En av Samfundets viktigaste uppgifter är dess konferensverksamhet. Samfundet arrangerar årligen en samlande konferens för svenska musikforskare, vilken ger tillfälle till överblick över och möte mellan våra discipliner. 

Musikforskning idag 2025

Call for Papers

Under 2025 hålls Musikforskning idag den 22-24 oktober i Örebro, med Musikhögskolan som värd. Styrelsen arbetar på att ta fram en modell för konferensen som ska öka dess aktualitet i våra forskningsmiljöer och utöka möjligheter för nätverkande och möten mellan våra discipliner. En nyhet för året är att vi bjuder in doktorander i alla musikforskningsdiscipliner till ett inledande tvärdisciplinärt seminarium med start på kvällen den 21 oktober. Ambitionen är att initiera en dialog mellan disciplingränserna, och skapa nya kontaktytor genom en modererad dialog. Styrelsen arbetar också med att ta fram ett tema för nästa års konferens. Call for papers finns här, med deadline 1 juni. 

Music Research Today will be held on 22-24 October 2024 in Örebro, hosted by the School of Music. The Society's board is working to develop a model for the conference that will increase its relevance in our research environments and expand possibilities for networking and interdisciplinary meetings. New for this year is that we are inviting doctoral students in all music research disciplines to an opening interdisciplinary seminar starting on the evening of 21 October. The ambition is to initiate a dialogue across discipline borders, and create new areas of contact through a moderated dialogue. The board is also working on a theme for next year's conference. This year's Call for Papers is here, and the submission deadline is 1 June 2025.

Keynotes:

Årets konferens har två keynotes: David Hebert och Melanie Schiller.

This year's conference will feature two keynotes: David Hebert och Melanie Schiller.

David Hebert: Music Diplomacy Amid Populism and Protectionism

David G. Hebert is a Professor with Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen. He is also an Honorary Professor with the Education University of Hong Kong and Affiliated Professor with University of the Faroe Islands and Kyambogo University (Uganda). He is a member of the Executive committee and Board of the International Society for Music Education, Chair-elect of the Historical Ethnomusicology section of SEM, and has grant-funded projects in Uganda and China. With a special interest in Indigenous peoples, he previously worked as Head of Music for a Maori college and is now part of a major research project on Sami music. He is also author or editor of 11 books, with articles in over 30 different journals. Recently, he especially writes about music and AI, decolonization, cultural diplomacy and sustainability.

Melanie Schiller: The Politics of Heroic Averageness: Populism and Music in Sweden

Melanie Schiller is Professor of Contemporary Media Cultures at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She serves as chair of the Benelux branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and is editor of the Music and Politics book series with Routledge. Schiller is the author of Soundtracking Germany: Popular Music and National Identity (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018; paperback 2020) and co-editor of the volume Popular Music and the Rise of Populism in Europe (Routledge, 2024), which emerged from her work in the international research consortium of the same name (2019–2022), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Her current research—funded by the Dutch Research Council (2025–2030)—focuses on protest music and polarization in climate related social movements.

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