Tuesday, June 21st 2022
Sponsors
The Capacity Group Musicology of the UvA Arts and Culture Department, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA), and IASPM Benelux.
On Tuesday 21 June 2022, we will hold our seventh annual student conference on popular research for IASPM Benelux at the University of Amsterdam. This one-day 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. Graham St John (University of Huddersfield) and is hosted by Amsterdance, the ASCA electronic dance music research group of the University of Amsterdam. At the end of the day, we will also announce the winners of the BA and MA Popular Music Thesis Prize 2022, organized and presented by IASPM Benelux.
Paper presentations
We invite students of all levels – BA, MA, 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 Friday May 27th 2022, 17:00. 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 iaspmbeneluxstudent@gmail.com. There is no cost to participate or attend, though speakers must be members of IASPM Benelux (which involves a €10 annual fee for students, fee: https://www.iaspmbenelux.org/membership-2). Acceptances will be sent by Friday June 3rd, 2022. We are happy to assist some participants without a student ticket with their travel expenses if needed. If you want to make use of this, please add a sentence about it to your application.