News Archive
2025
» April 8, the Voice of Diversity association invites you to a special event at Porgy& Bess in Vienna on the occasion ofthe International Rom*nja Day.
» We are proud to announce that Music& Minorities (M&M) is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
» The MMRC welcomes a new team member, Samo Zeichen.
2024
» Review of the 2024 MMRC Lecture with photos by Hanna Fasching and video (the mdw media library).
» The second Special Collection of our journal Music & Minorities has just been published, focussing on the topic "Contemporary Views on Romani Music and Romani Music Studies".
» Open Call: "Advancing Music and Minorities Research" (AMMR) seed money initiative: We invite postdocs from all over the world to submit their project ideas (deadline 9 March 2025)!
» We welcome two new staff members to the MMRC: Benjy Fox-Rosen and Peter Lell.
» New features have been added to our digital exhibition "Ružake gila - Ružas Lieder - Ruža's songs".
» Congratulations! Isabel Frey and Angelica Pinna awarded with the Musicologica Austriaca Best Paper Award 2024!
» Successful completion of the PhD-project "Music in the experience of forced migration from Syria to the European Borderland" by Dr. Ioannis Christidis
» AMMR grantee 2024: Jelena Gligorijević
» New member of the MMRC's Advisory Board: Georgia Curran (University of Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music)
» Approval of two FWF ESPRIT project applications by Amos Darkwa Asare and Christian Poske
2023
» Call for Applications: AMMR - Advancing Music and Minorities Research seed money initiative! Please find further information here, Deadline: January 21, 2024.
» December 4 - 9: 12th Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Music and Minorities, including a joint day with the ICTMD Study Group on Indigenous Music and Dance! Video of the opening event
» November 24 - 25: Conference "Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe", review & photos
» November 16: The 2023 MMRC Lecture "amenca ketane. Histories of Trauma, Music and Romani empowerment", review & photos
» BFE Honourable Mention for Paper by María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán
» Call for Contributions: Special Collection of the MMRC's journal Music & Minorities "Contemporary Views on Romani Music and Romani Music Studies"
» ICTMD Honorary Membership for Ursula Hemetek
» Remembering Yoshitaka Terada († 2023)
2022
» Friday, November 25, 7 pm (CET): Listening to the Songs of Indigenous Lands. The 2022 MMRC Lecture
» Apply now: Advancing Music and Minorities Research: A Seed Money Initiative for Research Project Development
» Retrospective Symposium "Macht der Musik. Minderheitenpolitische Interventionen": Reports of ORF-Volksgruppenredaktion "Diversität" und "Hrvati"
» The MMRC congratulates its advisory board member Philip Bohlman on receiving this year's Balzan Prize! September 2022
» MMRC at the 46th ICTM World Conference in Lisbon, July 2022
» "Best Article Prize 2022" from ICTM for Evrim Hikmet Öğüt's article in Music & Minorities, July 2022
» Ursula Hemetek receives Gold Medal of Merit for outstanding achievements at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, June 2022
» Ursula Hemetek on the radio: SWR2 Wissen, Die Roma in Europa (3/3) – Zwischen Gipsy Rap und Romantisierung, March 2022
2021
» GAIN Gender & Agency Research Award goes to Jasemin Khaleli, December 2021
» Launch and public presentation of MMRC’s new journal "Music & Minorities", December 2021
» The 2021 MMRC Lecture: Queering Identity in Music: Perspectives from Ethnomusicology, September 2021
» Adelaida Reyes, 1930–2021, August 2021
» On Sunday, August 1, 9:05 a.m. and then available online for 7 days: Ursula Hemetek as a guest on the Ö1 radio program "Gedanken", July 2021
» The research project "Klingender Gemeindebau" in the media: The radio program "Eigenklang" and Ursula Hemetek's article in mdw Magazine are now available online, May 2021
» MMRC welcomes two new staff members: Jasemin Khaleli and Anja Brunner, April 2021
2020
» Reading and listening recommendations, December 2020
» The 2020 MMRC Lecture, November 2020
» Dawn Catty at mdw, August 2020
» Ö1 radio program Gedanken featuring Ursula Hemetek, Juli 2020
» Listening and reading recommendations, April 2020
» New members of the MMRC team, March 2020
» Recent media reports on the MMRC, March 2020
» Remembering Bruno Nettl, January 2020
» Kick-off Event of the Music and Minorities Research Center, November 2019
» First meeting of the international Advisory Board of the MMRC, July 2019