Events and Meetings


June 13-16, 2024

The Neurosciences and Music VIII "Wiring, re-wiring, and well-being" | Helsinki, Finland & online

Poster presentation "Music therapy and predictive ability in children with autism" by Asena U. Koçan, Alexander Groessing, Marianna Ruiz, Alexandrina Guran, Nace Mikus, Maj-Britt Posserud, Karsten Specht, Christian Gold, and Giorgia Silani

Poster presentation "Neurobehavioral outcomes of music therapy for autistic children" by Marianna Ruiz, Maayan Salomon-Gimmon, Alexander Groessing, Asena U. Koçan, Maj-Britt Posserud, Karsten Specht, Giorgia Silani, and Christian Gold

https://neuromusic.fondazione-mariani.org/ 

March 25-28, 2024

Society for Social Neuroscience 2024 annual meeting | Tsukuba, Japan

Poster presentation “Music therapy and predictive ability in children with autism” by Asena U. Koçan, Alexander Groessing, Marianna Ruiz, Alexandrina Guran, Nace Mikus, Maj-Britt Posserud, Karsten Specht, Christian Gold and Giorgia Silani.

https://www.s4sn.org

June 15-17, 2023

MEi:CogSci Conference 2023 | Budapest, Hungary

Paper presentation “Exploring empathy in music therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder” by Alyssa Hawkins (University of Vienna)
https://journals.phl.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/article/view/648 

May 3-6, 2023

INSAR 2023 ANnual Meeting | Stockholm, Sweden

Paper presentation “Music therapy for autistic people: Update of a Cochrane Review” by Laura Fusar-Poli, Marianna Ruiz, Monika Geretsegger, Cochavit Elefant, Giovanni Vitale, and Christian Gold
https://www.autism-insar.org/page/2023AnnMtg

April 3-5, 2023

ESSENCE Conference | Cape Town, South Africa

ESSENCE Conference and online E-Poster presentation “Music for Autism: Neurobehavioral outcomes of music therapy for children with autism” by Marianna Ruiz 
www.essence2023.com

February 21-24, 2023

M4A project meeting | Vienna, Austria

Meeting of Norwegian and Austrian project team members (researchers and therapists)
Location: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

December 15, 2022

Lecture series "Music and Medicine" | Salzburg, Austria

Lecture “Music and Autism” by Christian Gold
Location: Atelier im KunstQuartier, Bergstraße 12a, Salzburg, Austria
Organisers: “Wissenschaft und Kunst”, a cooperation between Paris Lodron University Salzburg & Mozarteum University
https://w-k.sbg.ac.at/veranstaltung/15-12-music-and-autism-christian-gold/ 

November 14, 2022

Musica come cura | Lugano, Switzerland

Presentation “Healing through Music - Music therapy in child neuropsychiatric setting and psychiatry” by Christian Gold
Location: Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/23224 

June 8-12, 2022

12th European Music Therapy Conference | Edinburgh, UK

Paper presentation “Music for Autism (M4A): Binational randomised controlled trial investigating effects and working mechanisms of music therapy in children with autism” by Marianna Ruiz, Alexander Groessing, Giorgia Silani, Karsten Specht, and Christian Gold
www.qmu.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/emtc-2022

February 14-18, 2022

M4A project meeting | Vienna, Austria

Meeting of Norwegian and Austrian project team members (researchers and therapists)
Location: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

November 9, 2021

Autism in Austria | Klosterneuburg, Austria

Paper presentation “Music for Autism (M4A): Building an evidence base and searching for mechanisms” by Christian Gold
Location: Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
https://ist.ac.at/en/news-events/event/?eid=3389 
 

July 11-14, 2021

M4A kick-off meeting | Vienna, Austria

Location: Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

June 19, 2021

The Neurosciences and Music - VII | Aarhus, Denmark

Paper presentation “Discrepant results between small exploratory trials and a multinational pragmatic trial of music therapy for autism: Heterogeneity on all levels (and how we might tackle it” by Christian Gold and Karsten Specht
https://www.fondazione-mariani.org/en/congresso/the-neurosciences-and-music-vii-2/  

June 7, 2019

Meeting | Vienna, Austria

Meeting of researchers in the field of music in autism from Norway, Austria, and Canada (from left to right: Monika Geretsegger, Karsten Specht, Megha Sharda, Julian Tillmann and Christian Gold)

Location: University of Vienna, Austria