Program & Program Booklet: Conference: Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21^st-Century Europe

 

 

Program (PDF)

Last update: November 23, 2023 – Program change! The version in the program booklet has changed, updated version is here and will be put up at the converence venue.

 

Our program booklet is finalized, you can download it here: Program Booklet (15 MB)

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Program (updated November 23):

 

November 24, 2023

 

9.00–9.30 Registration

9.30–9.45 Welcome and Introduction

 

Ursula Hemetek (Music and Minorities Research Center)

– including Welcome Words of Anja Brunner, Conference Organiser

Marko Kölbl (Departement of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology)

 

9.45–11 KEYNOTE

 

Nadia Kiwan: Rethinking Political Community and Belonging in a Hostile Environment: Migration in the Age of ‘Fortress Europe’

Chair: Malik Sharif

 

11–11.30 Coffee Break

 

11.30–13 KEYPANEL: Music, Belonging/s, Migration: Perspectives on Present Challenges in Europe

Chair: Lisa Gaupp

 

Evrim Hikmet Öğüt: Guests or Hosts? An Overview of Syrian Musicians’ Experience in Istanbul’s Tourism Sector

 

Mojca Piškor: Music, Sound and the (Im)Possibilities of Belonging on the Balkan Route

 

Talia Bachir-Loopuyt: Music from Middle East and North Africa in France:
Multiple Belongings and the Question of Visibility

 

13.00–15.00 Lunch Break 

14.00–15.00 Coffee Break at the Coffee Break Area

 

15–16.30 PANEL 1: What does (not) Belonging Sound like? Listening to Negotiations and Strategies Around Music, Migration, and Citizenship and PANEL 2: (Re-)Creating Collectivity within Forced Migration: Music and Politics Intertwined

Chair: Britta Sweers

 

Eckehard Pistrick: Migratory Aesthetics – Critical Ethnomusicological Perspectives through a Biographical Lense

 

Ioannis Christidis: Echoes of the 2011 Syrian Uprising in Europe - Music and Political Belonging among Syrian Forced Migrants in Greece and Austria

 

Anastasiia Mazurenko: Forced Migration of Ukrainians and Belonging Performance through Choral Music in Slovenia

 

18.00 Dinner (at Sargfabrik)

 

19.30 Concert: Basma Jabr and Friends (at Sargfabrik)

 

Basma Jabr – Vocals

Mohannad Nasser – Oud

Oscar Antolí – Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Kaval

Victoria Kirioova – Double Bass

András Dés – Percussion

 

 

November 25, 2023

 

9.30–11 PANEL 3: “Unsilent Strangers” and Cohabitation: Japan’s Multicultural Coexistence and Musicking as Seen through European Experiences

Chair: Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes

 

Screening of video message by Hugh de Ferranti: Music Communities of Ethnic and Cultural Minorities in and from Japan

 

Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes: Our Version of Coexistence: Filipino Migrant’ Musicking and Migrants Singers in Japan and the World

 

Takako Inoue: Musical Activities among Cosmopolitan Indians: Case Studies on Asian Underground and Tyagaraja Aradhana

 

 

11–11.30 Coffee Break

 

11.30–13 PANEL 4: (Music) Beyond the Nation: Ambiguities and Challenges

Chair: Malik Sharif

 

Jasmine Hornabrook: Belonging Across Borders: Multiplicity and the Politics of Sonic Belonging in the Tamil Diasporic Music Scene

 

Andrew Snyder: Inter-Migrant Belonging for Non-Brazilian Migrants in Brazilian Carnival Practices in Lisbon, Portugal

 

Lena Dražić: Viennese Neighbourhoods, Invented Traditions, and the Global Village. (Post-) Yugoslav Neofolk as a Stimulus for Belongings and Identities

 

13–14.30 Lunch Break

 

14.30–16 PANEL 5: Subverting and Subversive “Home/s”: Musics and Resistances

Chair: Evrim Hikmet Öğüt

 

Andrea Dankić and Erica Åberg: ‘Far away from home’ while ‘Live and direct from Nordvästra’– Expressions of (Non)Belonging(s) in Nordic 'Gangsta Rap'

 

Susan Lindholm and Alexandra D’Urso: Re-imagining “Swedishness”: Intersectional Feminist Resistance and Reflection on the Work of Silvana Imam

 

16–16.30 Coffee Break

 

16.30–18 Roundtable: Music and Belonging – Potentials, Challenges, and Preliminary Conclusions

 

Moderation: Conny Gruber

 

 

Britta Sweers: Diaspora and Belonging: Contradictions and Challenges

 

Ulrike Präger: Belonging and (Non-) Belonging: Rethinking Musical Impact for Migration

 

18.00 Closing of the Conference