Hokkaido University (HU) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) are pleased to announce their first online workshop on popular music studies. The event is solely open to the members of the two universities. Speakers welcome students’ participation as well as researchers from different fields of research.

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Date & Time

Friday, November 13, 2026
17.00-19.00 in Hokkaido / 09.00-11.00 in the Netherlands

Eligibility

HU and EUR members only

Format

Online via Zoom:
Zoom URL

Language

English with Zoom translation

Talks

• What Sounds ‘K’?: Popular Music and the Making of Koreanness (Professor Sungmin Kim, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, HU)
• Popular Music in Transit: Tourism, Geopolitics, and the Mobilities of Performance in and from Japan (Associate Professor Amane Kasai, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, HU)
• What Music Means (Professor Pauwke Berkers, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, EUR)
• Music and Well-being (Lecturer Thomas Calkins III, Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, EUR)

Inquiries

Taena Uemura, Office for International Collaboration, HU
taenau[at]oia.hokudai.ac.jp