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| 9.30-10:00 Language Center: Festive Hall | Registration |
| 10.00-10:20 Language Center: Festive Hall | Opening words |
| 10:20-10.30 | Short Break |
| 10.30-12.00 | Parallel sessions 1-4 |
| Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 1: Activism & pedagogy Chair: Anna Ramstedt Jenna Ristilä: A Subtle Activism: Calling for humaneness in classical concert culture Pushpa Palanchoke: Women as educative agents and public pedagogues: Pathways toward gender-inclusive heritage activism in music and music education in Nepal Paula Mladin: IncluMusic. Increasing Skills for Building More Inclusive Conservatories |
| Language Center: sh205 |
Session 2: Feminist practices Chair: Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik 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 |
| Language Center: sh206 |
Session 3: Language & discourse Chair: Wilhelm Kvist 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 Chair: Inka Rantakallio 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 |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-15.00 | Parallel sessions 5-8 |
| Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 5: Stage works (presentations ONLINE) Chair: Jenna Ristilä 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 Luyin Shao: The beauty of harmony lies in the combination of differences”--Acculturation in Mongolian-Chinese Er Ren Tai Folk Opera |
| Language Center: sh205 | Session 6 (empty) |
| Language Center: sh206 |
Session 7: Panel: Music and Cultural Appropriation Chair: Juha Torvinen Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman: Ráidu: Challenging Power Dynamics Through an Intercultural Artistic Collaboration. Co-author Jamie Belmonte 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 |
| Topelia: C120 |
Session 8: Intersectional methodologies Chair: Alexandra d'Urso 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 |
| 15.00-15.15 | Coffee break |
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15.15–16.15 Language Center: Festive Hall |
Keynote Patricia Hill Collins: “Keeping the Beat: Soundscapes of Black Activism” Chair: Nina Öhman |
| 16.15–16.30 | Short Break |
| 16.30-18.00 | Parallel sessions 9-12 |
| Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 9: Strategies of protest I (presentations ONLINE) Chair: Sini Mononen Winnie W. C. Lai: Archiving Affective Acoustics: Film as Engaged Scholarship with Hong Kong as a Case Study. Ricardo Alvarez: Brass Bands and Social Movements in Central Chile (2019-2024): Reflections on Activism and Ethnomusicological Methodologies Kai Arne Hansen: Antiracist Activism in Norwegian Hip Hop: The Case of Hkeem’s Ghettoparasitt |
| Language Center: sh205 |
Session 10: Corporeality & positionality Chair: Anna Ramstedt 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 Chair: Siboné Oroza 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 Chair: Andrea Dankić Dan 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 Unioninkatu 34 (Christina Hall) |
| 9-11 | Parallel sessions 13-16 |
| Language Center: Festive Hall |
Session 13: Feminist solidarities (Presentations Hybird/Online) Chair: Tuulikki Laes Cassandra Gibson & Anna Ramstedt: Prepare them for abuse: how to collectively equip young musicians to navigate the unsafe spaces of classical music culture 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 Chair: Nina Öhman 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 Chair: Samuli Korkalainen 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 Chair: Riikka Ahokas 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 Language Center: Festive Hall |
Keynote - ONLINE Pirita Näkkäläjärvi "What are possible motives for cultural appropriation of Sámi yoiking in Finnish music?" Chair: Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik |
| 12.30-13.30 |
Lunch
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| 13.30-14.30 |
Workshops 1 – 3
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| Language Center: Festive Hall |
Workshop 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 |
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15-16 Language Center: Festive Hall |
Panel + Q&A: On Freedom & responsibility – the artists' role in a changing world (HYBRID) (in collaboration with UrbanApa and #StopHatredNow) Panelists: Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman, Bentality & Reetta Näätänen Moderator: Renaz Ebrahimi |
| 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 (presentations HYBIRD/ONLINE) Chair: Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik Zu Zhuo: A Futuristic Musical Epic of Gender Transition Rosie Middleton: Navigating ‘Consent’ and ‘Risk’ for Classically Trained Singers Dori Howard: Body positive role models and weight loss inspirations: The political intersections of fatness and gender in popular music |
| Language Center: sh205 |
Session 18: Sustainability & Pedagogy Chair: Riikka Ahokas 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 RECORDED PRESENTATION DUE TO FORCE MAJEURE: Friederike Köhler: The relevance of music in environmental awareness and advocacy: A qualitative study protocol |
| Language Center: sh206 |
Session 19: Communities & Resistance Chair: Inka Rantakallio 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 Chair: Sini Mononen 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 Hima & Sali (Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C) |
| 9-11 | Parallel sessions 21-24 |
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Language Center: Festive Hall
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Session 21: Panel: Power, Politics and Activism (HYBRID) 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 |
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Language Center: sh205 |
Session 22: Strategies of protest II Chair: Mark Katz 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 |
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Language Center: sh206
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Session 23: Decolonial perspectives II Chair: Wilhelm Kvist Aizhan Sultanova: Artistic process of Kazakhstani woman: first steps and hardships towards decolonisation Zichen Lin: Musical Trajectories of Resistance: Indigenous Singer-Songwriters and the Environmental Justice Movement in Taiwan's Path to Transitional Justice Olutomi Kassim: 'FELA' - An existential prophet ahead of his time: The protest music giant of Africa. |
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Topelia: C120
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Session 24: Panel: Nordic Noise. Hip-Hop, Culture, and Community in Northern Europe Chair: Susan Lindholm 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 |
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11.30-12.30 Language Center: Festive Hall |
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" Chair: Kim Ramstedt |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-15 | Parallel sessions 25-28 |
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Language Center: Festive Hall
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Session 25: Religion, Nationalism & Locality I (presentations ONLINE) Chair: Kaarina Kilpiö 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 Zhang Yifei: Sustainable Development Through Sound: The Role of Western Influences in Chinese Music Culture |
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Language Center: sh205 |
Session 26: Gendered norms in the music industry Chair: Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik 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 |
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Language Center: sh206
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Session 27: Activist methodologies Chair: Reetta Näätänen 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 |
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Topelia: C120
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Session 28: Memory, commemoration & protest Chair: Kim Ramstedt 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 |
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Language Center: Festive Hall
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Session 29: Ethics & Methodology Chair: Inka Rantakallio Mark Katz in collaboration with Alim Braxton: When “Do No Harm” Is Impossible: The Ethical Challenges of Collaborating with an Incarcerated Musician Kim Ramstedt & Jasmine Kelekay: Naming Racism in European Music Research |
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Language Center: sh205 |
Session 30: Religion, Nationalism & Locality II Chair: Saijaleena Rantanen Margarita Moisejeva: Improvisation in Church Music – a Bold Statement in the Orthodox Tradition. Ruirui Ye: A Study on Music Sustainability and Urban Culture |
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Language Center: sh206
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Session 31: Memory & cultural heritage Siboné Oroza 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 Ameet Ubhi: Towards a dub epistemology |
| Topelia: C120 |
Session 32: Instruments & traditions Chair: Reetta Näätänen 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 |
| 16.45-17 | Short break |
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17-17.30 Language Center: Festive Hall |
Closing remarks |