Lecture on the genesis of the World Music & Dance Centre in Rotterdam, 2006.
Teaching
In addition to research and administration, Schippers devotes considerable time to sharing knowledge and insights with undergraduate and graduate students around the world through keynotes and courses. In addition, he delights in supporting PhD candidates conceiving, structuring, and communicating their projects in the fields of applied ethnomusicology, cultural diversity, music education, cultural sustainability, and artistic research.
Teaching
In addition to research and administration, Schippers devotes considerable time to sharing knowledge and insights with undergraduate and graduate students around the world through keynotes and courses. In addition, he delights in supporting PhD candidates conceiving, structuring, and communicating their projects in the fields of applied ethnomusicology, cultural diversity, music education, cultural sustainability, and artistic research.
Invited Lectures and Keynotes (Selection)
Sound Futures: Why Some Music Practices Thrive, Many Struggle, and Others Disappear.
UC Regents’ Professor lecture for the University of California in Los Angeles
November 2023.
Music as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Invited keynote address for panel “Sustainability and Culture: Music, Media and Social History”at Hatay University, Turkey
November 2021.
Cultural ecosystems: A dynamic approach to sustaining India’s rich cultural heritage.
Invited keynote address for the Jaipur Virasat Foundation and the Jaipur Literature Festival, Jaipur, India.
January 2018
How do we keep music alive? Music sustainability, ecology, and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Invited lecture at the Intangible Cultural Heritage Research and Development Centre, Beijing, China
September 2017
Facing the music: Dealing with diversity in conservatoire contexts.
Invited keynote address for the Association of European Conservatoires, Tbilisi, Georgia
September 2017
Music education and social inclusion.
Invited keynote address at ICTM Music, Education and Social Inclusion conference. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
July 2017
Applied ethnomusicology and sustaining intangible cultural heritage.
Invited keynote address at conference Ecology and Music, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
August 2015
Ecology and music research in the twenty-first century.
Invited keynote at conference Sustaining Heritage, Performance and Education, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Perak, Malaysia
November 2014
Sustaining raga: Understanding the ecosystem of Hindustani music.
Part of plenary panel presentation on ARC Sustainable Futures project at ICTM World Conference, Shanghai
August 2013
Facing the Music: Cultural diversity, musical ecosystems and the place of music education.
Invited keynote at Research in Music Education Conference, Exeter, UK
April 2011
Teaching a postgraduate class on survival skills for ethnomusicologists at UCLA, 2022
Courses Designed & Taught
Intercultural Music Education
Several courses on music transmission across cultures, breaking with preconceptions, and challenging key western constructs, based on Facing the Music. Also presented as plenaries and keynotes at RIME (UK), ISME (Amsterdam), & CDIME (Singapore)
From 1996
Artistic Practice and Research Design
Graduate Colloquium bringing together Masters and Doctoral Students to refine methodologies for rigorous practice-based and qualitative research. Also presented as lectures at the University of Cambridge and University of Leiden.
From 2004
Exploring Music
Team-taught introduction to music as a human activity, encompassing western art, jazz, pop, electronic and world music. Included lectures on Music at the Royal Courts, Music and Protest, Music from India. Turned into online resource for Alexander Street Press (2021).
From 2010
My Life as a Musician
Team-taught strand through entire undergraduate conservatorium curriculum to prepare young musicians for all aspects of being a music professional. Included lectures on finding money for music projects and avoiding/dealing with playing-related injuries.
From 2013
Sound Futures: Approaching Music Sustainability through Cultural Ecosystems
Courses and lectures advocating new approaches to diversity and sustainability based on Sustainable Futures for Music Cultures (2016) and Music, Communities, Sustainability (2022). (Fall semester UCLA, 2022)
From 2016
The Meeting Room as Fieldwork Site: Toward an Ethnography of Power
Lecture expanded into a graduate course on applying ethnographic skills to conceiving and realizing projects outside of academia. Also used extensively in mentoring and in Chapter for OUP volume.
Fall semester UCLA, 2022
Record number of doctoral completions in music at the Griffith University Awards Ceremony 2011
Higher Research Degree Supervision
Catherine Milliken (PhD) – Co-supervisor – Graduated January 2023
Gillian Howell. (PhD) – Principal co-supervisor – Graduated July 2018
Diana Tolmie (PhD) – Principal co-supervisor. Graduated July 2017
Shari Lindblom (PhD) – Principal supervisor. Graduated April 2017
Margaret Schindler (DMA) – Principal supervisor. Graduated December 2016
Jennifer Walden (PhD) – Principal supervisor. Graduated July 2016
Jocelyn Wolfe (PhD) – Principal co-supervisor. Graduated May 2014
Jeongha Kim (PhD) – Principal supervisor (08-09). Graduated December 2013
Kirsty Guster (PhD) – Principal supervisor (06-07). Graduated December 2013
Ron Morris (PhD) – Principal supervisor (08-09). Graduated December 2013
Catherine Grant (PhD) – Principal supervisor. Graduated December 2012
Wang Wu-Yan (DMA) – Principal co-supervisor. Graduated December 2011
Melissa Cain (PhD) – Principal supervisor. Graduated December 2011
Andrew Blackburn (DMA) – Principal supervisor. Graduated December 2011
Colin Webber (DMA) – Principal co-supervisor. Graduated December 2011
Stephen Savage (PhD by publication) – Graduated December 2010
David Carter (PhD) – Associate Supervisor. Graduated December 2009
Jodie Taylor (PhD) – Associate supervisor. Graduated December 2008
Sandra Kirkwood (MPhil) – Principal supervisor. Graduated December 2009
Carmen Powell (MMus) – Associate supervisor. Graduated March 2006
Anna Colville (MMus) – Associate supervisor. Graduated March 2006
Tim Munroe (MMus) – Associate supervisor. Graduated March 2005