Knowledge base for the ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women (VOW)

Lilli Mittner; Lise Meling; Janke  Klok; Bettina Smith

doi:10.7557/7.6569

Authors

Lilli Mittner UiT The Arctic University of Norway https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7611-0252
Lise Meling University of Stavanger https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4067-4942
Janke Klok Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Groningen https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4343-0150
Bettina Smith University of Stavanger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/7.6569

Keywords:

performative research, feminist theory, cultural transfer, agents of change

Abstract

This report builds the knowledge base for the transnational educational project ‘Voices of Women’ (https://voicesofwomen.eu) funded by the European Union. The report situates the VOW project within music and gender research in Norway, The Netherlands, and Germany. It argues for the need to educate agents of change and outlines the VOW approach along four pillars: (1) Performative Research (2) Unheard Songs (3) Cultural Transfer and (4) Feminist Theories. The report documents that transformative pedagogies and innovative practices in the cultural sector can build on a broad knowledge base. The next step is to develop novel methods to educate ourselves and upcoming generations to become active and courageous agents of change.

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Author Biographies

Lilli Mittner, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Lilli Mittner is an internationally renowned senior researcher at the Centre for Women's and Gender Research at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Music, Drama and Media in Hanover with an archival work on the 19th century women composers in Norway. Lilli is currently leading a project on performative historiography (https://site.uit.no/rescape/) and a work package on gender equality in academia (https://uit.no/research/prestige). In her projects Lilli develops and conducts high-risk experimental art exploration to create mutual encounters and moments that matter. Her work encompasses further research gender balance, gendered heritage and canon critique, music and gender, voices of women, feminist posthumanist approaches in critical dementia studies, feminist art intervention, gendered quality assessment in higher education and research leadership and gender equality & sustainability.

Lise Meling, University of Stavanger

Lise K. Meling is an associate professor of music at the University of Stavanger, where she teaches music history, performance practice and harpsichord. Her research interests center on women composers and their works as well as the gendered history of musical instruments, particularly the piano. In addition, she is a performer on harpsichord and has lifted works by women composers.

Janke Klok, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Groningen

Dr. Janke Klok (Henrik-Steffens-professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2014-2018, since then attached to the HU and the University of Groningen) has published widely on Scandinavian literature in the field of gender and intercultural studies and initiated, together with prof. dr. Lena Haselmann and dr. Lilli Mittner, the interdisciplinary art research group RESCAPE. She is engaged in the projects ‘Die Korrespondenz des Naturphilosophen Henrik Steffens (1773–1845) (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin);’ the ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women (Universities of Groningen, Stavanger, Tromsø and Weimar) and ‘Made Abroad: Producing Norwegian World Literature in a Time of Rupture, 1900-50 (National Library Norway).

Bettina Smith, University of Stavanger

Bettina Smith is Professor of Singing at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Bettina has an extensive international career as a performer. She has released five acclaimed solo CDs on Lawo Classics. For her latest release she was nominated female singer of the year by Opus Klassik in Germany. She leads the ERASMUS+ project Voices of Women.

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