News

Lange Nacht der Forschung 2026: Call for Contributions at the mdw - Deadline 05.12.2025

"mdw at Schools: Science and Arts Ambassadors of the mdw, 11.12.2025, 3 p.m. (in German)

mdw Writing Retreat - Deadline 15.12.2025

Herta & Kurt Blaukopf Award for outstanding dissertations at the mdw - Deadline 21.01.2026

Research Conclave 2026 (KdW) - Save the date: 05.03.2026

Further mdw-internal Funding
 


New Research Projects

Let's Encode! Crowd-Encoding and Validation of Music Scores (project lead: David Weigl), funded by FWF Principal Investigator Project

Vienna´s New Year´s Concerts: Same procedure as every year? (project lead: David Weigl), funded by das FWF Science Communication

Max Kalbeck: : Networking Practices in Vienna 1900 (project lead: Henrike Rost), funded by FWF Principal Investigator Project

Music for the Eye? An Ethnographic Study of Sign Choirs (project lead: Chae-Lin Kim), funded by ESPRIT FWF

"(Un)heard Neighbors? An Urban Ethnomusicology of Proximity" (project lead: Isabel Frey), funded by 1000 Ideen FWF

"Ludwig Senfl: New Edition of the Collected Works IV" (project lead: Stefan Gasch), funded by FWF Principal Investigator Project

"Piano Competitions in the Cold War" (project lead: Bianca Schumann), funded by the Walter Benjamin Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and FWF Principal Investigator Project

More research projects at the mdw

 


Highlights

Book publications "Facing Drag - Gender Bending and Racialized Masking in Performing Arts and Popular Culture" (Evelyn Annuß and Raz Weiner), as well as "Dirty Dragging - Performative Transpositions" (Evelyn Annuß)

 

 

 

 

Research Support

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Mag. Vitali Bodnar, MAS
Project Service

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