We are happy to announce the upcoming POP TALK 15: We are celebrating the Open Access publication of Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe edited by Mario Dunkel and Melanie Schiller on November 11 (16-17 CET).

We are pleased to invite you to attend the ERASMUS+ (Music4Change) funded International School Sustainable Cities and Cultures of Music from November 5-8, 2024 at the University of Groningen.

IASPM Benelux is organizing a symposium at Radboud University: "From Hinterland to Europapa: Identity and Placemaking in Dutch Popular Music Culture on October 25th (in collaboration with The Research School for Media Studies and The Radboud Institute for Culture & History (RICH).  

It is with great please that we are able to announce this year’s program and keynote speaker for the upcoming 9th IASPM Benelux Student Conference, organized with our partners from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (HKU) in Utrecht!

We are happy to invite everyone for our next and upcoming POP TALK 14, in collaboration with Music Matters at University of Groningen with a lecture by Dr Maria Perevedentseva (University of Salford) on: 'Electronic dance music, entertainment and the extended self'

On Friday, June 28th, 2024, we will hold our ninth annual student conference on popular music research organized by IASPM Benelux at HKU in Utrecht. This one-day event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. The goal of the event is to provide students with the opportunity to share their research with others, receive feedback, and connect with peers across disciplines with a joint interest in popular music.