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Markus Kavka reads from his book "Markus Kavka on Depeche Mode"

Re­view: Markus Kavka on punk, mu­sic journ­al­ism and De­peche Mode

"If there is something you always wanted to ask Kavka – now's your chance!": With these words, Prof Dr Christoph Jacke, Head of the Popular Music and Media (BA/MA) programme and Deputy Managing Director of C:POP. Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies, introduces the discussion with Markus Kavka. This took place as part of the seminar "Post Punk, New Wave and Synthie Pop: Subcultures, Mainstreams,…

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Prof. Dr Christoph Jacke and Dr Katharina Schardt (UPB for Future/Staff Unit Educational Innovations and University Didactics)

Re­view: Prof. Dr. Jacke at the "UPB for Fu­ture" lec­ture series on stars and sus­tain­ab­il­ity

Prof. Dr. Christoph Jacke, Deputy Managing Director of C:POP, Transdisciplinary Research Center for Popular Music Cultures and Creative Economies, gave an insight into Popular Music Studies as part of the public lecture series for sustainability "UPB for Future" on 30 October 2025. The lecture, which is being held for the fifth time at Paderborn University in collaboration with the department of Prof. Dr. René Fahr, head of the Behavioural…

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Dr Hannes Liechti will be leading the seminar "Trackology 1: Tracing pop music history" this semester

We wel­come the guest lec­tur­ers for the winter semester 2025/26

This winter semester, we have once again been able to attract guest lecturers from a wide range of disciplines to teach on the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes in Popular Music and Media. We are delighted to welcome a total of five guest lecturers (again)!

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Seidenstücker Management/Thomas Neukum

12 Novem­ber: Markus Kavka on De­peche Mode - talk on post punk/new wave/synth pop at UPB and mul­ti­me­dia read­ing in the Deelen­haus

On 12 November, the famous music journalist, presenter and author Markus Kavka will once again be a guest at Paderborn University. After Kavka held the first two "Popdozenturen" (pop lectureships) on the "Popular Music and Media" degree programmes in 2014 and 2016 and worked with students in seminars alongside talks and DJ performances, he is now back in Paderborn with his book "Depeche Mode" by invitation of the "C:POP. Transdisciplinary…

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An­nu­al con­fer­ence of the As­so­ci­ation of Cul­tur­al Man­age­ment in Basel - ex­change on cur­rent is­sues of re­search and prac­tice

Sustainability in the cultural sector: Prof.in Dr. Beate Flath and Katharina Schmecht presented insights into their research project NachhaltigkeitsKulturOWL with exciting findings on transformations, challenges and new perspectives in cultural management at the annual conference of the Association of Cultural Management.

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