Below is a list of upcoming events that might be of interest to SMT members. You may click on the event title for more information.
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SMT Subventions for Events Application Deadline
Each year the Annual Meeting Grants Subcommittee considers special funding requests from standing committees, interest groups, and individual SMT members for activities held at the SMT…
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Travel Grants Application Deadline
The SMT provides funding to certain eligible groups to travel to the annual meeting.
Note: the deadline to apply for an International Travel Grant is July 12.
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Award for Diversity Course Design Application Deadline
Diversity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice are important goals of the Society for Music Theory. These goals cannot simply be proclaimed; we must all work toward them. There is no better starting point than in our undergraduate classrooms. It is for this reason that the SMT introduces…
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Sponsor, Exhibitor, Advertiser, and Event Reservation Deadline
The Society for Music Theory, with 1,200 members, brings together academics, graduate students, and other professionals specializing in musicology and music theory in higher education. It will be the forty-seventh Annual Meeting and provides an opportunity for…
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Historical Notation Bootcamp
Yale University (New Haven)Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University) and Andrew Hicks (Cornell University) are delighted to announce that after an extended pandemic hiatus, the Historical Notation Bootcamp (https://blogs.cornell.edu/hnb/) will be held July 29–August 2, 2024. We are…
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The International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2024
Colombo Sri Lanka (and remotely)
Rhythm under the Microscope: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Microrhythm and Groove in Popular Music
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institute of Popular MusicSince Charles Keil (1987) argued that very small variations in timing, which he called
“participatory discrepancies,” were crucial for a sensation of groove, microrhythm has been
the subject of much scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Researchers have struggled to find
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Diffractions: An International Symposium on Barad and Music Studies
Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University, and onlineWe warmly invite submissions for ‘Diffractions’, a forthcoming international symposium on intra-actions between music studies and the theoretical, philosophical, and political work of Karen Barad.
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UB International Guitar Research Conference
University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus,The second annual UB International Guitar Research Conference will be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus, from Saturday, September 28, to Sunday, September 29, 2024.
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UB International Guitar Research Conference
University at Buffalo (SUNY), North CampusCall for Proposals
The second annual UB International Guitar Research Conference will be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus, from Saturday, September 28, to Sunday, September 29, 2024.
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Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture
Indiana University Jacobs School of MusicYou are cordially invited to join us for Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture, a large-scale music festival coming to the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from Monday, Sept. 30 through Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. All events are FREE of charge, but registration is…
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24th Annual Congress of the Association of German-speaking Music Theory (GMTH)
Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute of Instrumental and Vocal PedagogyThe Institute of Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg is delighted to be the venue for the next annual congress of the Association of German-speaking Music Theory (GMTH).
Expression, Language, and Music (ELM2), 2nd Meeting
University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)The Second Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM2) will bring together researchers from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, music theory, dance theory, anthropology, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives…
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15th International Biennial Conference on Music Theory and Analysis
University of Arts, BelgradeThe 15th Biennial International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis, organized by the
Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, will take place from Friday 4 to Sunday
6 October 2024 at the University of Arts in Belgrade. We welcome paper proposals on different…
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Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire 5th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
OnlineThe LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is delighted to announce our 5th symposium, “Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire.” In resistance to ongoing insidious ahistorical extortionist neoliberal greed, our symposium echoes the call of our previous events to center care and community in…
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Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire; 5th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group
VirtualCall for Papers, Panels and Performances
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Symposium on Gustav Holst
Utah State UniversityThe year 2024 marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the British composer Gustav Holst, as well as the ninetieth anniversary of his death. Although his music remains an enduring fixture of the orchestral (The Planets) and wind band (Suites, Hammersmith) canons,…
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Digging Schönberg – Approaches in Popular Musics
International Symposium at the Arnold Schönberg Center, ViennaOn the occasion of Arnold Schönberg's 150th birthday, the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, the Research Center Arnold Schönberg und die Wiener Schule, the Department of Music Sociology, the Department of Popular Music, the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies (mdw - University…
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