“We are proud and happy to finally be able to appoint Terence Cave and Nicola Dibben as Honorary Doctors. They are both important international contributors in their fields”, says Dean Frode Helland.
Dibben and Cave give guest lectures on Thursday September 1st in auditorium 3, Sophus Bugge's hus.
15:15 – 16:00 Nicola Dibben: “Fiddling while Earth burns? Musicking and environmentalism”
16:15 – 17:00 Terence Cave: “Some Live Artefacts”
Terence Cave: An outstanding literary scholar
Terence Cave CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) is professor emeritus at Oxford University.
Terence Cave's specialty is early modern French literature. He has published several books that have become standard works in the subject. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize for his studies of literature after the year 1500. He has an outstanding reputation as a comparative literary scholar.
“Terence Cave has spent a lot of time in Norway, and generously shared of his time and network with Norwegian researchers and research recruits as a commentator, opponent, consultant and mentor. He has been a central figure to several academic environments at UiO, and many researchers are deeply grateful to him”, says Professor Karen Gammelgaard at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages.
Terence Cave is a member of Academia Europaea, The British Academy, the Norwegian Academy of Sciences, a Knight of the Order National du Mérite, and an Honorary Doctor at the University of London.
Nicola Dibben: A pioneer in popular music research
Nicola Dibben is Professor and Research Director at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Sheffield.
“Nicola Dibben has published extensively on musicology, music psychology and popular music. She writes with a rare combination of very high quality and great methodological breadth. She has published in both humanistic and music psychology journals, which require very different approaches,” says Alexander Refsum Jensenius at the Department of Musicology.
Nicola Dibben was a visiting Professor at the University of Graz and at Stanford University. She studies music's importance to how we understand ourselves and the world.
Nicola Dibben collaborated with the artist Björk on her multimedia app and album, Biophilia (2011). Her article on Björk was one of the first articles about popular music that was accepted in the traditional journal Music Analysis. She has also been editor of Popular Music and Empirical Musicology Review.
Nicola Dibben is a member of RITMO – Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Rhythm, Time and Movement's scientific advisory board, and has served on evaluation panels for the Research Council of Norway and UiO:Life Sciences.