Brydie-Leigh Bartleet, 'How Can the Concept of Love Inform Peacebuilding?'

Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and Deputy Director (Research) at the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Australia. She has worked on a range of national and international projects in community music, arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples, arts programs in prisons, and global mobility. She serves on the Board of Australia’s peak music advocacy body, Music Australia, and has served as Chair and Commissioner of the International Society for Music Education’s Community Music Activities Commission. She is the co-founder of the Asia Pacific Community Music Network, and is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Community Music. This keynote lecture, ‘How Can Concepts of Love Inform Peacebuilding and Empathy in Intercultural Music Making?’, was delivered at a conference on ‘Peace, Empathy and Conciliation Through Music’ that was hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, together with the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, at The University of Melbourne in September 2017.