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Last Wednesday, March 26, 2025, this year's Abel Prize was awarded to the Japanese mathematician Masaki Kashiwara. The Abel Prize is one of the most prestigious honours in mathematics. It is awarded every year by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and comes with a prize money of over £550,000. In this episode of Maths on the Move we talk to Helge Holden, Chair of the Abel Prize Committee. Helge tells us about this year's winner, the history and purpose of the Prize, and how the winners are chosen. He also tells us why good mathematicians are needed in all sectors of science and beyond, and talks about the tragic story of the mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, after whom the Prize is named. To find out more about some of the topics mentioned in this episode, see: The Abel Prize 2025: Masaki Kashiwara - An accessible look at some of Kashiwara's mathematics. The Chern Medal 2018: Masaki Kashiwara - Another look at Kashiwara's work written on the occasion of his winning the Chern Medal in 2018. What are groups and what are they good for? - An episode of the Maths on the Move podcast which explores group theory. Stubborn equations and the study of symmetry - An article which touches one of Niels Henrik Abel's most famous results. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik - Also known as Crelle's journal, this publication is mentioned in the podcast.

柏原正樹京都大数理解析研究所特任教授ノルウェー科学文学アカデミーは２６日、顕著な業績を挙げた数学者に対して贈られる２０２５年のアーベル賞を、柏原正樹・京都大数理解析研究所特任教授に授与すると発表した。 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said Wednesday that this year's Abel Prize for mathematicians with distinguished achievements will be given to Masaki Kashiwara, making him the first Japanese to win the award.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters said Wednesday that this year's Abel Prize for mathematicians with distinguished achievements will be given to Masaki Kashiwara, making him the first Japanese to win the award.

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton. Tina is the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support technique and performance for musicians. In 2013 she founded the Musicians' Health and Movement Institute (MHMI) where she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students and soloists. Tina has taught Timani workshops at amongst other Juilliard in New York, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, The Music Academy in Basel, Royal College of Music in London, The Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen and for orchestras such as Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra. Her background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer, Kinetic Control Movement Therapist, twice a certified yoga teacher and through Kinaesthesia for pianists from the University of Arts in Berlin. Tina has presented at many performing arts medicine conferences and symposiums, amongst other at PAMA in Hollywood, ISPS in Melbourne and MHPC in Helsinki. As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received several grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists' working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists. MAIN WEBSITE https://www.timani.no/ MEMBERSHIP https://www.timanicommunity.com/ BOOK https://giamusic.com/store/resource/unleashing-the-potential-of-the-musicians-body-book-10856 3-YEAR CERTIFICATION COURSE https://www.timanicertificationcourse.com/ PERSONAL WEBSITE AND BLOG https://www.tinanilssen.no/ PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLE https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.834012/full VOICE CHOICE - Listen to Tina's favourite vocal performance ‘Ice Bin Der Velt Abhanden Gekommen' by Jessie Norman on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0%E2%81%A0⁠ Watch that Jessie Norman performance here: https://youtu.be/bxh-VTqNK0c?si=AfN5PNCwI7ZRkdbR Join the ⁠⁠VOCALSCOPE BOOK CLUB⁠⁠ Train your voice with JULIETTE CATON in the ⁠⁠VOCALSCOPE VOICE STUDIO⁠⁠ Follow Vocalscope on socials @‌vocalscope & @‌vocalscopevoice

What really happens at the Global Plastics Treaty INC negotiations, how did the most recent INC-4 unfold and what work is left to do before INC-5 in Busan? Victoria Hattersley finds out from Magnus Løvold of the Norwegian Academy of International Law.Packaging Europe's podcast, featuring the leading international figures in packaging innovation, sustainability and strategy, is now weekly! Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.For more packaging news, interviews and multimedia content visit Packaging Europe.

Send us a Text Message.Today we welcome Dimitris Kostopoulos to Inside the Taubman Approach. I love this interview so much. Here's why: Dimitris came across the Taubman Technique tapes during a questioning period in his professional career. He studied these 10 DVD's for years. He understood the concepts and the language used to the point where he began to apply them to his playing. But - it was not until he met Edna Golandsky that he realized he that he needed to study this incredible work with an expert one on one. Dimitris in his story shows how studying the Taubman Approach online with an expert really is effective. https://kostopoulos.no/Dimitris Kostopoulos was born in 1984, and grew up in Bodø, Norway. He is among the leading Norwegian pianists of his generation, and holds a Master's degree in piano from the Barratt Due Institute of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. His main teacher was the recognized Czech professor Jiri Hlinka. In addition to this, he has participated in masterclasses with the Norwegian professor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg, the Dutch professor Marcel Baudet and the Swedish professor Hans Pålsson. He as also studied the work of Dorothy Taubman and Edna Golandsky through the Taubman Techniques.Dimitris Kostopoulos has established himself as a professional concert pianist with performances at several of Norway's most famous music festivals and concert halls. His performances as pianist includes the Bergen International Music Festival, ULTIMA Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo Grieg Festival, The Hemsing Festival, Nordland Music Festival, the Music Festival of Northern Norway, the Northern Light Festival and the Opera in Oslo, Oslo Concert Hall and many other venues. In addition to this, he has performed regularly abroad giving concerts in Sweden, Vietnam, Portugal, Lithuania, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Italy and Russia.As a soloist, Kostopoulos has performed with many orchestras, including the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, Lithuaninan State Symphony Orchestra, Oslo Camerata, Tromsø Symphony Orchestra, Barratt Due Symphony Orchestra, Banda Sinfonica da PSP, Bodø Sinfonietta, the MiNensemble, Narvik City Symphony Orchestra, Bodø City Symphony Orchestra and LVO. Kostopoulos has worked with conductors such as Bjarte Engeseth, Arvid Engegård, Stephan Barratt-Due, Pierre-André Valade, Jonathan Stockhammer, Torodd Wigum, Alf Richard Kraggerud, Terje Boye Hansen, Jan Ludvig Jacobsen and Nicolas Carthy.Another important part of Kostopoulos' career is his devotion to chamber music. His mother was a professional soprano, and already from the age of 13 he started to accompany her and perform concerts with her. Since then chamber music has been a natural part of his work as a pianist, resulting in collaborations with many of Norway's leading musicians such as Catharina Chen, Guro Kleven Hagen, Audun Sandvik, Bjarne Magnus Jensen, Ragnhild Hemsing, Eldbjørg Hemsing, Cathrine Bullock, Ingebjørg Kosmo, Angelica Voje, Christian Mortensen and others.Internationally recognized and rewardedSince 2011 he has held the position as pianist in the MiNensemble. This is a chamber music ensemble based in northern Norway, touring throughout Norway as well as internationally.The Golandsky Institute's mission is to provide cutting-edge instruction to pianists based on the groundbreaking work of Dorothy Taubman. This knowledge can help them overcome technical and musical challenges, cure and prevent playing-related injuries, and lead them to achieve their highest level of artistic excellence.Please visit our website at: www.golandskyinstitute.org.

Hey Sustainable Asia Listeners! We have some upcoming episodes discussing the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty negotiations that I think you are really going to find interesting. This bonus episode is from one of my favorite podcasts called Plastisphere. It's run by Anja Krieger in Berlin. Over three episodes, Anja Krieger and Magnus Løvold shed light on how politics can influence the negotiations of a UN Global Plastics Treaty..I am replaying the first episode here…but if you want to hear more just head over to the Plastisphere Podcast. We've covered many of the issues that advocates in Asia want embedded in the plastics treaty. However, given that the treaty needs to be supported by nations globally…it inherently is a political document. And INC-3 proved that. Some countries basically did all that they could to block the progress of the plastics treaty by using procedural games to keep the treaty from ever being signed. So here is episode one of this three part series from Plastisphere Podcast.From Plastisphere: A podcast on plastic pollution in the environmentWhat happened at the INC-1 in Uruguay? Recap 1/3.This year, 2024, is the crucial year for the plastics treaty negotiations. If you haven't heard about them, the United Nations are working on an international, legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution. It's been called the most important environmental deal since the Paris climate accord.Many countries want it to be an ambitious agreement that covers the full lifecycle of plastics, from production to disposal. But some countries are not so keen on this, and they have held up the development of the treaty. How and why exactly did they do this, and is there still hope for a strong and effective international agreement?To explore this, Anja connected with Magnus Løvold, an expert in Peace and Conflict Studies, and advisor with Lex International and NAIL, the Norwegian Academy of International Law. In his blog „Points of Order“, Magnus describes his observations at the diplomatic meetings he attends.This is the first of three parts of the conversation. Magnus and Anja will take you back into each meeting of the treaty negotiations - INC-1 in Uruguay, INC-2 in France and INC-3 in Kenya. We'll talk diplomacy and give you a better understanding of what's going on on the international stage.Read our guest's blog: "Points of Order" - independent reporting on multilateral processes, treaty-making and diplomacy" by Magnus Løvold and Torbjørn Graff Hugo: https://medium.com/points-of-orderEpisode transcript: https://anjakrieger.com/plastisphere/2024/03/08/transcript-plastic-treaty-making-part1/Music: Dorian RoyCover: Maren von StockhausenIf you like this show, support the production! Go to https://anjakrieger.com/plastisphere/support/

Religious Minorities Online (RMO) is the premier academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed. Available as an Open Access publication and written in an accessible style, Religious Minorities Online is an indispensable resource not only for students and academics but also to broader audiences that include journalists, politicians and policy advisors, activists, NGOs, among others. New articles will be published online twice a year. A printed version, the Handbook of Religious Minorities, will be available at the end of the project. This project was supported by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council under UK-Japan Connection Grant number ES/S013482/1; and The University of Bergen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Religious Minorities Online (RMO) is the premier academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed. Available as an Open Access publication and written in an accessible style, Religious Minorities Online is an indispensable resource not only for students and academics but also to broader audiences that include journalists, politicians and policy advisors, activists, NGOs, among others. New articles will be published online twice a year. A printed version, the Handbook of Religious Minorities, will be available at the end of the project. This project was supported by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council under UK-Japan Connection Grant number ES/S013482/1; and The University of Bergen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

Religious Minorities Online (RMO) is the premier academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed. Available as an Open Access publication and written in an accessible style, Religious Minorities Online is an indispensable resource not only for students and academics but also to broader audiences that include journalists, politicians and policy advisors, activists, NGOs, among others. New articles will be published online twice a year. A printed version, the Handbook of Religious Minorities, will be available at the end of the project. This project was supported by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council under UK-Japan Connection Grant number ES/S013482/1; and The University of Bergen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/indian-religions

Religious Minorities Online (RMO) is the premier academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed. Available as an Open Access publication and written in an accessible style, Religious Minorities Online is an indispensable resource not only for students and academics but also to broader audiences that include journalists, politicians and policy advisors, activists, NGOs, among others. New articles will be published online twice a year. A printed version, the Handbook of Religious Minorities, will be available at the end of the project. This project was supported by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council under UK-Japan Connection Grant number ES/S013482/1; and The University of Bergen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Religious Minorities Online (RMO) is the premier academic resource on religious minorities worldwide, reflecting the state of the art in scholarship. It is written by leading scholars and is rigorously peer-reviewed. Available as an Open Access publication and written in an accessible style, Religious Minorities Online is an indispensable resource not only for students and academics but also to broader audiences that include journalists, politicians and policy advisors, activists, NGOs, among others. New articles will be published online twice a year. A printed version, the Handbook of Religious Minorities, will be available at the end of the project. This project was supported by the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council under UK-Japan Connection Grant number ES/S013482/1; and The University of Bergen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/digital-humanities

Tieftöner im hohen Norden - Der norwegische Bassist und Komponist Ole Morten Vågan || Jahrzehntelang reduzierte sich die Wahrnehmung des norwegischen Jazz im Ausland auf elegische Klangräume, auf den "Nordic sound". Der Bassist und Komponist Ole Morten Vågan zählt zu den Kreativkräften Skandinaviens, die dieses Klischee so gar nicht bedienen. Er wuchs in einer Bergbaustadt südlich des Polarkreises auf, in deren Mine sein Vater arbeitete. Später lebte die Familie in Brønnøysund, wo die Eltern bis heute einen kleinen Jazzclub führen. Zunächst Sänger einer Rockband, wechselte er zum Bass und zum Jazz. Vågan studierte in Trondheim und arbeitete von 2017 bis 2019 als Künstlerischer Leiter des Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Heute lebt der 44-Jährige in Oslo und unterrichtet an der dortigen Norwegian Academy of Music. Als Komponist, aber auch als Instrumentalist mehrfach ausgezeichnet, offenbart er eine ausgeprägte Lust am Unkonventionellen, ob in eigenen Projekten oder in Bands von Kollegen. (Sendung vom 6.12.)

Eivind Buene is a Norwegian composer living and working in Oslo, where he is professor of composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Apart from writing music for soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, Buene also frequently engages in collaborations with improvising musicians, developing music in the cross-section between classical notation and improvisation. In addition to music, Buene writes critiques, essays, and novels, and is exploring hybrid forms between music and text in large-scale orchestral works. In the interview, we talk about his relationship with the music of the past and his idea of a telescopic mode of listening, hybrid forms in which text and music are equally important, and his new piece Chorales, which will be premiered at Other Minds Festival 27. Music: “By the river” from Schubert Lounge by Eivind Buene, performed by Eivind Buene; Blue Mountain by Eivind Buene, performed by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra, conductor Baldur Brönnimann, and actors Andrea Bræin Hovig and Mattis Herman Nyquist; Grid by Eivind Buene, performed by Cikada (2L) Blue Mountain with English subtitles Follow Eivind on Twitter. eivindbuene.com Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. otherminds.org Contact us at otherminds@otherminds.org. The Other Minds Podcast is hosted and edited by Joseph Bohigian. Outro music is “Kings: Atahualpa” by Brian Baumbusch (Other Minds Records).

Norwegian vocalist and composer Maja S. K. Ratkje joins Wise Music Group CEO Dave Holley and Creative Director Gill Graham in this latest episode of Composing Myself, beaming in from her basement home studio on the fringes of Oslo. Maja talks about how as a child her sound world of birdsong and languages influenced her music, the intention of “using classical music to say something about the lives we are living in our time”, studying at the Norwegian Academy of Music and the first piece she wrote for other people to perform, how her experimental improvisational work draws a parallel with extreme sports, and her environmental protest sound art project ‘Desibel' - the world's largest mobile horn loudspeaker system.https://ratkje.no/The performing composer Maja S. K. Ratkje is at the forefront of the musical avant-garde. Despite its boldness and originality, her music is meant for sharing. At its heart lies Ratkje's own voice, an open door to her individual musicianship and a constant tool for realigning her work with natural expressions and human truths.Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen and Arne Nordheim all tantalized Ratkje during her studies. She played in a gamelan ensemble, worked with the experimental percussionist Paal Nilssen-Love and joined the ensemble SPUNK as a vocalist, a move that would have a lasting impact on her day-to-day creativity.Ratkje's exploration of her own voice's timbral properties led to its involvement in the compositional process. In 2002, she released the album Voice, a catalogue of previously unexplored vocal production techniques fused with electronics that was awarded the Prix Ars Electronica. Ratkje's exploration of the voice as an instrument came to maturity in Concerto for Voice (2004), commissioned by Radio France.Ratkje's music frequently involves stark contrasts, more often in the delivery of balance and kinetic action than in the creation of shock or effect. Her ability to hold disparate materials in her grasp is as apparent as her care and restraint with that material. ‘Form is the most important aspect of composition and the reason I consider myself a composer,' Ratkje once said.While many of Ratkje's scores are notated, many stretch beyond the confines of traditional notation in aspiring to both greater precision and greater liberation. Some reveal her DNA as a performing and improvising musician; some ask performers to improvise or produce material themselves.Her music has links her to Norwegian identity and politics (Ro-Uro, 2014), to her beloved Japanese culture (Gagaku variations, 2002), to children under the age of three (Høyt oppe i fjellet, 2011) and to instruments as varied as the viol consort (River Mouth Echoes, 2008) and the world's largest mobile horn speaker system (Desibel, 2009).Ratkje's work Waves IIb was awarded Norway's coveted Edvard Prize and was further honoured by UNESCO and the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Ratkje was the inaugural winner of the Arne Nordheim Prize and was nominated for the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2013. She has been Composer-In-Residence at numerous institutions and festivals, has contributed to well in excess of 100 albums and has written music for dance, radio plays and gallery installations. She is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

'The body is one of the greatest tools that we have to sing or play better' * Deze aflevering is Engelstalig Tina Margareta Nilssen is the founder of the Musicians' Health and Movement Institute , the author of 'Unleasihing the potential of the musician's body' and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. She runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, to become certified Timani teachers. Tina's background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a massage therapist, personal trainer, kinetic control movement therapist, twice a certified yoga teacher and kinesthetics for pianists. She has taught workshops in places like Juilliard in New York, Colburn in Los Angeles, Royal college of music in London and the Royal Danish Academy of Music. As a pianist, she holds a MA form the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and has released four critically acclaimed CD's. In this episode we talk about: - Tina's musical background - The origin of the movement system Timani - That you can develop as a musician at any age if you know what to change in the body, it's a myth that bodies only get more stagnant when getting older - How Tina found out about anatomy when studying in Berlin for her master's degree and the impact that it made for her - That when she started using muscles consciously it didn't only make the music better but also made her feel more safe - That nerves can be related to how we use our body, so by using our body differently we can diminish nerves (maybe not completely, but still a lot) - What it means to change the coördination in the body; to start using the muscles that are meant to be used over time or for repetitive movements so that the compensatory muscles that tend to tense up too much or create unwanted tension can start releasing - Tension in the throat when singing high notes is a compensatory pattern: the tension in the throat can either be a compensation for a lack of tension somewhere else in the body, or be a sign of a reversed breathing pattern - How it's possible that in one place you learn to move out your belly when breathing in and in another place you learn to expand around the ribcage - An important (and funny) discovery that Tina did when she was taking a yoga class - That belly breathing is important for relaxation and that it can bring the downregulation of the nervous system that we need, but we should use this when relaxing and not when we're singing - How it's possible that by doing exercises for the feet, our singing can improve so much - What you can do when you're going up on stage to sing or speak in public, and you feel that the breathing gets high and tensed up - That when a muscle is tense, it tends to not activate in the most efficiënt way - That if we increase proprioception (the awareness of our body in space and time) it makes it easier for the brain to tell the body what to do more efficiëntly - When we try to maintain a good posture while the muscles on the inside are pulling us down, or the diaphragm is pushing down, we are going to fight ourselves - Why 'hanging forward in the hips' will make it difficult to feel the breathing all the way down to our feet - What a Timani lesson looks like - How emotions and feeling the music, expressing it, is related to Timani - That the goal of Timani is always to make it easier to express music - The importance of knowing where the lungs are And more! Here you can find the Timani website: www.timani.no You can find information over here about lessons, workshops, the certification course and an online membership And here you can find and order Tina's book: 'Unleashing the potential of the musician's body': https://giamusic.com/store/resource/unleashing-the-potential-of-the-musicians-body-book-10856

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx--but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about their social and political implications. While today their works are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally: revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in spirit.  Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal's Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) makes available to English-language readers―in many cases for the first time―the works of nine women philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be accessible to students as well as scholars. Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx--but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about their social and political implications. While today their works are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally: revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in spirit.  Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal's Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) makes available to English-language readers―in many cases for the first time―the works of nine women philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be accessible to students as well as scholars. Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx--but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about their social and political implications. While today their works are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally: revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in spirit.  Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal's Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) makes available to English-language readers―in many cases for the first time―the works of nine women philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be accessible to students as well as scholars. Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx--but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about their social and political implications. While today their works are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally: revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in spirit.  Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal's Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) makes available to English-language readers―in many cases for the first time―the works of nine women philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be accessible to students as well as scholars. Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx--but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about their social and political implications. While today their works are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally: revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in spirit.  Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal's Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) makes available to English-language readers―in many cases for the first time―the works of nine women philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be accessible to students as well as scholars. Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

The long nineteenth-century--the period beginning with the French Revolution and ending with World War I--was a transformative period for women philosophers in German-speaking countries and contexts. The period spans romanticism and idealism, socialism, Nietzscheanism, and phenomenology, philosophical movements we most often associate with Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Marx--but rarely with women. Yet women philosophers not only contributed to these movements, but also spearheaded debates about their social and political implications. While today their works are less well-known than those of their male contemporaries, many of these women philosophers were widely-read and influential in their own time. Their contributions shed important new light on nineteenth-century philosophy and philosophy more generally: revealing the extent to which various movements which we consider distinct were joined, and demonstrating the degree to which philosophy can transform lives and be transformed by lived experiences and practices. In the nineteenth century, women philosophers explored a wide range of philosophical topics and styles. Working within and in dialogue with popular philosophical movements, women philosophers helped shape philosophy's agenda and provided unique approaches to existential, political, aesthetic, and epistemological questions. Though largely deprived formal education and academic positions, women thinkers developed a way of philosophizing that was accessible, intuitive, and activist in spirit.  Dalia Nassar and Kristin Gjesdal's Women Philosophers in the Long Nineteenth Century: The German Tradition (Oxford UP, 2021) makes available to English-language readers―in many cases for the first time―the works of nine women philosophers, with the hope of stimulating further interest in and scholarship on their works. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction to women philosophers in the nineteenth century and introduces each philosopher and her position. The translations are furnished with explanatory footnotes. The volume is designed to be accessible to students as well as scholars. Kristin Gjesdal is a Norwegian philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She is known for her expertise in the field of hermeneutics, nineteenth-century philosophy, aesthetics, and phenomenology. Gjesdal is a member of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Captain Credible talk with Koka Nikoladze about his creations, teaching Live Electronics at the Norwegian Academy of Music, creativity as a shelter, challenges of performing with electronics, use of computers in live music, expressing appreciation for others' work, AI in art, the challenges of creating electronic things, and a bunch more! https://www.koka.one https://www.instagram.com/kokanikoladze/ https://www.youtube.com/@nikoladze https://nmh.no/en/studies/continuing-studies/live-electronics

Our guest today is Kari Iveland Kari is a Norwegian singer and song maker who started her career in the mid 1980's when She completed Vocal Performance-studies in Los Angeles and obtained a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. She has released several albums and worked as a vocal coach, session singer, and free-lance composer and lyricist. Kari re-entered academia in 2015 and completed her master's degree at The Norwegian Academy of Music. She is currently working as a PhD Research Fellow for the Department of Popular music at the University of Agder. Our conversation with Kari took on many paths – her childhood in Bangladesh being raised by missionary parents, how lyrics can be used to identify our life's narrative & her inspiration for her own lyrics, her 2 year struggle with anorexia in her 20's & Reliving traumas on stage - all found their way into our discussion.

Jeff Taubenberger and John Oxford have spent their careers studying the 1918 flu pandemic. In this conversation, our guests explain how lessons from the 20th century's deadliest pandemic informed how public health officials responded to COVID-19. The two researchers deliver their verdict on the state pandemic preparedness, both ahead of COVID-19 and in its aftermath. Want to take an even deeper dive into this topic? Jeff and John recently delivered a lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters entitled The hunt for the virus causing the 1918 influenza pandemic. The two researchers were in Oslo as guests of OsloMet professor Svenn-Erik Mamelund. Listeners will hear from Svenn-Erik and his colleague Lisa in the next episode of the podcast.

Jeff Taubenberger and John Oxford have spent their careers studying the 1918 flu pandemic. In this conversation, our guests explain how lessons from the 20th century's deadliest pandemic informed how public health officials responded to COVID-19. The two researchers deliver their verdict on the state pandemic preparedness, both ahead of COVID-19 and in its aftermath. Want to take an even deeper dive into this topic? Jeff and John recently delivered a lecture at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters entitled The hunt for the virus causing the 1918 influenza pandemic. The two researchers were in Oslo as guests of OsloMet professor Svenn-Erik Mamelund. Listeners will hear from Svenn-Erik and his colleague Lisa in the next episode of the podcast.

Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. is Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT. He has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, which dominates the atmospheric transport of heat and momentum from the tropics to higher latitudes, and has advanced the understanding of the role of small scale gravity waves in producing the reversal of global temperature gradients at the mesopause, and provided accepted explanations for atmospheric tides and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the tropical stratosphere. Lindzen is a recipient of the AMS's Meisinger, and Charney Awards, the AGU's Macelwane Medal, and the Leo Huss Walin Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, and has been a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Council of the AMS. He has also been a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. — Tom Nelson's Twitter: https://twitter.com/tan123 Substack: https://tomn.substack.com/ About Tom: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-me-tom-nelson.html Notes for climate skeptics: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2019/06/useful-notes-for-climate-skeptics.html ClimateGate emails: https://tomnelson.blogspot.com/p/climategate_05.html

The partiality we display, insofar as we form and sustain personal attachments, is not normatively fundamental. It is a byproduct of the deference and responsiveness that are essential to our engagement with the world. We cannot form and sustain valuable personal relationships without seeing ourselves as answerable to the other participants in those relationships. And we cannot develop and sustain valuable projects without responding to the constraints imposed on our activities by the nature and requirements of those projects themselves. More generally, we cannot engage with the world without meeting it on its terms, and we cannot meet the world on its terms without responding differentially – or displaying partiality – with respect to the objects of our engagement. Partiality is thus a byproduct of engagement. We cannot engage with the world at all without exhibiting forms of partiality. Samuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NYU. He works primarily in the areas of moral and political philosophy and the theory of value. His writings have addressed central questions in ethical theory, and he has also written on topics as diverse as equality, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, toleration, terrorism, immigration, tradition, death, and the future of humanity. Scheffler received his A.B. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Princeton. From 1977-2008 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of six books: The Rejection of Consequentialism, Human Morality, Boundaries and Allegiances, Equality and Tradition, Death and the Afterlife (Niko Kolodny ed.), and Why Worry about Future Generations? He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, and he has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His first book was awarded the Matchette Prize of the American Philosophical Association. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters, and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is currently at work on a book (tentatively) titled The Lives We Lead: Personal Attachment and the Passage of Time. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr Scheffler's talk - "Partiality, Deference, and Engagement" - at the Aristotelian Society on 20th June 2022. This recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

What does the data say about what to eat and how to work out with world-leading data-driven expert Menno Henselmans Board member of the Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences (INFS), India, and FitZonderFabels, the Netherlands.   Founder of the Henselmans Personal Training Certification Program (PT Course), also available in Dutch, Spanish, French, and German.   Featured author in Men's Health, The Sunday Times, HuffPost, IronMind and many more publications, including translations in over 10 languages.   #14 Best-selling author on Amazon in Applied Psychology with his book The Science of Self-control.   Experienced physique coach, including numerous pro card and international prize winners in physique sports and powerlifting.   BSc magna cum laude from the international honor's college UCU.   MSc with distinction from the University of Warwick.   MPA Award-winning model & WBFF Fitness Model Competitor.   Ranked #1 Fitness Website in the HuffPost.   International public speaker for i.a. the Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Society, BodyPower, and the Norwegian Academy for Personal Training (AFPT).   Published scientific author in Sports Medicine, the highest impact factor journal in exercise science, and peer-reviewer for the Journal of Human Kinetics. In his words: I used to be business consultant specialized in advanced data analysis. While I had a great traditional career, my passion had always been in fitness. I saw the fitness industry was filled with broscience, supplement scams and fad diets. There was a dire need for data-driven and scientific information. I felt I could help. As it turned out, the best decision of my life was trading in my company car to pursue my passion for fitness.    I now help serious strength trainees get the most out of their physique with scientific fitness education. In addition to managing my online courses, I'm an online physique coach, scientific researcher, and international public speaker. In what little time I don't spend working or educating myself, I slow-travel the world with my digital nomad girlfriend in search of the planet's most beautiful nature and tastiest sushi.  

In this episode, you will meet Michael Riegler, who is a Norwegian researcher in AI with Austrian roots. He is working as a lead researcher at the Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering (SimulaMet). Michael is a highly engaged researcher who wants to give something back to society. Much of his science is focused on the use of AI in health-related research. He has worked on medical applications in colonoscopy, cardiology, mental health and artificial human reproduction and much more. In this podcast you can hear about how Michael is creating artificial children using VR and AI and his experiences with language models such as GPT-3. We will discuss open science, the importance of open datasets and the role of synthetic data. We also discuss transparent, explainable and interpretable  AI, the trends in AI and the future of education within AI. He is part of the Young Academy of Norway (initiative for The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters), several white papers on AI and ethics, AI and health, recently for the Norwegian AI in health sector.

Norwegian Music Therapist, Karette Stensæth joined me recently to talk about how she got into the field, current projects, what she hopes for the future of music therapy, as well as diving into philosophy, and the importance of the here and now.Dr. Karette Stensæth is Associate Professor in Music Therapy at the Norwegian Academy of Music, where she also works as the Director of CREMAH (Centre of Research in Music and Health). In addition to engaging in research, she's the author of the book Responsiveness in Music Therapy Improvisation: A Perspective Inspired by Mikhail Bakhtin, from Barcelona Publishers in 2017. To learn more about music therapy in the United States, click here.To learn more about music therapy in Europe, click here.To support CREATIVE PEACEMEAL PODCAST, or to check out the blog, merch, and more episodes, click HERE.Creative Peacemeal PodcastWebsite: https://tstakaishi.wixsite.com/musicIG @creative_peacemeal_podcastFB: https://m.facebook.com/creativepeacemealpod/

Bjørn Haugland is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SKIFT Business Climate Leaders (https://www.skiftnorge.no/english), a Norwegian business-led climate initiative with a mission to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy and support the government in delivering on its national climate commitments by 2030. The coalition hopes to demonstrate, to businesses and the government, the business potential that exists in the low-carbon economy and help drive the transition. Mr. Haugland is the former Executive Vice President and the Chief Sustainability Officer in DNV GL Group where he oversaw the groups sustainability performance and drove company-wide sustainability initiatives. Mr. Haugland has extensive experience assisting multinational companies in areas such as corporate sustainability, innovation and business development. He was responsible for the Global Opportunity Report, a joint initiative together with UN Global Compact and Sustainia, a fact-based sustainability consulting and communication firm. Mr. Haugland is today a board member at the University of Bergen, WWF, The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Sporveien and Kezzler. He is also member of the advisory Board for Centre for Responsible Leadership. He is co-founder of Zeabuz, a new service for urban, emission free, autonomous ferries and Terravera, a tech foundation to make sustainability a reality by giving anyone insights to support their everyday decisions. He is member of the The Norwegian Board of Technology (NBT) that advises the Norwegian Parliament and Government on new technology as well as a member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. Mr. Haugland has a M.Sc. in Naval Architecture – Marine Structures and Hydrodynamics, from The Norwegian Institute of Technology and attended the “Strategic International Leadership” program at International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and "Leading Digital Transformation" (INSEAD). Mr. Haugland is widely recognized in the global debate on sustainability and technology and he has his own blog on the Huffington Post and he is regularly writing articles for Recharge, Teknisk Ukeblad and Sysla Maritime.

This month we interviewed Tina Margareta Nilsenn. She is an incredible pianist and the founder of Timani. We spoke with her about what led her to develop Timani, what it's all about, and how it is helping musicians worldwide. Are you a musician who has a body? Then you want to listen to this episode!  Bio: Tina Margareta Nilssen is a classical pianist who lives in Oslo, and grew up in Trondheim, Norway. She has released one solo CD and three CD's with music for two pianos with the Dena Piano Duo, all of them internationally critically acclaimed. The solo CD presents the Grieg piano sonata in e-minor, 5 pieces of Signe Lund and Beethovens sonata “Appassionata”. The first two Dena Piano Duo recordings include all of Mozart and Grieg's works for two pianos, and in the third CD release in 2013 “Hommage à Grieg” they recorded works of Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Wolfgang Plagge and Terje Bjørklund. Tina has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York and Philadelphia. She has been a soloist with orchestras several times with piano concertos of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Grieg and Gershwin, and played at various music festivals and concert series. Her performances include playing duo with great performers such as Arve Tellefsen, Kari Postma, Johannes Martens, Stine Rem Aarønes, Daniel Dalnoki, Heide Görtz, Beate Mordal, Christian Ihle Hadland and Ingrid Andsnes. She took her Masters degree at The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) with one year Erasmus program at the University of Arts in Berlin (Prof. Heide Görtz), and her Bachelor at Barratt Due Music Institute (Prof. Jiri Hlinka) and at NTNU Institute of Music in Trondheim (Jørgen Larsen). As a pianist she has received the two-year Norwegian artists' working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, Norwegian “Fund For Performing Artists”, as well as many other grants. Besides her performing commitments, Tina is the founder of Musicians' Health and Movement Institute in Oslo, and the creator of a method for musicians called Timani. She teaches Timani regularly at The Norwegian Academy of Music, at Musik Akademie Basel and at other institutions around the world. Show Notes:  Tina Marageta Nilssen Timani  Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind- Yuval Noah Harari  

On our final episode of Season 1 ‘Victory against the odds‘ on Indian Artpreneur Podcast, we speak to Music Maestro Smt. Sudeshna Bhattacharya, residing in Oslo, Norway. Smt. Sudeshna began to learn at the age of four from her father Pandit Shri Krishnamohan Bhattacharya and later at the age of eight she began to learn sarod from one of the greatest sarod maestroes of the world, the legend Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. Smt. Sudeshna became Ustad Amjad Ali Khan Gandabandh disiple. In 2003 the Ministry of Culture in France invited her to the Strictly Mondial international festival, and offered her a ten year contract. She lived in Marseilles where she gave concerts, recordings and participated in French cultural happenings with the support of the French Ministry of Culture. In 2015, she moved to Norway, and is a university lecturer for master students at the Norwegian Academy of Music, and continues touring the world for her concerts, recording albums, and making musical projects.

AUDIO FIXED!! Welcome to episode #50! Thanks for listening! In today's episode we continue our investigation into the actual science behind the Earth's ever changing climate, and provide clear evidence to counter the bogus mainstream narrative. Today we are very fortunate to have Professor Richard Lindzen on the program, one of the most preeminent climate scientists on Earth. Dr. Lindzen received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1964, and from 1983 until his retirement in 2013 he was the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he presently maintains Professor Emeritus status. Dr Lindzen is a dynamical meteorologist with interests in the broad topics of climate, planetary waves, monsoon meteorology, planetary atmospheres, and hydrodynamic instability. His research involves studies of the role of the tropics in mid-latitude weather and global heat transport, the moisture budget and its role in global change, the origins of ice ages, seasonal effects in atmospheric transport, stratospheric waves, and the observational determination of climate sensitivity. Dr. Lindzen has developed models for the Earth's climate with specific concern for the stability of the ice caps, the sensitivity to increases in CO2, the origin of the 100,000 year cycle in glaciation, and the maintenance of regional variations in climate. Furthermore, he has made major contributions to the development of the current theory for the Hadley Circulation, and provided accepted explanations for atmospheric tides and the quasi-biennial oscillation of the tropical stratosphere. He pioneered the study of how ozone photochemistry, radiative transfer and dynamics interact with each other. He has also been developing a new approach to air-sea interaction in the tropics, and is actively involved in parameterizing the role of cumulus convection in heating and drying the atmosphere and in generating upper level cirrus clouds. Prof. Lindzen is a recipient of the AMS's Meisinger, and Charney Awards, the AGU's Macelwane Medal, and the Leo Huss Walin Prize. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. He is a corresponding member of the NAS Committee on Human Rights, and has been a member of the NRC Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Council of the AMS. He has also been a consultant to the Global Modeling and Simulation Group at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Ph.D., '64, S.M., '61, A.B., '60, Harvard University) His ongoing research is currently focused studying what determines the pole to equator temperature difference, the nonlinear equilibration of baroclinic instability and the contribution of such instabilities to global heat transport. To learn more about Dr. Lindzen and his work, please visit: https://eapsweb.mit.edu/people/rlindzen https://www.thegwpf.org https://co2coalition.org

Kjetil Skøien (b. 1952, Oslo) is a former biodynamic farmer, dancer and theatre director who has directed more than 30 experimental theatre works in Norway and abroad. He has also directed Japanese Noh theatre and Butoh dance theatre and studied under Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno. In 1994 Skøien collaborated with Black Box Theatre to produce ‘Dance of Life', a Butoh performance by Min Tanaka for the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics. Skøien was educated at the Norwegian Academy of Fine Arts. He was one of the earliest Norwegian artists to work with video. Skøien also works with performance, photography, painting, collage, text, theatre direction, and choreography.He has exhibited and directed performances in Kunstbanken, Hamar (2019), The Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, Oslo + Ultimafestivalen (2019), Kunsthall Trondheim + PAO performance festival, Oslo (2018), Minimalen Kortfilmfestival, Trondheim (2017). Skøien has had solo exhibitions at Kunstnernes Hus, Stenersenmuseet. He exhibited at Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen; ICA, London; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna; Contemporary Art Museum, Oslo; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm; Henie Onstad Kunstsenter; Norsk Skulpturbiennale; Høstutstilling; Preus Foto Museum; Malmö konsthall; and Living Art Museum, Reykjavik. Skøien has work in the collections of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway, Cultural Council Norway, and Statens Konstråd, Sweden. https://en.oslokunstforening.no/kjetil-skoienhttps://www.kjetilskoien.no/https://en.oslokunstforening.no/sparebankstiftelsen-dnb-grant-exhibition-2020

Canada’s National Academy of Dance Education believes strongly that all areas of dance research, science, medicine and studies can and should inform our practice as dance educators. Included in that list of valuable subject areas for dance educators is dance history. Dance history is so important to us that we’ve included it as a subject in Part 2 of our dance teacher training program. Today we have the honour and privilege of speaking with a Doctor of Dance Studies from Norway, Dr. Elizabeth Svarstad. GUEST: Dr. Elizabeth Svarstad is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and researcher specializing in historical dance and dance history. She holds a BA in dance from the Norwegian Ballet Academy and a Nordic Master of Arts in Dance Studies from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), University of Copenhagen and Stockholm University. She defended her PhD in dance studies at the Department of music at NTNU with the project Dance as social education in Norway 1750–1820. She has studied baroque dance in France, England and the US and is well established as the only specialist baroque dancer in Norway. She has taught historical dance and dance history at Norway's performing arts institutions and universities and is currently a lecturer at Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Norwegian Academy of Music. In 2019 she was awarded the Parelius Prize for deserved artists. Disclaimer: Any and all ideas and information presented in the following podcast are those of the presenter. The presenter is not an employee or representative of Dance Education Canada Inc. (“DEC”) and is participating in this podcast on a voluntary basis. The ideas and information they express do not necessarily represent the views of the DEC or its partners, employees or affiliates. The ideas and information expressed herein are for general educational purposes only. DEC makes no representations about the accuracy or suitability of this content. They should not necessarily be applied to specific individual situations. DEC recommends consulting an expert or professional regarding specific medical, legal or business concerns.

Hoy tenemos como invitado a Alberto Álvarez, clarinete co-principal en Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Alberto empezó su aventura escandinava en Noruega cuando fue a estudiar un Máster a la Norwegian Academy of Music, con el profesor Björn Nyman (solista de la Norwegian Radio Orchestra). En este episodio, nos contará sobre su experiencia en el norte de europa, hablaremos de los profesores que más han influído en él, de Martin Frost, que actualmente es el director de la orquesta donde Alberto toca y nos dirá cómo es la experiencia de trabajar junto a él y tenerlo como director, de su trial en Suecia, hablaremos del sistema educativo y de las características de la enseñanza en estos países, de ejercicios y de muchas cosas más. Como siempre, academiadeclarinete.com, la primera academia de clarinete online para hispanohablantes donde tienes a tu disposición clases grabadas en vídeo con ejercicios, técnicas, repertorio y todo lo que necesitas para mejorar como clarinetista. Esta academia está en constante crecimiento, con clases nuevas todas las semanas y profesores invitados. Recuerca que te puedes suscribir a la lista de correo donde mando emails con información y consejos a mis suscriptores. Échale un vistazo porque esto no ha hecho más que empezar. Y ahora, vamos a dar paso a la entrevista. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//forms.aweber.com/form/75/1002537775.js"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, "script", "aweber-wjs-lxvwl76h6"));

Percussionist Cameron Leach and I have a great show for you today!  In addition to some great practice tips, Cameron elaborates on some very important topics, including how to clearly communicate to our audience through intentional and empathetic performing, why students must take ownership of their own learning experience, and why musicians need to be great friends to each other! I love Cameron's perspective on those topics, and I hope you enjoy our discussion! Cameron elaborates on: His journey to a solo career – starting in drumcor, doing a music education degree, and transitioning to performance after a chance encounter How he organizes his practice – having to handle so many instruments Why he likes to practice hungry What it is like to have to learn a wide variety of percussion instruments Ho he transfers the sound concepts from one instrument to the next Different practice modes in practice: Learning mode “Emoting” mode Why he thinks it's important to consider how you are sending your musical message and how it is received by your listeners Clear emotional communication How documenting his practice on video helped him release stress and was a creative outlet Why it's important to keep the sound of the hall in mind when we practice How recording ourselves helps us narrow our focus on specific elements in our practice His 3 key words – inquisitive, intentional, empathetic How students must take ownership of their learning experience (SCHOOLS CAN'T TECH YOU EVERYTHING!) during their degree and remain inquisitive AFTER they've graduated (Pssst! We're all lifelong learners!!!!)     More about Cameron: Website: www.cleachmusic.com YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVIL-V9LiebwHS_XbuRbTsw Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/cleachmusic/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleachmusic/   Beyond Talent: Creating a Successful Career in Music by Angela Myles Beeching The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield   BIOGRAPHY American percussionist Cameron Leach is a bold, high-energy performer acclaimed for his expressive virtuosity, musical athleticism, and daring interpretations. An engaging and thoughtful soloist, Leach has concertized across the United States, Canada, and Europe. He frequently appears as a guest artist at some of the world's finest institutions, including the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Royal Northern College of Music, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and Norwegian Academy of Music. Leach recently won both the Percussive Arts Society International Solo Artist Competition and Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition, in addition to receiving the prestigious Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Along with his active touring schedule, he regularly performs with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and serves on the faculty of Kent State University. Leach is endorsed by Black Swamp Percussion, Beetle Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, and Malletech. Highlights from the 2017-2018 season include the debut of his new electroacoustic solo show ELISION, a European Tour as Co-Principal of the World Percussion Group, the world premiere of Paul Lansky's Metal Light for the Percussive Arts Society, and a performance of Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. Additionally, he performed Peter Maxwell Davies' seminal Eight Songs for a Mad King with Ensemble id, a Rochester, NY-based chamber collective. His latest project, the Leach | Peters Percussion Duo, debuted on the Eastman Summer Concert Series in July 2018. Leach's 2018-2019 season is marked by a diverse array of solo appearances, guest artist engagements, and world premieres. Kicking off with a performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China, Leach then embarks on recital and clinic tours of California, Florida, and the Midwest, featuring newly commissioned solo works by David Skidmore and Matt Curlee. In March 2019, Leach will give the world premiere of Dave Maric's Percussion Concerto, commissioned for him by the Capital University Conservatory of Music. To close out the season, Leach will serve on faculty at the MalletLab Summer Intensive in West Palm Beach, FL, and will spend a week in residence as the featured artist for the Space City New Music Festival in Houston, TX. Devoted to the creation and performance of new music, Leach continues to commission diverse works for solo percussion, with a focus on the inclusion of electronics. During his time at the Eastman School of Music, the institution supported his vision through the Eastman/ArtistShare Partnership, allowing Leach to organize a commissioning consortium for Decay No. 2, a massive electroacoustic solo work by Matt Curlee. Other premieres include pieces by composers Michael Burritt, Paul Lansky, Jeff Tyzik, Alejandro Viñao, Annie Gosfield, Tim Feeney, Jon Lin Chua, and Frédéric Chiasson. Leach makes regular appearances at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, having performed with the Eastman Percussion Ensemble and on the Competition Winner's Showcase Concert in 2017, on the Focus Day Series and as a member of the All-Star International Percussion Ensemble in 2015, and with the Rhythm X Indoor Percussion Ensemble in 2011. In addition to his work as a concert artist, Leach also has a strong background in marching percussion, having won world titles with the Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps and Rhythm X.   If you enjoyed the show, please leave a review on iTunes!  I truly appreciate your support! Visit www.mindoverfinger.com for information about past and future podcasts, and for more resources on mindful practice. Join the Mind Over Finger Tribe here!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/mindoverfingertribe/     THANK YOU: Most sincere thank you to composer Jim Stephenson who graciously provided the show's musical theme!  Concerto #1 for Trumpet and Chamber Orchestra – Movement 2: Allegro con Brio, performed by Jeffrey Work, trumpet, and the Lake Forest Symphony, conducted by Jim Stephenson. Also a HUGE thank you to my fantastic producer, Bella Kelly!   MIND OVER FINGER: www.mindoverfinger.com https://www.facebook.com/mindoverfinger/ https://www.instagram.com/mindoverfinger/    

Patricia K. Kuhl es Catedrática Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning de la Universidad de Washington, Co-Directora del Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences y Directora de NSF-funded Science of Learning Center de dicha universidad. Es experta en lenguaje y ciencias de la audición y está especializada en la adquisición del lenguaje y sus bases neuronales; también ha investigado sobre el desarrollo del lenguaje en el autismo y sobre los sistemas de reconocimiento de voz. La profesora Kuhl es miembro de la National Academy of Sciences, la Rodin Academy y la Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Fue galardonada con la Silver Medal de la Acoustical Society of America en 1997 y, en el año 2005, recibió el Kenneth Craik Research Award de la Cambridge University. Ha recibido en dos ocasiones el University of Washington’s Faculty Lectureship Award, así como el University of Minnesota’s Outstanding Achievement Award. Adicionalmente, es miembro de la American Association for the Advancement of Science, la Acoustical Society of America, la Cognitive Science Society y la American Psychological Society. En el año 2008 recibió la Gold Medal de la Acoustical Society of America por su trabajo sobre el aprendizaje y el cerebro y, en 2011, el IPSEN Fondation’s Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize.

Patricia K. Kuhl es Catedrática Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning de la Universidad de Washington, Co-Directora del Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences y Directora de NSF-funded Science of Learning Center de dicha universidad. Es experta en lenguaje y ciencias de la audición y está especializada en la adquisición del lenguaje y sus bases neuronales; también ha investigado sobre el desarrollo del lenguaje en el autismo y sobre los sistemas de reconocimiento de voz. La profesora Kuhl es miembro de la National Academy of Sciences, la Rodin Academy y la Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Fue galardonada con la Silver Medal de la Acoustical Society of America en 1997 y, en el año 2005, recibió el Kenneth Craik Research Award de la Cambridge University. Ha recibido en dos ocasiones el University of Washington’s Faculty Lectureship Award, así como el University of Minnesota’s Outstanding Achievement Award. Adicionalmente, es miembro de la American Association for the Advancement of Science, la Acoustical Society of America, la Cognitive Science Society y la American Psychological Society. En el año 2008 recibió la Gold Medal de la Acoustical Society of America por su trabajo sobre el aprendizaje y el cerebro y, en 2011, el IPSEN Fondation’s Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize.

Menno Henselmans (Instagram and Facebook) is an online physique coach, fitness model, scientific author and the creator and director of Bayesian Bodybuilding. Menno has also worked with multiple pro card winning clients and international prize winners in physique sports and powerlifting and is an international speaker for BodyPower, the Norwegian Academy for Personal Training (AFPT), Paleo f(x), Intelligent Strength and the Oxford and Cambridge Alumni Association. You'll notice Menno and I discuss minimalism and his lifestyle as a digital nomad for the first 20-minutes of the interview. If you're here for the muscle-building talk, feel free to skip this part. Sometimes it's better to warm up on a lighter topic before debating training philosophies ;-) In this episode, we discuss: Minimalism A day in the life of Menno Recommendations for beginner, intermediate and advanced hard-gainers on how to optimise muscle gain in terms of training volume, frequency, and intensity and diet. Training nihilism How to interpret exercise science and the inherent problems Menno's current diet protocol ... and much more This episode is brought to you by Health IQ: A life insurance company that helps health conscious people like runners, cyclists, weight lifters, HIT participants and more, get a lower rate on their life insurance. Go to healthiq.com/cwarrior to support the show and see if you qualify. If you take care of yourself: do smart strength training, eat well, and you’re life insurance company doesn’t seem like they care, there’s an answer for you: Health IQ actually gives savings to people who take care of themselves. About 56% of Health IQ customers save between 4-33% on their life insurance. Health IQ customers can save up to a third because physically active people have a 56% lower risk of heart disease, 20% lower risk of cancer and a 58% lower risk of diabetes compared to people who are inactive, but your life insurance company probably just doesn’t care, you care, and there are companies out there that care. To see if you qualify, get your free quote today at healthiq.com/cwarrior or mention the promo code CWarrior when you talk to a health IQ agent. Are you interested in optimising muscle gain, fat loss and overall health or starting a HIT personal training business? Get 10% off HITuni.com HIT courses with coupon code CW10 – Click Here FREE HIT workout progress sheet and 20 podcast transcripts with guests like Dr. Doug McGuff, Drew Baye, and Bill DeSimone – Click Here For all of the show notes, links and resources - Click Here

Miriam Hlavaty is a composer, pianist, Timani teacher and a listening expert. She went through her studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo with chronic tendinitis, yet a deep wish to express music. Now at the age of 40, her journey has left her with tons of wisdom that I would have loved to hear as a student myself. She is now an expert of the body and playing music. She writes a blog, gives workshops and lectures to help musicians all around the world to change their physical coordination to prepare them for playing music in a healthy way.

Vibeke Breian is a great musician and associate professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway. Through the last 30 years she has taught a good portion of the young Norwegian Saxophone players, and performed all over the country, both with chamber music and as a soloist. She talks to us about the experiences from teaching, her own education at Conservatoire Nationale Supérieur de Musique in Paris and how it was to play under Mariss Jansons in the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra.  Vibeke is also a Timani teacher, and tells us what she thinks about her passion about caring for the body as a musician.

Dan Styffe is a man in constant motion.  It's astonishing the number of musical projects that he has going on: a new solo album coming this spring (his eighth album in 11 years!) appearances at events like BASS2016, RCM International Festival, and ISB 2017 serving as Co-Principal Bass of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra teaching at The Norwegian Academy of Music and Barratt Due's Institute of Music New music for the bass is a major area of interest for Dan.  He works regularly with composers like Rolf Martinsson, Teppo Hauta-Aho, Bernard Salles, and Simón García. We dig into all kinds of topics today: growing up deep in the woods of Sweden how starting to play on his beautiful Gasparo da Saló bass changed his technique life in the Oslo Philharmonic what Dan finds exciting about the modern double bass scene tips for finding practice time in a busy schedule why Dan places the greatest importance on sound It was such a pleasure to spend time with Dan at BASS2016 in Prague, and I can't wait to see him again in person! Links to check out: Dan's website Octophonia (Dan's most resent release) documentary of Dan premiering Rolf Martinsson's Bass Concerto (YouTube) Subscribe to the podcast to get these interviews delivered to your inbox! Learn how you can support the show at contrabassconversations.com/support Thanks to our sponsors! This episode is brought to you by D’Addario Strings! Check out their Helicore strings, which are are designed, engineered, and crafted at the D’Addario string factory in New York and come in orchestral, hybrid, pizzicato, and solo string sets. Hosting for Contrabass Conversations is provided by Bass Capos.  Bass Capos are an excellent choice for any bass player using or looking to implement a double bass extension. Easy to install and adjust, cheaper and more reliable than hand-built latches, also lighter and quicker in operation.  

Willy Østreng is a political scientist specializing in international affairs with a focus on the polar regions, ocean affairs, and international security. He is President of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research and served formerly as the executive director of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and the scientific director of the Center for Advanced Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Willy spoke with us about his current work, the upcoming Arctic Dialogue 2014 conference, and the topic of Arctic resources.

Special guest Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad gives a talk as part of this year's Arts Divison Lecture Series, “Engaging the Mind,” presenting work obtained through a lifetime of research on Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (Peer Gynt, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler.) Dr. Ystad is visiting UC Santa Cruz as part of The Gynt Project and the associated conference “Peer Gynt in a Digital Age.” Her visit is sponsored by UCSC's Cowell College and the Gary D. Licker Memorial Chair. The lecture: From the start of his writing career, Ibsen focuses on the human personality as his main theme, but his subsequent attempts to represent love, passion, quest, human morality and ethics as central motives in his work result in dramaturgical problems. This difficulty characterizes Ibsen’s plays from 1850–58 and is not overcome until he suffers a combined personal and poetic crisis around 1860. After the crisis, he stands out as a mature playwright, creating masterpieces like The Pretenders (1864), Brand (1866) and Peer Gynt (1867). The lecture will also examine Ibsen’s great epic poem ”Terje Vigen” (1862) and give short comments on some of his later prose plays. Dr. Åse Vigdis Ystad is a fixture of Norwegian arts and letters, and is one of the world’s leading experts on the playwright Henrik Ibsen. Her lifelong service to Norwegian literature and culture earned her Knighthood in the Order of St Olaf by the King of Norway in 2012. After receiving her PhD in Philospohy at the University of Oslo, she has been a Professor of Scandinavian literature there since 1973. She is an member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala; the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities; the Norwegian Academy of Language and Literature; the Society of Norwegian Language and Literature; and the Society of Danish Language and Literature. Ystad has presented lectures in Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, England, Scotland, China, South Korea, and the United States.

The Red Hen Lab is a distributed laboratory for the study of network news. In an earlier talk, Professor Francis Steen provided a technical overview of the activities of Red Hen and surveyed the study by Francis Steen and Mark Turner of international network news coverage of the Anders Bering Brevik event in Oslo, Norway, in July, 2011, with an emphasis on the way in which network news is occupied with the assessment of culpability, blame, and credit. This talk will discuss research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals. Mark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. He is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity, and Meaning, Form, & Body, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin. His other publications include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics, Economics, Law, and Society, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language, and many more. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins, external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience, distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology, and Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum. In 1996, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. For 2011-2012, he is a fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.