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Nadia Kiwan © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Evrim Hikmet Öğüt © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Keypanel Mojca Piškor, Evrim Hikmet Öğüt & Talia Bachir-Loopuyt © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Talia Bachir-Loopuyt © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Mojca Piškor © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Anastasiia Mazurenko © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Eckehard Pistrick © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Ioannis Christidis © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Takako Inoue © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Andrew Snyder © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Jasmine Hornabrook © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Lena Dražić © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Andrea Dankić & Erica Åberg © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Susan Lindholm & Alexandra D’Urso © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Britta Sweers © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Roundtable Ulrike Präger, Conny Gruber & Britta Sweers © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Ulrike Präger © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

Malik Sharif © María del Mar Ocaña Guzmán, Petzi Beneš

On November 24 and 25, 2023, sixteen speakers presented their current research on music in relation to different types of migration in panels and a roundtable over two days as part of the conference "Music, Migration, Belonging/s in 21st-Century Europe".

After a keynote by sociologist Nadia Kiwan (University of Aberdeen, UK), wherein she unfolded the role of „Fortress Europe“ and political communities in current migration discourse and called for a transnational perspective on issues of migration, ethnomusicologists Evrim Hikmet Öğüt (Mimar Sinan Art University, Istanbul, Turkey), Mojca Piškor (Academy of Music, Zagreb, Croatia) and Talia Bachir-Loopuyt (University of Tours, France) spoke about challenges in researching musical practice in relation to migration in contemporary Europe. Around sixty participants from various disciplines took part over the course of the two days and contributed to a successful academic exchange.

The event concluded with a roundtable with ethnomusicologists Britta Sweers (University of Bern, Switzerland) and Ulrike Präger (University of Louisville, USA), moderated by Conny Gruber (Austrian Academy of Sciences), in which the question of the concept of belonging as well as the ambivalence surrounding "migration" in general was discussed intensively with the audience.

The scientific program was rounded off with a concert on Friday evening at Sargfabrik by the ensemble "Basma and Friends": The Syrian-Austrian singer Basma Jabr presented her current album "Furat".

The conference took place as part of the project "Women Musicians from Syria: Performance, Networks, Belonging/s after Migration" (Austrian Science Fund FWF, V706-G29) in cooperation with the Music and Minorities Center (MMRC) and the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology.

Thanks for additional financial support to the City of Vienna and the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology.