Helsinki Music Centre 12.2.2023–13.2.2024
Geographical divides such as ‘North-South’ and ‘East-West’ have long been problematised in music scholarship both globally and in Europe, while more comprehensive perspectives such as transnationalism, cultural transfer, and translocality have gained foothold in music history-writing. Furthermore, academics specialised in feminist and decolonial music research have sought to question value-laden ideas of geographical or cultural ‘peripherality’ as well as cultural imperialism. In this symposium, we invite music researchers, musicians and other participants across genre-borders to engage in a conversation about gender and music-making in the specific context of ‘Northern’, ‘Eastern’, and ‘North-Eastern’ Europe – i.e., regions such as the Baltic Sea area, which have long served as important meeting points and travel route for (women) musicians, artists, and composers.
What do regions traditionally labelled ‘Northern’ and ‘Eastern’ Europe share in terms of gender and music – both historically and today? What kinds of local and cross-cultural networks of women musicians have existed or are currently working in these specific contexts, and why? Alongside gender, how do diverse linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and religious identities affect musicianship and music-making in these areas? How could we enhance meaningful and ethical feminist collaboration among scholars and musicians in these regions today?
Please register via this link by February 1, 2024: Gender and musicianship in North(-)/Eastern Europe
Rates for attendees are as follows (for covering coffee and refreshments during conference days. The conference reception on February 12, 2024, is free of charge):
Early bird rates (November 30, 2023 to January 15, 2024):
Full rate: 30 euros
Reduced rate (students, doctoral candidates, Uniarts Helsinki staff): 20 euros
Rates from January 16, 2024 to February 1, 2024:
Full rate: 40 euros
Reduced rate (students, doctoral candidates, Uniarts Helsinki staff): 30 euros
Photo: Maria Wiik: Balladi (1898)