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. Von der Immanenz einer wahrnehmungsfundierten Reflexivität in professionsbezogenen Bildungsprozessen

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker) & Engel, P. D. B. (Speaker)

    08.02.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  2. Vortrag und Workshop zu "Alternative Cultures" in EDM und Hip-Hop

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    03.11.201605.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  3. Whole Person Development – Building Students as Academic Leaders

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    03.07.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Wissenschaftliche Popmusikanalyse.: Ein Workshop.

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    10.12.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Workshop für lehrkräftebildende Hochschulen Niedersachsens im Rahmen der „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker), Besser, M. (Speaker), Kuhl, P. (Speaker) & Herzog, C. (Speaker)

    13.09.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Workshop: „Musik und Region 2.0 – Chancen der Nachwuchsförderung in den Kanälen den Web.“

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    15.01.2011

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. XVIII Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music - 2017

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  8. Zukunftsmusik: The Future of Digital Musik Making & Education

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    05.11.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer