Music and Digital Humanities

mdw Campus, Bankettsaal. From 2 March 2026.

The Distinguished Lecture Series 'Music and Digital Humanities' at mdw — University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna invites leading international experts in diverse aspects of DH to share their perspectives with our students, faculty, and community. The series is aimed at a broad, non-technical audience. It provides a varied overview of the history and current state of DH as it applies to music, its philosophical underpinnings and societal implications, and is expected to yield insights into relevant methodologies, technologies, infrastructures, and applications working with humanities datasets.

Topics include data management and computational analysis for digital musicology, digital editions, DH and artificial intelligence, machine learning and music information retrieval, as well as pedagogy, science communication, and citizen science. The series is convened by Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl, digital musicology researchers at the mdw's Department for Music Acoustics — Wiener Klangstil, and organized in collaboration with the mdw's Department of Musicology and Performance Studies.

Abstracts and speaker biographies for all lectures are available on the abstracts page.

LV-Nr. 22.9000 / 22.9001

Programme

Each event ran from 17:00–18:30 Vienna time.

2 March 2026 — Anna E. Kijas, Lilly Music Library, Tufts University

9 March 2026 — Chanda VanderHart and David M. Weigl, mdw

16 March 2026 — Frauke Jürgensen, mdw

23 March 2026 — Andrew Hankinson, RISM Digital Center

13 April 2026 — Mark Gotham, King's College London

27 April 2026 — Alíz Horváth, Central European University

4 May 2026 — Frans Wiering, Utrecht University

11 May 2026 — Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (venue: K0101, mdw Campus)

18 May 2026 — David De Roure, University of Oxford

1 June 2026 — Christof Weiß, JMU Würzburg

8 June 2026 — Cancelled

22 June 2026 — Panel, Digital Editions: Christoph Steindl, Austrian National Library; Kateryna Schöning, University of Vienna; Iacopo Cividini, International Mozarteum Foundation

29 June 2026 — Artemi-Maria Gioti, Mozarteum University Salzburg

This project is funded by CLARIAH-AT with support from the BMFWF.