CfP: Music4Change International Research School 2025 (23.-26.09.2025, Aristotle University Thessaloniki) Deadline: 12.05.2025

The Music4Change International Research School 2025 will take place at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, from September 23rd-26th.

We hereby invite abstract submissions for the 2025 International Research School on the theme of Interdisciplinarity and Innovation in Music Research. This 4-day event will include presentations, performances, panel discussions and workshops exploring innovative paradigms of music and sound research across disciplines. Abstracts are particularly invited from PhD students, early career researchers, and interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners.

Arts-science-technology collaborations, multimodal experimentation across the humanities and social sciences, and synergies between music, health and education sectors have transformed the fields of music and sound studies in the 21st century. At the same time, the very role of music research and its presence within higher education is constantly under threat. Pursuing innovation as music researchers while experiencing growing political, economic and environmental instabilities on a global level, poses complex challenges. We will investigate interdisciplinarity and innovation critically and dialogically, while raising questions regarding the multiple, and sometimes conflicting meanings and implications that these concepts bring to music research.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Sonic epistemologies across disciplines

  • Collaboration in interdisciplinary research

  • Approaches to sustainable innovation in / through music

  • Practice-based, research-creation, and artistic methods in interdisciplinary contexts

  • Innovation in music, health and wellbeing

  • Interdisciplinary perspectives on music, social justice and conflict

  • Accessible and inclusive sound/music technologies

  • Critical interdisciplinarity in AI and music cognition research

  • Inter/multi/trans disciplinarity in teaching and learning

  • Music education and social change

The abstract submission form can be found on the Music4Change website: 

https://music4change.eu/activities/international-research-school-2025/

The deadline for abstract submissions is set to May 12th.

CFPHelene Heuser