Ulrike Präger, Ph.D.
Vita
Since 2017 Course Developer and Lecturer, Boston University Online Education
2015–2017 Full-Time University Lecturer in Ethno/Musicology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2013–2015 Lecturer in Ethno/Musicology, Boston University
2014 Ph.D. in Ethno/Musicology, Title: “Longing to Belong: Musical Practices in the Expulsion of the Germans from the Bohemian Lands,” Boston University
2010–2013 Deans Award in Ethno/Musicology, Boston University
2006–2009 Lecturer in Music and Dance Pedagogy/Voice Pedagogy, University of Münster
2006 Master of Music, University Mozarteum Salzburg
2002–2004 Socrates Study Grant, Vocal Studies at Enschede and Amsterdam Conservatories
Research Concentrations
- Migration, Displacement, Refugee, and Diaspora Studies
- Cultural Mobility and Immobility
- Cultural Memory Studies
- Narrative Inquiry and Life Story
- Performance and Sound Studies
- Music in the Middle East
- Nostalgia and Affect
- Music and Violence
- Music and Cold War Politics
- Experimental Processes and Creativity in Music and Dance
Function within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (November 2017–August 2018)
Research project "Publicity and Representation: Music in Medializing and Politicizing Processes of (Forced) Migration"
Abstract
Selected Publications
“Memorizing, Medializing, and Musicking Forced Migration,” In Collapse of Memory – Memory of Collapse, edited by Alexander Drost et. al., Göttingen: Vandenhoek & Ruprecht. [forthcoming 2018]
“Musical Ethnography and the Reframing of History,” In Germanic Studies and Ethnography, edited by Amanda Randall and Dana Weber. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. [forthcoming 2018]
“Musically Negotiating Difference: Cross-Cultural Sounds of Empathy in Contemporary Germany,” In Musik und Migration, edited by Wolfgang Gratzer and Nils Grosch, in collaboration with the Mozarteum University Salzburg. [forthcoming 2017]
“‘Musicking’ Children from the Bohemian Borderlands: Hidden and Nurtured Musical Practices on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain,” European Review of History 22, no. 2 (2015): 310-30.
“Musik,” In Handbuch. Medien und Praktiken der Erinnerung an Flucht und Vertreibung, 283-295, edited by Bill Niven, Maren Röger, and Stephan Scholz. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag, 2015.
“Longing for Belonging in Forced Migration: Musical Recollections of Germans from the Bohemian Lands.” In Music and Belonging. Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm, 157-174, edited by Magdalena Waligorska. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
“Music in the ‘Sudeten-German’ Expulsion,” Ethnomusicology Review 16 (2011).
“Alle Meine Stimmen,“ Musik und Bildung, Schott Publishing (Juli-September 2006): 14-18.
Contact
e-mail uliprae[at]bu.edu