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Nils-Göran Areskoug

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About me

The Person

Nils-Göran Areskoug, is a Swedish musician, medical doctor and interdisciplinary scholar. With five academic degrees (MD PhD MBA MFA BA) he holds appointments as Associate Professor in Musicology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and as Associate Professor inTransdisciplinary Research at Strömstad Academy, Sweden. HisSymphomy for Peace is among works listed by Composers Classical Music.

The Idea

He is currently working towards a network and an arena fortransdisciplinary dialogue  oncriteria of interpretive excellence involving communication with Nobel Laureates across disciplines. The initiative is conceived as a policy observatory and laboratory of knowledge integration in the area of leadership and executive performance and in the interplay of science and the arts. With an emphasis on creative innovation for productivity at the interface of public policy and private initiatives, it aims at providing a fertile arena for critical inquiry, constructive implementation, and competent assessment of values by joining scientific knowledge to cultural experience in promoting a viable future.

The Project

This is an exploration of "interpretive modes of cognition" at work in the four domains of science, art, business and policy-making, more specifically targeting extrascientific sources of inspiration and the roots of creativity in science versus art (in particular music) that meet criteria for excellence (such as in the work by Nobel Laureates and among top artists). A participation in the Transdisciplinarity 2000 Conference at Collegium Helveticum, ETH in Zurich, inspired a study of the epistemic interplay between art, science and society, eventually continuing in the form of an improvisatory interscience blog (the Arescope). The idea on strategic cognition was elaborated in a number of papers from a series of publications under the label of a proposed educational research infrastructure ("Are Akademi Collegium Europaeum"). The core focus is on extracting new knowledge and interpreting valuable experience from an integration across disciplines and by adopting a retrospective optic of history in view of the present and the prospective future ("Arelites"). Results are published at sites such as ResearchGate and Project Syndicate and archived by ETHZ Research Collection and Strömstad akademi.

The Present State of the World

World Economic Forum, Davos 2023.

Project Funding

A research grant is gratefully acknowledged from the Torsten Söderberg Foundation.

Doctoral Thesis

"Aesthetic Criteria for Musical Interpretation...", Nils-Göran Areskoug (Sundin), University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 666 pages (fulltext). Public defence on August 8, 1994: Abstract and TOC Dissertation Index in Journal of the Society of Music Theory Online. Editor's Abstract (quoted from ResearchGate):

ABSTRACT Diss. -- Jyväskylän yliopisto. This is the Preface (chapter 0) of a full size thesis (665 pages) published as Jyväskylä Studies in the Art, Volume 45, 1994, Jyväskylä University, Finland. Editors description:

The preeminent full size account covering all aspects of the aesthetics, epistemology, philosophy, and the generative artistic ideas fundamentally underpinning the current professional practice of musical interpretation in performance of classical Western music. Indispensable guide on the road to artistic maturation among musicians and conductors. Offers deep insight for the learning concert audience, the professional critic and the ambitious scholar in music and musicology. Conclusive follow up of three previously published volumes in the series Musical Interpretation Research (MIR).

Frontcover, Content, and Preface (1st Chapter) in pdf (31 pages).

Musical Interpretation Research (MIR) series of monographs (Mirage). Titles at Amazon and Antikvariat.

Transdisciplinary Observatory

Science and Society: selected studies at Collegium Helveticum, ETHZ Research Collection, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Nobel Afterthoughts: Interscience Notes at Nobel Forum, Karolinska institutet, Stockholm, Sweden: "Arescope" (300 pages).

Social Science and Policy: Translational Case Studies in Medicine: "Parental Alienation - A Swedish Perspective" (44 pages) and "Childless Fathering" (126 pages).

Leadership Models: Sture Linner. Hannes Alfven (UCSD La Jolla 1983), Sergiu Celibidache and Berliner Philharmoniker.

In Recent Media

Leadership, knowledge and personality: "Mannen i biblioteket", Frida Eriksson Arrhén in FHS Tidningen Spaning, No 2 KONTAKT, May 2022,  page 5.

Social policy and epidemics: "Varannan pensionär mer ensam under pandemin" ("Coronaviruset och vardagen"), Jonas Ekblom in Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), May 31 2020.

Cognitive integration: "En melodi kommer alltid från hjärtat", Charlie Mårtensson in KTH Osqledaren, No 4, 2018-2019, pages 30-31.

Information

Further reference at Swedish bibliographies: Libris, SwePub and DIVA. A few articles republished by Newsvoice. See also Netias Institutes of Advanced Study (IAS) in Europe.

Contact

Welcome to post your comment on any relevant topic by mailing ngar [AT] kth.se.

LINKS

Wikipedia on Nils-Göran Areskoug

Wikipedia on Musical Interpretation Research (MIR)

Wikipedia on Arreskow Family (in Swedish)

ETH E-Collection Institutional Repository of the ETH Zurich

Libris catalog (National Library of Sweden)

ResearchGate (publications portal, access may require login)

Project Syndicate Blog Articles

"In your innermost soul all is music" (Mirage edition)

Google Scholar Citations (Nils-Göran Sundin)

Google Scholar Citations (Nils-Göran Areskoug)

Sandsbro Summer Academy (defunct)