Young academics from Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Paris and Sydney, among other places, are travelling to Hildesheim to report on their research: during the fourteenth International Doctoral Students' Workshop at the Center for World Music at the University of Hildesheim, they will exchange views on research methods and research questions.

To report on their research, young academics from China, England, Ireland, France, Portugal, Canada, USA, Norway, Ukraine, Slovakia and Australia are travelling not to Berlin or Cologne, but to Hildesheim in northern Germany.

The Centre for World Music at the University of Hildesheim supports young researchers. Around 40 researchers will meet at the university from 18 June to 21 June 2024. The five-day programme offers space for lectures and discussions. In working groups, the doctoral students can exchange ideas on research methods and ethnomusicological research questions.

For sixteen years, the Hildesheim researchers have been developing a doctoral student network in ethnomusicology. The University of Hildesheim works closely with the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and Professor Philip Bohlman from the University of Chicago/USA. Also new this year is a cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) in Berlin. So far, over 500 young professionals have taken part in the workshops. Once a year, they meet for a week at the Centre for World Music in Hildesheim. The research centre has established itself abroad as an important institution for the promotion of young talent.

Programme of the 14th international doctoral student workshop.

The doctoral students deal for example with these topics:

Chris Batterman Cháirez (University of Chicago, USA):
Pirekua’s Traces: Indigenous Music and Ecologies of Difference on a Mexican Lake

Olaolu Lawal (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway):
Oriki (Praise Poetry) in Southwest Nigeria: Hybrid Ethnography as a Methodological Approach in Times of Global Crisis

Xiong Manyu (Shanghai Conservatory of Music, China):
Internal Modernity in the Reform of Chinese Minority Musical Instruments: A Case Study of the Modern Reform of Miao Lusheng in Southwest China

Burcu Yaşin (Concordia University Montreal, Canada):
Volume Up, Volume Down: The Sonic Imaginaries of Turkish Romani Music

Ronit Ghosh (University of Chicago, USA):
Decolonizing the Ear: The Entangled Histories of ‘Modern Bengali Song’