Adam Havas is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona, Department of Sociology. His research sits at the intersection of cultural sociology, postcolonial studies and popular music studies. His EU-funded comparative research project aims to explore the cultural politics of musical diasporas in Europe with particular emphasis on of musicians with Afro-Latin, Black British and Gypsy/Romani backgrounds. (Further on his scholarship see: https://ub.academia.edu/AdamHavas)
Ádám Havas is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona, Department of Sociology (from October, 2022). His research sits at the intersection of cultural sociology, postcolonial studies and popular music studies. His EU-funded comparative research project aims to explore the cultural politics of musical diasporas in Europe with particular emphasis on of musicians with Afro-Latin, Black British and Gypsy/Romani backgrounds. Before joining CECUPS, he was Head of Social Science Division at the Budapest-based Milestone Institute, a college of advanced studies for high school students. He was Chair of IASPM-Hungary (2018–2020) and is currently a member of IASPM-AL, the editorial board at Jazz Research Journal (Equinox) and Replika social science quarterly. He is co-edited with Bruce Johnson a special issue at Popular Music and Society on global jazz diasporas and co-edits (alongside Johnson and David Horn) the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. His book, The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora was published in 2022 by Routledge. His publications appeared in Popular Music (CUP), Jazz Research Journal and Jazz Research News among others. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Ferenc Erdei Price awarded to the most outstanding young sociologist of the year in Hungary. Adam is a keen advocate for the cause of academic autonomy and for a global perspective on structural inequalities and social change. (Further on his scholarship see: https://ub.academia.edu/AdamHavas)
2022-Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Barcelona, Centre for the Study of Culture, Society and Politics (CECUPS)
2022Module leader, Socrates Program at Central European University, Budapest
2018-Head of Social Sciences Division
2018Deputy Head of Social Sciences Division at Milestone Institute, Budapest
2017-19Research assistant, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Institute of Musicology
2013-17Lecturer, Corvinus University, Budapest
2012-13Research assistant, ALICE-RAP
2018PhD in Sociology at the Corvinus University of Budapest
2012MA in Social Politics at the Corvinus University of Budapest
Hungarian (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), Catalan (beginner)
2022Havas, Ádám (2022): The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora. New York: Routledge.
2024Johnson, Bruce; Ádám Havas and David Horn eds. (forthcoming): The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies. New York: Routledge.
2023Havas, Ádám (forthcoming): "Jazz in Hungary." In: Shepherd, John and David Horn eds., Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 13. London: Bloomsbury.
2022Havas, Ádám (2022). "Zur Dekonstruktion hegemonialer Jazz-Narrative. Die Rolle von Roma-Musikern bei der Artikulation einer osteuropäischen Differenz." Darmstädter Beiträge zur Jazzforschung vol. 17 "ROOTS_HEIMAT. Diversity in Jazz". Wolfram Kneuer ed., 107-123.
2022Special issue of the journal Popular Music and Society on the global jazz diaspora. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2022.2123458?fbcl…
2022Bruce Johnson and Adam Havas (2022): "Western Bias, Canonicity, and Cultural Globalization: Introduction to “Jazz Diasporas”', Popular Music and Society, DOI: 10.1080/03007766..2123458
2020Havas, Ádám (2020): "The Logic of Distinctions in the Hungarian Jazz Field: A Case Study." Popular Music 39(3–4): 619–635.
2020Havas, Ádám (2020): "‘No Radical Critique Ever Comes from the Centre’: Interview with Professor Bruce Johnson." Jazz Research Journal 14(1): 79–89.
2023Havas, Ádám (forthcoming): The Stories of Jazz by Mario Dunkel. Vienna: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag. Jazz Research News
2020Havas, Ádám (2020): The Inaudible Music by Bruce Johnson. Foreword by Simon Frith. New South Wales: Currency Press 2000. Jazz Research News (54): 2523–2527.
2018Havas, Ádám (2018): Made in Hungary: Studies in Popular Music. Emilia Barna & Tamás Tófalvy eds. Routledge 2017. Hungarian Studies 32(2): 282–292.
2017Havas, Ádám et al. (2017): Theorizing in Social Science: The Context of Discovery by Richard Swedberg. Stanford University Press 2014. Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 8(1): 153–156.
2019Havas, Ádám (2019): Reseña bibliográfica: Arturo Rodríguez Morató & Álvaro Santana Acuña (eds.) La Nueva Sociología De Las Artes: Una Perspectiva Hispanohablante Y Global Barcelona: Gedisa. 2017. Barataria Revista Castellano-Manchega de Ciencias Sociales 26: 211–213.
2023"Rituales de resistencia, utopías transgenéricas y los límites de la improvisación libre: La política cultural de la escena de improvisación libre de Barcelona" Sala fontseré del Institut d'Estudis Catalans – Grup de Treball d'
Presentation at Facultad de Filología, at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, "Jazz en Hungría: Historia Social y la Escena Contemporánea". 19 April 17hrs.
"'Swinging"' Cultural Differences in Eastern Europe: The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora." The New School for Social Research, Department of Sociology, Tuesday April 11, 12-1:30 PM.
"'Swinging"' Cultural Differences in Eastern Europe: The Genesis and Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora." Davison Hall Seminar Room, Rutgers University, Department of Sociology, Wednesday April 5, 11:30-1 PM.
“Rituals of Resistance, Trans-Generic Utopias, and the Limits of Free- (idi)oms: TheCultural Polics of Barcelona’s Free Improvisaon Scene.” Sonic Conversaons in theWestern Mediterranean Online Lecture Series of the ERC Research Project “Past andPresent Musical Encounters Across the Strait of Gibraltar,” 30th March 15:00 GMT+1 (https://www.musicalencounters.co.uk/event-details/the-cultural-politics…)
Guest lecture at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – “Research Methodologies for Journalism” BA course, 14th March 2023.
Presentation at University of Barcelona, Facultad de Filologia i Comunicació. "Jazz en Hungría: Historia Social y la Escena Contemporánea". 2 march 2023
2022Research Round Table & Book launch: “Swinging Cultural Difference”. Kunstuniversität Graz. 11 May .
2022“The applications and uses of the ‘habitus’ concept in empirical research.” Discussion organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Institute of Minority Studies. 10 March .
2021IASPM online Research Seminar: Sounds of In-Betweenness: Reflections on Diasporic Genealogies through East European Jazz. 25 November
2021Moderator at ‘Adapting to Future Challenges to Education – Book Launch and Workshop’, Central European University, Democracy Institute and CEU Center for Policy Studies.
2021Darmstadt Jazzforum : Towards the Deconstruction of Hegemonic Narratives: The Promises of Diasporic Jazz Research.
2020Jazz Studies Collaborative (Conveners: Lewis Porter, Mark Lomano, Kelsey Klotz): Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation, 25 November .
2019Conference of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences ‘Labour in the 21st Century’: Strategies of seeking symbolic and economic profits in the contemporary Hungarian Jazz. 24–26 October .
2018Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Centre, ‘Golden Boundaries’: On Contemporary Cultural Studies and Subcultural Research, 12 March .
2017University of Barcelona, CECUPS: Seminarios de Investigación. Talk in Spanish: Vecinos pobres: la estructura de la escena del jazz en Hungría. [Poor Neighbours: The Structure of the Hungarian Jazz Scene]. 23–25 May .
2022ESA RN02 Sociology of the Arts Mid-term Conference 14-16 September ; Lund, Sweden
2022Convention – Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York City, Sounds of In-Betweenness: Race, Otherness and Cultural Hierarchies through Jazz in Hungary, 4–7 May
202213th International Jazz Research Conference: Jazz Re:Search in 21st-Century Academia and Beyond: The ‘othering effect’ of jazz: cultural and racial hierarchies in Europe through jazz. 18–21 November 2021, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz [postponed to June]
20227th Rhythm Changes (2020): Jazz Now!: Sounds of In-Betweenness: Reflections on Diasporic Genealogies through East European Jazz, (postponed to 26–29 August 2021)
2021The 6th Central European Higher Education Cooperation (CEHEC) Conference at Central European University. Section ‘Academic Freedom’: The Rise of Heteronomous Academia on the EU’s Borderlands.
2020Documenting Jazz , Birmingham City University: Cultural Neverland or an Unfinished Project? György Szabados and the Ambiguous Canonization of the Hungarian Free Improvised Music. 16–18 January
201929th Annual Conference of the GfPM, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz: Cultural Neverland or an Unfinished Project? – György Szabados and the Ambiguous Canonization of the Hungarian Free Improvised Music, 1–3. November .
2019Rhythm Changes Conference: Jazz Journeys, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz: Aesthetic and Ethnic Constructions of the Hungarian Jazz Diaspora: ‘Gypsy Jazz’ and Musical Habitus, 11–14 April .
2017Rhythm Changes Conference: Re/Shaping Jazz, Conservatory of Amsterdam: Simultaneous Hierarchies: The Mainstream/Free Jazz Dichotomy, 31 August–3 September.
2017Communicating Music Scenes Perspectives Conference, Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Musicology Simultaneous Hierarchies: The Mainstream/Free Jazz Dichotomy, 19 May .
20179th Midterm Conference of the ESA RN-Sociology of the Arts, University of Porto: Poor Neighbours: The Structure of the Budapest Jazz Scene, 8–10 September .
20163rd ISA Forum of Sociology, University of Vienna: The Genesis of the Hungarian Theatre Field in the 19th Century, 10–14 August
201512th Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA): Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination, Czech Technical University in Prague: The Genesis and Structure of the Theatre Field in Hungary, 25–28 August .
2021-Member of the editorial board at Jazz Research Journal (Equinox)
2020-Peer reviewer for the academic journals International Sociology (SAGE), Popular Music (Cambridge University Press), Spanish Journal of Sociology (RES), IASPM Journal
2020Peer reviewer for the 50th-anniversary edition of the publication series Jazzforschung / Jazz Research (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz)
2020Translation with László Kőszeghy from English to Hungarian for Replika journal’s 115th issue: Melegh, A. (2006). On the East-West Slope: Globalization, nationalism, racism and discourses on Eastern Europe. Ch. 2.1 & 2. 6. Budapest /NY: Central European University Press.
2017Co-editor of the first Hungarian thematic issue on Jazz Studies (Replika 101-102: 7–209.)
Member of the editorial board at Replika social science academic journal, Fall 2017 – Present
2021Committee Member at ‘Romani–Jazz and Gypsy–Music Conference'. Károli Gáspár Reformed University. 22-23 January .
2021Co-organiser of ‘Replika Free University: open universiry lecture series with Prof. József Böröcz, Prof. Miklós Hadas, Dr. Anikó Gregor and Dr. Ágoston Fáber
2020Co-organiser of the 3rd Symposium of the Jazz Studies Research Group at the Hungarian Palace of Arts. Keynote: Prof. Krin Gabbard (Columbia University)
2019Co-organiser of the 2nd International Symposium and Workshop of the Jazz Studies Research Group at Eötvös Loránd Science University & Hungarian Palace of Arts. Keynote: Pedro Cravinho (Birmingham City University), 8–9 February.
2019Organizer and mediator of ‘Avant-jazz workshop’ at Milestone Institute with guest musicians Aram Shelton (US) and Péter Ajtai (HUN), September 21.
2016Co-organizer of Jazz Studies Research Group 1st International Symposium, Corvinus University of Budapest & Budapest Music Centre. Keynote: Christa Bruckner-Haring (University of Music and Performing Arts, Gratz). May 15.
2022-CECUPS-UB
2022-ESA
2022IASPM-AL
2021Karl Polányi award committee at the Hungarian Sociological Association
2021Member of Karl Polányi Centre
2021-2022Treasurer, IASPM Hungary
2018-Member of the public body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2017-20Chair, IASPM Hungary
2017-Member of Admissions Committee at Milestone Institute, Budapest
2020Ferenc Erdei Award (for the most outstanding young sociologist of the year), Hungarian Sociological Association
2019Ferenc Gazsó special prize for the article ‘The Aesthetic and Ethnic Constructions of Contemporary Hungarian Jazz: “Gypsy” Jazz and Musical Habitus’]. Hungarian Sociological Review 28(2): 110–135.
External module leader at Central European University’s Socrates Programme (2022-)
University-level education for adults who would otherwise not have the opportunity to do so because of various dimensions of social exclusion (e.g., low income, work constraints or family care obligations)
Lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest (2013–17)
Foundations of Sociology, Introduction to Sociological Theory,
Trends in Sociological Theory
Economic Sociology, Social Problems in Sociological Theory
Module Leader at Milestone Institute, Budapest (2016-2021)
Counter Cultures, Sociological Perspectives, Academic Writing,
Social Science Tutorial, Economic Sociology, Oxbridge Examination Essay,
Social Theory, Social Theory, Classic Texts in Sociology,
Class Concepts: From Marx to Bourdieu, Cultural Theory
2016-Having mentored over 55 undergraduate students at Milestone Institute. Successful university applications of former mentees include the University of Cambridge, LSE, UCL, University of Durham, Sciences PO, University of Amsterdam.
2019Südwestrundfunk (German SWR2), Jetzmusik: “»Alles, außer Schönberg!« Die Neue Rechte und die Neue Musik” interview with Dr. Adam Havas for radio feature ‘on the nationalist political influence on avant-garde music & art today’, January .
2018Deutschlandfunk Kultur, interview on the contemporary Hungarian jazz scene, 5 April .
Prof. Bruce Johnson
Visiting Professor and Docent, Cultural History, University of Turku; Honorary Professor, Music, University of Glasgow; Adjunct Professor, Communication, University of Technology Sydney; Honorary Professor, Arts and Media, UNSW
Prof. József Böröcz
Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Prof. Arturo Rodríguez Morató (current supervisor)
Associate professor, director of CECUPS, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain. Vice president of the Spanish Sociological Federation
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Reviews
What a complex, brilliant little book! It’s best to read it as
József Böröcz, Professor of Sociology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA