Cathy Benedict takes on…
April 2, 2010
Hello All!!!
Exciting news from the Anaheim conference. We had a very strong session (for details go to the NEWS!! section of the website) with over 80 attending and very provocative papers.
We elected Deborah Bradley and Roger Mantie as our next co-chairs. We discussed the website and technological possibilities – including on-line voting of our chairs. We also addressed the importance of thinking through the review process for submissions (in light of the presentations we heard) and spoke of the upcoming International Philosophy of Music Education Conference to be held in Helsinki in June.
And finally, but hardly finally at all, Patrick Jones called for the nomination of Estelle Jorgensen for the Senior Researcher Award – a call that was unanimously adopted! We are very excited about this prospect and will be moving forward on the needed paper work.
Thanks to Patrick Schmidt for his leadership these past two years. If you remember at our last meeting in Milwaukee we weren’t even sure if there was going to be a next meeting, so thanks very much for seeing us through this transition and sending us into this next iteration of MENC. We also have Patrick to thank for our website that links us to infinity and beyond! Thanks for securing and passing on the institutional flame.
Let me know your thoughts about our session or any other ideas you may have. It was lovely to have newcomers in the room and it’s always lovely to see those people we care so deeply about and only mange to see once every 2 years!
Hope to see many of you in Helsinki and check out that website when you get a chance!
http://www2.siba.fi/ispme_symposium/index.php?id=4&la=fi
Cathy
Chair Philosophy SRIG
