Distinguished Lecture Series

Music and Digital Humanities

Distingusihed Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanitiesmdw Campus, Banketsaal. From 2. March 2026.

The Distinguished Lecture Series 'Music and Digital Humanities'  at mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites leading international experts in diverse aspects of DH to share their perspectives with our students, faculty, and community. The series is aimed at a broad, non-technical audience. It provides a varied overview of the history and current state of DH as it applies to music, its philosophical underpinnings and societal implications, and is expected to yield insights into relevant methodologies, technologies, infrastructures, and applications working with humanities datasets.

Topics include data management and computational analysis for digital musicology, digital editions, DH and artificial intelligence, machine learning and music information retrieval, as well as pedagogy, science communication, and citizen science. The series is convened by Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl, digital musicology researchers at the mdw's Department for Music Acoustics — Wiener Klangstil, and organized in collaboration with the mdw's Department of Musicology and Performance Studies.

Lectures will be presented in English. Remote attendance via live stream will be available — details to be announced here soon.

LV-Nr. 22.9000

Provisional Programme

02. March 2026 — Anna E. Kijas, Lilly Music Library, Tufts University

09. March 2026 — Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl, mdw

16. March 2026 — Frans Wiering, Utrecht University

23. March 2026 — Andrew Hankinson, RISM Digital

13. April 2026   — Mark Gotham, King's College London

27. April 2026   — to be announced

04. May 2026    — Frauke Jürgensen, mdw

11. May 2026    — Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Australian National University (venue: K0101, mdw Campus)

18. May 2026    — to be announced

01. June 2026   — Christof Weiß, JMU Würzburg

08. June 2026   — to be announced

22. June 2026   — Panel: Digital editions

29. June 2026   — to be announced

This project is funded by CLARIAH-AT with support from the BMFWF.