When the Paderborn University campus is transformed into a vibrant open-air stage on Thursday, 5 June, it's time again: the AStA Summer Festival is back for the next round. As one of the largest campus festivals in Germany, it attracts thousands of visitors every year - and this time it is also a pilot project in terms of sustainability.

The board members Prof.in Dr. Beate Flath, Prof. Dr. Christoph Jacke and Prof. Dr. Harald Schroeter-Wittke deliver the contribution "Den Schein werfen / wahren. Transdisciplinarities and pop culture research. A translation space as a score" to the recently published anthology "Transdisziplinäre Räume in den Kulturwissenschaften".

Prof. Jacke invited to the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum on 27 May for a talk about stars, heroes and Taylor Swift

On 3 June, Dr Bodo Mronzek will trace breaks, continuities and influences on the reshaping of music education under the title "Between popular education and national formation: transnational nationalism in the youth music movement (1923-1967)". traces breaks, continuities and influences on the reorganisation of music education and sheds light on its transnational interconnections up to the present day.

The Collegium Musicum Populare (CMP) is a regular workshop organised by the German-speaking branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM D-A-CH), which promotes professional and personal exchange between students, graduates, doctoral candidates, post-docs and professors in the broad field of Popular Music Studies. Here we exchange ideas on ongoing projects - be it theses, doctoral dissertations, post-doctoral…