UC Press has listed my JAMS article “Billie Eilish and the Feminist Aesthetics of Depression” among the most-accessed UC Press journal articles in 2024-25 in their 2025 report:

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Depression in Popular Music, an interdisciplinary conference w/a star-studded lineup of speakers from the US, Canada, SA, the UK, and Europe. June 26-27, Sorbonne University Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, organized by me in my capacity as 4EU+ Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne:

JACK HALBERSTAM delivered a brilliant lecture at the University of Copenhagen yesterday, an event hosted by the Dept. Of Arts & Cultural Studies “Art & Health” + “Art & Earth” research clusters and the Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Difference. Over 200 people attended! @ucph.bsky.social

The chapter previews a slice of my forthcoming book *Music at the Margins of Sense* (UMichigan Press). I'm grateful to Robin James + Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta for their editorial leadership, and humbled to be part of the handbook! @robinjames.bsky.social @lmgm.bsky.social

Excited to share that I have a new chapter out in *The Oxford Handbook of Electronic Dance Music* entitled “Beats, Tactility, and the Politics of Deaf Representation in EDM": doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

If you're in Copenhagen, please join us!

The event is co-sponsored by the UCPH Art & Health and Art & Earth research clusters in collaboration with the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Difference and Christa Holm Vogelius.

On Tues Mar 4, *Jack Halberstam* will deliver a public lecture at the University of Copenhagen at 15:15 in auditorium 23.0.50. The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the adjoining atrium: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...
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On Tues Mar 4th, we'll have the honour of hosting *JACK HALBERSTAM* in the UCPH Dept. of Arts & Cultural Studies for a public lecture entitled "Unworlding: Anarchitecture After Everything" from 15:15-17:00 in auditorium 23.0.50: artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/art...
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Honoured to be undertaking a Visiting Professorship at the @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) later this spring fully funded by the 4EU+ University Alliance. Read about my research project and planned activities here: 4euplus.eu/4EU-1039.html

Does your research address the links between popular music + mental health in some way? If yes, submit a proposal to the "Depression in Popular Music" interdisciplinary conference at @sorbonne-universite.fr iPLesp from Jun 26-27! Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP here:
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Our conf will address the impact of depression on pop music relative to a global rise in clinical depression among young people and its associated social inequalities, alongside a cultural depathologization of depression and heated debates over what "depression" is: depressioninpopconference2025.com

CFP: "Depression in Popular Music," an interdisciplinary conference from Jun 26-27 2025 at @sorbonne-universite.fr Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health, co-organized by myself and iPLesp. Proposals due Feb 15. See CfP for details:
depressioninpopconference2025.com

We invite 350-word proposals for presentations approaching this rich musical phenomenon from diverse interdisciplinary and topical vantage points with the aim of bridging humanistic + epidemiological perspectives on pop music and mental health.

I'm excited to share a Call for Papers an interdisciplinary conference on "Depression in Popular Music" from June 26-27, 2025 at the Sorbonne University Pierre Louis Institute of Epidemiology & Public Health (iPLesp) that I'm co-organizing w/iPLesp. Spread the word: depressioninpopconference2025.com