About the lecturer;
Femke Vandenberg is an Assistant Professor of Audience Research, at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research and teaching focus on the role of music in society, where she is interested in the behavior, engagement, and experience of music audiences of various genres. Her doctoral dissertation, All Together Now: Live (Streamed) Music as Collective Practice, explored the social dynamics of live music in both physical and virtual settings. She has published widely on these topics in leading journals such as Poetics, European Societies, and Cultural Sociology.