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Book launch and panel discussion: Science communication and science comics

Dr Caiti Hauck and Julien Cachemaille, chaired by Prof Cristina Urchueguía

Organised in collaboration with the Bern section of the Swiss Musicological Society.

25 March 2025, 18:30
Event hall on the 1st basement floor of the Burgerbibliothek
Münstergasse 63, 3011 Bern

Publications

How can research results be communicated in a way that is easy to understand and arouses the interest of the widest possible audience?
This book launch will present two new publications on choral life in Switzerland since the 19th century. With their different publication formats, they stimulate discussion on how to communicate research. The edited volume “Swiss Choral Life since 1800: Music, Practice and Context” presents a traditional format, but thanks to open access, the volume is freely available on the internet. The comic book “Three Swiss choristers in the 19th century”, on the other hand, represents an innovative and increasingly popular format for science communication, which brings with it both opportunities and challenges.
In a panel discussion with Prof. Cristina Urchueguía, musicologist Caiti Hauck and cartoonist Julien Cachemaille will discuss issues of science communication, in particular science comics.

Lecture: “Music, politics, patriotism: Choral societies in the cities of Berne and Fribourg in the long 19th century” (in German)
04. April 2023, 6:30-8:00pm
Institute of Musicology: Mittelstrasse 43, Room 120, Bern and online via ZOOM
This talk was part of the lecture series of the Swiss Musicological Society.

Nacht der Forschung
10. September 2022, Universität Bern
CLEFNI participated in the “Night of Research” with two presentations:

  • 5 p.m.: “Singing Cities: Choirs in Bern and Fribourg in the 19th Century” (in German)
    Main building, 2nd floor, room 206
  • 8 p.m.: “Knowledge from around the world: Speed dating with tomorrow’s top researchers” (in German)
    UniS, Underground, corridor with glass floor

IMS2022 — 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society
22-26 August 2022, Athens
Partial results of CLEFNI were presented in the paper “Male choral societies and multiculturalism in Switzerland in the long 19th century: the cities of Bern and Fribourg as case studies”.

8 x 8′ – Junge Forschende erzählen
20 June 2022, Haus der Universität, Bern
Partial results of CLEFNI were presented in the talk “CLEFNI — The choral life in the cities of Bern and Fribourg in the long nineteenth century” (in German).

Public lectures “Singing in the Canton of Fribourg” 
In January and February 2022 the Historical Society of the Canton of Fribourg organised the public lectures “Singing in the Canton of Fribourg (16th-21st century)”. Six meetings with a total of 13 speakers and one illustrative concert presented aspects and highlights of the singing tradition in the Fribourg region.
CLEFNI contributed to this event with the lecture “Repertoire and choral activities in the second half of the 19th century in the city of Fribourg” (in French).

Conference “Music and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century”
2-4 December 2021, Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena
Partial results of CLEFNI were presented in the paper “Choral societies and political power in the cities of Bern and Fribourg in the 19th century”.

Conference & Concerts “Swiss Choral Music from the 19th to the 21st Century”
17-18 September / 3 October 2021, University of Bern
Partial results of CLEFNI were presented in the paper “Choral societies and their networks in the 19th century: the cities of Bern and Fribourg as case studies” (in German).

1. Study Day of the Swiss Musicological Society (SMG)
17 September 2020, University of Bern
Partial results of CLEFNI were presented in the paper “Choral life in the city of Bern in the long 19th century: Activities and repertoire” (in German).