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Christmas 2025-2026

The Department of Arts and Musicology wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Our sections including libraries are closed from 22 December 2025 to 6 January 2026!

Review of the conference "Die Handschrift des Demiurgen. Stildenken und Naturwahrnehmung"

The international and interdisciplinary conference "Die Handschrift des Demiurgen: Stildenken und Naturwahrnehmung" brought together researchers from the fields of art, cultural studies and musicology at the University of Graz on 27 and 28 November 2025. As part of the faculty's focus on "Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics", the conference focussed on questions regarding the relationship between style, the experience of nature and epistemological practice.

Cristina Scuderi at a conference in Verona

"Giuseppi Gazzaniga. E il teatro musicale comico del secondo Settento"

New Publication Iris Julian

The Inherent Potential in Art Performance. To Critically Challenge Art Traditions in Scenes of Love and Sexual Desire London and New York: Routledge, 2025.

MerMEId workshop in Trieste: Exchange and innovation in digital music cataloguing

On 13 and 14 September 2025, members of the TartinianS in Europe project took part in the MerMEId workshop at the Trieste Conservatory. The event provided a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas on digital music cataloguing, explore topics related to Giuseppe Tartini in greater depth and strengthen cooperation between European institutions in the field of digital musicology.

Warum der Tod in Malerei & Co. so lebendig ist, erklärt Kunstwissenschaftler Robert Felfe

Abseits vom 1. November beschäftigen wir uns nach wie vor nicht gerne damit, blenden ihn oft aus. In der Kunst ist der Tod hingegen omnipräsent und ein zentrales Thema. Warum das Sterben so fasziniert und was uns die Darstellungen sagen wollen, zeigt Kunsthistoriker und Kulturwissenschaftler Robert Felfe auf.

Tartinians at conferences throughout Europe

Tartinians in Europe will be presented at conferences in Birmingham, Turin and Salzburg

Places still available for the Erasmus exchange in Milan, 09-13 December 2025

Interested students from the University of Graz are invited to take part in the International Erasmus Workshop (BIP) on "The Violin Schools in Eighteenth-Century Europe" together with students from other universities.

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Lecture by Julian Blunk at the University of Bonn

Julian Blunk will speak at the conference "Gebäude benutzen. Architekturwissenschaft im Spannungsfeld von Konzept, Planung und Nutzung" zu dem Thema:…

Joep Janssens at the "Sounds of Fascism" conference in Bonn

Joep Janssens (Department of Arts and Musicology at the University of Graz), talks about " 'Flamme empor! (Musical) Sound in Fascist Solstice…

Call for papers "Tartinians in Europe"

Call for Papers for the upcoming academic conference «Con il signor prencipe per il mio scolare». Pupils, Patrons, Printers and Violin Culture in…

You're on Board now!

Onboarding for first-semester students

Lecture by Saskia Jaszoltowski at the University of Zurich

Saskia Jaszoltowski speaks at the final conference "Media, Modernity, and the Transformation of Tradition(s) - The Role of Audiovisual Media from an…

Registration deadline for courses in the winter semester 2025/26

New programme The good sound - Der gute Ton

The new radio programme of the course "Musicology and Broadcasting"

Our offers as part of the Welcome Week 2025

Institute Café Art History, Wed, 24 Sept., from 11 a.m.

Institute Café Musicology, Wed, 01.10., from 10 a.m.