UPCOMING
2-4 June 2027: GOING VIRAL’s final conference “Emotions in Adversity: Disease, War, Crisis“, in conjunction with the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Society for the History of Emotions (SHE). See the CfP here.
3-4 Dezember 2026: GOING VIRAL’s 4th Study Day “Sensory Atmospheres: Breathing and Sounding Modern Airs“. See the CfP here.
19-21 November 2026: The GOING VIRAL team will organise the panel “Dis-eased Atmospheres: Musicking (more-than-)Humans during Pandemics (1679-1920)” at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology “Human:Music:Environment” an the Universiy of Innsbruck.
29 September – 2 October 2026: Aria, Emma and Marie will present GOING VIRAL at the Annual Conference of the German Musicological Society in Frankfurt/Main.
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6-8 May 2026: Together with Linda Pearse (Mount Allison University, Canada) and Scott L. Edwards (mdw), GOING VIRAL co-organised the International Symposium “Listening to Fear: Music, Emotion, and Crisis in Early Modern Eurasia” in Vienna.
24 April 2026: GOING VIRAL participated in the Lange Nacht der Forschung at the mdw campus in Vienna.
18-21 March 2026: Aria, Emma and Marie presented their reseach in their co-organised panel “Pandemic Sickscapes: Auditory Histories through the Lens of Emotion and Experience”at the 1st International Conference of the IMS Study Group Auditory History “The Historical Ear: What is Auditory History?”, The University of Chicago John W. Boyer Center in Paris.
4 December 2025: Marie gave a keynote on “The Feeling of Musicking. Towards a Cultural History of Music and Emotions” at a symposium on music and emotions, organised by Athena Musica in Bologna.
23-25 October 2025: Emma presented her research at the 24th RIdIM Conference “Political Aesthetics in Musical Viscourses”, organized by the Association Répertoire International d’Iconograpie Musicale, taking place at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música in Mexico City.
28-30 October 2025: Emma delivered a paper on “Fear of the (In)visible during the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Vienna” at the Fifth Biennial Conference “Emotions at the Borders/Limits” of the Society of the History of Emotions (SHE), taking place at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
18-19 September 2025: Marie gave a talk on “From Music-Immanent to Embodied: Reassessing Hanslick through the Lens of the Cultural History of Emotions” at the Conference “Eduard Hanslick, 1825–2025: Backgrounds, Contexts, Legacy”, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna.
17-18 September 2025: Marie participated in the Symposium “Die verstimmte Gesellschaft. Musik und Medizin im Antlitz der Krise“, organised by the Brahms-Billroth Stiftung für Musik und Medizin & the Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna.
7-9 July 2025: Aria presented his reseach at Tosc@ Cambridge 2025 (Transnational Opera Studies Conference), taking place at the University of Cambridge, UK
8 July 2025: Marie participated in the Seminar “Music and Sound after Covid-19. New Creativities, New Technologies, New Soundscapes”, organised by the Intercultural Institute for Comparative Music Studies, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice.
16 June 2025: GOING VIRAL hosted the first in-person Study Day of the Music/Sound and Trauma Study Group.
3-6 June 2025: Marie presented her research at the Congress “Epidemics: Contacts and Contagions, Reactions and Emotions” organised by The Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe of the CNR, in collaboration with the IN-HOPPE network (International Network–Historical and osteoarchaeological Past Populations Exploration), taking place in Naples, Italy.
29 May-1 June 2025: Aria participated in the American Comparative Literature Association’s (ACLA) 2025 Annual Meeting, USA.
30 April-4 May 2025: Sara travelled to Atlanta, US, to present on “Architecture in the ‘Spirit of Islam’ in Mid-Twentieth Century“at the Society of Architectural Historians 78th Conference.
28/29 April 2025: GOING VIRAL’s 3rd workshop on “The History of Experience“, together with Stephanie Olsen and Rob Boddice from the Research Council of Finland’s Centre of Excellence in History of Experience (HEX), Tampere University.
25 April 2025: Emma presented her research at the “Tradition and Transformation in Hofmannsthal’s Vienna” conference, taking place at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK.
8 April 2025: Emma gave a talk on “Gefühle & Grammophone in der Gesundheitskrise: Zur Kulturgeschichte des Hörens während der Spanischen Grippe in Wien (1918/19)” at the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik in Vienna.
3-6 April 2025: Aria presented his research at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2025, organized by the University of Cambridge, UK.
3-4 April 2025: Emma presented a paper entitled “Embodied Listening: Sound Technology, Emotions and the Shaping of Musical Bodies in Pandemic Vienna (1918-1919)” at the KVNM Student Conference in Musicology “Bodies of/and Music”, taking place at Utrecht University, Netherlands.
2-4 April 2025: Mark presented his research at the “Sensory Histories of Water” conference, co-organised by the University of St Andrews, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, and the International Musicological Society Study Group ‘Auditory History’. It was held at the Maritime Museum in Barcelona.
10-12 March 2025: Sara and Marie travelled to Tampere, Finland, to present at the Seventh Annual HEX Conference on “Historicizing Experiences“.
16 January 2025: GOING VIRAL’s 2nd workshop on “Experience in/and Phenomenology“, together with Advisory Board member Thiemo Breyer and Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen, Husserl Archive of the University of Cologne.
9-15 January 2025: Mark and Aria presented their research at the 48th ICTMD World Conference in Wellington, New Zealand.
9-10 January 2025: Aria presented on “Musicking in Uzeyir Hajibeyli’s Musical Comedies: Embodied Emotional Practices and the Quest for Healing during the Spanish Flu (1918/1919)” at the Health, Wellbeing and the Arts in the Nineteenth Century online conference, organised by Rosemary Golding, The Open University, UK.
6 December 2024: Aria presented his research at the “Embodied Methodologies Workshop“, organised by The University of the West Indies in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen and Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
29 November 2024: Aria gave a talk on “Modernism and Musicking: Embodied Emotional Practices and Social Change during the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Azerbaijan(1918-1920)” at the Conference “Musicology’s Modernist Moment 1918-1933“, organized by The Society of Music Theory, University of Chicago and University of Vienna.
14-16 November 2024: Emma gave a presentation in the panel „NIGHT(S)-Science: New Contributions on Nightlife“ at the Vienna After Dark Conference.
14-17 November 2024: Mark and Marie travelled to the 90th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) in Chicago to present their research in the panel Dis-eased Musical Bodies, co-organised with Cambride colleague and Advisory Board member Bettina Varwig and chaired by Advisory Board member Remi Chiu.
8 November 2024: The GOING VIRAL team members presented their research at our symposium “Music – Emotions – Pandemics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” at the mdw in Vienna.
7 November 2024: The GOING VIRAL team members presented their research at the mdw’s department for musicology’s Jour Fixe.
29-31 October: Aria presented his research on Azerbaijan-Turkish folk music at the International Baltic Musicological Conference “Music History Beyond State Borders: Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-Regionality of Musical Culture”, organized by Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and the IMS Study Group Music and Cultural Studies at Vilnius, Lithuania.
24-25 October 2024: Mark presented a paper entitled “Playing pain in Heinrich Biber’s scordatura music” at the Writing the Self in Pain: Historical Perspectives Conference, taking place at the University of Helsinki and organised by the project “Experiencing Agony – Pain and Embodiment in the British Atlantic World, 1600–1900”.
17-19 October 2024: Emma and Mark deliver papers at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Society for Musicology (ÖGMw) on “Democracy – Materialization in and through Music”, Mozarteum University Salzburg.
10/11 October 2024: GOING VIRAL’s 1st Workshop “Music, Emotions and the Body” with Bettina Varwig, including a public guest lecture (10 Oct, 19:00, Seilerstätte 26) and a discussion group open to the public. More info here.
27-28 September 2024: Mark delivered a paper entitled “Spiritual Agriculture: Musical Listening as Farming in Early Eighteenth-Century Germany'”at the “Soundscapes of Histories Entwined: Food and Music 1400-1850″ Conference organised by the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) and Palazetto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française (Venice) held in Sant’Ilario, Italy.
27 September 2024: Emma and Marie presented GOING VIRAL at the Jour Fixe of the Study Group “History of Medicine & Medical/Health Humanities” of the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna.
26 September 2024: Marie participated in a round table on “Resilience in/through the Arts“, taking place at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague.
24 September 2024: At the German Historical Institut in Rome, Marie gave a talk on “Musik und Emotionen in der Geschichte. Eine methodische Annäherung“.
18-22 September 2024: Aria presented his research at the ICTMD Study Groups Symposium on Music and Dance in the Turkic World and Global History of Music in Baku.
11-14 September 2024: Aria and Emma presented their research at the Annual Meeting of the German Musicological Society (GfM) in Cologne in a symposium on case studies between historical musicology and ethnomusicology.
29-31 August 2024: Emma and Marie presented their research at the Association Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM) 23rd International Conference “Laughing your staff off: irony, satire, and parody in visual representations and narratives of music” (mdw, Vienna) in the panel Contagious Caricatures: Sonic Stories of Three Epidemics, co-organised with Oxford PhD student Chloe Elizabeth Green.
15 June 2024: Paper “Stretched to Snapping Point: scordatura and pain in the music of Heinrich Biber” at the Rupture and Reconciliation Symposium, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK (Mark)
13 June 2024: Presentation “Historical Perspectives to Music and Medicine: Exploring Music-Emotional Practices during the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Baku and Vienna” at the MusiConnect Conference, University of Sheffield, UK (Emma and Aria)
7-8 June 2024: Presentation “Musicking the Plague Away: Emotional Practices of Music during the Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Vienna” at the Conference of the North American Chapter on the History of Emotions (NACHE), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver Campus, Canada (Marie)
29 April 2024: Presentation “Musik in Krisenzeiten” at the Montagsforum Dornbirn (Marie)
22 March 2024: Mark was invited to present his research on World Water Day at the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice. His paper was entitled “Early Modern Lutheran Shower Songs: washing bodies with water and music” to resonate with the schoarly interests of the ERC-funded project ‘The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900’
11-13 March 2024: Paper “Navigating Temporality and Memory Through Music: Musicological Perspectives Towards a History of Experience” at the HEX Conference Memory, Temporality and Experience, Centre of Excellence History of Experience, Tampere University, Finland (Marie)
13 December 2023: Presentation “Klanglich gefühlte Vergangenheit. Musik und Emotion aus der Perspektive der Erinnerungsforschung” in the context of the lecture series “Musik und Erinnerung”, mdw, Vienna (Marie)
23-25 November 2023: Paper “The Cultural History of Music and Emotions: A Theoretical and Methodological Introduction” at the symposium “Authentisch? Zum Umgang mit Emotionen in Alter Musik”, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, Switzerland (Marie)
19-20 October 2023: Presentation “Melancholy and the romance c. 1800: challenges and opportunities from a trauma studies perspective” at the international conference “Music and Disease“, IRCAM, Paris (Marie together with Utrecht colleague and co-founder of the Music/Sound and Trauma Study Group Annelies Andries)
21 October 2023: Presentation on “Images of War in 21st-Century Musicology” at the international conference “Images of War in the North Atlantic Triangle”, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna (Marie)
4-7 July 2023: GOING VIRAL Summer School, Marie together with Remi Chiu and Ausin C. Okigbo
16 June 2023: Talk “Bach in Pandemics: An Emotional History” in the context of the 77th Greifswalder Bachwoche “BACH bewegt” (Marie)
1/2 June 2023: Paper “Historicizing immersion in music listening: A ludomusicological approach”, at the Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics “Aesthetics and the Body” in Paris (Marie together with Utrecht colleague and specialist for Ludomusicology Michiel Kamp)
30 March 2023: It was an honour and a great pleasure to collaborate with 3Sat Kulturzeit to produce a feature on music in pandemics. The programme can be accessed here (last contribution starting at min 29:18) (Marie)
10/11 March 2023: GOING VIRAL Project Presentation at the “Music in Global Epidemics Symposium”, organised by Remi Chiu and Austin C. Okigbo (Marie)
January 2023: Annelies Andries from Utrecht University and Marie have officially established the Music/Sound and Trauma Study Group. It brings together scholars from a wide range of different countries and disciplines to discuss recent literature, present current research and think about future publication projects on music and trauma in past and present. Please visit the our website for further information and join us under utrechtmusicsoundtrauma@gmail.com.
8 December 2022: Some thoughts on music and emotions in Terra X History – Der Podcast. Gesang: ein uraltes Gemeinschaftsgefühl (Marie)
7/8 December 2022: Article on GOING VIRAL in the Austrian Daily Newspaper Der Standard, Forschung Spezial, p. 24 (Marie)
24 November 2022: Radio Interview in GOING VIRAL, SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik (German Southwest Broadcasting 2): “Musikgespräch: Musik in den Pandemien der vergangenen Jahrhunderte” (Marie)
14 October 2022: Roundtable “Interdisciplinarity” at the Annual Meeting of the Austrian Musicological Society (ÖGMw), mdw, Vienna (Marie)
29 September 2022: Intoduction and paper “Experiential dimensions of contemporary music. Cultural historical and psychological perspectives” at the symposium “Intra-/Interdisciplinary Music Research: Perspectives from Inside” (co-organiser), Annual Meeting of the German Musicological Society (GfM), Berlin (Marie together with Iris Mencke)
22 September 2022: Workshop “Music as Religious Practice: Text, Sound, and Emotion”, Universiteit Utrecht (Marie)