The Ethical Horizons of Music and Art Schools  

25–26 September 2026

Programme

Please note that the symposium programme is subject to change. Details about paper and panel sessions will follow. 

Online participants have full access to the livestreamed programme on Zoom and to all prerecorded presentations on ConfTool. 

For all links, please log in at https://www.conftool.net/emss2026/

Complimentary coffee, tea, and snacks, lunch on both days, and a light dinner on Friday are all included in the fee for on-site participation.
All meals are served in the Bankettsaal near the campus restaurant Mensa. 

We look forward to welcoming you to the 4th European Music & Art School Symposium! 

 

Friday 25 September

08:00–10:30 Registration (Main entry hall)

09:0010:15 Fanny Hensel Hall

Opening and keynote (in English)

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel

Educating for an uncertain future: Ethical dimensions of music and arts schools' societal mission 

10:1511:30 Clara Schumann Hall 

Eröffnung und Keynote (auf Deutsch)

Alexandra Kertz-Welzel

Bildung für eine ungewisse Zukunft: Ethische Dimensionen des gesellschaftlichen Auftrags
von Musik- und Kunstschulen  

09:30–11:15 Coffee, Meet & Greet (Bankettsaal)

11:4513:15 Session 1

Fanny Hensel Hall

Clara Schumann Hall

spiel|mach|t|raum

 

Online

13:1514:30 Lunch (Bankettsaal)

14:3016:00 Session 2

Fanny Hensel Hall

Clara Schumann Hall

spiel|mach|t|raum

 

Online

 

16:0016:30 Coffee break (Bankettsaal)

16:3018:00 Session 3

Bankettsaal

 

Clara Schumann Hall

 

spiel|mach|t|raum

 

Online

 

18:20–20:00 Chamber concert (two audience groups) 18:20–20:00 Curated room

Fanny Hensel Hall and online streaming

18:20–19:00 Chamber concert (first
audience group)

19:20–20:00 Chamber concert (second
audience group

Clara Schumann Hall

Discover Austrian music school projects

 19:00–21:00 Light dinner (Bankettsaal)

 

Saturday 26 September

09:00–10:00 Fanny Hensel Hall and online 

 Keynote (in English)
Guadalupe López-Íñiguez

Musically gifted children, exceptionalised and erased: Care ethics amid the ethical cracks of music education

09:00–10:15 Clara Schumann Hall 

Keynote (Auf Englisch mit deutschen Untertiteln)
Guadalupe López-Íñiguez

Musically gifted children, exceptionalised and erased: Care ethics amid the ethical cracks of music education

10:0010:45 Coffee break (Bankettsaal)

10:4512:15 Session 4

Fanny Hensel Hall

 

Clara Schumann Hall

 

spiel|mach|t|raum

 

Online

 

12:1513:30 Lunch (Bankettsaal)

13:3015:00 Session 5

Fanny Hensel Hall

Clara Schumann Hall

Österreich-Session

 

spiel|mach|t|raum

 

Online

15:0015:45 Coffee break (Bankettsaal)

15:4517:15 Session 6

Fanny Hensel Hall

Clara Schumann Hall

 

spiel|mach|t|raum

 

Online

 

17:45 Joseph Haydn Hall
Closing ceremony

19:15 Symposium dinner 

Restaurant Terra Rossa, Roterdstraße 3, 1160 Wien