Category: Music

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships – Department of Musicology, University of Oslo

1. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Mashup Producers’ Experience with Copyright Regulation

Annual Salary: NOK 490 900 – 569 000, depending on level of expertise
Closing Date: 18 April 2018 

A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) in Mashup Producers’ Experience with Copyright Regulation, is available at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. The Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is funded by the Research Council of Norway and is associated with the research project “MASHED: Mashup Music, Copyright, and Platform Regulation.” The principal researcher for the project is Associate Professor Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen. The candidate is expected to present a research project closely connected to the main project. The position is available for a period of two years, with the possibility of a third year abroad (contingent on funding availability).

Further details: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/148843/post-doctoral-research-fellowship-in-mashup-producers-experience-with-copyright-regulation

2. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Copyright and Platform Regulation Related to Mashup Music

Annual Salary: NOK 490 900 – 569 000, depending on level of expertise
Closing Date: 4 April 2018 

A Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1352) in Copyright and Platform Regulation Related to Mashup Music, is available at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. The Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship is funded by the Research Council of Norway and is associated with the research project “MASHED: Mashup Music, Copyright, and Platform Regulation.” The principal researcher for the project is Associate Professor Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen. The candidate is expected to present a research project closely connected to the main project. The position is available for a period of two years, with the possibility of a third year abroad (contingent on funding availability).

Further details: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/148848/post-doctoral-research-fellowship-in-copyright-and-platform-regulation-related-to-mashup-music

 photo credit: Khuroshvili Ilya via photopin (license)

NVivo – Webinar

This webinar Using NVivo as a Research Tool (from QSR International) will cover how NVivo can assist with research in the following ways:

  • Literature Review: Efficiently organize and tag literature, easily keep track of critical quotes, and track ideas across many articles
  • Coding: Code literature, interviews, surveys, and any other data you may collect in a single, convenient location and analyze all data for multiple articles in one NVivo project.
  • Analyzing Data: Using queries to uncover potential themes, understand words in context, and explore relationships
  • Findings: Gather together all research findings in a single location, making it easy to link literature and data, and to easily find quotes to illustrate themes
  • Publish: With all data organized and analyzed in an NVivo project, writing happens quickly and easily.

University of Western Ontario
Date: March 26th
Time: 1pm-2pm EST

Please use the link below to register in advance:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7497536093113862657

 photo credit: “The Wanderer’s Eye Photography” Superlative via photopin (license)

Beware Predatory Conferences

Alex Gillis describes the problem of predatory conferences in the April 2018 edition of University Affairs:  “Many publishers of deceptive or poor-quality academic journals have created a big sideline business organizing equally questionable academic conferences” Read more …

 photo credit: Damien Walmsley 20170527_Dancer via photopin (license)

Postdoctoral Fellowship – Sherman Centre, McMaster University

The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, located in Mills Memorial Library at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, invites qualified candidates to apply for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship.

Job Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Application Deadline: March 30, 2018
Position Start Date: August 1, 2018
Position End Date: July 31, 2020
Supervisor: Academic Director, Sherman Centre
Remuneration: $49,000/year

Background: Founded in 2012, the Sherman Centre engages in a wide range of activities to support and build the McMaster digital humanities (DH) community. A critical need that has become apparent in the course of this work is the inclusion of DH skill instruction, methodology, and theory in the curriculum, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. From the vantage point of the Sherman Centre, they see this as the beginning of a clear trend toward increased interest in introducing students to text analysis, data visualization, and GIS and, in general, increasing their technical fluency and competency.

Job Description: Working under the direction of the Academic and Administrative Directors of the Sherman Centre, the postdoctoral fellow will in general support the outreach and curricular activities of the Sherman Centre. In alignment with their own DH research agenda, the fellow will, in close collaboration with other Sherman Centre staff:

• offer training for DH tools and techniques
• offer consulting to faculty and graduate students to enable them to begin to include DH elements in their courses
• engage library staff in other functional areas to draw their expertise into the DH space and connect them to faculty who need support
• support the further development of DH workshops, talks, and events at the Sherman Centre
• prepare and deliver an undergraduate digital humanities introductory course, and
• connect with other digital humanities initiatives in the region and beyond.

Beyond these responsibilities, the fellow will participate actively in the life and activities of the Sherman Centre and represent it at key DH events such as the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) and the annual Digital Humanities conference at the institution’s expense.

Eligibility: The Postdoctoral Fellowship is open to scholars who have completed their doctoral degree no earlier than June 1, 2014. Candidates must have defended their dissertation and received their PhD by July 1, 2018. The optimal candidate will have a Ph.D. in a DH-relevant discipline and a digital humanities research agenda. International scholars are invited to apply, however preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents.

How to Apply: To apply for this job, please submit your application online.

Link for External applicants: https://careers.mcmaster.ca/psp/prepprd/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_APP_SCHJOB.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST&Action=U&SiteId=1001&FOCUS=Applicant&JobOpeningId=17892&PostingSeq=1

photo credit: ArtGrafx z004 via photopin (license)

Building and Promoting Your Scholarly Identity: Workshop Series at Western Libraries

Western Libraries presents a series of workshops to help researchers build research skills – offered in Spring 2018:

Getting Noticed: Tips and Tools for Building and Promoting Your Scholarly Identity
March 14, 2018, 1 – 3 pm, Weldon Library Instruction Room 

From Zero to Website: Creating a Scholarly Presence Online 
March 28, 2018, 1 – 3 pm, Weldon Library Instruction Room

Organizing the Research Process: Putting Together your Data Management Plan
April 11, 2018, 1 – 3 pm, Weldon Library Instruction Room

More information on each of the workshops and to register …

 photo credit: Steven Christenson Reaching for the Sky via photopin (license)

Sexuality and Gender Research Group – Queer Research Day

Western’s Sexuality and Gender Research Group will be holding the ninth annual Queer Research Day on Wednesday, April 18, from 9:00am to 5:00pm.

They welcome both papers (15 – 20 minute oral presentations) and posters. Also welcome are proposals for artists’ performances, film screenings, musical events, and other forms of queer work taking place on campus or in the local community.

The event will be held in Stevenson 3101, and the poster display will be in the space outside 3166.

Lunch will be provided. Everyone is welcome!

Faculty and graduate students are welcome to participate or just to attend. If you are interested in presenting, please email a brief abstract with title or a brief description of your paper, poster or other proposal to Wendy Pearson (wpearson@uwo.ca). Organizers hope to include presentations on a wide variety of topics from a broad range of disciplines.

The deadline for receiving proposals is April 4, 2018.

photo credit: Sworldguy Rainbow Reflections via photopin (license)

2018 Canadian Japanese Mennonite Scholarship – Human Rights in Canada

The Mennonite Central Committee Canada, with the National Association of Japanese Canadians, offers the Canadian Japanese Mennonite scholarship to a student enrolled in a graduate degree program that is engaged in research concerning human rights in Canada.  The scholarship is for $2,000 and applications must be received by April 1, 2018.

More information, along with the application form, is available on the website at mcccanada.ca/scholarships.

 photo credit: Jim 03 The Provencher Bridge (French- Pont Provencher), Winnipeg, Manitoba via photopin (license)

BrainsCAN Funding Opportunity: Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

CFREF-BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

BrainsCAN has recently announced the second Request for Applications for their Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program is part of Western’s $66M BrainsCAN initiative, supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF). The CFREF investment is intended to enable researchers at the University, along with their national and international academic and commercial partners, to seek answers to fundamental questions regarding how we learn, think, move and communicate.

Training the next generation of researchers is a key aim of BrainsCAN, and postdoctoral fellows are the engines of innovative research. The BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship Program has been developed to attract the world’s most promising young neuroscientists. Successful applicants will be outstanding young scientists whose innovative work has already achieved impact, and who have demonstrated great potential for continued contributions.

Program Details: Up to 10 BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowships will be awarded in the Spring 2018 competition, to highly qualified individuals from any country. Depending on prior experience, awards will be offered for 2 years (Tier II) or 3 years (Tier I), potentially renewable, with annual salary ranging from $55,000-$75,000 CAD (plus benefits) depending on Tier and on other funding, as well as an independent research/travel allowance of $3000-$5000 per year (depending on Tier). Tier I recipients will also have access to apply for internal BrainsCAN operating funds of over $12M for innovative research. Other benefits include Employment Insurance, Canada Pension Plan, a health care spending account, parental leave, and Western’s mentorship and professional development program for postdoctoral scholars, Competitive Edge (http://bit.ly/2tBfAtm).

Applicants must identify and contact potential advisors at Western before applying. An interdisciplinary, collaborative approach, involving affiliation with more than one lab, is strongly encouraged.

More information:http://www.uwo.ca/brainscan/programs/postdoctoral_fellowship_program/index.html

Application Deadline: May 1, 2018 (Expected Results: July, 2018)

Contact Information: The program co-chairs are Drs. Stefan Everling and Ingrid Johnsrude. For administrative questions, please contact BrainsCAN (brainscan@uwo.ca)

 photo credit: National Institutes of Health (NIH) High Angular Resolution Diffusion Image of human brain via photopin (license)

Call for Presentations – 2nd Annual FIMS/Music/Law (FIMULAW) Research Day

The Faculties of Music, Information and Media Studies, and Law invite graduate students and faculty to submit a poster, panel presentation, lightning talk, or performance presentation to the 2018 FIMULAW Research Day, Friday April 13, 2018.

The FIMULAW Research Day is an interdisciplinary research day that provides faculty and graduate students an opportunity to present their work and to engage with an interdisciplinary audience on matters of importance to researchers across disciplines. Graduate students and faculty are welcome to reuse posters and presentations from previous conferences.

SUBMISSIONS FROM GRADUATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY FOR ALL PRESENTATION TYPES ARE WELCOME 

PANEL PRESENTATIONS 

  • Panelists should speak to this year’s topics of “Mental Health” or “Deconstructing Privilege.”
  • Submit an abstract of no more than 300 words based on the above topics.
  • Panelists will be given 10 minutes to speak on their topic. A question and answer period will follow roundtable discussions and is not included in the time limit.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS 

  • Posters on any and all topics relating to FIMS, Music, or Law research will be considered.
  • An emphasis on interdisciplinarity is encouraged, but not required.
  • Submit a brief description (50-100 words) and poster title for consideration.
  • Posters can be printed or presented in electronic format. Proposals for alternate formats of presentation are welcome. 
  • Partial reimbursement for graduate student poster cost may be provided.
  • Posters from previous presentations are welcome and do not need to be reprinted

LIGHTNING TALK PRESENTATIONS 

  • Lightning talks on any and all topics relating to FIMS, Music, or Law research will be considered.
  • Lightning talk participants will be given exactly 3 minutes to present. Visual aids are welcome, but not required.
  • An emphasis on interdisciplinarity is encouraged, but not required.
  • Submit a brief description (50-100 words) and presentation title for consideration.

PERFORMANCE PRESENTATIONS 

  • Solo or Chamber Music presentations on creative process exploring any repertoire or context are welcomed. ● Presentations should include performance and discussion of creative process.
  • Performance Presentations are limited to 15 minutes.
  • Submit a brief description (50-100 words) and suggested work(s) for consideration.

Please submit your name, faculty, tentative title and abstract/brief description to kbylica@uwo.ca by February 16, 2018 and indicate the format of your proposed presentation.  Successful submissions will be notified by Friday, March 9, 2018.

Questions? Please contact Kelly Bylica (PhD Student, Faculty of Music) – kbylica@uwo.ca 

More information on the event…

 photo credit: zhongxindaodi1314 “All Things Live in the Rules and Laws Set Down by God” via photopin (license)

Music Therapy Conference – Wilfrid Laurier University

This year Wilfrid Laurier University is hosting Written on the Wind, a one day conference for music, therapy, performance and health on May 5, 2018. The keynote speaker from Belgium, Jos de Backer will present Listening to the Silence in Clinical Improvisations.

This conference is meant to draw together artists and therapists whose common aim is to promote music and health.

Written on the Wind conference website/registration – https://goo.gl/5oBiWn

Written on the Wind Facebook page – https://goo.gl/GB3yP4

 photo credit: PHOTOGRAPHY Toporowski Christmas mood via photopin (license)