Opening session

“(E)valuating Transnational Music Practices: Space, Diversity, and Exchange”
Glaucia Peres da Silva and Konstantin Hondros (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Keynote: Prof. Jessica Gienow-Hecht (John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Free University Berlin)

"Music, Space, and Nation Branding"
 

First session

• “Initiation, (Re)creation and (E)valuation of Transnational Music-making in the Mediterranean”
  Amanda Bayley (Bath Spa University)
   
• “Trans-traditional Music Making in Montreal and Berlin: two case studies”
  Katja Heldt (Humboldt-University Berlin)
  Julie Delisle (University of Montreal /Centre for Systematic Musicology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz)
   
• “Evaluating contemporary art music: Justifying the unexpected"
  Annelies Fryberger (IRCAM /Pompidou Center - Labex CAP)

Second session

• “Popular Music in Buenos Aires at the End of the 19th Century: Processes of Cultural Exchange, Transformation and Differentiation”
  Daniela A- González (University of Buenos Aires)
   
• “Historical perspective on the musical life of Tunisia in the course of the French protectorate – the society and challenges”
  Alla El Kahla (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
   
• “From Breton heritage in Acadian musical practices to North-America influence in actual Breton practice: toward a double appropriation”
  Claire Pujol (Rennes 2 University)

Third session

• “Uyghur muqam music practices during Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) in Socialist China – on hybrid space for cultural production and identity (re-)construction”
  Sijin Chen (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg)
   
• “The Nations of Brazilian Candomblé: Music as a Mechanism of Distinction and Integration in a Transcultural Religious Space”
  Mariano González (University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar)

Fourth session

• “Standardizing diversity in ‘global music’”
  Lisa Gaupp (Leuphana University of Lüneburg)
   
• “Culture, Creativity and Practice: (E)valuating the Kenya Music Festival as a transnational music space”
  Mukasa Wafula (University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar)
   
• “Come and expose yourself to fantastic music from around the world”: Experiencing World Music Festivals”
  Peter Lell (University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar)

Fifth session

• “The Good Neighbor Policy and the American Way of Life”
  Denise Barata (Rio de Janeiro State University – UERJ /School of Music UCLA)
   
• “Grooves and cultured clichés”
  Janco Bystron (Carl Maria von Weber College of Music/ University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar)
  Francisco Santana (Universtiy of Campinas)
   
• “The Invention of African Classical Music Evaluating European-African cross-over projects”
  Nepomuk Riva (HMTM Hannover /University of Hildesheim)

Sixth session

• “Music in a diasporic process: a case study about Syrian composers in Germany”
  Ana Clara Santoro (University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar)
   
• “Diasporic conditions in musical spaces”
  Maarja Marivoo-Parro (University of Tallinn/Estonian Public Broadcasting)
   
• “The Different Nations of the Currulao”
  Maria Ximena Alvarado Burbano (Universidade del Valle / University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar)
   
• “Transnational music creation in the world music market”
  Sandrine Le Coz (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences - EHESS)