SibA Research Days 2025 – Ethics in Research and Artistic Practice

Keynote speakers:

  • Prof. Heidi Partti
  • Prof. Esa Kirkkopelto

Programme

Monday 24.3.

9-9.20 Opening + Dean’s Welcome

9.20-11.20 Session I

  • Maija Turunen: Restoration as a research method for historical vocal recordings / Restaurointi historiallisten lauluäänitteiden tutkimusmenetelmänä (20 min)
  • Heidi Mäkelä & Outi Valo: Arkistoäänitteiden käyttämisen etiikasta ja suomalaisesta kansanmusiikista: kuvitelluista kenttäretkistä yhteisölähtöisyyteen (20 min)
  • Liisamaija Hautsalo: ”Suomalaisen oopperan tietokanta AINO ja sen ennakkoesittely” (20 min)
  • Antti-Ville Villén: “Translation errors, indifference and instrumentalisation: cultural music research as an ethical flaw” (20 min)
  • Jenni Lappalainen: Spiritistisiä istuntoja ja sateenkaarihistoriaa: eettisiä näkökulmia Ilmari Hannikaisen päiväkirjoihin (20 min)
  • Irja Kajander-Vierkens: “My brother Kalle and I were there as a continuation of the group”. Relative as an object of historical research (20 min)

11.30-12.30 Esa Kirkkopelto: Vapaus taiteessa ja etiikassa (Keynote)

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.30 Session II

  • Florian Roderburg: Music Subculture Socialization of Teenagers in Germany: A Comprehensive Examination (20 min)
  • Hanna Backer Johansen: Towards an ecological understanding of adolescents’ musical lives (20 min)
  • Jenni Kilpi: The possibilities of peacebuilding in and through music education – Utilising the findings of a scoping review (20 min)
  • Megumi Harada: The meaning of music education at school in Finland: Curriculum and music teacher (20 min)
  • Taru-Anneli Koivisto & Tuulikki Laes: Higher music education as a political site: Navigating procedural and virtue ethics in relation to research(er) integrity (20 min)

15.30-16 Coffee

16-17 Session III

  • Petteri Pitko: Navigating Conflicting Values – Teacher-Researcher in the Modern University World (20 min)
  • Assi Karttunen: The Ethics of Interdisciplinary Realms of Sounding bodies in Artist Pedagogy Soivien kehojen taiteidenvälisyyden etiikasta Taiteilijapedagogiikassa (30 min)

Tuesday 25.3.  

9-11 Session IV:

  • Lilja Lehmuskallio & Laura Valoma: Ethical Dimensions and Decolonial Approach in Researching an Intercultural Collaboration Project between the Indigenous Gabrielino-Tongva tribe and Finnish and U.S. Music Students (20 min)
  • Marjo Smolander: The Six Rs of Indigenous Research as a base for ethical guidelines for transnational musical collaborations? (20 min)
  • Maarika Autio: Approcreations. Ethical reflections in a setting where the presupposed ethnicities of the artist and their art medium do not meet (30 min)
  • Haiyon You: Research Methodology: A Decolonial Thinking of Language Policy and Planning in People’s Republic of China (20 min)
  • Matleena Koivusaari: RINKI – essentialismi ja eskapismi (30 min)

11-12 Heidi Partti: Research ethics as a question: Navigating ethical complexity in music research (Keynote)

12-13 Lunch

13-14 Short presentations:

  • Kaisa Vähi: Ethical dilemmas concerning researcher bias: Conducting qualitative research in familiar settings (10 min)
  • Prem Gurung: Ethics in Gender-Opposite Research: A Critical Reflection from a Male Researcher’s Perspective (10 min)
  • Jussi-Pekka Piirainen: Can career self-management help musicians to move towards more ethical career? (10 min)
  • Aino Kukkonen: Some ethical questions when doing research on art and wartime (10 min)

14-15 Session V

  • Sanna Vuolteenaho: Ethical review of peatlands together – participatory concerts (30 min)
  • Elena Mindru: Ethics of Interpretation: The Second Chorus in Vocal Jazz (30 min)

15-15.30 coffee

15.30-16.30 Session VI

  • Martin Malmgren: Moses Pergament on the periphery of Nordic music history (20 min)
  • Spiros Delegos: Stylistic Heterotopias: The Impact of Aegean and Ionian Island Folk Musical Traditions on Rebetiko Sea Songs (20 min)
  • Harri Homi: Discourse, Practice and cultural power in knowing  (20 min)

16.30 Closing Research Days 2025

Call for presentations

We invite presentation proposals for the 2025 SibA Research Days with the theme of Ethics in Research and Artistic Practice.

The event is open to doctoral researchers, research staff, and students of Sibelius Academy and Uniarts Helsinki, as well as to researchers and practitioners outside Uniarts Helsinki with an interest in the subject.

The theme of this year’s SibA Research Days is ethics, conceived as broadly as possible – as something that we unavoidably encounter both in our work as artists and scholars, and as something that surrounds us embedded in the conventions, institutions and practices of art and scholarship. In research, there is no escape from ethics. The choice of theoretical standpoints and research methods is always informed by ethical guidelines and imperatives. Research always builds on earlier work, and thus acknowledging previous work of our colleagues is ultimately an ethical duty. Similarly, artistic practice always has ethical dimensions, represented, for instance, by the obligations and responsibilities that the artist is seen to have towards the audience, composer, collaborators, historical context – or his or her artistic self.

The 2025 edition of the SibA Research Days invites you to ponder your work, thinking and art-making from this point of view. However, rather than restricting the topics of presentations only into considerations of the ethical motivations / substance of your work, we also welcome proposals from all areas of artistic or scholarly research. In addition to more conventional presentations, we also welcome those that address acute questions, problems, surprises and discontinuities that you have encountered in your work. All this contributes to fruitful dialogues, building of the scholarly community and well-being of critical thinking and research – none of which are to be taken for granted in today’s societal and political climate.   

The seminar program will also include keynotes, expert panels, and a special networking visit to be announced. The languages of the Research Days are Finnish, Swedish and English.

Deadline for proposals is 27th of January 2025.

There are three proposal categories for this call:

  1. Presentation (15 minutes + discussion)
  2. Recitals (25 minutes + discussion): Lecture-Recital, which includes both the presentation and the artistic component.
  3. Short presentation (5 minutes + questions)

The format and style of the presentations are free. Creative proposals are welcome.

To apply, please send an email to siba.researchdays@uniarts.fi by 27th of January 2025. The email should include the following information:

  1. Your name 
  2. Type of Presentation
  3. Doctoral School or University
  4. Title of your paper
  5. Abstract (300 words max) * For all types of presentations 
  6. Short Presenter’s BIO (200 words max)
  7. List of required technical equipment/instruments 
  8. Note if you don’t allow recording of your presentation/recital

The acceptance will be notified and registration opened by 7th of February. The final program will be announced in February. 

Contact

Markus Mantere, Head of the SRD 2025, markus.mantere@uniarts.fi

Organizing team

  • Spiros Delegos
  • Markus Mantere
  • Esa Onttonen
  • Marc Sabat

Time

25.3.2025 at 9:00 – 17:00
24.3.2025 at 9:00 – 17:00

Location

Black Box

Mannerheimintie 13

00100 Helsinki

Musiikkitalo

Tickets

Free admission

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