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The 2024 Annual Torrance Lecture
Event Date: October 22, 2024
Lecture Title: A New Era for Music and Art in Service of Community Healing
Speaker: Nigel Osborne, MBE
Organizer: Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at UGA (Host: Dr. Anna Abraham, Director)
About the Speaker: Nigel Osborne is a composer who has pioneered the use of music and creative arts to support children who are victims of conflict. He has also developed new treatments in music-medicine for epilepsy, sleep disorders and PTSD, and the first functioning computational model of the musical brain - X-System. He is Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and has received many awards for his work, including the Koussevitzky Award of the Library of Congress Washington, the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers Award (BASCA) for Inspiration, the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute, Sarajevo and the Doubleday Medal for contributions to medicine.
Lecture Summary: Music and art have been in a state of turbulent change for well over a century, largely because of the effects of new technologies. We may now be at the beginning of a much deeper change, taking place at the margins of our culture rather than in the mainstream, and driven by biology, psychology, and social forces as well as technology. I shall show examples of work with children in flashpoints in Ukraine and the Middle East, and report on new technologies being developed to offer disabled artists the chance to co-create and share states of body and mind remotely. The unique power of the music and other creative arts in countering human adversity and enabling the strengthening of communities will be illustrated in this lecture.
About the Annual Torrance Lecture: This lecture series is sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia's Mary Frances Early College of Education. It brings together scholars, professionals, and creative artists to discuss a wide range of topics and themes that are informative about the nature of creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Dr. E. Paul Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.
Additional video courtesy of Pexels -- video by Max Groeneveld.
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The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2024
The 2024 Annual Torrance Lecture
Event Date: October 22, 2024
Lecture Title: A New Era for Music and Art in Service of Community Healing
Speaker: Nigel Osborne, MBE
Organizer: Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at UGA (Host: Dr. Anna Abraham, Director)
About the Speaker: Nigel Osborne is a composer who has pioneered the use of music and creative arts to support children who are victims of conflict. He has also developed new treatments in music-medicine for epilepsy, sleep disorders and PTSD, and the first functioning computational model of the musical brain - X-System. He is Emeritus Professor of Music and Human Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and has received many awards for his work, including the Koussevitzky Award of the Library of Congress Washington, the British Academy of Songwriters and Composers Award (BASCA) for Inspiration, the Freedom Prize of the Peace Institute, Sarajevo and the Doubleday Medal for contributions to medicine.
Lecture Summary: Music and art have been in a state of turbulent change for well over a century, largely because of the effects of new technologies. We may now be at the beginning of a much deeper change, taking place at the margins of our culture rather than in the mainstream, and driven by biology, psychology, and social forces as well as technology. I shall show examples of work with children in flashpoints in Ukraine and the Middle East, and report on new technologies being developed to offer disabled artists the chance to co-create and share states of body and mind remotely. The unique power of the music and other creative arts in countering human adversity and enabling the strengthening of communities will be illustrated in this lecture.
About the Annual Torrance Lecture: This lecture series is sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia's Mary Frances Early College of Education. It brings together scholars, professionals, and creative artists to discuss a wide range of topics and themes that are informative about the nature of creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Dr. E. Paul Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.
Additional video courtesy of Pexels -- video by Max Groeneveld.
The University of Georgia
The Mary Frances Early College of Education
copyright © 2024
