Trump’s Latest Visa “Pause” Targets 75 Countries He Thinks Are Lazy
Trump’s Latest Visa “Pause” Targets 75 Countries He Thinks Are Lazy
Last Wednesday, the Trump administration “paused” immigrant visa applications for people from 75 countries, mostly in the Global South, on the supposed grounds that people from those countries are of “nationalities at high risk of public benefits usage.” Since the 19th century, the United States has used “public charge” rules to restrict entry, alleging that […]https://murica.website/2026/01/trumps-latest-visa-pause-targets-75-countries-he-thinks-are-lazy/
International Conference
THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
🎉 60 Years of Music Sociology @ mdw 🎉
🗓️ 5–7 February 2026
📍mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
& online (Zoom)
Conference Programme & Info:
👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology
This conference explores archives and historiographies in music sociology through feminist, queer, grassroots, and decolonial perspectives and draws attention to ethics and care, lived experiences, cultural labour, methodological questions, and the challenges of digitalisation and platforms.
Keynote Speakers:
› Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
› Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)
› Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Organisers:
Tianyu Jiang, Rainer Prokop, Rosa Reitsamer
Department of Music Sociology
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
#mdw #musicsociology #archives #archivalturn #musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #Vienna