‘European Performing Arts Dataverse’, November 9 2017, Filmtheater de Uitkijk

The purpose of the symposium was to explore the willingness and potential for more transdisciplinary cooperation among scholars in the fields of music, theatre and cinema history. More specifically the meeting was aimed at those researchers particularly interested in audiences and reception, often working with digital datasets and tools, for instance collecting information on programming, on venues, or on networks of people or companies involved in the circulation of performing arts. As Julia Noordegraaf (University of Amsterdam) pondered in the opening address, wouldn’t it make sense to connect and compare the various data projects that have sprung up during the last decades, both across geographical and disciplinary boundaries? Can we join forces both in linking our data and also in combining related research questions and methods? Read more …

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