The We Want More: Feedback! Young scholars workshop is part of the international popular music studies conference We Want More: Music / Sociology! The Erasmus University Rotterdam research centre Rotterdam Popular Music Studies (RPMS) will host this afternoon together with the Benelux Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. IASPM Benelux has as a key objective to nourish academic talent in the field of popular music studies within the Benelux region, for example through its annual student conference and thesis prize.
- Date
- Wednesday 8 Apr 2026, 10:00 - 17:00
- Type
- Call
- Spoken Language
- English
- Location
Codarts / WMDC, Pieter de Hoochweg 125, Rotterdam
Programme
During the Young Scholars Workshop, we will engage PhD candidates and MA students with an ambition to do a PhD, discussing various aspects of academia. We start with an introduction of the day and a word of welcome by Wessel Coppes (Codarts), followed by a session entitled (Un)sollicited career advice: from a PhD project to a 'good' academic career. After lunch, we have our More Feedback! Break-out sessions where we do an in-depth discussion of young scholars’ papers. We end the day with publishing advice from Canada’s okayest sociologist.
| Lola Abbas University of Amsterdam, NL | “Ik Weet Ook Niet Hoe Ik Anders Laat Zien Dat Dit Land IJskoud Is”: Representations of Dutchness in Contemporary Dutch Alternative Music |
| Thales Reis Alecrim Universidade Católica Portuguesa, PT | The Constellation of the Planetary in Contemporary Black Metal |
| Dima Alkhateeb University of Groningen.NL | Gestures, Power, and Identity: A Comparative Linguistic and Multimodal Analysis of Global Rap Battles |
| Vasiliki Bekiari Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL | The Price of Experience: Understanding Young Musicians’ Motivations for Youth Orchestra Participation |
| Irene de Blas Álvarez Universidad de Valladolid, ES | Llóralo, Machi Llóralo”: Tribade Voices and Verses for a World on Fire |
| Agne Bore Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL | Affective Interactions and Intensity in Online Festival Communities |
| Hou-Wen Chiu University of Bristol, UK | The Trajectory of Taiwanese Indie Music and its Politico-National Articulations |
| Joséphine Gambade Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE | Visibility of Minority Artists in the Francophone Live Music Industry: Early Results from the Case Study of Venue A |
| Grace Goodwin University of Liverpool, UK | Mapping Gender in a Regional Music Scene: A New Methodological Approach |
| Jim Kroezen University of Groningen, NL | Becoming Worthy: Affective Consecration and the Struggle for Recognition in the Platformized Music Landscape |
| Petrică Mogoș Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL | Making Sense of Senseless Times: Musicians and the Unsettled Logics of Post-Socialist Transition |
| Miguel Neiva Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL | The role of LGBTQI+ clubbing participation in everyday socioemotional well-being: an experience sampling study |
| Magali Roberto Paris Nanterre University, FR | Collective knowledge and alternative narrations in the competitive ecosystem of the French popular music sector |
| Sydney Schelvis University of the Arts Helsinki, FI | Concert Communities: How Sound and Space Shape Social Interaction |
| Jord Telgenkamp Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL | Dubbing the Collective: Exploring Tacit Forms of Organizing Through a Case Study of DIY-Collective Carcassettes |
Feedback provided by Ana Alacovska (Copenhagen Business School), Pauwke Berkers (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Thomas Calkins (Erasmus University Rotterdaam), Phillipa Chong (McMaster University), Jo Haynes (University of Bristol), Brian J. Hracs (University of Southampton), Kristina Kolbe (Erasmus University Rotterdam), J. Griffith Rollefson (University College Cork), Melanie Schiller (Radboud University Nijmegen) and Yosha Wijngaarden (Erasmus University Rotterdam).
- Related links
- Rotterdam Popular Music Studies
