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 Sean Atkinson at webmaster@societymusictheory.org .
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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- May 22-24 Music Encoding Conference Mainz, Germany
- May 23-26 Music and Labor Hamilton ON
- May 23-25 The Medium is the Message Toulon France
- May 24-26 Midwestern Music Cognition Symposium Columbus, OH
- May 30-June 2 Richard Wagner’s Impact Leeds UK
- May 30-June 1 Roots of American Musical Life Williamsburg VA
- May 31-June 2 Music & The Moving Image New York NY
- May 31-June 2 PERFORMA, a conference on performance studies Porto Alegre, Brazil
- May 31-June 2 nief-norf Research Summit Greenville, SC
- June 1 Deadline for Submissions for August 2013 SMT Newsletter
- June 4 IEMTP: Music Theory and Performance Paris, France
- June 5-9 Int'l Soc. of Philosophy of Music Education New York NY
- June 5-7 Sacralization of the Profane Ljubljana, Slovenia
- June 6-9 Canadian Univ. Music Soc. Victoria BC
- June 6-7 Folk Music Analysis Amsterdam, Netherlands
- June 6-8 Researching Music Censorship Copenhagen, Denmark
- June 6-8 The Production and Reading of Music Sources London, UK
- June 6-7 The Work of Roberto Gerhard Madrid, Spain
- June 7-8 Music Therapy Advances London, UK
- June 7-8 Popular Music and Politics in the 21st Century Strasbourg, France
- June 8-17 Vancouver International Song Institute Vancouver, BC
- June 11-15 Music and Emotions Jyväskylä Finland
- June 12-14 Mathematics and Computation in Music Montreal QB
- June 12-15 Music Iconography as Mirror Porto Portugal
- June 17-21 Electroacoustic Music Lisbon, Portugal
- June 17-18 FlipCamp Music Theory Charleston, SC
- June 18-24 CMS Int'l Conference Buenos Aires Argentina
- June 18 Temporality in Performance and Performing Arts Grožnjan, Croatia
- June 20-22 Practices of Comedy Lisbon Portugal
- June 21-23 Rethinking Poulenc: 50 Years On Keele, UK
- June 21-23 Society for Musicology in Ireland Maynooth, Ireland
- June 23-30 Reed Tango Music Institute Portland, OR
- June 24-28 Int'l Assoc. for Study of Popular Music Gijón Spain
- June 24-27 Music in 19th Century Britain Cardiff UK
- June 24-28 Workshops in Music Theory Pedagogy Amherst, MA
- June 27-29 Sourcing Emotions Perth, Australia
- July 2-4 Analyzing Popular Music Liverpool UK
- July 3-7 Bach Dialogue Meeting Warsaw Poland
- July 4-7 Medieval and Renaissance Music Certaldo Italy
- July 5-7 Britten on Stage and Screen Nottingham UK
- July 7-8 Mechanical Musical Instruments London, UK
- July 11-13 Music on Small Screens Ottawa, Canada
- July 11-13 Music | Digitisation | Mediation Oxford, UK
- July 11-13 N. American Conf. on 19th-Century Music Fort Worth, TX
- July 11-13 Recital and Urban Setting (19th C.) Lucca, Italy
- July 11-17 Traditional Music World Conference Shanghai China
- July 12-14 Art of Record Production Laval QB
- July 19-21 Historical Keyboard Music Edinburgh UK
- July 19-20 Music and Philosophy London UK
- July 24-26 Dalcroze Studies Coventry, UK
- July 31-August 4 Feminist Theory and Music Clinton, NY
- August 1-3 Christian Congregational Music Oxford UK
- August 6-9 Chant and Culture Vancouver, Canada
- August 7 CogMIR Toronto, Canada
- August 7-10 Words and Music Studies Int'l Conf. London UK
- August 8-11 Soc. for Music Perception and Cognition Toronto ON
- August 12-16 International Computer Music Conference Perth, Australia
- August 12-15 Verdi, Wagner and Contemporaries Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- August 23-24 Music and Technology London, Canada
- September 4-7 Sociocultural Crossings and Borders Vilnius Lithuania
- September 9-11 Hearing Landscape Critically Stellenbosch S .Africa
- September 9-10 Music in Western Europe, 1150-1350 Southampton, UK
- September 10 Staging Operatic Anniversaries Oxford, UK
- September 12-15 Music Since 1900 Liverpool UK
- September 12-14 SysMus13 Genoa, Italy
- September 13-14 The Staging of Verdi & Wagner Operas Pistoia, Italy
- September 19-21 Mediterranean Music Conference Nicosia, Cyprus
- September 19-21 RMA Annual Meeting London UK
- September 25-27 Enchanted Modernities Amsterdam, Netherlands
- September 26-28 International Merleau-Ponty Circle Pittsburgh, PA (CFP deadline: June 1 2013)
- September 26-28 Jazz Debates / Postbop Darmstadt Germany
- September 27-29 Rethinking Balkan Music Belgrade Serbia
- September 28 GAMuT Graduate Student Conference Denton, TX (CFP deadline: July 1 2013)
- September 30-October 2 Russian Society for Music Theory St. Petersburg, Russia
- October 3-6 German Studies Association Denver, CO
- October 3-6 Music and Minimalism Long Beach, CA
- October 4-6 Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie (GMTH) Rostock, Germany
- October 4-6 Sources of Identity Sheffield, UK
- October 4-6 Your Brain Needs Music Boulder CO
- October 9-13 Verdi's Third Century New York, NY
- October 10-12 Ligeti 2013 Symposium and Festival Tallahassee, FL
- October 10-12 Music Gender & Difference Vienna Austria
- October 10-12 Tracking the Creative Process in Music Montreal QB
- October 11-12 Musical Life in Belgium in WWII Brussels Belgium
- October 12-13 Krebs (1713-1780): Life and Works Weimar Germany
- October 13-15 The Renewal of Sacred Music and the Liturgy St. Paul, MN
- October 16-18 Principles of Music Composing Vilnius, Lithuania (CFP deadline: June 14 2013)
- October 18-20 IMS-EA Second Biennial Conf. Taipei, Taiwan
- October 21-25 Women and the American Musical Landscape Redlands, CA (CFP deadline: June 30 2013)
- October 23-26 The Baroque Legacy Allendale, MI
- October 24-27 Benjamin Britten at 100 Normal, IL
- October 24-27 Beyond the Semitone Aberdeen, UK
- October 31-November 3 CMS and ATMI Cambridge MA
- October 31-November 3 SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY 2013 ANNUAL MEETING Charlotte NC
- November 6-7 New Beethoven Research Pittsburgh, PA (CFP deadline: June 1 2013)
- November 7-10 American Musicological Society Pittsburgh PA
- November 7-8 Music and Concentration Camps Strasbourg, France
- November 8-10 Music in Naples in the 18th and 19th centuries Palmi, Italy (CFP deadline: May 31 2013)
- November 14-17 Society of Ethnomusicology Indianapolis, IN
- November 15-17 Protest Music in the 20th Century Lucca, Italy
- November 16-17 Music and Genocide Krakow Poland
- November 17-18 The Musical Worlds of Polish Jews, 1920-1960 Tempe, AZ
- November 18-21 Music and Metamorphosis Brisbane, Australia (CFP deadline: May 31 2013)
- November 22 Ecomusicologies 2013 Brisbane, Australia
- *November 23-24 Gesualdo 400th Anniversary York, UK (CFP deadline: September 6 2013)
- November 29-30 International Symposium "Arcomelo 2013" Fusignano, Italy
- November 29-December 1 The String Quartet from 1750 to 1870 Lucca, Italy
- December 6-8 Wagner and Us Melbourne Australia
- December 12-14 Gender and Creation in Performing Arts Paris, France (CFP deadline: June 30 2013)
- December 12-15 WagnerWorldWide: Reflections Bayreuth Germany
- January 6-8 RMA Student Research Birmingham UK (CFP TBA)
- January 9-12 Lyrica Society at MLA Chicago, IL
- February 7-9 An International Beatles Celebration Altoona, PA (CFP deadline: July 1 2013)
- February 24-March 2 Music Library Assoc. Atlanta GA (CFP TBA)
- March 5-7 Composition in the 21st Century (CFP deadline: September 9 2013)
- March 20-21 Montpellier 8 Oxford, UK (CFP deadline: October 1 2013)
- April 5-6 MTSNYS (New York State) New York, NY
- April 25-27 The Gruuthuse Manuscript Bruges, Belgium
- May 1-4 American Bach Society Gambier, OH (CFP deadline: October 1 2013)
- June 18-21 Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music Toronto, Canada (CFP deadline: October 15 2013)
- July 9-13 Biennial Conference on Baroque Music Salzburg Austria (CFP TBA)
- July 17-20 Performance Studies Network Int'l Conf. 3 Cambridge UK (CFP TBA)
- September 4-6 RMA Conference Leeds UK (CFP TBA)
- October 19-21 Jewish Music and Jewish Identity Youngstown, OH (CFP deadline: March 1 2014)
- October 29-November 2 CMS Annual Conference St. Louis MO (CFP TBA)
- November 6-9 AMS Annual Meeting (w/ SMT) Milwaukee WI (CFP TBA)
- November 6-9 SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY 2014 ANNUAL MEETING Milwaukee WI
- November 13-16 Society of Ethnomusicology Pttsburgh PA (CFP TBA)
- September 10-12 RMA Conference Birmingham UK (CFP TBA)
- November 12-15 AMS Annual Meeting Louisville Kentucky