2025

Music Matters XLII: “A Masterclass on Music and the Resilience of New Orleans.” with Gill Landry, Laila Frank, Jan Donkers, Dr. Mark Thompson, and Dr. Kristin McGee.

Music Matters XLI: “Artistic Responses to Artificial Intelligence: Fears, Formulas and Frontiers” with Dr. Keith Negus

Music Matters XL: “Who Owns the Future: Black Music, AI, and the Digital Colour Line” with Yvone Ile.

Music Matters XXXIX: “Oral Traditions and AI” with Rahel Akilu.

2024

Music Matters XXXXVIII”: “Cumgirl8 in Conversation”

Music Matters XXXXVII: “Employing Technology for the Preservation of Indigenous Music at the Risk of Extinction”

Music Matters XXXVI: “Electronic Dance Music, Entrainment, and the Extended Self” with Dr. Maria Perevedentseva

Music Matters XXXV: “Music, Memories and Identity” with Dr. Beate Peter

Music Matters XXXIV: “The Whiteness of Dutch Electronic Dance Music” with Dr. Timo Koren

Music Matters XXXIII: “Thickening Something: Convergent Music, Affect, and Sociability on the Dancefloor” with Dr. Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta.

2023

2022

2021

IASPM Pop Talks 2: Double Book Launch – Remixing European Jazz Culture & Voices Found: Free Jazz and Singing

Music Matters XXVI: “On Listening Positionality”

Music Matters XXVI: “Twerking at the Intersection”

2020

Due to pandemic chaos, we didn’t host Music Matters this year.

2019

Music Matters Lecture by Dr. Leonieke Bolderman

2018

Music Matters with Dani Oore “Make Me Feel Apes++t: Lineage, Myth and Temporal Structures in Recent Beyonce and Janelle Monae Music Videos”

Music Matters XXIV Lecture by Dr. Eric Lewis

Music Matters XXII Symposium and KIEM workshop on “Gender Quotas in Music Festival Programmes”

Music Matters XXII – Symposium on Technology’s disruption of music composition

Music Matters XXI – Lecture by.Dr.  Justin Williams (University of Bristol)

Music Matters XX – Lecture by Dr. Katharina Rost (University of Bayreuth)

Music Matters XVIIII – Lecture by Dr. Barbara Titus (University of Amsterdam)

2017

Music Matters XVIII – Lecture by Dr. Robin James (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

Music Matters XVII – Lecture by Dr. Oliver Seibt (University of Amsterdam)

Music Matters XVI – Lecture by Dr. Koos Zwaan (Inholland University of Applied Sciences)

Music Matters XV – Lecture by Gayle Young

2016

Music Matters XIV – Evert Bisschop Boele and Elizabeth Kooy

Music Matters XIII – Study Day on the Protest Song, Student Conference, and IASPM/KVNM Popular Music Thesis Prize

Music Matters XII.5 – Lecture by Dr. Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)

Music Matters XII – Learning from Bastard Pop

Music Matters XI: Eurovision, Media and European Culture

2015

Music Matters X – June 11 – Musical Theatre Concert, Workshop and Lecture