Activities

Reading Group

Coordinator: Konstantin Hirschmann

The “M&P” Reading Group meets every two months.

Each session begins with a short introductory presentation lasting 10 to 15 minutes, followed by three questions. Whenever possible, the authors of the texts are also invited.

Spring Programme

March 19, at 17:15 UTC.

Daniel Halaban will introduce:

Giorgio Agamben, “The Supreme Music. Music and Politics,” in What is Philosophy, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020, pp. 97–108.

May 7, at 16:00 UTC.

Ersin Mıhçı and Nikos Ordoulidis will introduce:

Ersin Mıhçı, Forging National Music on Both Sides of the Aegean in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Library, 2025, pp. 19–35; 39–49; 151–159.

June 8, at 16:00 UTC.

Michael Custodis and Magdalini Kalopana will introduce:

Michael Custodis, Music and Resistance: Cultural Defense During the German Occupation of Norway 1940–45. Münster: Waxmann, 2021, pp. 12–16; 37–39.

If you are interested in joining the reading group, please send an email to musicandpolitics@musicology.org