Projects
Music, Conflict and Forced Migration
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek and Malik Sharif
Project team: Benjy Fox-Rosen, Ioannis Christidis and Samo Zeichen (project assistant)
Project duration: 01.07.2026–31.07.2027
Made in YUGOSLAVIennA: Balkan Music and Multiple Marginality
Project lead: Jelena Gligorijević, Adriana Sabo
Project duration: 2026–2030
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/PAT2617424
Music for the Eye? An Ethnographic Study of Sign Choirs in German-speaking Countries
Project lead: Chae-Lin Kim
Project duration: 2026–2029
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/ESP4336625
"We sing to live": The songs of a minority fishing community
Project lead: Amos Darkwa Asare
Project duration: 2024-2027
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant DOI 10.55776/ESP696
Sounds of Trauma: Naga Song Responses to Political Conflict
Project lead: Christian Friedrich Poske
Project duration: 2024-2027
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant DOI 10.55776/ESP696
History of Ethnomusicological Minority Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek, Malik Sharif
Project team: Benjy Fox-Rosen
Project duration: 2024-2026
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352
Between Research and Activism: Futures of Music and Minority Studies
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek, Malik Sharif
Project team: Peter Lell, Samo Zeichen, Claudia Strate (until March 2025)
Project duration: 2024-2026
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/ESP4336625
Ružake gila – Ružas Lieder – Ruža’s songs
Project lead: Ursula Hemetek
Project team: Eva Leick, Malik Sharif
Project duration: 2023-2025
Funding: Austrian Science Fund FWF Grant-DOI 10.55776/Z352