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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

  • Location: Department of Musicology, University of Basel​ (Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar, Universität Basel) & Online

  • Topic: "(Un)Fairness in Music – and the Eurovision Song Contest"

  • 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)

Gunvor - Singer (Switzerland)

Alan Tubery - DJ (Australia)

Alexandra Wolfslast - HoD (Germany) TBC

10:45 - 10:55

Musical interlude

Gunvor: ESC Medley

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

Supporting Institutions

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Support:​

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Media partner:

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