Anna Schürmer’s Inaugural Lecture at Freie Universität Berlin

The title of the inaugural lecture is: ZUKUNFT(((s)))MUSIK, or: New Music(ologies). She describes the content of her lecture as follows: “Future music is an ambivalent term straddling visionary aspiration and ideological projection; in common parlance, it denotes an improbable utopia. In my inaugural lecture as Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Professor, I will grasp, reframe, and renegotiate this concept: with a focus on New Music. Under the label “New Musicologies,” the lecture explores perspectives on sound research at the intersection of musicology and sound studies, historical analysis, and speculative sonic fiction. At its core is the question of how the future can be not only conceived but also shaped in and through (New) Music: Musicking Future – Futuring Music. The future will have been as we compose it.”

Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 6:00–7:30 p.m.
FU Berlin | Lecture Hall of the Institute for Theater Studies
Grunewaldstraße 35, 12165 Berlin-Steglitz

Interested parties are warmly welcome; admission is free.