AFFILIATED MEMBER
ALIX NOËL-GUÉRY
Pronouns: il/he/him
PhD student, Philosophy
guery.alix@courrier.uqam.ca
Title of the thesis: The Tree-structure Sintergic Brain: African and Native Art-therapy
My PhD thesis focuses on mindfulness states accompanied by music as traditionally practiced among Indigenous peoples of Africa and the world, and the harmonic connectivity of the physiological states they induce. It will investigate whether these states' scientific study has been neglected for colonialist reasons that do not consider indigenous knowledge as scientific.
Track: Cognitive Sciences
SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- 2018 Collaboration on the Juno nominated album Femme (by Briga)
- 2018 Research Results Dissemination Grant Université de Montréal
- 2014 Canada Council for the Arts Research Grant
- 2012 Adisq nomination (Turbo Folk Stories album)
- 2012 & 2013 Galaxie Award (London, Ontario)
- 2011 Research Grant from the Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Québec
- 2008 Lucille-Brassard Award for the quality of teaching (Vincent d'Indy)
RESEARCH DISSEMINATION
- Noël-Guéry, A. (2020). "Plants as social beings: decolonization and biosemiotics", Conference of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, York University.
- Noël-Guéry, A. (2020). "Conscience humaine, végétale et musique: décolonisation et biosémiotique", Concevoir les existants. Les subjectivités autres qu’humaines en arts et sciences humaines et sociales, UQAM
- Noël-Guéry, A. (2019). Octopus sentience: Three criteria. Animal Sentience, 4(26), 24.
- Noël-Guéry, A. (2018). "Time, music improvisation, altered states of consciousness: How can the conception of time during altered states of consciousness or music improvisation help us understanding free-will and creativity?", The Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Az
- Noël-Guéry, A. (2017). "Free will, creativity, neuroscience. Is creativity linked to the unconscious mind? Is it, therefore, compatible with free will? The examples of music and improvisation.", The Science of Consciousness, La Jolla, Ca
AFFILIATION and IMPLICATION
- Affiliation École de musique Vincent d’Indy
- Quebec Music Teachers Association
- Association Québécoise de Musicothérapie
- Black Psychology Program: California Institute of Integral Studies
- Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association: Indigenous Circle
- Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
- Société de recherche et de diffusion de la musique haïtienne