To all the participants of "ICTM study group-in-the-making for Music and Dance in Indigenous and Postcolonial Contexts"~~
As we have been keeping reassuring that the safety and health of every participant remains the deepest wish of the local arrangements committee members from Taiwan, at this point, considering the COVID-19 global pandemic situation to this stage, we have to announce the final form that we are going to held this conference is the “Mixed version of Present and Digital mode”, which means, the contributors and attendee in Taiwan will participate in person at Don Hua University in Taiwan, and that from other countries, please participate through the digital platform that we provide. The local committee is now working intensively with a group of excellent technicians in this field and we will do our best to keep the mutual conversation between “present” and “digital” mode fluently. The interaction and communication deepth won’t be lesser than the conference we usual to attend. This Pandemic has been forcing us to change, and in a way, it’s quiet meeting the goal of our study, isn’t it? Let’s make our inaugural conference special and cool together!
Furthermore, as has been announced on 31st of March 2020, in order to assure the digital part of the conference works smoothly, we ask all the contributors –including the “paper presentation”, “keynote-panel presentation” and other “panel presentation”-- to submit the English full paper or speech outline (not to be translated) in both “written version” (DOC/ DOCX format, about 5 pages, font 12, single spaced, margins 2cms each way) and also “video-recorded version” of the author giving the talk (MP4 format). Plus, if the contributors can provide their powerpoint file (or similar format) in advance, we will help provide an English-Chinese translation to facilitate presentations on the day. Please send your English paper (not to be translated), presentation video and powerpoint to the local arrangements committee by 31 October 2020 via: musicncyu@gmail.com (If the video file is too large, please upload it to the cloud space and mail us the link.)
Now, we have moving a big step forward. The next step, the local committee will spread an investigation sheet to each participant to reassure his/her attending mode and specific need. Plus, the registration online is still going on the attendee of conference. There are different number limit for these two mode: the a number limit of "present- mode" of 100 people, and the registration will be closed when the amount is full (to be announce); the "digital-mode" meeting is not subject to geographical restrictions, but due to the technical restriction, will be limited to 300 people. Please encourage people to join this significant symposium in the developing history of ICTM. Official Website of the Symposium is as below:
https://musicncyu.wixsite.com/ictm2020
Once again, on behalf of the Program Committee, the Local Arrangements Committee, the sponsoring institutions and all the student-volunteers of this symposium, we would like to express our sincere welcome and enthusiasm to you. We look forward to meeting all of you, no matter in person or on the web. The Pandemic will not deter us from making every effort to support this inaugural meeting. We will overcome this challenge and that of geographical distance and create a multi-media bridge between us! We shall witness the establishment of "ICTM study group for Music and Dance in Indigenous and Postcolonial Contexts".
Local Arrangement Committee
Dr. Yuh-Fen Tseng, Professor, Department of Music & Graduate Institute of Music, National Chiayi University.
Email: lavie827@yahoo.com.tw
Dr. Cherg-Hsien Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Indigenous Affairs and Development, National Dong Hwa University.
Email: chsieny@yahoo.com.tw
Dr. Chunbin Chen, Associate Professor, Department of Music & Graduate Institute of Music, Taipei National University of the Arts.
Email: chunchen60615@gmail.com