Participants
BUSINESS BACKGROUNDS
Timothy Fort holds the Eveleigh Chair in Business Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has worked in the field of business and peace for two decades and has special interest in the impact of business on sustainable peace, and the intersection of religion and business. He has authored four books on the topic of business and peace with Yale, Cambridge and Stanford University Presses, two of which won Best Book Awards from the Academy of Management. Read More >
Todd Haugh is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics. His scholarship focuses on white collar and corporate crime, federal sentencing, and business ethics, exploring the decision-making processes of the players most central to the commission and adjudication of economic crime. His work has appeared in top law and business journals and he is regularly quoted in national news publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Bloomberg News, Politico, USA Today, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as various legal, business, and popular blogs. Read More >
Kathleen Marie Higgins is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been teaching for over twenty years. She focuses on ethics and music. In particular, she looks at the ways in which that music can enhance relationships as well as both the Appolonian and Dionysian possibilities inherent in music. Read More >
Arlen Langvardt holds the Graf Family Professorship at the Kelley School, where he has served as a professor of business ethics and business law. His recent scholarship has focused on the unauthorized use of music by politicians in their campaigns for public office. Read More >
Jamie Prenkert is Associate Vice Provost for faculty and academic affairs at IU Bloomington. Prenkert is an Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Business Law at the Kelley School of Business. His research focuses on employment discrimination as well as business and human rights. Prenkert is the author of numerous articles and book chapters dealing with federal employment discrimination statutes, as well as businesses’ responsibility to respect stakeholders’ human rights. He recently co-edited “Law, Business, and Human Rights: Bridging the Gap,” a volume addressing various challenges and opportunities in the business and human rights field. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal. Prenkert has received numerous awards for research and teaching, including the 2013 Ralph J. Bunche Award for Outstanding International Paper, the 2013 Distinguished Proceedings Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and IU’s Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award. Read More >
Karen Woody is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics. Her scholarship focuses on securities law, financial regulation, and white collar crime. She has published her work in a number of journals including the Cardozo Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and the Journal of Corporation Law, among others. Her work on conflict minerals is widely cited, and she recently testified for the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee regarding federal conflict minerals regulation. Karen received her LL.M. with distinction in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center. She received her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, where she served on the American University Law Review. Read More >
MUSIC & HUMANITIES BACKGROUNDS
Alain Barker has been director of music entrepreneurship and career development at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since July 2014. He has an entrepreneurial career that includes arts organization development, arts policy research, communications and marketing, teaching, and performance. Read More >
Brenda Brenner, Associate Professor of Music Education in the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington. She specializes in string music education, teaching applied violin, as well as courses in violin and string pedagogy. She received a BM and BME from Wichita State University, and an MM and DMA in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music. In addition to her appointment to the Jacobs Music Education Department, she serves as co-director of the IU String Academy, a position she has held since 1993 As director of the Fairview Project—a program in which every first and second grader in an underserved school is taught violin as part of the curriculum—Brenner is researching the cognitive, academic, and social outcomes of early instrumental music instruction. Brenner is the President of the American String Teachers Association. Read More >
Carolyn Calloway-Thomas is currently the Chair of Indiana University’s African American & African Diaspora Studies. She is the Immediate Past President, of the World Communication Association, and studies intersections between empathy and conflict, and pedagogy and civil engagement. Her publications include Empathy in the Global World: A Cultural Perspective (2010), and Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes (1999). Read more >
Cynthia Cohen is Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts. She leads action/reflection research projects, and writes and teaches about work at the nexus of the arts, culture, justice and peace. She directed the Brandeis University/Theatre Without Borders collaboration Acting Together, co-edited the Acting Together on the World Stage anthology and co-created the related documentary and toolkit. She directs ReCAST, Inc., a non-profit organization partnering with Brandeis and New Village Press on the dissemination of Acting Together resources. Cohen has written extensively on the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of peacebuilding, including the chapters "Creative Approaches to Reconciliation" and "Engaging with the Arts to Promote Coexistence," and an online book "Working With Integrity: A Guidebook for Peacebuilders Asking Ethical Questions." Cohen has been invited to participate in the summit because of her extensive experience and contributions in the field of peacebuilding and the arts. Read More >
André de Quadros is a professor of music and chair of the Music Education Department at Boston University. His professional life has taken him to the most diverse settings in more than forty countries. He leads projects in music and conflict, community mobilization, social change, and community transformation in Massachusetts prisons, Israel and the Arab world, Muslim communities, and Indonesia. Read More >
Gisela Flanigan is a social entrepreneur/consultant with more than a decade of experience advocating for the arts at local, state and national levels. Gisela’s civic and professional affiliations include (among others): Board of Directors member of the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Global Affairs Council for Western Colorado and the Vice-Chair of Arts for Colorado. She is the Cofounder/Executive Director for MusicSpark (an innovator in the “Maker” movement), chair of the Grand Valley Creative Alliance Taskforce and Executive Director for Sistema Global. As a piano soloist, she has performed in Europe and the Americas, most notably with the Orquesta Sinfonica Simón Bolivar, at festivals in France, Italy and in Venezuela at the request of the El Sistema program. She earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Miami and a D.M.A. from the University of North Texas. Read More >
Constance Cook Glen is senior lecturer and director of the Music in General Studies program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She teaches courses developed on her research interests, including Music of War and Peace. On the national level, she serves on the College Music Society board as the Music in General Studies chair. For CMS, she has given numerous papers with a focus on the artist citizen and social change through the arts. Locally, Glen is committed to offering musical engagement programs that benefit disparate and underserved populations, both personally and with students. For many years, Glen worked with issues of integrity, civility, harassment, victimization, and human rights at the IU Office of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs and this experience continues to inform her research into music and social activism, highlighting causative and normative relationships. Read More >
Halina Goldberg is Professor of Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music and affiliate faculty of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program and the Russian and East European Institute. Her interests focus on the interconnected Polish and Jewish cultures. Much of her work is interdisciplinary engaging the areas of cultural studies, music and politics, performance practice, and reception, with special focus on 19th- and 20th-century Poland and Eastern Europe, Chopin, and Jewish studies. Read More >
Aida Huseynova is a musicologist and pianist who specializes in the East-West connections in music, music of the Silk Road, and music of Russia. She also serves as the consultant for the Silk Road Project founded by Yo-Yo Ma, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Aga Khan Music Initiative. Dr. Huseynova’s numerous awards include Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (2015), Fulbright Fellowship (2007-2008), and a fellowship for the Junior Faculty Development Program (2001-2002), sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Read More >
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert is Professor of Music at The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington. A former Vice-President in the Society for Music Theory, she served as a co-editor and currently is a member of the editorial board of Perspectives of New Music. Her publications concern music-philosophical issues, feminist theory, and music and analysis in different experiential, cultural, material/media, and philosophical orientations. Her work on Stravinsky has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, and Journal of Musicology and in the collection The Rite of Spring at 100 (Indiana, 2017). In the summer of 2008 she was co-producer with conductor Carmen Helena Téllez for the collegiate premiere of the opera ¡Únicamente la Verdad! (Only the Truth!) by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz at Indiana University. Read More >
Nancy S. Love joined the Department of Government & Justice Studies in 2009. She received a Ph.D. in 1984 and M.A. in 1981 from Cornell University and an A.B. degree in 1977 from Kenyon College. Her teaching and research emphasize political theory, especially critical theory, democratic theory, and feminist theory. She is the author of numerous books on culture and politics, including: Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy (2016), Musical Democracy (2006) and Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics (2013). She recently completed a six-year term as the co-editor of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Read More >
Ruth Stone is the Laura Boulton Professor Emerita of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; and Director, Ethnomusicology Institute at Indiana University. Her research interests include music as culture and performance; theory of ethnomusicology; Africa; and the Middle East. Read More >
Olivier Urbain is the director of the Min-On Music Research Institute (MOMRI) and former director of the Toda Peace Institute. He has been invited to the Summit because of his work in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. His book: Music and Conflict Transformation: harmonies and dissonances in geopolitics, brings together articles by scholars of music and peacebuilding from several countries and disciplines. His activities with MOMRI, combined with his expertise in Peace Studies make him one of the foremost scholars on this important topic. Read More >
Jeffrey Werbock is recognized as one of the world’s most knowledgeable performers on the kamancha, a traditional instrument from Azerbaijan. Jeffrey studied with the best musicians and teachers in Azerbaijan, and acquired skills of performing Azerbaijani music on various instruments. Since then, he has given hundreds of concerts and lecture demonstrations at museums, colleges, universities and community concert venues in the United States, Europe and Asia. Jeffrey is a filmmaker, and he has created films about the traditional music of the Caucasus region. Read More >
Timothy Fort holds the Eveleigh Chair in Business Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has worked in the field of business and peace for two decades and has special interest in the impact of business on sustainable peace, and the intersection of religion and business. He has authored four books on the topic of business and peace with Yale, Cambridge and Stanford University Presses, two of which won Best Book Awards from the Academy of Management. Read More >
Todd Haugh is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics. His scholarship focuses on white collar and corporate crime, federal sentencing, and business ethics, exploring the decision-making processes of the players most central to the commission and adjudication of economic crime. His work has appeared in top law and business journals and he is regularly quoted in national news publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Bloomberg News, Politico, USA Today, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as various legal, business, and popular blogs. Read More >
Kathleen Marie Higgins is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been teaching for over twenty years. She focuses on ethics and music. In particular, she looks at the ways in which that music can enhance relationships as well as both the Appolonian and Dionysian possibilities inherent in music. Read More >
Arlen Langvardt holds the Graf Family Professorship at the Kelley School, where he has served as a professor of business ethics and business law. His recent scholarship has focused on the unauthorized use of music by politicians in their campaigns for public office. Read More >
Jamie Prenkert is Associate Vice Provost for faculty and academic affairs at IU Bloomington. Prenkert is an Arthur M. Weimer Faculty Fellow and Professor of Business Law at the Kelley School of Business. His research focuses on employment discrimination as well as business and human rights. Prenkert is the author of numerous articles and book chapters dealing with federal employment discrimination statutes, as well as businesses’ responsibility to respect stakeholders’ human rights. He recently co-edited “Law, Business, and Human Rights: Bridging the Gap,” a volume addressing various challenges and opportunities in the business and human rights field. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal. Prenkert has received numerous awards for research and teaching, including the 2013 Ralph J. Bunche Award for Outstanding International Paper, the 2013 Distinguished Proceedings Award from the Academy of Legal Studies in Business and IU’s Kelley School of Business Innovative Teaching Award. Read More >
Karen Woody is an Assistant Professor of Business Law and Ethics. Her scholarship focuses on securities law, financial regulation, and white collar crime. She has published her work in a number of journals including the Cardozo Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and the Journal of Corporation Law, among others. Her work on conflict minerals is widely cited, and she recently testified for the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee regarding federal conflict minerals regulation. Karen received her LL.M. with distinction in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center. She received her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, where she served on the American University Law Review. Read More >
MUSIC & HUMANITIES BACKGROUNDS
Alain Barker has been director of music entrepreneurship and career development at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since July 2014. He has an entrepreneurial career that includes arts organization development, arts policy research, communications and marketing, teaching, and performance. Read More >
Brenda Brenner, Associate Professor of Music Education in the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington. She specializes in string music education, teaching applied violin, as well as courses in violin and string pedagogy. She received a BM and BME from Wichita State University, and an MM and DMA in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music. In addition to her appointment to the Jacobs Music Education Department, she serves as co-director of the IU String Academy, a position she has held since 1993 As director of the Fairview Project—a program in which every first and second grader in an underserved school is taught violin as part of the curriculum—Brenner is researching the cognitive, academic, and social outcomes of early instrumental music instruction. Brenner is the President of the American String Teachers Association. Read More >
Carolyn Calloway-Thomas is currently the Chair of Indiana University’s African American & African Diaspora Studies. She is the Immediate Past President, of the World Communication Association, and studies intersections between empathy and conflict, and pedagogy and civil engagement. Her publications include Empathy in the Global World: A Cultural Perspective (2010), and Intercultural Communication: Roots and Routes (1999). Read more >
Cynthia Cohen is Director of the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts. She leads action/reflection research projects, and writes and teaches about work at the nexus of the arts, culture, justice and peace. She directed the Brandeis University/Theatre Without Borders collaboration Acting Together, co-edited the Acting Together on the World Stage anthology and co-created the related documentary and toolkit. She directs ReCAST, Inc., a non-profit organization partnering with Brandeis and New Village Press on the dissemination of Acting Together resources. Cohen has written extensively on the aesthetic and ethical dimensions of peacebuilding, including the chapters "Creative Approaches to Reconciliation" and "Engaging with the Arts to Promote Coexistence," and an online book "Working With Integrity: A Guidebook for Peacebuilders Asking Ethical Questions." Cohen has been invited to participate in the summit because of her extensive experience and contributions in the field of peacebuilding and the arts. Read More >
André de Quadros is a professor of music and chair of the Music Education Department at Boston University. His professional life has taken him to the most diverse settings in more than forty countries. He leads projects in music and conflict, community mobilization, social change, and community transformation in Massachusetts prisons, Israel and the Arab world, Muslim communities, and Indonesia. Read More >
Gisela Flanigan is a social entrepreneur/consultant with more than a decade of experience advocating for the arts at local, state and national levels. Gisela’s civic and professional affiliations include (among others): Board of Directors member of the Crested Butte Music Festival, the Global Affairs Council for Western Colorado and the Vice-Chair of Arts for Colorado. She is the Cofounder/Executive Director for MusicSpark (an innovator in the “Maker” movement), chair of the Grand Valley Creative Alliance Taskforce and Executive Director for Sistema Global. As a piano soloist, she has performed in Europe and the Americas, most notably with the Orquesta Sinfonica Simón Bolivar, at festivals in France, Italy and in Venezuela at the request of the El Sistema program. She earned B.M. and M.M. degrees in Piano Performance from the University of Miami and a D.M.A. from the University of North Texas. Read More >
Constance Cook Glen is senior lecturer and director of the Music in General Studies program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She teaches courses developed on her research interests, including Music of War and Peace. On the national level, she serves on the College Music Society board as the Music in General Studies chair. For CMS, she has given numerous papers with a focus on the artist citizen and social change through the arts. Locally, Glen is committed to offering musical engagement programs that benefit disparate and underserved populations, both personally and with students. For many years, Glen worked with issues of integrity, civility, harassment, victimization, and human rights at the IU Office of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs and this experience continues to inform her research into music and social activism, highlighting causative and normative relationships. Read More >
Halina Goldberg is Professor of Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music and affiliate faculty of the Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program and the Russian and East European Institute. Her interests focus on the interconnected Polish and Jewish cultures. Much of her work is interdisciplinary engaging the areas of cultural studies, music and politics, performance practice, and reception, with special focus on 19th- and 20th-century Poland and Eastern Europe, Chopin, and Jewish studies. Read More >
Aida Huseynova is a musicologist and pianist who specializes in the East-West connections in music, music of the Silk Road, and music of Russia. She also serves as the consultant for the Silk Road Project founded by Yo-Yo Ma, the Mark Morris Dance Group, and the Aga Khan Music Initiative. Dr. Huseynova’s numerous awards include Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (2015), Fulbright Fellowship (2007-2008), and a fellowship for the Junior Faculty Development Program (2001-2002), sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. Read More >
Marianne Kielian-Gilbert is Professor of Music at The Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington. A former Vice-President in the Society for Music Theory, she served as a co-editor and currently is a member of the editorial board of Perspectives of New Music. Her publications concern music-philosophical issues, feminist theory, and music and analysis in different experiential, cultural, material/media, and philosophical orientations. Her work on Stravinsky has appeared in Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Spectrum, Theory and Practice, and Journal of Musicology and in the collection The Rite of Spring at 100 (Indiana, 2017). In the summer of 2008 she was co-producer with conductor Carmen Helena Téllez for the collegiate premiere of the opera ¡Únicamente la Verdad! (Only the Truth!) by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz at Indiana University. Read More >
Nancy S. Love joined the Department of Government & Justice Studies in 2009. She received a Ph.D. in 1984 and M.A. in 1981 from Cornell University and an A.B. degree in 1977 from Kenyon College. Her teaching and research emphasize political theory, especially critical theory, democratic theory, and feminist theory. She is the author of numerous books on culture and politics, including: Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy (2016), Musical Democracy (2006) and Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics (2013). She recently completed a six-year term as the co-editor of New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Read More >
Ruth Stone is the Laura Boulton Professor Emerita of Folklore and Ethnomusicology; and Director, Ethnomusicology Institute at Indiana University. Her research interests include music as culture and performance; theory of ethnomusicology; Africa; and the Middle East. Read More >
Olivier Urbain is the director of the Min-On Music Research Institute (MOMRI) and former director of the Toda Peace Institute. He has been invited to the Summit because of his work in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. His book: Music and Conflict Transformation: harmonies and dissonances in geopolitics, brings together articles by scholars of music and peacebuilding from several countries and disciplines. His activities with MOMRI, combined with his expertise in Peace Studies make him one of the foremost scholars on this important topic. Read More >
Jeffrey Werbock is recognized as one of the world’s most knowledgeable performers on the kamancha, a traditional instrument from Azerbaijan. Jeffrey studied with the best musicians and teachers in Azerbaijan, and acquired skills of performing Azerbaijani music on various instruments. Since then, he has given hundreds of concerts and lecture demonstrations at museums, colleges, universities and community concert venues in the United States, Europe and Asia. Jeffrey is a filmmaker, and he has created films about the traditional music of the Caucasus region. Read More >