The more I work w/ teachers I recognize they want to think critically about what they do; they long for a space to think through w/ others. Workshops that only present “activities to take back that ‘work’” deny/suppress inherent transformative capacities. Tweet: February 7, 2018
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CATHY BENEDICT
Associate Professor
University of Western Ontario
cbenedi3@uwo.ca
INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
• The Universidad Autónoma de Chihuanhua, November 16, 2016. Some Things Simply Shouldn’t Be Sustained: The [Not So] Hidden Language of Power and Exclusion.
• The Music Education Students’ Association (MESA), Enlighten 2016, January 2016. Works at what? – The Purpose of Music Education
• Conference on Music Learning and Teaching, March 2011. Sponsored by Center for Applied Research in Music Education (CARMU), Oakland University in Rochester, MI. I am not a True Believer: A Crisis in Faith.
• Nordic Master Course, Orebro School of Music, November 7-11 2011, Orebro, Sweden.
INVITED WORKSHOPS
• Singposium: Alberta Kodály Association February 29, 2020. Critical Listening Through Ethical Dilemmas: Peter and the Wolf
• Nova Scotia Music Educators Association October 2019 - 2 sessions:
Imagine and Peter and the Wolf: The goal of both sessions is to provide a vision of socially engaged practices through a framework that supports pedagogical dispositions that help to uncover, bias, misinformation, and misunderstandings that stand in the way of embracing difference.
• Education Through Music, New York City. August 2019. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Kodály Pedagogy. Working with New York City music teachers.
• Kodály Society of Canada - Teacher workshop. Manitoba, March 1, 2019. Building Blocks for Successful Part-Singing
• Nova Scotia Kodály Society. Doing Away with Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions. February 2018. Professional Development Day
• Singing the Circle | World Singing Day Workshop for the October 2017 21/22 Cape Breton, NS. (Co-applicant SSHRC Connections Grant)
- Worked in local schools with music teachers 21 October
- Professional Development with Cape Breton Music Teachers
- Worked with Cape Breton Chorale World Singing Day Weekend
• Kodaly Back to School Workshop. (Doing Away with Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions. August, 20717 London ON).
• Royal Conservatory of Music. Why Do We What We Do?: In Pursuit of Purpose. September 16, 2016. Toronto.
KENNEDY CENTER
• Creative Learning, Creative Teaching: Learning from YoungArts Master Artists (February 28, 2014)
• Creative Learning, Creative Teaching: Learning from YoungArts Master Artists (October, 20, 2013)
-YoungArts MasterClass Resources for Teachers
UNITED NATIONS
• Age of Connectivity: Music as a Natural Resource - Music as a Global Resource: Solutions for Social and Economic Issues Compendium - Third Edition
• Age of Connectivity: Music as a Natural Resource ... Urban Futures. High Level Forum: UN Headquarters, New York. 23 June 2011.
• Age of Connectivity: Better City - Better Life ... Imagining the Possible. High Level Working Session: UN Headquarters, New York. 14 February 2010.
BOOK LAUNCH at Teachers College (fall 2016)- Randall Allsup, Remixing the Classroom: Toward an Open Philosophy of Music Education. Photos and Video
SELECTED PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCES
• Benedict, C. & Showen, A. (June 2021). Living with our monsters: Reading literacy [Kodály] through posthumanism. Mayday Colloquium 32
• Benedict, C. (May 23-26, 2021). Socially just engagements in the elementary classroom: Learning to dialogue with the Other. The 16th Mountain Lake Colloquium - Engaged Work Toward Justice: People, Practices, and Priorities.
• Benedict, C. (2021 6 – 9 April 2021). Sustaining Critical Engagements: The Impact of Language Shifts in the Music Classroom. RiME 2021 - Twelfth International Research in Music Education Conference.
• Benedict, C. (2021 6 – 9 April 2021). Symposium: Music Teacher Preparation in Times of Crisis - Epistemology of inclusion: Teaching our students to meet the other. RiME 2021 - Twelfth International Research in Music Education Conference.
• Benedict, C. & Bernard, C. (2021 24 - 27 March 2021). First year music education students learning to listen and respond to the other: A transnational pilot project. 28th EAS Conference 2021 / 9th ISME European Regional Conference (Virtual).
• Benedict, C. (2021 February 18-20) Educating for Intelligent Belief and Unbelief. Desert Skies Symposium
• Abril, C. R. & Benedict, C. L. (2020, Apr 17 - 21) School Music Administrators' Roles and Perspectives on Navigating Policy [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/ruvfltt (Conference Cancelled)
• Benedict, C. & Allsup, R. (Feb 2020) Celebrating the Contributions of Estelle Jorgensen: The Thirteenth Annual Jean Sinor Memorial Symposium Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, “The Road Goes Ever On”
• Benedict, C. (June 2019). Twelfth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium. Popular Criticisms of Democracy and Music Education: A Philosophical Exploration: Religion-blind Policies: Anti-Democratic Consequences. Moderated by Michael Apple
Pre-conference work with students - Photos
• Benedict, C. (June 2019). Twelfth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium. Music Education in Times of Darkness: The possibility of Resistance: Resisting Friendship.
Photos from Pre-conference and Conference (ISPME Summer 2019)
• Introduction to Michael Apple Keynote (ISPME Summer 2019)
• ISME (International Society for Music Education) On the Limitations and Potentials of Intercultural Events. Baku, Azerbaijan, July 2018 Photos
• MayDay Group Colloquium XXX, Western University. London ON, June 6-9, 2018, Reclaiming Making: Music Technology in the Curriculum. Jared O'Leary, co-presentor. Photo
• 3rd Annual FIMS/MUSIC/LAW (FIMULAW) Interdisciplinary Research Day. March 22, 2019 Reflections from a Music Educator on Interdisciplinary Audiology Research
• NAfME (National Association of Music Educators). March 2018 Connected Insularity: On the Limitations and Potentials of Intercultural Events. Cathy Benedict, Kelly Bylica, Kristine Musgrove, Gabriela Ocadiz, Patrick Schmidt. Photos
• TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association). Honouring Awe and Wonder: Facilitating the Space of Song. San Antonio, Texas. February 2018.
• OMEA (Ontario Music Educators Association). Works at what? Huntsville, ON Nov 2017. OMEA 2017 Photos
• Beyond Bourdieu? Institute for Advanced Studies (Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg), Delmenhorst. International Symposium, 22nd – 24th September 2017. Photos
• 23rd International Kodály Society Symposium Singing the Circle/Cycle du chant. Honouring Awe and Wonder: Facilitating the Space of Song. Camrose, Alberta 8-12 August 2017.
• The 10th International Symposium on the Sociology of Music Education. True Threat, True Promise: Recklessness as the New ‘Praxis. The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. London, UK. 11th – 14th June 2017.
• Eleventh Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2017. The Banality of Assessment: It All Comes Too Easily. Volos, Greece. 7–10 June 2017.
• MusCan - Canadian University Music Society: Canada 150: Music and Belonging. Much needed dialogue: Having faculty conversations about how and why we teach.
University of Toronto May 25-27, 2017
• Organizing Equality. London, ON. Panel presentation. Music: Transformative or Reproductive? Cathy Benedict, Alison Butler, Gabriela Ocadiz. March 24, 2017.
• Spring Perspectives on Teaching Conference. Practicing to hear each other better: Pedagogy of Presence / Practicing to listen to each other better: Pedagogy of Presence. May 11, 2017.
• New Directions for Performance and Music Teacher Education A Symposium on University Music Education in China November 2-5, 2016, The Arts College of Xiamen University Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China. Works at what? – The purpose of music education.
• 32nd ISME World Conference, Policy Commission 2016 Birmingham, UK. Presentation with UWO Doctoral Student Alison Butler: The Rhetoric of Inequality: Leaving No Child Behind because Everyone Child Matters.
• 32nd ISME World Conference, 2016 Glasgow, Scotland. Panel Presentation: Understanding Social Justice in Music Education: International Voices.
• The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). The [Not So] Hidden Language of Power and Exclusion. London, Ontario. June 21-24, 2016.
* NAfME Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference. March 2016 Atlanta. “The Lost Pedagogical Core of “Student Centered” Teaching” (Benedict & Hibbard)
• Ann Arbor Symposia IV: Popular Music. True Threat, True Promise: Recklessness as the New ‘Praxis’ November 2015. Am Arbor, MI.
Related links - New York Times Retro Report- Sex, Drugs and Gore
• The October 2015 Singing Network’s Symposium on Singing and Song. Pedagogy of Presence: Finding the Space of Appearance in Song. Newfoundland.
• Tenth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2015. Philosophy and Pedagogy: Arendt in Praxis. June 03-06, 2015, Frankfurt am Main.
• Tenth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2015. Respondent to: Iris Yob - Sacred Time. June 03-06, 2015, Frankfurt am Main.
• Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA). Tampa, FL. Integrating Music into Middle School Based Projects. January 2015.
• 2014 National Association for Music Educators (NAfME - click for photos) Music Research and Teacher Education Conference, St. Louis. Philosophy SRIG: “Sanctioned Repositories of a Hope: The Alignment of Standards”
• College Music Society National Conference (CMS) Boston, 2014. The Paradox of Preparation (Panel) and It's not about Teaching Music (Lightning Talk).
• NAfME In-Service Conference, Nashville, 2013. Doing Away With Classroom Management: Teaching for Musical Transitions.
• Ninth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2013. Respondent to: Werner Jank - Theory of 'Bildung' - Philosophy of Education: On their Significance for Current Questions in the Philosophy of Music Education. Teachers College, Columbia University
• Suncoast Music Education Research Symposium IX, University of South Florida. General Educators Teaching Music: It's Not About Music, It's About Pedagogical Possibilities. February 6-9, 2013
• Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA). Tampa, FL. Uniting Music Education: Models for Collaboration with General Educators! January 9-12, 2013
• Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA. Tampa, FL. Improving Music Teacher Leadership: What Every Educator must Know About Policy in Times of High Accountability. January 9-12, 2013.
• The Second Symposium on LGBT Studies and Music Education. Pedagogy of Pride. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (click for photos), October 18-19, 2012.
• 30th ISME World Conference, 2012 Thessaloniki, Greece. Who’s Afraid of Policy? Learning to Lead by Learning to Influence.
• 30th ISME World Conference, 2012 Thessaloniki, Greece. Rules inside the Parameters of Schooling: Four National Perspectives
• Music Educators National Conference (NAfME), 2nd MENC Biennial National Music Educators National Conference, St. Louis, MO March 28-31, 2011: Chair - Philosophy Special Interest Research Group (SRIG - click for video)
• College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Richmond, VA 2011. Cultural Responses and Sustaining Growth: Graduate Students and Early-mid Career Teachers Interrogating “Rules”
• Nordic Network for Music Education (Nordplus) Course. Orebro Sweden, November 7-11, 2011. Classroom Behaviour in American and Nordic Primary Schools.
• College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Richmond, VA 2011. Cultural Responses and Sustaining Growth: Graduate Students and Early-mid Career Teachers Interrogating “Rules”
• The 7th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME). April 12-16, 2011, School of Education, University of Exeter. The Concept of Bildung and Educational Change in the 21st Century: "Oh How I Wish You Had Been Karl Marx"
• College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Minneapolis, MN, 2010. Moving Between Silos: The Courage of Conversations Between Music Education and Music Theory.
• 29th ISME World Conference, 2010 China. Music Teaching and Learning at the Pedagogy and Policy Nexus: Who Makes Policy?
• 29th ISME World Conference, 2010 China. Early Career Teachers and the Creative Commons: A Model for Professional Growth and Autonomy.
• 2010 Biennial Music Educators National Conference (MENC), March 2010, Policy Presentation for Symposium for Music Teacher Education: Social Justice and Policy Thinking.
• Eighth Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium - 2010, Sibelius Academy. The Social Contract and Music Education: If I do what?! I'll get what!?!
• 54th National Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Mexico City, October 2009. El Sistema: Can Music have a Place in Social Reform?
• Symposium for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), University of North Carolina, September 2009. The Role of Inquiry-Based Practice in Preservice Music Teacher Education.
• Symposium for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), University of North Carolina, September 2009. O Brave New World, That Has Such People In't: Courageous Conversations Between Music Theory and Music Education.
• The 6th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME). April 15-18, 2009, School of Education, University of Exeter. The Myth of institutionalized Music Education and The Performativity of the U.S. National Standards.
• 28th ISME World Conference 20–25 July 2008, Bologna, Italy. Policy, Narrativity, and the Representation of Reality.
• 11th Community Music Activity International Seminar (ISME), 15-18 July 2008, Rome, Italy. The Social/Cultural Economy Of Community Music: Realizing Spectacle.
• MayDay Group Colloquium XX, Boston University. Boston, Massachusetts, June 5-8, 2008, We Hold Bake Sales, For God's Sake: The Case For Dropping Out of Music and Staying Out.
• Associacao Brasileira de Educadores Musicais (Brazil Music Educators National Conference), Santa Maria, Campo Grande May 20, 2008. Critical Pedagogies and Music Education Practices: Sharing Practical, Political and Conceptual Histories.
• American Education Research Association (AERA), NYC, March 2008. Observation as a Pedagogy of Disruption: Interrupting the Normative Spaces of Schooling as Responsibility.
• Narrative Soundings, 2nd International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, February 7-9, 2008 School of Music, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University. Refusing Narratives: The Ethics of Functional Literacy.
• musica ficta/Lived Realties: A Conference on Engagements and Exclusions in Music, Education, and the Arts. January 24-27, 2008. Benedict, C. Schmidt, P. The Keynote and The Perpetration of Capital: Modeling Inequity in Educational Practices.
• Symposium for Music Teacher Education (SMTE), University of North Carolina, September, 2007. It's Not Just About Survival: Critical Practices in Urban Schools. Presented with three music teacher graduates of New York University.
• Philosophy of Music Education International Symposium (PMER), University of Western Ontario, Canada, June 6-9, 2007. Invited Respondent.
• International Sociological Association Conference (Research Committee on Sociology of Education). Nicosia, Cyprus. May 24-27 2007. Observation as Pedagogy of Disruption: Interrupting the Normative Spaces of Schooling
• The 5th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME), April 10-14, 2007, School of Education, University of Exeter. Processes of Alienation: Orff and Kodaly.
• American Education Research Association (AERA), Chicago, April 2007. Self-actualizing Learning: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Using Self-assessment.
• 11th Annual Urban Music Leadership Conference, Milwaukee, WI, October 19-21, 2006, Defining Ourselves as Other: Envisioning Transformative Possibilities
• First International Symposium on Music Education, Equity, and Social Justice, Teachers College, Columbia University, October, 2006. Schmidt, P. & Benedict, C. From Whence Justice: Interrogating the Improbable in Music Education.
• Mayday Colloquium XVII, Westminster Choir College, NJ, June 2006. Embracing Powerlessness and Despair: Teaching.
• Narrative Soundings, 1st International Conference on Narrative Inquiry in Music Education, April 5-7, 2006 School of Music, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University. On The Narrative Of Challenged Assumptions.
• College Band Directors' National Association's Biennial National Conference (CBDNA), NY, Allsup, R. & Benedict, C. (February 2005). The Problem of Band: An Inquiry into the Future of Instrumental Music Education.
• Symposium on the Philosophy of Music Education (PMER), University of Hamburg, Germany, May 18-21, 2005. Naming Our Reality: Negotiating and Creating Meaning in the Margin.
• The 4th International Conference for Research in Music Education (RIME), Exeter, England April 5-9, 2005. Chasing Legitimacy: The National Music Standards Viewed Through a Critical Theorist Framework.
• College Music Society National Conference (CMS), Miami, FL, October 2003, Chasing Legitimacy: The National Music Standards.
