Below is a list of upcoming events that might be of interest to SMT members; all CFP (Call for Papers) deadlines that have not yet expired are indicated as well. Recently posted listing are highlighted with an asterisk (*). To recommend an event to be added to this list, please contact SMT Webmaster Poundie Burstein at poundie@aol.com .
For items relating specifically to the SMT, please see the SMT events and deadlines page. For a list of upcoming CFP deadlines only, listed in the order of the CFP deadline date, please see the Upcoming CFP deadlines page.
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- February 23-25 CMS Southern Regional Conf. Tampa FL
- February 24-25 CMS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conf. Fairfax VA
- February 24-26 Pacific NW Grad. Student Conference Vancouver BC (CFP deadline: January 15 2102)
- February 24-25 Segregation and Integration in Music and Language Tübingen Germany
- February 24-25 South Central Society for Music Theory Lafayette LA
- February 25 AMS Pacific SW Northridge CA
- February 25 Grad. Conf. Music•Technology•Media Cambridge MA
- February 26-27 International Terezin Music Conference Leeds UK
- February 28 AMS N. California Berkeley CA
- February 29-March 3 Debussy's Legacy Montreal QB
- *February 29 Harmony and variation in music information retrieval Utrecht Netherlands
- March 1-3 CMS South Central Regional Conf. Ada OK
- March 2-3 AMS South-Central Chapter Jackson TN
- March 2-3 CMS Rocky Mt. Regional Conf. Portales NM
- March 2-3 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium Evanston IL
- March 2-3 Texas Society for Music Theory Ft. Worth TX
- March 2-4 West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis Eugene OR
- March 3-4 Buffalo Graduate Symposium on Music Buffalo NY
- March 3-4 The Legacy of Babbitt: Post-WWII Amer. Serialism Dayton OH
- March 3-4 Yale Graduate Music Symposium New Haven CT
- March 4-5 Reimagining Schulhoff, Ullmann & the German-Jewish-Czech World Tempe AZ
- March 9-11 McGill Grad. Music Symposium Montreal QB
- March 9-10 Music Theory Southeast Annual Meeting Atlanta GA
- March 10 Music and the American Word Redlands CA
- March 11-12 Music and the Body Hong Kong China
- March 13-16 Conference of Young Musicologists Madrid Spain
- March 14-18 Society for American Music Conference Charlotte NC
- March 16-17 CMS Pacific NW Regional Conf. Vancouver BC
- March 16-17 CMS Northeast Regional Conf. Fredonia NY
- March 16-18 Sacher Perspectives Cardiff Wales
- March 21-23 Brahms in the New Century New York City NY
- March 23-25 Guimarães Music Congress Guimarães Portugal
- March 23-24 Marcos Portugal Conf. Lisbon Portugal
- March 26-28 Orpheus Institute Ghent Belguim
- March 30-31 CMS Great Lakes Regional Conf. Chicago IL
- March 30 Ligeti Conference London UK
- March 30-31 Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic Newark DE
- March 30-31 Music, Mind, and Invention Ewing NJ
- March 30-31 Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory Greeley CO
- March 31 AMS Midwest Macomb Illinois
- March 31 Italian Pop Music as Poetry Bloomington IN
- March 31-April 1 Music Theory Society of New York State Annual Meeting New York City NY
- March 31 Teaching Music History Lawrenceville NJ
- April 1 GSWP application deadline
- April 1 Publication Award nomination deadline
- April 5-6 Analyser la musique mixte Paris France (CFP deadline: )
- April 11-13 Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music...Design Malaga Spain
- April 12-14 19th Cent. Melodrama to Film Scoring Long Beach CA
- April 12-13 Debussy Text And Idea London UK
- April 13 AMS Southwest Chapter Ft. Smith AR
- April 13-15 18th-C. Music and the Haydn Society of North America Charleston SC
- April 13-14 New Music & the North Amer. Academy Potsdam NY
- April 14 AMS Allegheny Chapter Beaver Falls PA (CFP deadline: February 29 2012)
- April 14 Gamma-UT Grad. Conf.: Music/Society Austin TX
- April 14-15 Music and Crisis: Interdiscip. Grad. Conf. Santa Barbara CA
- April 17-22 Traditional Music And Dance Berovo Macedonia
- April 18-21 Music and Paper; Music and Screen Belgrade Serbia
- April 19-20 Contemporary Music and Dance London UK
- April 19-22 Society for 17th-Century Music New York NY
- April 20-21 New England Conference of Music Theorists New London CT
- April 20-21 Grad. Student Conf.: Music and Meaning Cincinnati OH
- April 20-21 Music in Goethe's Faust Maynooth Ireland
- April 21-22 AMS NYS/St. Lawrence Chapter Clinton NY
- April 21-22 Nancarrow In The 21st Century London UK
- April 21 TAGS Conference Southampton UK
- April 24-26 2nd Int'l Roberto Gerhard Conference Barcelona Spain
- April 26-27 (M)other Russia London UK (CFP deadline: April 26-27 2012)
- April 26-29 3rd Int'l. Musicological Student Conf. Tbilsi Georgia (CFP deadline: March 30 2012)
- April 27-29 AMS Pacific NW Edmonton AB
- April 27-29 Dutch-Flemish Soc. for Music Theory Antwerp Netherlands
- April 27-28 Music Parts and Labor New York NY
- April 27-29 Time Theories and Music Corfu Greece
- April 28 AMS Greater NY / N. Amer. British Studies New York NY (CFP deadline: March 1 2012 )
- April 28-29 CUNY Grad. Conf.: Music and Space New York NY
- April 28 Musica Scotia Glasgow Scotland
- May 4-6 Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts London Ontario
- May 4-5 U of Toronto Grad. Symposium Toronto ON
- May 9-12 Heavy Fundametalisms: Music, Metal and Politics Prague Czech Republic
- May 10-13 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo MI
- May 10-12 New Music in Britain Canterbury UK
- May 11-13 Analytical Approaches to World Music Vancouver BC
- May 11-13 Music Cognition, Technology, Society Ithaca NY
- May 14-15 Confounding Expectations: Grad. Conf. Calgary AB
- May 16-17 Musical Geographies of Central Asia London UK
- May 17 Music Theory Midwest Student Workshop Ann Arbor MI
- May 18-19 Hearing Landscape Critically Oxford, UK
- May 18-19 Music Theory Midwest Annual Meeting Ann Arbor MI
- May 18-20 Music and Propaganda in the 20th Century Pistoia Italy
- May 18 Symposium in honor of Richard Kramer New York NY
- May 23-25 Xenakis' Electroacoustic Music Paris France
- May 24-27 Assn. Psych. Science (incl. Music, Mind, Brain) Chicago IL
- May 24-26 International Country Music Conference Nashville TN
- May 24-25 Spaces of (Dis)location (CFP deadline: March 9 2012)
- May 24-26 Students of Systematic Musicology Montreal QB
- May 25-26 Conference on User-Generated Culture Helsinki Finland
- May 31-June 1 Canadian University Music Society Waterloo ON
- May 31-June 3 Love to Death: Transforming Opera/RMA Conference Cardiff Wales
- June 1-3 John Cage: nief-norf Greenville SC
- June 1-3 Music & the Moving Image New York NY
- June 7-8 Music and Body Matters Lisbon Portugal
- June 8-9 Anestis Logothetis: Sound Images Athens Greece (CFP deadline: April 20 2012 )
- June 8-9 Contemporary Opera and New Music Theatre Toronto ON
- June 11-15 Meaning in Electroacoustic Music Stockholm Sweden
- June 14-17 Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Multiculturalism Wolfville Nova Scotia
- June 14-16 Embodying the Improvisatory Montreal QB
- June 15-17 Society for Musicology in Ireland Dundalk Ireland
- *June 19-22 Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval London UK
- June 19-22 Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval London UK
- June 21 Lyric Song in Idea and Performance London UK (CFP deadline: March 1 2012)
- June 22 Popular Music and Automobile Culture Chester England
- *June 24-28 Int. Assn. Study of Popular Music Gijón Spain (CFP deadline: April 1 2012)
- June 25-27 Manchester Int'l Beethoven Conf. Manchester UK (CFP deadline: March 16 2012)
- June 27-30 Int'l Conference on 19th-Century Music Edinburgh UK
- June 28-29 Music and Media Turin Italy (CFP deadline: March 15 2012)
- July 1-7 Int'l Musicological Society.: Musics, Cultures, Identities Rome Italy
- July 8-11 Medieval Renaissance Music Conference Nottingham UK (CFP deadline: February 24 2012)
- July 9-11 Franco-Belgian Violin School La Spezia Italy (CFP deadline: April 15 2012)
- July 11-15 Biennial Int'l Conf. on Baroque Music Southampton UK
- July 12-14 Int'l Conf. of Wind Music (IGEB) Coimbra Portugal
- July 12-14 Music and Shape London UK
- July 12-14 The Art of Listening Potsdam Germany
- July 13-14 Int'l Soc. of Philosophy of Music Education Athens Greece (CFP deadline: March 1 2012)
- July 13-15 Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference Taipei Taiwan
- July 15 SMT subvention grant deadline
- *July 19-21 South African Society for Research in Music Pretoria South Africa (CFP deadline: March 15 2012 )
- July 20-21 Music and Philosophy London UK
- July 23-28 Music Perception and Cognition Thessaloniki Greece
- July 25-28 North American British Music Studies Urbana-Champaign IL
- August 7-10 Nordic Musicological Congress Stockholm Sweden
- August 30-31 Gender and Authenticity in Jazz Stockholm Sweden (CFP deadline: February 29 2012)
- September 4-8 Gesellschaft für Musikforschung Goettingen Germany
- September 6-16 Sociedad Española de Musicología Logroño Spain
- September 6-8 Eisler and Posterity Berlin Germany
- September 7 Colonial Music / Age of Enlightenment Göttingen Germany
- September 10-13 Perspectives on Musical Improvisation Oxford UK
- September 12-14 Ethno. Grad. Conf. Music & Movement London UK
- September 13-15 The Heroic in Music Leipzig Germany
- September 22-28 Rethinking Stravinsky Fisciano-Salerno Italy (CFP deadline: April 1 2012)
- September 27-30 Bach and the Organ Rochester NY
- September 27-October 27 Nancarrow Online Symposium hyperspace (CFP deadline: February 29 2012)
- October 5-6 Consuming Music . . .1750-1850 New Haven Connecticut (CFP deadline: March 1 2012 )
- *October 5-15 Microtonal Innovations St. Petersburg Russia (CFP deadline: May 15 2012)
- October 5-7 Musiktheorie und Komposition (GMTH) Essen Germany (CFP deadline: May 1 2012)
- October 6-7 Gender, Musical Creativity, & Age Huddersfield UK (CFP deadline: March 31 2012 )
- October 11-13 Cent'l Eur. Musicians & French Piano Virtuosity Rome Italy (CFP deadline: April 25 2012)
- October 11-12 Symposium on Spanish Keyboard Music Almería Spain (CFP deadline: June 1 2012 )
- *October 13 Russian and Eastern European Music Manchester UK (CFP deadline: May 31 2012)
- *October 17-19 Links between Music and Visual Arts Vilnius Lithuania (CFP deadline: June 10 2012)
- October 18-20 Schreker and his Time Strasbourg France (CFP deadline: February 29 2012 )
- October 30-31 Ecomusicologies New Orleans LA (CFP deadline: April 16 2012)
- November 1-4 AMS Annual Meeting (w/ SMT) New Orleans LA
- November 1-4 SEM Annual Meeting (w/ SMT) New Orleans LA
- November 1-4 SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY 2012 ANNUAL MEETING New Orleans LA
- November 15-18 College Music Society San Diego CA
- November 23-25 Handel at Court London UK (CFP deadline: March 16 2012)
- November 30-December 2 Massenet / Mediterranean World Lucca Italy
- January 31-February 2 WagnerWorldWide 2013 USC Columbia SC
- March 15-17 5th Int'l Schenker Symposium New York NY (CFP deadline: October 1 2012)
- May 30-June 2 Richard Wagner’s Impact Leeds UK (CFP deadline: July 1 2012)
- June 5-9 Int'l Soc. of Philosophy of Music Education New York NY (CFP deadline: October 1 2012)
- October 31-November 3 SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY 2013 ANNUAL MEETING Charlotte NC
- November 7-10 American Musicological Society Pittsburgh PA (CFP deadline: TBA)
- November 14-17 Society of Ethnomusicology Indianapolis IN (CFP deadline: TBA)
- December 12-15 WagnerWorldWide: Reflections Bayreuth Germany (CFP deadline: July 31 2012)
- November 6-9 AMS Annual Meeting (w/ SMT) Milwaukee WI (CFP TBA)
- November 6-9 SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY 2014 ANNUAL MEETING Milwaukee WI