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.
Main research areas
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
Zwischen modularer Konstitution und Niederschwelligkeits-mythos. Zum Demokratisierungsversprechen aktueller digital-haptischer Musik-Interfaces
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Wernicke, C. (Speaker)
19.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Zwischenereignisse. Installationen und Spectators”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
02.07.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zwischen den Stühlen oder gemeinsam sind wir stärker? Paradigmen, Probleme und Potenziale transdiszipinärer Forschung
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
25.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Zweitgutachter im Promotionsverfahren Dr. Paul Christian Hönigschnabel: Musikerziehung in Österreich: 1947–2017. Die Mediatisierung des Faches, dargestellt in den Beiträgen des Fachmagazins Musikerziehung
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
27.05.2020Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Zukunftsmusik: The Future of Digital Musik Making & Education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
05.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
XVIII Conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music - 2017
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
29.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Workshop: „Musik und Region 2.0 – Chancen der Nachwuchsförderung in den Kanälen den Web.“
Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)
15.01.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Workshop »Künstlerische Praktiken postdigitaler Verflechtungen – Reorganisationen zwischen Aisthesis, Kunst und Medien«
Hallmann, K. (Organiser), Kargin-Zahn, F. (Organiser) & Zahn, M. (Organiser)
11.07.2024 → 12.07.2024Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop für lehrkräftebildende Hochschulen Niedersachsens im Rahmen der „Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung“
Ahlers, M. (Speaker), Besser, M. (Speaker), Kuhl, P. (Speaker) & Herzog, C. (Speaker)
13.09.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Wissenschaftliche Popmusikanalyse.: Ein Workshop.
Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)
10.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Whole Person Development – Building Students as Academic Leaders
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
03.07.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vortrag und Workshop zu "Alternative Cultures" in EDM und Hip-Hop
Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)
03.11.2016 → 05.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Von der Immanenz einer wahrnehmungsfundierten Reflexivität in professionsbezogenen Bildungsprozessen
Hallmann, K. (Speaker) & Engel, P. D. B. (Speaker)
08.02.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“Visual Rhetoric as a three-dimensional practice. Theorizing the interconnections between the visual rhetorical objects and the process of spectatorship”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
01.04.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Visual Rhetoric as a three-dimensional practice”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
10.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Verständnisse und Aufgaben der Musiktheorie(n) in der Eignungsprüfung. Vortrag auf der Jahrestagung der KMPWH
Ahlers, M. (Speaker) & Lang, R. (Speaker)
16.03.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Education
University of the Philippines Diliman
Schoop, M. (Visiting researcher)
09.2023Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Research
University of Salamanca (External organisation)
Linde, A. (Member)
2011 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
University of Erfurt (External organisation)
Hallmann, K. (Coordinator) & Hofmann, P. D. F. (Coordinator)
06.03.2017 → …Activity: Membership › Academic networks or partnerships › Research
Über-diszipliniert und leidenschaftlich diskursiv
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
13.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Travel and Collaboration
Troeller, J. (Organiser), Becker, A.-G. (Organiser), Peselmann, V. (Organiser), Reisinger, S. (Organiser), Troncoso, P. C. (Organiser) & Wang, Y. (Organiser)
17.06.2021 → 18.06.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tools – Kreativität – Gamification: Paradigmen und Konzepte zum Einsatz digitaler Medien im Musikunterricht.
Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)
19.05.2016 → 21.05.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
“Through the Threshold: responsive, performative, self-referential”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
25.03.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Temporality of the Utopian Object: The Bauhaus’s Metallisches Fest (1929).
Troeller, J. (Speaker)
15.01.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
“The Artist and the Narrator. Theorizing two performative modes of spectatorship of the Installation ‘House’”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
25.11.2021 → 26.11.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Techno Cityscapes: Berlin’s Club Cultural Evolution in the Midst of Gentrification
Jóri, A. (Speaker)
2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Teacher Identity in Europe: Intensive Programme (IP) - 2013
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
15.03.2013 → 23.03.2013Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Symposium: Popmusik-Vermittlung zwischen Schule, Hochschule und Beruf
Ahlers, M. (Organiser)
13.02.2014 → 14.02.2014Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium "Musikalische Begabung und Alter(n)" 2012
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
22.09.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Symposium “Creativity, Innovation and Labour” 2009
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
22.06.2009 → 23.06.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Transfer
Surrogates
Fiduccia, J. (Organiser) & Troeller, J. (Organiser)
29.09.2022 → 01.10.2022Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Summer School, Digital Art History, DAHSS 21
Kargin, F. (Participant)
30.08.2021 → 04.09.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
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)
25.05.2021 → 06.07.2021Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
„Spontane Aufforderungen, inszenierte Zugänge“
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
07.07.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Singing Up Against Misogyny and Colonial Legacies: Punk Feminism in the Philippines
Schoop, M. (Speaker)
26.09.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Shaping Musical Futures: Perspectives on Post Digital Music Education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
07.06.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Ahlers, M. (Member)
10.01.2013Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Education (Organisational unit)
Ahlers, M. (Member)
26.03.2014 → 01.04.2016Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
Schneller, höher, lauter - Virtuosität in (populären) Musiken
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
18.11.2016 → 20.11.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)
Schoop, M. (Editor)
2023 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of series › Research
Roundtable Popular music and education
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
18.06.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
„Rollenbildung“
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
30.11.2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Ringvorlesung "Digitale Medien im Schulunterricht – interdisziplinäre Perspektiven" - 2006
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
2006Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Education
Reviewer für Tagungsband Nr. 35 des Arbeitskreis für Musikpädagogische Forschung
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
01.01.2014 → 04.01.2014Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
Reviewer für das "Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie"
Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)
13.03.2013Activity: Other expert activities › Academic Consultant › Research
“Research Methods and Methodologies”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
21.04.2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Research in Music Education Conference - RIME 2009
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
14.04.2009 → 18.04.2009Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
“Relying on Spontaneity”
Kargin, F. (Speaker)
23.05.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reeperbahnfestival Konferenz
Ahlers, M. (Speaker)
19.09.2018 → 22.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Rapping against Old and New Nazis: Musical Memories of Bejarano and Microphone Mafia
Schoop, M. (presenter)
11.07.2019 → 17.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research