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This selection of recent talks explores how collaboration across the arts and sciences can open new ways of thinking, teaching, and creating. Each lecture highlights different approaches to crossing disciplinary borders, from integrating artistic methods into research, to reimagining education, advocacy, and innovation through shared creative inquiry.
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These resources invite the following questions:
Summary:
This is a plenary talk from the First Global Conference on Research Integration and Implementation, where Klein gives a broad survey of interdisciplinarity’s history, its evolving practices, and current challenges. She traces key developments over the last century, discusses emerging themes such as systems, complexity, integration, and team-based work, and reflects on how interdisciplinary practice might adapt in networked and resource-constrained environments.
Guiding Question:
What tensions and possibilities does Klein identify when moving from disciplinary silos toward integrative and networked modes of knowledge, and how might those apply in arts–sound/music research contexts?
Interdisciplinarity: An Overview by Julie Thompson Klein
Summary: A panel discussion unpacking what “interdisciplinarity” means in practice, highlighting the tensions between disciplinary depth and collaborative breadth. Speakers reflect on institutional barriers, shared vocabularies, and creative problem-solving across fields.
Guiding Question: How do we build meaningful collaboration without losing disciplinary identity or rigour?
"Doing Interdisciplinarity" Panel 1: The value and challenges of interdisciplinary research