8 November 2024
Symposium “Music – Emotions – Pandemics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
mdw–University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Seilerstätte 26, 1010 Wien, Festsaal, 9:00-18:30
Programme
9:00-10:30
Music, Emotions and Pandemics Between Past and Present
Melanie Unseld & Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild (mdw): Welcome & Introduction
Michele Calella (University of Vienna): Between Aesthetic Regimes and Communal Practices: Tracing Emotions in Music History
Sara Ebrahimi, Emma Schrott, Mark Seow, Aria Torkanbouri (mdw): Technologies and environments of musical quarantining
Coffee Break
11:00-12:30
Pandemicking? Surviving and Thriving in a Pandemic
Daniela Angetter-Pfeiffer (Austrian Academy of Science): ‘Oh du lieber Augustin, alles ist hin’ – is the folk song wrong? Pandemics and their innovations
Anja Brunner (mdw): Musical Performances in times of the Covid-19 pandemic: Examples from the Syrian diaspora in Germany and Austria
Scott Lee Edwards (mdw): Chants of Survival: Music, Ceremony, and the Plague in 17th-Century Vienna
Lunch Break
13:45-14:30
Keynote
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (MPI for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt a.M.): Pandemic musicking as „Umgangsmusik“? In search of a theoretical concept
Coffee Break
15:00-16:30
Navigating Grief and Loneliness
Anna Durnová (University of Vienna): From Private Turmoil to Institutions: Emotions and the New Boundaries of Society and Analysis
Hannah Riedl (mdw): ‘My favourite song’: An online music therapy service to support emotional processing and alleviate negative effects of social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic
Ralf von Appen, Jonas Kastenhuber (mdw): Listening alone instead of singing together? Song structures in Taylor Swift’s ‘pandemic albums’ Folklore and Evermore
Coffee Break
17:00-18:30
Institutionalizing Health and Emotions
Julia Gebke (Austrian Academy of Science): This is Bad News! Managing Emotions in Premodern Times
David Merlin (University of Vienna/University of Padua): Religious Music Practices in Late Medieval and Early Modern Hospitals: A Panoramic View across the Transalpine and Cisalpine Regions
Florian Krammer (Medical University of Vienna/Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai NYC): Pandemic Preparedness: When to expect the next pandemic and what to do better next time?
Archive of our own events:
10/11 October 2024: Guest Lecture and Workshop with Prof. Dr. Bettina Varwig (Music Faculty, University of Cambridge)