Sharing music with new immigrants: Learning and connecting through songs
- Date
- November 06, 2024
- Time
- 12:00 PM EST - 1:00 PM EST
- Location
- In person at Bridging Divides office
Join Bridging Divides for a special Lunch & Learn seminar with BD Scholar of Excellence Isabelle Peretz. The event will be chaired by Bridging Divides researcher Frank Russo, member of the Immigrant Health and Well-being Theme.
Presentation: Sharing music with new immigrants: Learning and connecting through songs
About the speaker
Isabelle Peretz is Professor of Psychology at the University of Montreal. Her leadership has been recognized through an endowed Casavant Research Chair (2004) and a Canada Research Chair (2007) in neurocognition of music. Both chairs are the first ever dedicated to the field of neuroscience of music worldwide. In 2005, she co-founded the International Laboratory for Brain Music and Sound Research (BRAMS), which she directed until June 2018. BRAMS is a unique multi-university consortium that is jointly affiliated to Université de Montréal and McGill University.
Her research focuses on the musical potential of ordinary people, its neural correlates, its heritability and its specificity relative to language. She is renowned on the biological foundations of music. Currently, she pursues research on singing in both Montreal and University of Melbourne (Australia) because singing is the most widespread musical activity that holds the potential to be a cost-effective source of social and health capital for persons across all ages and of all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds
Dr. Peretz has been awarded several prizes. She is a Member of the Order of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Quebec, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the American Psychological Association, and now an international member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.