SIXTH ANNUAL IASPM BENELUX STUDENT CONFERENCE - RESEARCH in MUSIC
Friday, 14 May 2021 (Online)
Sponsors
The Popular Music, Sound, and Media Cultures MA at the Dept. of Arts, Culture, and Media, University of Groningen (RUG), Music Matters Performance & Lecture Series, University of Groningen, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music Benelux, Vereniging Nederlandse Pop Podia en Festivals (VNPF) and the Volkswagen Foundation.
On 14 May 2021, we will hold our sixth annual student conference on music research for IASPM Benelux. This one-day online event will offer a series of panels led and presented by students at all levels of their academic careers. The keynote lecture for this year's conference will be given by Dr Kyra Gaunt (University of Albany) and is sponsored and organized by the Music Matters at University of Groningen series. At the end of the day, we will also announce the winners of the BA and MA Popular Music Thesis Prize 2020, organized and presented by IASPM Benelux and VNPF.
Paper presentations
We invite students of all levels from BA to PhD based in the Benelux region to participate in our conference. Each year we highlight the role that music performs in contemporary societies, in all of its diversity and breadth. We encourage presentations covering a broad range of subjects from the performance careers of practicing musicians, to the changing aesthetics of musical creativity and composition due to new media technologies, to the connection between music, politics and social justice movements. We intentionally encourage a range of approaches as one of the primary goals of this conference is to allow students greater contact with each other across genre categories and disciplines. We also encourage and welcome a number of perspectives and methodologies from sociological, musicological and ethnomusicological to music industry and practice-based learning studies. Finally, we welcome students who are particularly motivated to blur boundaries between established methodologies in their research. In this sense, we hope to strengthen the contributions which explore new ways of examining music scholarship in the Benelux academic world. Ultimately, we hope to share insights with each other to promote greater contact between our various specializations and to make visible the important role that all forms of popular music research perform for culture and society.
This conference is an excellent opportunity for students to present their research on music to a broader audience, receive feedback from experts in their fields, and network with other students across the Benelux region.
Submit your abstract
If you are interested in participating in this conference, please submit an abstract of under 250 words on your music related research by April 9, 2021. Your abstract should contain the following: your full name, education level, study program/department, name of academic institution, email, the title, and abstract (short summary of your presentation). Presentations will be 15-20 minutes and followed by a short discussion. For inclusivity’s sake the preferred language of presentations is English, but Dutch language presentations are also welcome. Please send your abstracts to Melanie Schiller: m.m.schiller@rug.nl. There is no cost to participate or attend, though speakers must be members of IASPM Benelux (which involves a €10 annual fee for students, see: https://www.iaspmbenelux.org/membership-2). Acceptances will be sent by April 18, 2021.