OCTOBER & NOVEMBER

» 31^st October, 2 and 3: Symposium Ancestral Futurities: Encounters with Heritage in Contemporary Dance and Choreographic Practices
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» 02. Nov. 2026, 15:00–17:00: Community, Archive, Lineage: Belonging to Yiddish folk music through rupture and repair. Workshop with Ira Khonen Temple.
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» 05. November, 13.30: Gastvortrag von Lea Hagmann (Universität Bern)  Vom Kuhschrei zum Jodeldiplom: Schweizer Jodel zwischen gestern und heute. 
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» 06. November 2026, 18.30 Uhr: CiMPo – Cinematographia Musicae Popularis 10 – Beyond Tradition. Kraft der Naturstimmen. Ein Film von Lea Hagmann und Rahel von Gunten.
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» 11. November 2026, 18:30: Feierliche Eröffnung des Gerlinde Haid-Saals (SEG17A)
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» 12.+13. November: Jahrestagung des Österreichischen Volksliedwerkes 
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We would also like to congratulate our colleague and former student Elnaz Mohammadzadeh, who was awarded the mdw 2026 Recognition Award for her master’s thesis in ethnomusicology, titled “Music and Dance in East Khorasan, Iran: Forms of Expression, Transmission, and Gender Perspectives.”

Isabel Frey receives the
Award of Excellence 2025

Isabel Frey, currently a senior artist and postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, was awarded the Award of Excellence 2025 by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) for her dissertation "Vocal Yiddishkeit: Postvernacular Transmission and Performance of Yiddish Folksong." Frey wrote her outstanding dissertation in the field of Ethnomusicology as part of the structured doctoral program "Music Matters. Materialities, Knowings and Practices in Performing Arts" at the mdw. This state prize, which comes with a cash award of EUR 3,000, has been presented since 2008 to the 40 best dissertations of the previous academic year.
Congratulations!