UskoMus Research Network
General description
UskoMus * is a research network established in February 2010 by the departments of musicology and comparative religion at the University of Turku and at Åbo Akademi University. The purpose of UskoMus is to induce transdiciplinary scholarly discussion on various aspects concerning the relations between music, religion and spirituality.
UskoMus maintains also its own electronic mailing list at uskomus(at)lists.utu.fi. In order to subscribe to the list, please visit https://lists.utu.fi/mailman/listinfo/uskomus.
UskoMus is not affiliated with any particular musical or religious practice.
Events
"Music and Transcendence", 2–3 December 2010, Turku, Finland.
International guest speakers: Thomas Bossius (University of Gothenburg), Keith Kahn-Harris (Birkbeck College), Annemette Kirkegaard (University of Copenhagen).
Local guest speakers and panelists: Deniz Bedretdin, Yrjö Heinonen, Haka Kekäläinen, Lama Tulku Dakpa Rinpoche, Marjaana Virtanen, Jenni Urponen, Hridananda (Andrés Rubiano) . Confirmed programme to be published later.
More information about the seminar, programme and abstracts
Participants
The founding organisations of UskoMus are the Department of Musicology and the Department of Comparative Religion at the University of Turku and the Department of Comparative Religion and the Department of Musicology at Åbo Akademi University in Turku.
International advisory board: Mark Evans (Macquarie University), Keith Kahn-Harris (Birkbeck College), Annemette Kirkegaard (University of Copenhagen), Mark LeVine (University of California Irvine), Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University).
*) "uskomus" = a belief, a shibboleth; "usko" = faith, confidence; "mus(iikki)" = mus(ic)