Symposium: Music and Cats (28–29.11.2025, Online)

Music and Cats – Online Symposium

 November 28–29, 2025 |  11:00–19:00 CET
 Free & Online

We are thrilled to announce the first-ever comprehensive symposium dedicated to the intersection of music and cats. This event brings together perspectives from music history and theory, popular music studies, human-animal studies, psychology, behavioral biology, media and cultural studies, literary studies, artistic practice, and more.

As companion animals to humans for several millennia, cats have influenced music-making in myriad ways. They strum lutes in medieval manuscripts, star in 20th-century vaudeville acts as “singing” cats, drift on synthesizers through space, and dominate today’s internet culture. From illuminated codices to social media feeds, felines have continuously shaped and challenged what it means to be musical.

Over two days, the symposium will explore themes such as:

• Cats in music history and music education

• Feline metaphors in music

• Music about cats, for cats, and even by cats

• Multispecies soundscapes & bonds between musicians and their cats

• Cats, gender, and politics

• Cats in recording studios and digital meme culture

 Attendance is free. Registration is now open via Eventbrite: https://musicandcats.eventbrite.de

  To access the book of abstracts, including the full program, click on the image/link: https://monikaschoop.paperturn-view.com/?pid=ODk8906038&v=3.1&p=1&source=qr