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

On November 6, 2024, the mdwPress Academic Board will meet and decide on the current submissions. You can get in touch with us at any time to prepare your submission. We recommend that you arrange a consultation meeting before submitting, so that your submission includes all the required information four weeks ahead of the meeting.

mdwPress is delighted to announce the successful relaunch of the journal Bulletin of empirical music education research (b:em). The journal has been redesigned and revamped with the move to mdwPress. This will be celebrated with a special issue on the occasion of the emeritus status of co-editor Prof. Dr. Andreas Lehmann-Wermser, who founded the open access journal b:em in 2010.

mdwPress is happy to announce the first Call for Contributions of the newly founded journal International Journal of Music Mediation (IJMM). The inaugural issue will focus on central questions around music mediation and provide a foundation for further research and upcoming issues of the journal: