Programme Unsettling Music Education

A research symposium in honour of Petter Dyndahl

Saturday 7 March, 2026, Auditorium 2 Campus Hamar / Zoom (Please follow the live stream here)

 

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Programme 

11:30-12:00. Coffee

12:00-12:10. Welcome

12:10-13:00. Presentations 

  • Live Weider Ellefsen, University of Inland Norway: 'Unsettling music education'
  • Øivind Varkøy, Norwegian Academy of Music: 'Yes, we might still need Kant'
  • Catharina Cristophersen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences: 'Dyndahlian meditations: An academic address'
  • Eirik Skjelstad, The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training: 'Unsettling cultural legitimacy: How Petter Dyndahl’s thinking continues to inform my work in education policy'

13:10-14:00. Presentations

  • Camilla Kvaal, University of Inland Norway: 'Spectres of Dyndahl: Music education facing polarization'
  • Geir Johansen, Norwegian Academy of Music: 'On being leftist - or not?'
  • Alexandra Kertz-Welzel, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: 'The male midwife or: Petter Dyndahl and the establishment of sociology of music education'
  • Eirik Askerøi, University of Inland Norway: 'The sound of freedom'

14:00-14:30. Coffee break with cake

14:30-15:20. Presentations

  • Petter Dyndahl, University of Inland Norway: 'A jeremiad on the state(s) of the world'
  • Even Ruud, Norwegian Academy of Music: 'Hartmut Rosa: Resonance in music education and therapy'
  • Sidsel Karlsen, Norwegian Academy of Music: 'Theoretical work in music education'

15:30-16:20. Presentations

  • Ingeborg Lunde, University of Inland Norway: 'The child in music education'
  • Stian Vestby, University of Inland Norway: 'From play to culture: conceptualizing childhood cultures'  
  • John Vinge, Norwegian Academy of Music: 'Assessment as didactical self defence'
  • Friederike Merkelbach, University of Inland Norway: 'Deconstructing cultural cosmopolitanism'

16:30-17:10. Presentations

  • Monica Lindgren, University of Gothenburg: 'The issue of power in music education'
  • Kai Arne Hansen, University of Inland Norway: 'Not just playing games: Children’s musical activism and changing times'
  • Siw Graabræk Nielsen, Norwegian Academy of Music: 'Autosociobiography as a methodological draft'

17:10-17:30. Closing remarks