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. 2017
  2. Jugend – Musik – Medien

    Ahlers, M. (Reviewer)

    01.02.2017

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantTransfer

  3. 2016
  4. Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education (Organisational unit)

    Ahlers, M. (Executive member)

    08.12.2016

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  5. Digital Innovation Circle

    Ahlers, M. (Keynote speaker)

    05.12.201606.12.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Schneller, höher, lauter - Virtuosität in (populären) Musiken

    Ahlers, M. (Speaker)

    18.11.201620.11.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    03.11.201605.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  8. Gesellschaft für Musikwirtschafts- und Musikkulturforschung e.V. (External organisation)

    Ahlers, M. (Executive member)

    21.09.2016

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsResearch

  9. GMM Summer Institute 2017

    Ahlers, M. (Organiser)

    13.09.201620.09.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  10. Jugend- und popkulturelle Vermittlungsfelder

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    18.07.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Ahlers, M. (Oral presentation)

    01.07.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  12. Formate der Kunstvermittlung V

    Hallmann, K. (Organiser) & Maset, P. (Organiser)

    02.06.2016

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  13. Tools – Kreativität – Gamification: Paradigmen und Konzepte zum Einsatz digitaler Medien im Musikunterricht.

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    19.05.201621.05.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  14. Popmusik-Vermittlung: Zwischen Kompetenzorientierung und Aufgabenkonstruktion

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    09.03.201612.03.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  15. Acoustic Capital in German Rap: A Case Study on Appropriation, Value Creation and Post-Digital Music Business

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    03.03.201607.03.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  16. Mediale Präsentationen in der Musikvermittlung

    Ahlers, M. (Lecturer)

    29.02.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  17. MpWH-Jahrestagung 2016 (Event)

    Ahlers, M. (Full member)

    25.02.201626.02.2016

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsEducation

  18. Arbeitsgruppe Fach und Sprache (External organisation)

    Ahlers, M. (Office)

    08.02.201610.02.2016

    Activity: MembershipAcademic networks or partnershipsResearch

  19. 2015
  20. 6. Nachwuchsworkshop der Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung - GfPM 2015

    Ahlers, M. (Organiser)

    10.07.201511.07.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  21. The Temporality of the Utopian Object: The Bauhaus’s Metallisches Fest (1929).

    Troeller, J. (Speaker)

    15.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  22. 2014
  23. Institute of Fine Arts, Music and Education (Organisational unit)

    Ahlers, M. (Office)

    11.12.2014

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees