mdwPress will be presented to a wide audience for the first time in November 2025 at Buch Wien. We will share a booth with the publishers of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Vienna University of Technology, and Innsbruck University Press. On Friday, November 14, at 11 a.m., Axel Petri-Preis will present the volume “Turning Social” in the Die Presse …

Turning Social: The Social-Transformative Potential of Music Mediation Axel Petri-Preis, Annette Ziegenmeyer (Hg.) Viktória Várkonyi (Associate Editor) 27 September 2025, 05:30 p.m. Fanny Hensel-Saal Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna How can diverse musical interactions be productively used to promote inter- and transcultural communication, support human thriving and flourishing, empower marginalised social groups, or make society as a whole more sustainable, just …

In fall 2025, the mdwPress Academic Board will meet to decide on the current submissions. We are pleased to announce that, from now on, publication projects in the field of artistic research can also be submitted. In oder to keep pace with the rapid developments in this area, we intend to make mdwPress more accessible to such publications and to …

Musik und Suizidalität: Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven Julia Heimerdinger, Hannah Riedl, Thomas Stegemann (Hg.) September 20, 2025, 11:45 a.m. Joseph Haydn-Saal Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien Suicidal tendencies are a common theme in countless songs, opera arias, and instrumental pieces—such as in the infamous suicide song “Gloomy Sunday.” Current academic and popular science debates are discussing the extent to which music influences actual …

We are pleased to congratulate the editorial team of International Journal of Music Mediation (IJMM) on the succesful launch of the journal.  On occasion of its first issue, Irena Müller-Brozović and Axel Petri-Preis were interviewd in the Ö1 Intrada. The conversation is available for listening  here in the Ö1 mediathek.

Time & Place January 22, 2025, 7 PM Bankettsaal Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1 1030 Wien The International Journal of Music Mediation (IJMM) is the first international peer-reviewed journal in the field of music mediation, representing a significant milestone in the development of research in this emerging discipline. The event will feature the journal’s editors, Axel Petri-Preis, Irena Müller-Brozović, and Irina Kirchberg, who …

Populismus kritisieren – Current Perspectives December 10, 2024, 18:00 ub.mdw – Bruno Walter-Lesesaal Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien Right-wing populist movements and discourses draw on new, aestheticized styles of politics and artistically tested forms of provocation that previously had left-wing connotations. They also occupy gender, family, and sexuality as trigger topics. The contributors bring together research on populism with approaches from …

Friday, 29 November 2024, 6 PM ub.mdw – Bruno Walter-Lesesaal, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Wien mdwPress is delighted to present The Social Organization of Arts – A Theoretical Compendium by Volker Kirchberg (Leuphana University) and Tasos Zembylas (mdw). In the compendium, Kirchberg and Zembylas critically discuss seven major theories of the social organization of arts in Western societies, with the aim …

Unfortunately, this event is canceled. Monday, 25.11., 6 PM Bruno-Walter-Lesesaal, mdw-Bibliothek, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1