Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education combines artistic, pedagogical and research-based expertise within the disciplines fine arts and music, with a particular emphasis on contemporary forms and practice. Lecturers offer modules for students enrolled in the Bachelor and Masters programmes within the faculties of Education and Humanities, in addition to the minor programme Popular Music Studies and the Early Childhood Music Further Education programme. Public exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events are of great importance within in the institute. These collaborative projects are innovatively developed and presented with and for our students thereby enriching the cultural life of the university.

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Research activities

Junior professorship for Contemporary Art History, Aesthetic Practices

Professorship for Arts Mediation

Professorship for Music Education, in Particular Popular Music
Prof. Dr. Michael Ahlers

Professorship of Musicology, in particular Popular Music Studies
Prof. Dr. Monika Schoop

  1. Singing Up Against Misogyny and Colonial Legacies: Punk Feminism in the Philippines

    Schoop, M. (Speaker)

    26.09.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. „Spontane Aufforderungen, inszenierte Zugänge“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    07.07.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Summer School, Curating Art and Nature, The Knowledge of the Curator III – Department of History of Art, Architecture, and Landscape, University of Groningen

    Kargin, F. (Participant)

    25.05.202106.07.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  4. Summer School, Digital Art History, DAHSS 21

    Kargin, F. (Participant)

    30.08.202104.09.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  5. Surrogates

    Fiduccia, J. (Organiser) & Troeller, J. (Organiser)

    29.09.202201.10.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Symposium “Creativity, Innovation and Labour” 2009

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    22.06.200923.06.2009

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsTransfer

  7. Symposium "Musikalische Begabung und Alter(n)" 2012

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    22.09.2012

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Symposium: Popmusik-Vermittlung zwischen Schule, Hochschule und Beruf

    Ahlers, M. (Organiser)

    13.02.201414.02.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  9. Teacher Identity in Europe: Intensive Programme (IP) - 2013

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    15.03.201323.03.2013

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  10. “The Artist and the Narrator. Theorizing two performative modes of spectatorship of the Installation ‘House’”

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    25.11.202126.11.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch