The Early Music Department and the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies at the mdw warmly invite you to a double book presentation: On 23 June 2026, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the reading room of the ub.mdw (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna)

Dirty Dragging. Performative Transpositions Evelyn Annuß 24 June 2026, 7:00 pm Depot, Breite Gasse 3, 1070 Vienna Dirty Dragging contributes to queer retheorizations and explores the ambivalence of transgressive performances under apartheid, Nazism, and Jim Crow through a transoceanic lens. The book takes up the ambivalence of “dirty” performance modes—spanning drag and carnival to propaganda—and extends readings of gender bending …

We are pleased to announce that the mdwPress journals are now registered in the Diamond Discovery Hub (DDH)! The DDH is community-driven and aims to become a comprehensive registry of Diamond Open Access journals (scholar-led, institutionally published, with no paywalls and no author fees). You can find out more about the DDH’s criteria and how to use it here.

The book will be presented as part of the Research Lab cARE (core Artistic Research Ensemble). Philosophy on Stage #6: Notebook of the Heart at brut nordwest (Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Wien). Editors Arno Böhler and Susanne Valerie Granzer were guests on Radio Orange for a studio discussion about the event and the anthology. You can listen to the entire broadcast …

Just before the holidays, the third issue of the International Journal of Music Mediation (IJMM) came out online. The topic this time: Jazz Encounters. Foundations and Potentials of Music Mediation in Jazz

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 …