Music Research Today 2025
22 October 2025 — 24 October 2025 Musikhögskolan, Campus Örebro
Music Research Today (Musikforskning idag) brings music researchers in all disciplines together. This year's conference has a special focus on Music and Politics and is organized together with the Swedish Society for Music Research.
What might be the role of music and music research in the formation of a more sustainable society in seeking to address the challenges of war, climate change, and populism?
In the present day, Swedish music life is affected by shifting governmental policies. How does music research address these perspectives, challenges and concerns? At the same time, governmental research policies are being revised and reviewed. How are our research disciplines and institutions affected? Possible nodes of connection between music and politics can be found at any end of the spectrum, between the global and the local, across individual and institutional perspectives.
The conference seeks to address these perspectives across music research disciplines, and with a specially invited panel of actors in music institutions, research and cultural policy.