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Special: Exilarte Anniversary

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Exilarte – Center for Banned Music, which joined our institution as an mdw Research Center in 2016, has now spent two decades devoting itself to the musical estates of individuals who were persecuted, forced into exile, or murdered by the National Socialists—thereby preserving a significant chapter of European music history that might have been lost forever without its efforts.

Special: Cultural Diversity as Lived Practice

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The fact that cultural and above all musical diversity have (and indeed must have) an established place at our university is what this issue’s Special serves to highlight.

Special: Internationality in Focus

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This issue’s Special reveals just how important—and experientially rich—the mdw’s diverse international activities are. We introduce you to the wide breadth of opportunities that mdw students, faculty, and administrative employees enjoy when it comes to international visits and how such instances of mobility end up leading to long-term projects time and time again.

Special: Respect, Dignity & Togetherness

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It’s whenever multiple crises play out simultaneously that the key ways in which universities foster lively, society-wide discourse become particularly clear—in light of which the following pages introduce mdw projects that put common ground and dialogue firmly in focus.

Special: Salieri 2025

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Anyone who knows the composer Antonio Salieri merely as a supposed rival of Mozart will have a chance to change this in 2025. In connection with the 200th anniversary of Salieri’s death and his upcoming 275th birthday, we take a fresh look here at the man whom we have to thank for today’s mdw.

“Widely Underestimated”: In Search of the Real Antonio Salieri with SALIERI 2025

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In a departure from this year’s large-scale celebrations of Johann Strauss, SALIERI 2025 creator Jürgen Partaj is devoting his 2025 entirely to the (re)discovery of Antonio Salieri. In conversation with mdw Magazine, he revealed his personal SALIERI 2025 highlights, spoke of his research trip to Italy, and pointed out how Salieri even appeared on The Simpsons.

Special: The Arts & Ecology

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In artistic endeavours, much like it is with other pursuits, urgent issues pertaining to climate change are more and more often coming to play a central role. Artists’ approaches to this theme are myriad.

Special: Artificial Intelligence

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It’s a mixture of curiosity, enthusiasm, and perhaps anxiety that can often arise when the talk turns to AI technologies’ deployment in our everyday private and professional lives. At home, it might be a robovac that’s supposed to save us work but—How could it be otherwise?—ends up repeatedly needing help. In academic and artistic contexts, on the other hand, it’s about things like questions of authorship, innovation, and inspiration.

Special: Protest

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Protest has many faces—and today, as in the past, we encounter it in the most varied ways, be it as traffic interventions intended to call attention to climate change or through those frequent news reports that tell of the courageous demonstrators in Iran and highlight the life-threatening consequences that their acts of protest entail.
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