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. Europe meets Asia – Virtuosos and Stars as Cultural Goods and Symbols

    Ahlers, M. (Oral presentation)

    01.07.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. European Association for Music in Schools (EAS) (External organisation)

    Ahlers, M. (Member)

    01.04.2009

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  3. European Association for Music in Schools - EAS 2014

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    20.05.201425.05.2014

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. Erstgutachten im Dissertationsverfahren Melanie Ptatscheck, M.A.

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    17.06.2019

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  5. Engendering Bauhaus Histories. Frauen und Feminität seit den 1920er-Jahren.

    Troeller, J. (Speaker), Burchert, L. (Speaker) & Függer-Vagts, J. (Speaker)

    28.06.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. „Einführung“, „Künstlerische Praktiken postdigitaler Verflechtungen“

    Kargin, F. (Speaker)

    11.07.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Effekte und Affekte. Warum die Künste nichts tun.

    Hallmann, K. (Speaker)

    19.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer