Taking place in the spring of 2027, this Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History marks the eighth event in the series. The symposium, held approximately every two years, brings together leading scholars of music history from around the world in Helsinki.
The 8th Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History is titled ‘Music and The Archive: Fragmentary and Fragile Histories’. The symposium aims to explore how music’s histories are preserved, mediated, fragmented, silenced, reimagined, and contested in and through ‘The Archive’. Archives are generally understood as repositories for historical documents, personal and institutional, whereas ‘The Archive’ functions as a site of institutional power and curatorial processes which shapes both cultural memory and cultures of forgetting
The symposium, held approximately every two years, brings together leading scholars of music history from around the world in Helsinki.