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NZC Visiting Fellow Prof.Sally Jane Norman Visits Peking University
10/11/2018 – The New Zealand Centre at Peking University hosted Professor Sally Jane Norman, Director of the New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī at Victoria University, Wellington. On the 9th of November she presented a lecture to postgraduate students at the NCRICA, School of Arts, Peking University.
Professor Sally Jane Norman arrived at Peking University on the 1st of November for a ten-day stay as a Visiting Fellow at the New Zealand Centre. She was hosted by Professor Dr. Lin Yi, Director of the National Center for Research into Intercultural Communication of Arts (NCRICA), School of Arts, Peking University. Professor Norman is the Director of the New Zealand School of Music – Te Kōkī at Victoria University Wellington. Prior to taking this position in July 2017, Professor Norman was Professor of Performance Technologies and Co-Director of the Humanities Lab at the University of Sussex, founder of Culture Lab at Newcastle University. She is also a standing committee member service on the European Research Council. She is a nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (United Kingdom), Advisory Expert at the Peking University National Center for Research into Intercultural Communication of Arts, and Professorial Fellow at the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, Beijing. Professor Norman spent her time as a Visiting Fellow at the New Zealand Centre developing international and intercultural engagement perspectives and discussing possibilities of further collaboration with her Chinese colleagues. On the 9th of November she delivered her lecture “Music and Intercultural Communication: Linking Histories and Geographies” to postgraduate students of NCRICA at Peking University.
Professor Sally Jane Norman during her lecture at Peking University The lecture was very well received and opened up plenty of topics for discussion following the talk. On leaving Beijing, Professor Norman is travelling to Hangzhou to meet with Professor Shen Nalin, Professor in Composition and a PhD alumnus of Victoria University Wellington at Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. She is finding her trip to China worthwhile and fruitful. |
