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International Mobility
Spending time abroad
We are pleased to report that some of sdp's early stage researchers are able to spend time abroad in 2023. This is made possible by online teaching (where professors and students have to be very flexible in scheduling due to the different time zones), but also by financial grants from mdw's research support unit.
Juan Escobar Campos has successfully completed three weeks of fieldwork activities in Berlin between the 15th of January and the 3rd of February 2023, which aimed at collecting data for his doctoral thesis project. In Berlin, he visited the Barenboim-Said Academy Building where both this Music Academy and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra have their offices. Throughout three weeks of fieldwork, he spoke to musicians, managers and employees from both the orchestra and the academy who provided insights on how both institutions work with classical musicians from the Arab region. This enriching trip provided valuable insights and new thoughts on the research problem of non-Western musicians in classical music.
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Isabel Frey in Harvard, Photos: © Private
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Isabel Frey and Sophie Zehetmayer both spend the first months of the year in the US.
Isabel is a fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. She is attending lecture series and auditing courses, both at the Center for Jewish Studies and at the Music Department, while working on her dissertation research on Yiddish folksong. She is benefitting from the many opportunities at Harvard to meet researchers from different fields and engage with other peoples’ work, as well as making use of Harvard’s enormous library resources.
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Sophie is a visiting scholar at the Department of Germanic Studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. There, she has the opportunity to engage in an interdisciplinary scholarly discussion of her project and take part in the department's varied and lively academic activity. On February 24-25, she attended the department's 14th Biennial Graduate Student Conference on the topic of "Crisis and Language", where she presented parts of her current PhD research, focussing on the temporalities of nostalgia and afterlife in vaporwave.
But there is also news to report from Vienna: we would like to invite interested PhD and Master students from mdw or from other Austrian universities to join the research seminar (Forschungsseminar 02, Musiksoziologie) on electronic dance music cultures (EDMC) in the upcoming summer semester 2023. The seminar will be held online and in English by Tianyu Jiang, Juan Escobar Campos and Rosa Reitsamer.
In the seminar, texts on the following topics will be read and discussed:
- Historical perspectives: the development of techno in Detroit, USA, and British rave culture in the 1990s;
- Fieldwork in nightlife: Approaches and guidelines for researching EDMC;
- Women’s experiences in different club spaces and the performance of femininities;
- Global perspectives: EDMC in Asia and Latin America;
- Digital spaces, technologies and digitalisation in EDMC.
If you would like to attend the seminar and do not study at the mdw, you can find further information here.
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