We are delighted to invite researchers, scholars, artists and practitioners from any field engaged with music to participate in the GRS International Summer School 2025.  The course will be offered as a blended learning course integrating online and in-person activities.

Interdisciplinarity has increasingly become a requirement in all research fields, often setting the priorities for academic, artistic and practice-based research for governments, universities and funders. Inter (trans and multi) disciplinary research is now regarded as core to fostering innovation, which itself is a concept viewed as essential in producing research that can address complex global challenges.  Yet as much as interdisciplinarity is put forward as the solution to a range of social and environmental crises, others see it as one of the problems.   Philosopher Jan Cornelius Schmidt recently argued that interdisciplinarity has lost its original critical momentum becoming a “trendy, tame and toothless notion … a synonym for application-orientated research and the commercialization of the university in neo-liberal times.”

In this course, participants are invited to discuss the current state of music research—through presenting their own projects and by engaging with researchers from a range of disciplines. Through presentations, workshops, panel discussions, and collaborative sessions, this event will provide a platform for open debate and dialogue.

Speakers confirmed so far:

The course is organized with synchronous and asynchronous activities to maximize accessibility for those wishing to participate.

  • All participants will be invited to submit a digital presentation related to their research which will be made available as part of the new GRS Living Library platform.   The platform will be available to anyone registered for the course.
  • Synchronous activities will take place on 16th-18th June Volda and will feature discussions, feedback, and knowledge sharing related to the digital submissions.   This in-person event will also include talks and debates in addition to performances and hands-on workshops sessions.   This is planned as an in-person event with all sessions recorded and made available in the GRS Living Library platform asynchronously.
  • Ph.D. candidates who are members of GRS consortium will be offered mentorship and peer support activities to develop their their presentations.  Please contact Jill Halstead for more information.

All presentations must be submitted digitally 3 weeks before the event starts.

Participants are free to present their work in any format including, but not limited to, pre-recorded short talks and PowerPoint lectures, long and short format films, photo essays, artistic performances and exhibitions,  sound essays, websites, audio or visual podcasts, blogs, vlogs and/or other forms of social media content.

If you have any questions, please contact Jill Halstead.

PH.D candidates can gain 3 ECTS credit points for this course.

Those wishing to take the 3 ECTS credit points must submit a digital presentation and attend the in-person event 16th-18th June in Volda.

Ways to Participate

The course is open to Ph.D candidates and researchers from any discipline who are interested in music.  There are two ways to participate in the course.

Presentations on the Course Theme: Interdisciplinary Music Research, from Collaborative Innovations to Critical tensions.

We welcome abstracts on the course theme from researchers from any field, and also those outside of the academy such as musicians and music activists.

Spotlight Sessions: Ph.D. candidates, at any stage of their doctoral work, and early career researchers can present their own project (regardless of theme) and receive feedback from peers and senior researchers.

Deadline for Abstracts:
1st March 2025

Registration:
Opens 1st February 2025
Closes 1st May 2025