Musicology in the 21st century, lund

18-19 April, 2024

At Flädie Mat & Vingård outside Lund, Sweden, several Swedish musicology departments had together organised a conference to discuss problems and challenges for musicology as a discipline, and the theoretical and methodological perspectives required to face them.

I contributed with the presentation “The Need for Posthumanist Music Studies: Attending to Challenges of the 21st Century”. Identifying two major challenges of this century – climate change, environmental issues and relationships between humans and nature on the one hand, and technological advancement and particularly AI on the other – I argued that posthumanist perspectives are needed in the music academic discourse to understand and attend to these challenges and the intersections between them.