SibA Research Days 2025 – Ethics in Research and Artistic Practice
Keynote speakers:
- Prof. Heidi Partti
- Prof. Esa Kirkkopelto
Program
Monday 24.3.
9-9.20 Opening + Dean’s Welcome
9.20-11.20 Session I
- Maija Turunen: 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: Käännösvirheitä, välinpitämättömyyttä ja välineellistämistä: kulttuurinen musiikintutkimus eettisenä epäkohtana (20 min)
- Jenni Lappalainen: Spiritistisiä istuntoja ja sateenkaarihistoriaa: eettisiä näkökulmia Ilmari Hannikaisen päiväkirjoihin (20 min)
- Irja Kajander-Vierkens: “We were there as well, my brother Kalle and I” – Relative as Object of Research (20 min)
11.30-12.30 Esa Kirkkopelto: ”Taidetta taiteen vuoksi”: Taidemuotojen sisäisestä etiikasta (Keynote)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session II
- Jussi-Pekka Piirainen: Can career self-management help musicians to move towards more ethical career? (10 min)
- 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
16-17.20 Session III
- Elena Mindru: Ethics of Interpretation: The Second Chorus in Vocal Jazz (30 min)
- 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:
- Marjo Smolander: The Six Rs of Indigenous Research as a base for ethical guidelines for transnational musical collaborations? (20 min)
- Martin Malmgren: Moses Pergament on the periphery of Nordic music history (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)
- Haiyun Yu: From Theory to 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 Session V:
- 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)
- Aino Kukkonen: Some ethical questions when doing research on art and wartime (10 min)
- Katrin Enni: Interactive Sonic Sculpture / Experiments in Being Together and Being In-Between
14-15 Session VI
- Sanna Vuolteenaho: Yhdessä soiden – osallistavien konserttien eettinen tarkastelu (30 min)
- Päivi Rissanen: Suomalaisten orkestereiden toimintakulttuuriin liittyvien tutkimustulosten julkaisemisen eettiset kysymykset (20 min)
15-15.30 coffee
15.30-16.30 Session VII
- Spiros Delegos: Stylistic Heterotopias: The Impact of Aegean and Ionian Island Folk Musical Traditions on Rebetiko Sea Songs (20 min)
- 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)
- Harri Homi: Ethics, Truth, and Power: Reflecting on the Habermas–Foucault Debate from the Perspective of the Cultural Study of Music (20 min)
16.30 Closing of the 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:
- Presentation (15 minutes + discussion)
- Recitals (25 minutes + discussion): Lecture-Recital, which includes both the presentation and the artistic component.
- 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:
- Your name
- Type of Presentation
- Doctoral School or University
- Title of your paper
- Abstract (300 words max) * For all types of presentations
- Short Presenter’s BIO (200 words max)
- List of required technical equipment/instruments
- 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
Keynote speakers:
- Prof. Heidi Partti
- Prof. Esa Kirkkopelto
Program
Monday 24.3.
9-9.20 Opening + Dean’s Welcome
9.20-11.20 Session I
- Maija Turunen: 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: Käännösvirheitä, välinpitämättömyyttä ja välineellistämistä: kulttuurinen musiikintutkimus eettisenä epäkohtana (20 min)
- Jenni Lappalainen: Spiritistisiä istuntoja ja sateenkaarihistoriaa: eettisiä näkökulmia Ilmari Hannikaisen päiväkirjoihin (20 min)
- Irja Kajander-Vierkens: “We were there as well, my brother Kalle and I” – Relative as Object of Research (20 min)
11.30-12.30 Esa Kirkkopelto: ”Taidetta taiteen vuoksi”: Taidemuotojen sisäisestä etiikasta (Keynote)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Session II
- Jussi-Pekka Piirainen: Can career self-management help musicians to move towards more ethical career? (10 min)
- 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
16-17.20 Session III
- Elena Mindru: Ethics of Interpretation: The Second Chorus in Vocal Jazz (30 min)
- 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:
- Marjo Smolander: The Six Rs of Indigenous Research as a base for ethical guidelines for transnational musical collaborations? (20 min)
- Martin Malmgren: Moses Pergament on the periphery of Nordic music history (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)
- Haiyun Yu: From Theory to 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 Session V:
- 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)
- Aino Kukkonen: Some ethical questions when doing research on art and wartime (10 min)
- Katrin Enni: Interactive Sonic Sculpture / Experiments in Being Together and Being In-Between
14-15 Session VI
- Sanna Vuolteenaho: Yhdessä soiden – osallistavien konserttien eettinen tarkastelu (30 min)
- Päivi Rissanen: Suomalaisten orkestereiden toimintakulttuuriin liittyvien tutkimustulosten julkaisemisen eettiset kysymykset (20 min)
15-15.30 coffee
15.30-16.30 Session VII
- Spiros Delegos: Stylistic Heterotopias: The Impact of Aegean and Ionian Island Folk Musical Traditions on Rebetiko Sea Songs (20 min)
- 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)
- Harri Homi: Ethics, Truth, and Power: Reflecting on the Habermas–Foucault Debate from the Perspective of the Cultural Study of Music (20 min)
16.30 Closing of the 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:
- Presentation (15 minutes + discussion)
- Recitals (25 minutes + discussion): Lecture-Recital, which includes both the presentation and the artistic component.
- 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:
- Your name
- Type of Presentation
- Doctoral School or University
- Title of your paper
- Abstract (300 words max) * For all types of presentations
- Short Presenter’s BIO (200 words max)
- List of required technical equipment/instruments
- 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