We are delighted to announce the International Conference on Depression in Popular Music, which will take place on June 26–27, 2025.
This event is co-organized by Jessica A. Holmes, Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen and 4EU+ Visiting Professor at Sorbonne iPLesp (Spring 2025), and the Social Epidemiology, Mental Health, and Addictions Research Team at Sorbonne iPLesp, led by Judith van der Waerden, Research Associate at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM).
Please note the submission deadline: February 15, 2025, by 12:00 PM.
For more information about the conference and registration details, click here.
An interdisciplinary conference that aims to address the diverse creative impact of depression on popular music relative to a global rise in clinical depression among young people and its associated social inequalities alongside a widespread cultural depathologization of depression, while bridging humanistic and epidemiological perspectives on mental health.
