How do music, people, and ideas move across geographic, political, and cultural boundaries? This was the central question at the 2026 edition of the isaResearch Summer School, entitled “Across Moving Grounds: Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility”. This event saw an international group of 21 early stage researchers from a wide range of disciplines come together to shed light from the most varied perspectives on mobility as a core theme of musical and performative practices.

It’s now official: the isaScience conference is history, having made way for the isaResearch Summer School as a new format for research within the framework of isa.