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ESA-Arts 2016 Arts and creativity: working on identity and difference

ESA-Arts 2016 Since 2000, the Network has organised a biannual conference on Sociology of the Arts.

The ESA Research Network Sociology of the Arts hereby announces its 9th midterm conference which will take place from 8th to 10th September 2016 at the University of Porto - Faculty of Arts and Humanities, in Portugal. A key aim of these conferences is to promote the collaboration and academic exchange between scholars of the arts, to support the presentation of new research projects and to offer

inspiration for the further development of the sociology of the arts. The general topic of ESA-Arts 2016 focuses on arts and creativity, questioning the processes through which in an increasingly global, open, different and multicultural world artistic creativity is (re)defined, fostered, evaluated and asserted. Focusing the debate on the relationship between arts and plural societies, on the one side, and on the place and statute attributed to art by the new rhetoric of the creative agenda and the creative economy, on the other side, the Conference aims to critically debate the role of the arts as a pillar of cultural, social-ecological and socioeconomic development, of social cohesion and active citizenship, as well as on the processes of identities construction. Thus, the approach will focus on the diverse ways through which the arts are intertwining with processes of identity-making, both at individual and collective levels, and the material and symbolic reframing of social, economic and cultural differences in contemporary societies.

17/09/2025

CALL FOR PAPERS || GROOVE THE CITY – MOVE THE STREETS || VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Date: September 17-19, 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 5, 2025
https://www.mdw.ac.at/ikm/events/groovethecity/
https://skuor.tuwien.ac.at/events/groovethecity/

The field of Urban Music Studies has emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary arena, exploring the dynamic interplay between music and urban life. At its core, this field recognizes sound as both a reflection and a constitutive element of urban life, deeply embedded in the spatial, social, and cultural fabric of cities. Against this backdrop, we organise the third international conference of the Urban Music Studies Scholars’ Network Groove the City – Move the Streets, taking place from 17-19 September 2026 at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at TU Wien – Technische Universität Wien, in combination with the 2024-2026 event series of the Thematic Group for Public Spaces and Urban Cultures of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP TG PSUC), focusing a critical engagement with the concept and materiality of “the street” as a multifaceted and symbolic terrain where social, cultural, and political processes unfold.
To this end, we invite scholars, practitioners, activists, and artists to contribute to the conference by investigating how sound interacts with, transforms, and reimagines the streets as spaces of movement, resistance, belonging, and creativity.
The deadline for the submission of the proposals is 5th October 2025.
Join us in exploring how grooves shape the city and how streets inspire movements!

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