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

International Conference

THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
5–7 February 2026
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Fanny Hensel-Hall
& online

Conference Programme & Info:
👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology

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

#musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #archives #archivalturn #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #migrant #postmigrant #histories #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #mdw #Vienna

NEXT WEEK - #CPCCGWebinar 27 Nov

🧑‍🏫 Ayse Guveli, Professor of #Sociology at the University of #Warwick, will discuss the consequences and long-term impact of #migration on #migrants using research from the 2000 #Families and The Third #Generation projects.

Register to join us online - all welcome: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/event_calendar/955/CPC_CG_Webinar__Ayse_Guveli

#demography #socialscience #immigration #geography #Turkey #socialinequalities #socialmobility #family #lifecourse

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
› Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: 12 October 2025

THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
5-6 February 2026
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Keynote speakers:
› Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
› Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)

Organisers:
Tianyu Jiang, Rainer Prokop, Rosa Reitsamer, Lis Vovka

More info: 👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology

#musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #archives #archivalturn #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #migrant #postmigrant #histories #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #mdw #Vienna

🗓️ Diaries at the ready - next week Christian Dudel is presenting our #CPCCGwebinar. Hear about findings from an analysis of the causal impact of #smoking on healthy working life expectancy at age 50 using US Health & Retirement Study data.

Register to join us online: https://www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/full_events_calendar/892/CPC_CG_Webinar__Christian_Dudel

#socialscience #population #demography #populationhealth #socialinequalities #maxplanck #lifeexpectancy

WelcomeWeeks at @MPIDR!

The Department of Digital and Computational Demography welcomes Jordan Klein. Jordan comes from Princeton University and holds a PhD in Demography, specializing in international comparative epidemiology and computational demography.

Jordan plans to continue his research on climate change, emerging infectious diseases and their social drivers and impacts, with a particular focus on the key role of #migration, #mobility and #SocialInequalities.

https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/welcome_jordan_klein_13506

OnlineFirst - "The marketization of a selective school transition in Switzerland" by Itta Bauer and Sara Landolt:

#education #schooltransition #socialinequalities #commodificationoflearning #resistance

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241256844

1 in 4 pregnancies end in a #miscarriage which has implications on fertility intentions, mental & physical health.

The SOC-MISC project studies social inequality in miscarriage and its outcomes, lead by P.I. @heinivaisanen funded by the #ERC.

The host institution is INED, partners are University of Helsinki, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, and University of St Andrews.

See more: https://soc-misc.site.ined.fr/en/

#populationhealth #socialinequalities
@sociology @demography