Across Moving Grounds

Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility

22–25 July 2026 | mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

isaResearch is the yearly international, interdisciplinary summer school of mdw and part of isa – International Summer Academy. It is a forum for negotiating the annual isa theme theoretically and discursively and embedding it in the diverse contexts of Vienna’s urban space. The isaResearch Summer School for Early Stage Researchers takes place at the same time as the artistic masterclasses and the festival on campus.

isaResearch 2026 takes place on the mdw campus from 22-25 July 2026 with the theme “Across Moving Grounds: Music, Performing Arts, and the Politics of Mobility”.

As part of the isaResearch 2026 program, we cordially invite you to our public event:

TALKS & CONVERSATION

23 July 2026, 5 P.M. | Fanny Hensel Hall 

Music as a Means of Survival: Reflections on Musical Life in Besieged Sarajevo (1992–1995)

Amila Ramovic (Academy of Music, University of Sarajevo)

Made in YUGOSLAVIennA: Balkan Music and Multiple Marginality

Jelena Gligorijević & Adriana Sabo

(MMRC, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)

Moderated by Juri Giannini

(IMI, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna)

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