Programme - 8th edition - 2025
Below you will find the detailed programme for the 8th edition of the Eurovisions Conference.
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Dates: Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th May 2025
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Location: Department of Musicology, University of Basel​ (Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Basel) & Online
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Topic: "(Un)Fairness in Music – and the Eurovision Song Contest"
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Free access, live in Basel onsite or online
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Note: The venue offers a maximum of 80 seats (which should suffice, but more people will not be allowed in because of e.g. safety).
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Please bring your passport or ID card. There will be security checks at the door and bag checks can take place. Possible projectiles will be removed.
Programme Day 1 | 13th May 2025 | 09:00 - 13:30
(Details below may be subject to change. Last update: Friday 28th March 2025.)
09:00 - 10:00
Opening Session: Get together and Coffee
10:00 - 10:10
Official welcome Eurovisions team and Basel University
10:10 - 10:40
Impulse 1: "Fairness? What Fairness?"
Speaker: Eberhard Wolff (Basel University)
10:40 - 10:45
Short break
10:45 - 10:50
Introduction Science Slam
10:50 - 11:20
Science Slam Round 1
Host: Jess Carniel
11:20 - 11:30
Q & A Science Slam Round 1
(online and onsite)
11:30 - 11:40
Short break
11:40 - 12:10
Science Slam Round 2
Host: Jack Shepherd
12:10 - 12:20
Q & A Science Slam Round 2
(online and onsite)
12:20 - 12:25
Voting Explanation
12:25 - 12:40
Voting pause and coffee break
12:40 - 12:45
Science Slam Award Ceremony
13:15 - 13:25
Q & A
(online and onsite)
13:25 - 13:30
Eurovisions Conference Wrap up and End of Conference Day 1
Programme Day 2 | 14th May 2025 | 09:00 - 12:30
(Details below may be subject to change. Last update: Friday 28th March 2025.)
09:00 - 09:10
Welcome Eurovisions Team and Basel University (Department of Musicology)
09:40 - 09:45
Short break
09:45 - 10:45
Round Table 1: "Fairness in Eurovision"
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Speakers:
Alessandro Capicchioni - HoD (San Marino RTV)
Alan Tubery - DJ (Australia)
Alexandra Wolfslast - HoD (Germany) TBC
10:45 - 10:55
Musical interlude
10:55 - 11:20
Coffee break
(showing video presentations of round table scholars on Round Table 2 for online audience)
11:20 - 12:00
Round Table 2: "Challenges of fairness in Eurovision"
Speakers:
Jess Carniel (University of Southern Queensland)
Barbara Barreiro Leon (University of Aberdeen)
Jack Shepherd (Mid Sweden University, Östersund)
Samuel Murray & Jenna Doyle (Leeds University)
12:00 - 12:20
Q & A
(online & onsite)
12:20 - 12:30
Eurovisions Conference Wrap up and End of Conference Day 2
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