ICTM-Ehrenmitgliedschaft für Ursula Hemetek

Wir gratulieren unserer Direktorin Ursula Hemetek herzlich zur Verleihung der Ehrenmitgliedschaft des ICTM - International Council for Traditional Music

Die Ehrenmitgliedschaft würdigt die herausragende Arbeit, die Ursula Hemetek im Laufe der Jahre für den ICTM geleistet hat. Sie ist Gründungsmitglied der ICTM-Studiengruppe "Music and Minorities", deren Vorsitz sie von 1999-2017 innehatte. Von 2005-2013 war sie Vorstandsmitglied des ICTM und von 2017-2021 Generalsekretärin. In diesen Positionen hat sie mehrere internationale Konferenzen organisiert, wie die 39. ICTM-Konferenz in Wien im Jahr 2007.

"Ursula Hemetek has been a member of ICTM for several decades and has made outstanding contributions to the work of the Council. From 2005 until 2013 she was an ordinary member of the Council’s executive board. In 1999, Ursula Hemetek founded the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities. Together with her colleagues in the Study Group, Ursula Hemetek was a driving force in establishing ethnomusicological minority studies within the ICTM and the ethnomusicological community at large. Ursula Hemetek served as the Study Group’s chair until she became Secretary General of the Council in 2017. She served in this function until 2021, attaching particular importance to democracy and transparency in the Council’s governance structures. Her service as Secretary General is characterized by important innovations from member surveys to decolonizing initiatives." (Marko Kölbl, 2023)