CMRC Lecture Series


Past Lectures:

September 23, 2008:
Dr. Lendra Friesen, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Title: Molecules to Music – How we hear.   

October 7, 2008:
Dr. Bernhard Ross, Baycrest – Rotman Research Centre
Title: MEG imaging and the 40hz Phenomenon

November 4, 2008:
Glenn Schellenberg, University of Toronto, Mississauga         
Title: Examining “Music Makes you Smarter” Research 
 
December 2, 2008:
Dr. Laurel Trainor, McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind  
Title: Relations between music and movement systems

November 27, 2007:
Christina Grant, TDSB
Title: Collaboration in Jazz Performance

December 4, 2007:
Amy Clements-Cortes, Baycrest Centre
Title: Social Psychology of Music Therapy

September 27, 2006:
Takako Fujioka,  Baycrest Centre
Title: MEG imaging and the Musician’s Brain

November 8, 2006:
Music and Brain Colloquium
Title: What I Believe but Cannot Prove
Presenters:
Ron Allen, Composer
Lee Bartel, UT Fac of Mus
Darryl Edwards, UT Fac of Music
Takako Fujioka, Baycrest Centre   
James Fung, UT, Dept of Engineering
Roger Knox, Bloorview Kids Rehab
Glenn Schellenberg, UT, Mississauga
Mark Schmuckler, UT Scarborough
William Thompson, UT, Mississauga

February 9, 2005:
Sandra Trehub, University of Toronto, Mississauga
Title: “In the beginning, there was music” 
   
February 23, 2005:
Glenn Schellenberg  University of Toronto, Mississauga
Title: Does Music Make you Smarter?

March 23, 2005:
Roger Knox, Bloorview McMillan Centre, University of Toronto
Title: Does Music Boost Attention?
   
March 30, 2005:
William Thompson,  University of Toronto, Mississauga, Director of the Culture, Communications and Technology Program
Title: The Effect of Extra-Musical Aspects of Musical Performance

November 2, 2004:
Gage Averill, Dean of Music
Title: Caribbean music research, ethnomusicology ensembles, & questions for music education

November 23, 2004:
Elizabeth Gould, University of Wisconsin, Madison  
Title: Story Telling, Queer Hearing, Subjectivity
        Dancing: Oases of Nomadic Journeying