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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- May 16-18 Musical Geographies of Central Asia London UK
- May 17 Music Theory Midwest Student Workshop Ann Arbor MI
- May 17 Sound Gender Feminism Activism London UK
- 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 19-20 Talking about the Lost Generation (Renaissance Music) Montreal QB
- 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 Glasgow UK
- May 24-26 Students of Systematic Musicology Montreal QB
- May 25-26 Conference on User-Generated Culture Helsinki Finland
- *May 25 MTO Analyzing Performance Webinar 1
- *May 29 MTO Analyzing Performance Webinar 2
- 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 1 Newsletter submission deadline
- June 7-8 Music and Body Matters Lisbon Portugal
- June 8-9 Anestis Logothetis: Sound Images Athens Greece
- June 8-9 Contemporary Opera and New Music Theatre Toronto ON
- June 11-15 Meaning in Electroacoustic Music Stockholm Sweden
- June 12-13 Music and Movement Interaction in Time Ghent Belguim
- June 14-17 Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Multiculturalism Wolfville Nova Scotia
- June 14-16 Embodying the Improvisatory Montreal QB
- June 14-19 Performing Arts of SE Asia Manila Philippines
- *June 15 New Beethoven Research New Orleans LA
- June 15-17 Society for Musicology in Ireland Dundalk Ireland
- June 18-24 CMS Int'l Conference Buenos Aires Argentina
- June 19-22 Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval London UK
- June 21 Lyric Song in Idea and Performance London UK
- June 21-23 Musical Exchanges 1100-1650 Iberia Lisbon Portugal
- June 22 Popular Music and Automobile Culture Chester England
- June 24-28 Int. Assn. Study of Popular Music Gijón Spain
- June 25-27 Manchester Int'l Beethoven Conf. Manchester UK
- June 26-27 Israeli Musicological Conf. Jerusalem/Tel Aviv Israel
- June 27-30 Int'l Conference on 19th-Century Music Edinburgh UK
- June 28-29 Music and Media Turin Italy
- July 1-7 Int'l Musicological Society: Musics, Cultures, Identities Rome Italy
- July 2-5 Song, Stage and Screen VII Gronigen Netherlands
- July 4-8 Psychology and the Arts Ghent Belguim
- July 8-11 Medieval Renaissance Music Conference Nottingham UK
- July 9-11 Franco-Belgian Violin School La Spezia Italy
- July 11-15 Biennial Int'l Conf. on Baroque Music Southampton UK
- July 12-15 Australasian Computer Music Conf. Brisbane Australia
- 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 Food and Music in Concert Praia Cape Verde Islands
- July 13-14 Int'l Soc. of Philosophy of Music Education Athens Greece
- July 13-15 Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Conference Taipei Taiwan
- July 15 SMT subvention grant deadline
- July 19-21 South African Soc. for Research in Music Pretoria South Africa
- July 20-21 Music and Philosophy London UK
- July 22-29 Ethnochoreology Limerick Ireland
- July 23-28 Music Perception and Cognition Thessaloniki Greece
- July 25-28 North American British Music Studies Urbana-Champaign IL
- July 31-August 2 Musics of East Asia Hong Kong China
- August 7-10 Nordic Musicological Congress Stockholm Sweden
- August 8-11 Soc. for Music Perception and Cognition Toronto ON
- August 13-16 Simpósio Internacional de Musicologia Rio de Jaeniro Brazil
- August 24-25 Musical Environments Grad. Symposium London ON
- August 28-31 Music and the Visual Arts East Sussex UK
- August 30-31 Gender and Authenticity in Jazz Stockholm Sweden
- 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 10 SMT Minority and Int'l Travel Grant Deadline
- September 12-14 Baltic Musicological Conference Vilnius Lithuania
- September 12-14 Ethno. Grad. Conf. Music & Movement London UK
- September 13-15 The Heroic in Music Leipzig Germany
- September 13-14 The Singer-Songwriter in Europe Leeds UK
- September 19-21 Music and Theology in the Reformations Leuven Belguim
- September 22-28 Rethinking Stravinsky Fisciano-Salerno Italy
- September 27-30 Bach and the Organ Rochester NY
- September 27-October 27 Nancarrow Online Symposium hyperspace
- September 29-30 AMS Midwest Chapter Indianapolis IN (CFP deadline: June 10 2012)
- October 4-7 Sound and Performance Bayreuth Germany
- October 5-6 Consuming Music . . .1750-1850 New Haven Connecticut
- October 5-15 Microtonal Innovations St. Petersburg Russia
- October 5-7 Musiktheorie und Komposition (GMTH) Essen Germany
- October 6-7 Gender, Musical Creativity, & Age Huddersfield UK
- October 11-13 Cent'l Eur. Musicians & French Piano Virtuosity Rome Italy
- 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 17-20 Lund Choral Festival Lund Sweden
- October 18-19 Art and Ethics Langley BC (CFP deadline: June 15 2012)
- October 18-20 Schreker and his Time Strasbourg France
- *October 19-20 INTIME Symposium Conventry UK (CFP deadline: September 5 2012)
- October 19-21 Italian Musicological Society Milan Italy (CFP deadline: June 15 2012)
- October 20-21 Music on Stage Kent UK
- *October 21-23 Symposium on Charles Tournemire Pittsburgh PA (CFP deadline: June 1 2012)
- October 25-28 Reassessing the Rite: A Centennial Celebration Chapel Hill NC
- October 26-28 Conference on Music Semiotics Edinburgh UK (CFP deadline: June 1 2012)
- October 26-28 Int'l Conf. on Music Semitotics Edinburgh UK (CFP deadline: June 1 2012)
- October 26-27 Puerto Rico and Its Music Albany NY
- October 26-27 Rake's Progress Boulder CO
- October 30-31 Ecomusicologies New Orleans LA
- *October 31-November 1 New Beethoven Research New Orleans LA (CFP deadline: July 15 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 8-11 ICTM Study Group on Maqam Sarajevo Bosnia and Hercegovina
- *November 9-10 Opera and Cinema Lisbon Portugal (CFP deadline: June 30 2012)
- November 10 Envoicing the Other Glasgow Scotland (CFP deadline: July 27 2012)
- November 10-12 Music & the Creation of Meaning Montreal QB (CFP deadline: August 31 2012)
- November 10-12 Music and the Creation of Meaning Montreal QB (CFP deadline: June 8 2012)
- November 15-18 College Music Society San Diego CA
- *November 22-23 Soixante ans de musiques mixtes Paris France (CFP deadline: June 3 2012)
- November 23-25 Handel at Court London UK
- November 30-December 2 Massenet / Mediterranean World Lucca Italy
- November 30-December 2 Voyages of Discovery Auckland New Zealand (CFP deadline: June 10 2012)
- December 7-8 Spanish musics/[Western] Others Melbourne Austraila
- December 13-15 Rousseau's Thought Colorado Spring CO
- January 3-5 RMA Student Conference 2013 Southampton UK (CFP deadline: October 29 2012)
- January 18-19 Earle Brown Symposium Boston MA
- January 31-February 2 WagnerWorldWide 2013 USC Columbia SC
- February 21-24 American Handel Festival Princeton NJ (CFP deadline: September 1 2012)
- February 27-March 3 Music Library Assoc. San Jose CA
- February 28-March 2 Music/Power in Russia, East Eur. & Eurasia Oxford OH (CFP deadline: October 1 2012)
- March 6-10 Society for American Music Little Rock AR (CFP deadline: June 8 2012)
- 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)
- June 12-15 Music Iconography as Mirror Porto Portugal (CFP deadline: June 10 2012)
- *June 18-24 In'tl Conf. of the CMS Buenos Aires Argentina (CFP deadline: September 4 2012)
- June 24-28 Int'l Assoc. for Study of Popular Music Gijón Spain
- July 11-17 Traditional Music World Conference Shanghai China (CFP deadline: September 7 2102)
- August 8-11 Soc. for Music Perception and Cognition Toronto ON (CFP TBA)
- September 27-29 Rethinking Balkan Music Belgrade Serbia (CFP deadline: February 1 2013 )
- October 12-13 Krebs (1713-1780): Life and Works Weimar Germany (CFP deadline: May 31 2012)
- October 31-November 3 CMS and ATMI Cambridge MA
- 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)
- October 29-November 2 CMS Annual Conference St. Louis MO
- November 6-9 AMS Annual Meeting (w/ SMT) Milwaukee WI (CFP TBA)
- November 6-9 SOCIETY FOR MUSIC THEORY 2014 ANNUAL MEETING Milwaukee WI