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Lecture series

The university as a think tank

The musicology lecture series is a central event for the entire university. Each semester, it addresses a different overarching and relevant topic. Internationally renowned speakers present insights and outlooks in cooperation with musicology and the artistic departments at the university: on contemporary musical life, on music-historical questions, on composers, on central aspects of the history of music in Europe. Science and art enter into a dialogue, and everyone is invited to get to know the university as a place of knowledge transfer, as a thinking workshop.

Dates

  • All lecture series take place on Wednesdays from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Music Hall of HfMT Cologne.
  • The lecture series at HfMT are public events. Visitors from outside the university are welcome.
  • Lectures in the field of dance studies are open to the public. Please inquire for dates.
FUTURE(((s)))MUSIC
  • October 15, 2025 to January 28, 2026

Future music - a term that has oscillated between visionary aspiration and ideological projection since Richard Wagner - will be renegotiated in this lecture series. Contributors from various music- and sound-related disciplines will focus their attention on futures in sound: on utopias and dystopias, on futuristic narratives and speculative discourse practices, on audio visions and 'sonic fictions'. In this sense, music of the future refers to a transdisciplinary
space of thought and possibility. "Futuring" - the active design of the future - becomes a performative action in the sense of 'musicking': an artistically and scientifically researching practice that understands music and sound, but also dance, text and movement as media of a still unheard-of tomorrow ...

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  • Happy Birthday: One hundred years of the Cologne University of Music and Dance (1925 to 2025) (SoSe 2025)
  • Favorite music: From subjective experience to objectifying discussion (WiSe 2024/25)
  • Between Istanbul and Cologne: Post-Migrant Sound/Spaces in the Dialogue of Scientific Cultures (SoSe 2024)
  • Contacts: Music / Media / Cultures (winter semester 2023/24)
  • Original and forgery? Contested Authorships in Music, Art and Literature (SoSe 2023)
  • Metamorphoses of the human being. Interpenetrations of man, nature, art and technology (WiSe 2022/23)
  • "It's a man's world?" Female artists in Europe's music capitals of the early 20th century (SoSe 2022)
  • Into the open. The art of improvisation (SoSe 2021)
  • Beethoven under the magnifying glass. New perspectives on interpretation, analysis and reception (winter semester 2020/21)
  • Music in view. Auditory and visual cultures. (summer semester 2019)
  • Music that creates knowledge! (winter semester 2018/19)
  • Music in interior spaces. Sound, dialog and encounters in the private sphere (SoSe 2018)
  • World music: artists - concepts - perspectives (SoSe 2017)
  • Ringing Coin - The Value of Music (winter semester 2016/17)
  • Concepts of melody (summer semester 2016)
  • Musical interpretation (winter semester 2015/16)
  • "Rhythm concepts in cultural comparison" (summer semester 2014)
  • "Music in the dialog of the arts" (WS 2013/14)
  • "1813 - 2013: Wagner, Verdi and the opera" (summer semester 2013)
  • "Key works of contemporary music" (winter semester 2012/13)
  • "Music in the age of its technical (re)producibility" (summer semester 2012)
  • "Music and nature (winter semester 2011/12)
  • "Music in France (summer semester 2011)
  • "Concepts of melody in cultural comparison (winter semester 2010/2011)
  • "Cologne as a city of music: history - present - perspectives" (WiSo 2009/10)
  • "Rhythm concepts in cultural comparison" (summer semester 2009)
  • "Old music with new ears" (WiSe 2008/09)
  • "Music concepts: New Music after 1950" (SoSe 2008)
  • "Voices - Vocal Concepts" (WiSo 2007/08)
  • "History|Herstory: Other music history(ies)" (summer semester 2007)
  • "Processes of change in musical cultures" (winter semester 2006/07)
  • "Mozart" (summer semester 2006)
  • "Music and Politics" (WiSo2005/2006)
Referent auf der Bühne mit Publikum während einer Vorlesung.
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Portrait Prof. Dr. Anna Schürmer
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Schürmer
Juniorprofessorin für Musikwissenschaft/ Sound Studies
Email anna.schuermer@hfmt-koeln.de
Telephone 0221-28380-361
Address
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Theodor Heuss Ring 14, Raum 009
50668 Köln