Conferences of the Centre for Systematic Musicology
The Centre for Systematic Musicology regularly organized international conferences, see below. In addition, four international conference series were founded by the centre:
1. The Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM) was the first and only conference series dealing with interdisciplinary interactions between humanities and sciences in musicology. The first CIM (CIM04) took place in Graz in 2004. Further CIMs were held in Montréal in 2005 (theme: timbre), Tallinn in 2007 (singing), Thessaloniki in 2008 (musical structure), Paris in 2009 (musical instruments), Sheffield in 2010 (nature versus culture), Glasgow in 2011 (performance), Göttingen in 2012 (history), Berlin in 2014 (technology), Shanghai in 2015 (imagination), Poznań in 2018 (meaning), Graz in 2019 (embodiment) and Edinburgh in 2022 (participation).
2 The International Conference for Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus conference series) is the first and only conference series for students of systematic musicology. The first SysMus conference took place in Graz in 2008.
3. The Conference on Applied Interculturality Research (cAIR) was the first conference series to focus on the practical application of interculturality research across all academic disciplines. The first cAIR (cAIR10) took place in Graz in 2010. A second cAIR (cAIR12) took place in Porto, Portugal (Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Porto) with an educational focus.
4. The Global Arts and Psychology Seminar (GAPS). These small, innovative conferences were multi-hub – spread over several international locations. Students from different countries presented their research results. GAPS1 took place in 2017, GAPS2 in 2023.
The following individual events were organised by the Centre.
GAPS2 (Global Arts and Psychology Seminar) took place from 14 to 16 September 2023 in York/GB, Graz/Austria, La Plata/Argentina and Melbourne/Australia on the topic of “Creativity in music and the arts”. It was organized by Andrea Schiavio, Adrian Kempf, and international colleagues.
Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology from 25 - 27 November 2021 in Graz
This conference is the most important conference of Austrian musicology. In 2021 it was organised by the Centre for Systematic Musicology (Bernd Brabec de Mori) in Graz.
In September 2019, a Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology on the topic of embodiment in music was held at the Centre for Systematic Musicology, organized by Andrea Schiavio and Adrian Kempf.
In July 2018, the Centre for Systematic Musicology organised the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC15) combined with the 10th conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Science of Music (ESCOM10). For the first time, the conference took place simultaneously at more than one location (Argentina, Canada, Austria, Australia). The conference was organized by Richard Parncutt (chair), Sabrina Sattmann (administration including abstract review procedure), Nils Meyer-Kahlen (technology), and many other colleagues in Graz and the other three hubs. Read more here.
GAPS or GAPS1 was the first Global Arts and Psychology Symposium. The topic was the psychology of art and the psychology of people who create and appreciate art. "Art" here includes sonic forms of art (music, sound design), visual art (painting, architecture), literature, theatre, opera and digital art. In GAPS2, the focus was on music. Participants were mainly students who presented and discussed current research questions and results.
At GAPS1, a new conference format was developed and tested. All presentations were streamed in a cloud and displayed in real time at one or more other global conference locations. The locations were Boston (UTC/GMT-4 hours), La Plata (-3), Sheffield (+1), Graz (+2), and Sydney (+10). The programme ran around the clock. The lectures were streamed live on the Internet and later made available in a password-protected archive. In this way, the idea of a semi-virtual multi-hub conference (see ICMPC15/ESCOM10, 2018) could be tested.
The programme can be found here. The abstracts were organised in EasyChair .
On SysMusDay, organized by Martin Winter and Bernd Brabec de Mori, several local and international researchers presented their research in the field of systematic musicology. You can download the abstract book here: abstract book
The first conference for Applied Interculturality Research (cAIR10) was held at the University of Graz from 7 to 10 April 2010. The conference
- combined research (universities) and practice (government, civil society, schools, media) to raise awareness and reduce the prevalence and impact of racism and xenophobia;
- brought together practice and research in all areas of interculturality, helping practitioners to benefit from research and researchers to benefit from practice; and
- aimed for high standards in both practice and research.
Keynotes were given by leading international colleagues in intercultural research and practice.