Registration opens 1 February 2023.

Registration is required from all conference participants.

Registration fee includes lunch both days, dinner Thursday night, coffee, and fruit.

Early bird rate

Registration & payment prior to 1 March 2024. Fees to be announced.

Regular rate

Registration & payment from 1 March 2024. Fees to be announced

The registration fee will be refunded for cancellations submitted prior to 1 June 2024, except for an administrative cost of NOK 250.

We welcome abstract submissions for presentations in the form of paper presentations, poster presentations, and symposium sessions. Please specify the type of presentation in your submission. Abstracts should be 250 words. Please include name, affiliation and corresponding details for the author and possible co-authors together with a short biography.

Submit your abstract here.

Deadline for submissions is 15 November 2023.

Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submission by 1 February 2024. All presenters of accepted abstracts are required to register for the entire conference before early bird registration is closed 1 March 2024.

Kjetil Klette-Bøhler is Professor of Music at the University of South-East Norway. He researches the relationship between music, culture and politics with a particular focus on groove-based Afro-Latin musics from Cuba and Brazil. He also does research on cultural policy, musical pleasure and welfare sociology related to citizenship and social exclusion. Klette-Bøhler worked seven years as a researcher at NOVA: Norwegian Social Research (2015-2022). His latest books include Citizenship and Social Exclusion (Routledge 2023), and Festivalpolitikk i endring (Vigmostad & Bjørke, 2023). Klette-Bøhlers current book project Groove Politics: Pleasure and Participation in Cuban Dance Music explores musical pleasure in groove based musics as a mode of cultural politics. He is currently working on a larger film about jingles, musical pleasure and manipulation in election campaigns related to his current research project on Jingles and Politics, which is funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

The conference will take place at Ansgar University College, located at Hånes in Kristiansand, 15 minutes by car from Kjevik Airport. Our campus has been newly extended, and we welcome you to dine with an ocean view in our new cafeteria.

Street address: Fredrik Fransonsvei 4, Hånes

Ansgar hotel is located within a 2-minutes’ walk from the Campus, with a beautiful view of the sea, and within a few minutes’ walk to the beach.

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By air: Kjevik Airport is 40 minutes by air from Oslo. From Kjevik, you will reach Ansgar University College in 15 minutes by taxi.

By train: Kristiansand city centre is a 4,5 hours train ride from Oslo Central Station. You can get to Ansgar University College by bus or car from the city centre in 20-25 minutes.

Bus (from Oslo): You can get to Krstiansand and Hånes by bus with Vy or Konkurrenten. (Approximately 4 hours from Oslo.) You should choose to get off at Håneskrysset and take the local bus M2 from there to Hånes senter.

Local bus: You will get to Ansgar University College with the local bus M2. From the bus stop Hånes senter there is a five-minutes’ walk down-hill to the Campus.

• Marie Strand Skånland, Associate professor in music and health, head of research
• Martin Jakobsen, Associate professor in theology
• Lars Mandelkow, Assistant professor in psychology

• Bodil Kvernernes Nørsett, Assistant professor in music
• Helen Kolb, Assistant professor in interculturel studies