Phenomenology of Music Across the Disciplines
From May 20 through May 22, 2025, the Research Centre for the Study of Music, Media, and Place at ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University hosted an international conference on the phenomenology of music.
Phenomenology is a tradition of Continental European philosophy that has had a vast impact on the humanities and social sciences around the world. Scholars from many disciplines use phenomenological methods to study music; however, most of this work has been conducted within sharply delineated disciplinary clusters, and communication across these clusters has been limited. Featuring leading scholars from seven countries, Phenomenology of Music Across the Disciplines was the first international academic conference to bring together scholars from the broad range of disciplines that draw on phenomenological methods in music research, including those from anthropology, ethnomusicology, folklore studies, gender studies, music education, music theory, musicology, philosophy, and more. The event took place in the MMaP Gallery in the John C. Perlin Arts and Culture Centre, in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
The conference was organized by Harris M. Berger (ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University), Jonathan De Souza (Western University), Friedlind Riedel (University of Salzburg), Benjamin Steege (Columbia University), David VanderHamm (Johnson County Community College), and Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University). Presenters at the conference included: Michael Barber (Saint Louis University), Martin Daughtry (New York University), Alexander Douglas (King’s College London), Helen Fielding (Western University), Daniel Fisher (University of California, Berkeley), Lewis R. Gordon (University of Connecticut), Charissa Granger (University of the West Indies), Remy Haswell-Martin (University of West London), Simon Høffding (University of Southern Denmark), Inderjit N. Kaur (University of Michigan), Judith Lochhead (Stony Brook University), Nanette Nielsen (University of Oslo), Felix Ó Murchadha (University of Galway), Matthew Rahaim (University of Minnesota), and Daniel Villegas Vélez (University of Ottawa).
Click here for the conference program. Videos of papers from the conference will be available soon on the MMaP YouTube Channel.
The Centre would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Office of the President at ÐÓ°É´«Ã½, the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University Conference Fund, and the ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ University School of Music.