Special Events
The 2011 ICTM World Conference will be packed full of special events. Here is a list of highlights to anticipate:
Festival 500 Grand Finale: 13 July
The Grand Finale of Festival 500, a biennial international choral festival, will bring together choirs from around the world to celebrate the power of song. This year's featured group is the Indonesian Children and Youth Choir. To be held at Mile One Stadium, downtown.
Welcome Reception: 14 July
The welcome reception will take place on Thursday, July 14 at 19:00 at The Rooms, Newfoundland's state-of-the-art provincial museum, with a panoramic view of St. John's. Please join us for food, drink, music and dance.
Keynote Speaker: Michelle Bigenho
Michelle Bigenho holds a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in political science and Latin American studies, a "magister" in anthropology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Cornell University. Her work examines the cultural politics of Bolivian music performances as they relate to nationalism, discourses of authenticity, indigeneity, folklorization, cultural property, and globalization. She has received Fulbright IIE, Fulbright-Hays, and Whiting Foundation grants as well as fellowships from the University of Cambridge's Centre of Latin American Studies and the University of Connecticut's Humanities Institute. She is the author of Sounding Indigenous: Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance (Palgrave 2002), and is wrapping up her second monograph, Intimate Distance: Andean Music in Japan (Duke, forthcoming). Music performance on the violin has formed a significant part of her research approach in Peru, Bolivia, and Japan, and she has participated in twelve recordings with the Bolivian ensemble, Música de Maestros. As an Associate Professor of Anthropology, she teaches at Hampshire College's School of Critical Social Inquiry.