)
15:55 Reinvigorating Musical Memories through Sustainable Eco-MAPs (Musically Attuned Performances)
Calista Kazuko Georget, recording artist and composer, Uchi Project Director and Young Artist Musical Ambassador (YAMA) Mentor of the Music Mind Spirit Trust
Dr Chika Robertson, Professor of Violin, Royal Academy of Music, SongTrees Director, and CEO of Music Mind Spirit Trust
Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE, composer and aid worker, Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh
(Gilliatt Lecture theatre - 90mins)
17:25 Comfort break
17:55 Drinks reception (to be confirmed - may shift to Saturday evening)
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Saturday 11th March 2023
33 Queen Square. National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG
Morning Plenaries
9:35 Registration (including workshop registration)
10:25 Introduction to the day
C?hair, P?rofessor Michael Trimble, Emeritus Professor in Behavioural Neurology, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
10:35 Polyrhythmicity in language, music and society
Professor Richard Andrews, Emeritus Professor of Language Education, University of Edinburgh
11:20 Music as medicine: three brief essays - on trauma, anxiety and rare epilepsies
Professor Nigel Osborne, MBE, composer and aid worker, Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh
12:05 Discussion
12:25 Lunch (for those booked)
October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
Afternoon Workshops
13:55 Teenagers, tech and trauma: Exploring the role of music therapy in adolescent mental health and recovery
Jonathan Cousins-Booth, Director of Education and Professional Affairs, British Association for Music Therapy
(Gilliatt lecture theatre - max participants 30 - 90mins)
13:55 Song as medicine: Metabolizing the ambiguous grief of adult children of refugees
Linda Thai, Mental Health Clinician, Storyteller, and Educator, Trauma Research Foundation affiliate
(33QS lecture theatre - 90mins)
15:25 Afternoon break
15:55 Film footage, and closing discussion
17:15 Thanks and close
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