Language Center (Festive Hall, sh205 and sh206), University of Helsinki
Fabianinkatu 26, 00170 Helsinki
Topelia c120:
Musicology Lecture Hall (C120), University of Helsinki
Topelia Building (Unioninkatu 38), gate C II
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https://www.helsinki.fi/assets/drupal/2023-05/MusAct%2C%20Map.pdf
8:45-9.15 Language Center: Festive Hall | Registration |
9.15-9:30 Language Center: Festive Hall | Opening words |
9:30-10:30 Language Center: Festive Hall |
Keynote Patricia Hill Collins: “Keeping the Beat: Soundscapes of Black Activism” |
10:30-10:45 | Short Break |
10.45-12.15 | Parallel sessions 1-4 |
Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 1: Activism & pedagogy Jenna Ristilä: A Subtle Activism: drafting a manual for musicians Paula Șandor: IncluMusic. Increasing Skills for Building More Inclusive Conservatories Pushpa Palanchoke: Women as educative agents and public pedagogues: Pathways toward gender-inclusive heritage activism in music and music education in Nepal |
Language Center: sh205 |
Session 2: Feminist practices Siboné Oroza: Entrepreneurship as Social Activism: Cholita Music and Fashion Markets against Racism, Sexism, and Poverty Tianyu Jiang: Practicing Feminism in Shanghai’s Electronic Music Scene: Strategies and Challenges Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi: Opera Pop. A Music Album Condemned to Meaning. |
Language Center: sh206 |
Session 3: Language & discourse Anna Mach: Song translation as a tool of social protest: the case of “Bella Ciao” / “Tortury ciało” Allison Rollins: Singing a "Butchered Tongue": The Irish Language and Hozier's Unreal Unearth. Johan Franzon: Translating Baraye. How was it done and where does it go? |
Topelia: C120 |
Session 4: Resilience & Resistance I Sami Alanne: Music Building Resilience for Trauma Victims and Refugees Andrea Dankić & Nicola McAteer: Re-imagining storytelling as a methodology for music scholar-activism Marju Raju and Brigitta Davidjants: Performativity in musical activism: the case study of Rhythms of Resistance in Tallinn Pride |
12.15-13.15 | Lunch |
13.15-15.15 | Parallel sessions 5-8 |
Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 5: Stage works Zhu Tianshuo: An Analysis of the Phenomenon of “Female Awakening” in Xuzhou Liuqin Opera Scripts after 1949 Maria Grajdian: Embracing the Youth, Healing the Future: Takarazuka Revue’s Strategic Activism |
Language Center: sh205 | Session 6 (empty) |
Language Center: sh206 |
Session 7: Panel: Music and Cultural Appropriation Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman: Ráidu: Challenging Power Dynamics Through an Intercultural Artistic Collaboration Reetta Näätänen: Social Responsibilities in Cross-Cultural Music Performance Marika Kivinen: African American Spirituals as Forgotten/Erased Parts of Classical Concert Music: The Ethics of Challenging White Normatvity in the Finnish Musical Context Helen Metsä: Exoticist stereotypes in composer Sulho Ranta’s music and writing Juha Torvinen: Types of exoticism in Erik Bergman’s music Pirita Näkkäläjärvi: “Lou leig-u luu” and a fake Sámi hat: How to identify cultural appropriation of Sámi yoiking in Finnish music |
Topelia: C120 |
Session 8: Intersectional methodologies Lisa Gaupp: Critiques and Disruptions of Power in Music Shanti Suki Osman: Intersectional Epistemologies(WT) Francesca Maria Villani: Sound as Borderland: Identity and Resistance in Women's Contemporary Music. Emmi Kujanpää: Becoming a goddess in music video trilogy: applying intersectional feminism in transnational folk singing collaboration in Finland and Bulgaria |
15.15-15.45 | Coffee break |
15.45-17.15 | Parallel sessions 9-12 |
Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 9: Strategies of protest I Winnie W. C. Lai: Archiving Affective Acoustics: Film as Engaged Scholarship with Hong Kong as a Case Study. Tessa Balser-Schuhmann: Music in Times of Ecological, Political, and Social Change. Sonic and Musical Practices as Transformative Processes in Vienna Ricardo Alvarez: Brass Bands and Social Movements in Central Chile (2019-2024): Reflections on Activism and Ethnomusicological Methodologies |
Language Center: sh205 |
Session 10: Corporeality & positionality Barbara Kinga Majewska: Voice based discrimination in contemporary vocal music Sarah Mengede: Feminism, Solidarity & Shared Positionality in Contemporary Rock Journalism Charlotte Müller: Women* orchestra conductors and the embodiment of music – performative subversions of a gendered professional practice |
Language Center: sh206 |
Session 11: Groups & Communities Xinjie Chen: Entering Cultural Communities through Musical Practice: Perceiving “Collective Consciousness” in the Fieldwork of Gamelan Gong Kebyar Luis Alejandro Villanueva: Musical practices and political activism in the re-establishment of a community way of life. A case study of the Totonac population in Puebla, Mexico |
Topelia: C120 |
Session 12: Decolonial perspectives I Daniel Mollenkamp: The Coloniser’s Lens as an Activist’s Frame: Can Post-Colonial Artists Find Authenticity in ‘Anglo-American’ Music Genres? Cayenna Ponchione-Bailey: Co-Authoring the Past and Future of Afghanistan’s Orchestral Practices
Maria Konoshenko: Songs of grief and protest after 2022: Communicating the experiences of war and emigration through music |
18:30- | University of Helsinki’s Reception |
9-11 | Parallel sessions 13-16 |
Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 13: Feminist solidarities
Cassandra Gibson & Anna Ramstedt: Prepare them for abuse: how to collectively equip young musicians to navigate the unsafe spaces of classical music culture
Laura Watson: Singing for Abortion Rights: Public Performance and the Pro-Choice-Movement in Ireland
Peng Wu: Telling Bottom Story, Being Questioned, Counterattacking Authority: How Xinjiang Musician Daolang is Mythologized as an Underclass Hero?
Zhang Jieyi: Sonic Orientations: Israeli Composer Chaya Czernowin’s Search for “Homecoming” along the Text of Can Xue’s Homecoming
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Language Center: sh205 |
Session 14: Past & Present
Marc Brooks: The Lessons of Pink Floyd’s Animals for Popular Music and Animal Studies
Nayive Ananías: La voz de los ’80 (The voice of the ‘80s) by Los Prisioneros: four decades addressing a mobilized Chile
Jifang Sun: Legal Discourses in Opéra-Comqiue, 1762-1814
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Language Center: sh206 |
Session 15: Individual artists & musical works
Kai Arne Hansen: Antiracist Activism in Norwegian Hip Hop: The Case of Hkeem’s Ghettoparasitt
Eva Dieteren: Sounding the Erotic: Millie Jackson’s Music through Feminist New Materialisms
Chase Castle: Battle Hymn of Anita Bryant: Gay Liberation and Musical Activism in the United States |
Topelia: C120 |
Session 16: Soundscapes & sound works
Robert Coleman: Ecological Soundwalks: Balancing Activism and Abstraction through Interdisciplinary Exploration.
Małgorzata Heinrich: Sound, Symbol, and Metaphor: The Environmental, Cultural, Societal, and Political Meanings of Hildegard Westerkamp’s Soundscape Compositions
Susanne Heiter: Eco-activism through multispecies sound art? Expectations and potentials Spy Dénommé-Welch: Visiting with the Land: A strategy for building sound works |
11-11.30 |
Coffee break
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11.30-12.30 |
Keynote Petra Laiti: Topic TBA
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12.30-13.30 |
Lunch
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13.30-14.30 |
Workshops 1 – 3
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Language Center: Festive Hall |
Workship 1: Tuulikki Laes & Taru-Anneli Koivisto: Activating public pedagogy in music performance studies: Transition designs for socio-ecological responsibility and institutional change
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Language Center: sh205 |
Workshop 2: Tomi Rantanen: Framing Gender Equality Transition in the Finnish Popular Music Sector
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Topelia: C120 |
Workshop 3: Michael McEvoy: Relational Audio-Visual Encounters with Nature: (Re)Connection and Conversation through Improvisation |
14.30-15 | Coffee break |
15-16 |
Panel discussion on arts and activism (in collaboration with UrbanApa and #StopHatredNow) Panelists: TBA Chair: Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman |
16-16.15 | Short break |
16.15-17.45 |
Parallel sessions 17-20
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Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 17: Gender & artistic identity
Zu Zhuo: A Futuristic Musical Epic of Gender Transition
Rosie Middleton: Navigating ‘Consent’ and ‘Risk’ for Classically Trained Singers |
Language Center: sh205 |
Session 18: Sustainability & Pedagogy
Marja-Leena Juntunen: Sustainability-Related Themes in Recent Master's Theses in the Music Teacher Education Program in Finland
Anita Savolainen: Climate anxiety and the effects of music to the emotion regulation and experience of agency from the perspective of young adults
Friederike Köhler: The relevance of music in environmental awareness and advocacy: A qualitative study protocol |
Language Center: sh206 |
Session 19: Communities & Resistance
Elizabeth Falade: A New Queer order: Black Queer musicking & Pleasure Activism
Ruari Paterson-Achenbach: The Scratch Cottage: On Solidarity, Sociality and Musical Anarchy
Susan O’Shea: Creative Agents of Climate Change: Using music to help with the Climate Crisis |
Topelia: C120 |
Session 20: Resilience & Resistance II Marianne Brown: Music for all: transformative elements of music projects for women and children fleeing domestic violence.
Celeste Cantor-Stephens: Listening to Borders: Sound and Musicking as Resistance and Solidarity at the Franco-British Border
Sarah Cooper: Stitching Together Resistance: ‘Spliced Collage’ as a Sonic Method of Transcoded Activism in Bristol Drag |
19- | Conference dinner |
9-11 | Parallel sessions 21-24 |
Language Center: Festive Hall
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Session 21: Panel: Power, Politics and Activism: Solidarities between Fado, Jazz, Carnival and Drag Queen performances: Thinking activisms through case studies from Portugal coordinator: Alix Didier Sarrouy Beatriz Nunes: “The Door is Open”: the paradox of gender equality in jazz education access Caio Mourão: “Fado Bicha kills fado, with love”: musical artivism and the relational crisis in Portuguese queer music. Andrew Snyder: Colombina Clandestina: Intersectional Carnival Activism in Lisbon’s Brazilian Carnival Marco Freitas: From Madness to Culture: LGBTQIA+ Activism Through Lisbon’s Longest-running Drag Queen Show |
Language Center: sh205 |
Session 22: Strategies of protest II Libbie Katsev: What did unity sound like?: The music of the 2020 Minsk courtyard concerts Helena Marzec-Gołąbis: Between Academia, Activism and Music-Making, the example of Girls and Queers to the Front from Poland Johann Jacob Van Niekerk: Musical Culture, Transition and Sustainability: An Appalachian Ecomusicological Case Study |
Language Center: sh206
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Session 23: Decolonial perspectives II Aizhan Sultanova: Artistic process of Kazakhstani woman: first steps and hardships towards decolonisation Zhang Yifei: Sustainable Development Through Sound: The Role of Western Influences in Chinese Music Culture Zichen Lin: Musical Trajectories of Resistance: Indigenous Singer-Songwriters and the Environmental Justice Movement in Taiwan's Path to Transitional Justice |
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Session 24: Panel: Nordic Noise. Hip-Hop, Culture, and Community in Northern Europe Susan Lindholm & Alexandra D’Urso: Re-imagining ‘Swedishness’: Intersectional Feminist Resistance and Reflection on the Work of Swedish rapper Silvana Imam Andrea Dankić: Navigating Stereotypes, Becoming Credible: Skills, Gender, Race and Nation Among Swedish Hip-Hop Practitioners Inka Rantakallio: Religion, Vulnerability and White Masculinities: A Case Study of two Finnish Male Rappers |
11-11.30 | Coffee break |
11.30-12.30 |
Keynote Shzr Ee Tan In partnership with Bhing Navato and in memory of Rubel Fazli Elahi: "Walking Together on Uneven Playing Fields: Musical challenges and sounded learnings in collaborative citizen research" |
12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
13.30-15 | Parallel sessions 25-28 |
Language Center: Festive Hall
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Session 25: Religion, Nationalism & Locality I Sandra Sinsch: Breaking the Nazi legacy: Community music and forensic psychiatry in Germany Júlia Durand: “Music for MAGA”: music and misinformation in online audiovisual media |
Language Center: sh205 |
Session 26: Gendered norms in the music industry Dori Howard: Body positive role models and weight loss inspirations: The political intersections of fatness and gender in popular music Helen Elizabeth Davies: Seeking solutions to gender related challenges in popular music higher education and the music industry Maho Harada: Costume for Violinists in Japan – Dual Gender Biases Which Asian Female Musicians Face |
Language Center: sh206
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Session 27: Activist methodologies Oluremi Abati: Music production education, and accessibility to visually impaired producers Nina Himmelreich: Gender Inequality in the German Music Industry – an Analysis of the German Charts, Festival Stages, and Record Company Rosters Grace Goodwin: Spreadsheets as activism |
Topelia: C120
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Session 28: Memory, commemoration & protest Safiyyah Nawaz: Memory Records: designing a citizen-science fuelled archive of musical memories Maria Bianca Stoicescu: Filling the Silence: The Soundtrack of Solidarity for Ukraine
Isang Emeneka: A cross-cultural analysis of music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs): Comparing the distribution and nature of musical memories across Black and White heritage groups. |
15-15.15 | Short break |
15.15-16.45 | Parallel sessions 29-32 |
Language Center: Festive Hall
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Session 29: Ethics & Methodology Mark Katz in collaboration with Alim Braxton: When “Do No Harm” Is Impossible: The Ethical Challenges of Collaborating with an Incarcerated Musician Daniel X Y Fong: Becoming together-apart: The relational triumphs and failures of activist posthumanist ethnomusicological research Kim Ramstedt & Jasmine Kelekay: Naming Racism in European Music Research |
Language Center: sh205 |
Session 30: Religion, Nationalism & Locality II Pasqualina Eckerström: “We play extreme because our lives are extreme”: Extreme heavy metal music as religious and political transgression in iran and saudi arabia Margarita Moisejeva: Improvisation in Church Music – a Bold Statement in the Orthodox Tradition. Ruirui Ye: A Study on Music Sustainability and Urban Culture |
Language Center: sh206
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Session 31: Memory & cultural heritage Vilma Timonen: Heritage activism as a means for sustainable development in and through music education. Synthesis of two case studies conducted in Mauritius and Nepal. Seonhwa Lee: A Gender Perspective on 19th-Century German Female Composers |
Session 32: Instruments & traditions Spiros Delegos: Decolonisation of Rebetiko and Heterotopia Benjin Pollock: Nyckelharpa: Folk Identities, Materiality and the Politics of (Inter)Nationalism in Keyed Fiddle Music Hwan Hee Kim: Preserving Korean Cultural Identity: Kuk Jin Kim’s Piano Music as a Reflection of Tradition |
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16.45-17 | Short break |
17-17.30 | Closing remarks |