Depression in Popular Music International Conference June 26-27, 2025

This interdisciplinary conference 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, psychological, and epidemiological perspectives on mental health. 

The two-day event will take place on the Sorbonne Saint-Antoine Campus (Kourilsky building, Salle des conférences), and will feature research presentations by scholars from the United States, Canada, South America, the United Kingdom, and Europe working at the intersections of pop culture, identity, and mental health from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives.

The conference is co-organized byJessica Holmes as Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen and 4EU+ Visiting Professor at Sorbonne iPLesp, and Judith van der Waerden, Senior Research Associate and Director of the iPLesp ESSMA research team. 

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Registration is free and open to all — places  are limited: [click here]