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Dr Christopher Wiley speaks at one-day event on electronic voting systems at the University of Birmingham

21 April 2015

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Muirhead TowerDr Christopher Wiley was the closing external speaker at ‘Going to the Polls: Teaching and Learning with TurningPoint’, held in Muirhead Tower at the University of Birmingham on 21 April 2015.

The one-day event on the subject of Turning Technologies electronic voting systems saw Dr Wiley deliver an updated version of his paper ‘Enhancing Instructional Interactivity through Electronic Voting Systems: Advanced Features and Innovative Pedagogies’, alongside a series of talks by academics from the University of Birmingham.

Dr Wiley has recently given workshop-style presentations on electronic voting systems at several different UK universities including Southampton Solent, Durham, Hull, and Surrey.

The full programme for the event, which was attended by around 40 academics from the University of Birmingham and nearby institutions, may be viewed here: http://www.turningtechnologies.com/doc/content/BirminghamEvent-GoingtothePolls.pdf

Dr Christopher Wiley co-organizes and delivers paper at international conference on musical biography at the Institute of Musical Research, London

10 April 2015

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Institute of Musical Research logoDr Christopher Wiley and Dr Paul Watt (Monash University, Melbourne) have co-organized a two-day international conference on musical biography held at the Institute of Musical Research, University of London, on 9-10 April 2015.

The conference, entitled ‘Musical Biography: National Ideology, Narrative Technique, and the Nature of Myth’, brought together a broad range of some 50 interdisciplinary scholars from the UK, US, Australia, and Continental Europe.

In addition to several panel sessions, the conference incorporated two invited roundtable discussions, whose speakers included Professors Simon Keefe (University of Sheffield), Mark Evan Bonds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford), and Rosamund Bartlett (Oxford).

In the course of the conference, Dr Wiley also chaired three of the panel sessions as well as presenting his paper ‘Myth-making and the Politics of Nationality in Narratives of J.S. Bach’s 1717 Contest with Louis Marchand’, which discussed the ideological significance of the variations in retellings of a single biographical story across different countries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The schedule for the event may be viewed at the conference website: http://events.sas.ac.uk/imr/events/view/17765/Music+Biography+Conference

The full conference programme may be downloaded here.