Workshops
During the conference, we will have two workshop sessions. In each session, you can choose between two different workshops from either an earlier career strand or a later ceer strand. You are welcome to pick either two from the same strand or one from each strand. Please select which workshops you will be attending no later than 27 Oct: https://forms.gle/Q5zsHSTcNnQuqjxy8
EARLIER CAREER STRAND
Workshop 1 (Wednesday, 3rd November):
Changing paths and crossing disciplinary boundaries in systematic musicology research
Speaker: Caitlyn Trevor
Workshop 2 (Thursday, 4th November):
Getting your research published in systematic musicology
Speaker: Niels Christian Hansen
LATER CAREER STRAND
Workshop 3 (Wednesday, 3rd November):
How to make friends and collaborate with them
Speaker: Joshua S. Bamford
Workshop 4 (Thursday, 4th November):
So Baby talk to me – like Scientists do: Scientific Communication in music-based research
Speaker: Svenja Reiner
Workshop 1
Title: Changing paths and crossing disciplinary boundaries in systematic musicology research
Speaker: Caitlyn Trevor, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Description: Search committees for graduate programs, academic positions, and grant calls increasingly demand interdisciplinarity from applicants. But what is the value of doing interdisciplinary work or moving across fields? Whether it be from the sciences to the humanities or the humanities to the sciences, crossing disciplinary boundaries increases your skillset and expands your expertise. It helps you conceive of novel research questions, invent ground-breaking methodologies, and craft new applications for your research results. In this workshop, participants will discuss the pros and cons of pursuing an interdisciplinary career, workshop their own interdisciplinary research ideas, and learn how to seek out interdisciplinary collaborations and opportunities.
Workshop 2
Title: Getting your research published in systematic musicology
Speaker: Niels Chr. Hansen, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies & Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark
Description: Getting one’s research published in peer-reviewed journals is the primary prerequisite for an academic career in systematic musicology and beyond. Yet, the strategic and practical skills required to pursue one’s publication goals are typically learned through a non-systematic, ad-hoc apprenticeship model whose success is almost exclusively dependent on the apprentice being surrounded by competent mentors who happen to prioritise these particular training elements. Not everyone does. This brief workshop aims to create a welcoming space where we can openly share knowledge and provide practical advice on the ins and outs of academic publishing. We will discuss how to pick the right publication venue(s), how to best prepare written material for submission, how your submitted manuscript is handled behind the scenes, when and how to follow up with editors and respond to reviewers, and how you can eventually contribute back to our scholarly community by seeking experience reviewing and editing manuscripts yourself.
Workshop 3
Title: How to make friends and collaborate with them
Speaker: Joshua S. Bamford, Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Description: You probably had to do group assignments in undergrad and were told that group work would be a valuable experience. Then you get to postgrad and it’s just you and your thesis. So, where does one begin if one wishes to find some friends and start a group project? In this workshop we’ll discuss the social side of research. We’ll cover topics such as: how to network more efficiently, what to look for in a collaborator, what a potential collaborator is looking for in you, how to manage a collaboration, and why you should bother with any of this anyway. Sure to be the perfect way to start a conference!
Workshop 4
Title: So Baby talk to me – like Scientists do: Scientific Communication in music-based research
Speaker: Svenja Reiner, Institut für Musik, Hochschule Osnabrück, Germany
Description: Among other things, the COVID-19 pandemic made abundantly clear that it does not only need reliable scientific data but a functioning dialogue with the public and media to make sure that safety measures are not only in place but will be followed. Researchers like Anthony Fauci, Christian Droste, Marylyn Addo or Anders Tegnell became scientific celebrities almost over night, and political figures like Anja Karliczek (German Federal Minister for Education and Research) announced that SciCom (science communication) will be a focal point of her politics, including research funds. In this workshop, I invite you to discuss the challenges and possibilities of SciCom within music-based research, e.g., complexity on a language and/or content level, presentation of acoustic research, methods and theory or even its overall relevance for the wider public. Please prepare either a best practice example of successful SciCom within your field of research or some research of your own that you would like to present to a target group.