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 Proposal Submission Portal Opens

The SMT proposal submission portal for the 2024 Annual Meeting in Jacksonville, FL (November 7-10), will open on Friday, December 1st, and close on Thursday, February 1st. 

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2024 SMT40 Dissertation Fellowship Award Application

The deadline to apply for consideration for the 2024 SMT40 Dissertation Fellowship Award is December 15, 2023.

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New Work on Old Dance: A Pre-1800 Dance Studies Symposium (February 22-24, 2024)

Virtual

*A virtual conference hosted by the University of Pennsylvania and the Dance Studies Association’s Early Dance Working Group*

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CFP: New Work on Old Dance: A Pre-1800 Dance Studies Symposium

Virtual

hat does it look like for historical expressions of dancing and movement arts to break out of traditional academic and performative boxes? How do scholars and practitioners escape the boundaries of discipline, chronology, geography, and methodology subsumed under the conventional appellation of…

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Texas Society for Music Theory

Arlington, TX

The Texas Society for Music Theory will hold its 46th annual meeting on February 23-24, 2024, on the campus of the University of Texas at Arlington, with Amy Hatch serving as local arrangements coordinator. Megan Lavengood, Associate Professor and Area Director of Music Theory at George Mason…

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Laughter in Music

Murfreesboro, TN

Date: 8/1/2023
From: Joseph E. Morgan, Associate Professor (Middle Tennessee State University)
RE: Call for Papers for Conference Laughter in Music to be held March 9-10, 2024

Conference Title: Laughter in Music
Conference Facebook:…

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André Jolivet 2024: International Conference

Paris, France

André Jolivet 2024: International Conference
Conservatoire national Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP)
Deadline for proposals: June 15, 2023
Languages: French and English.
Organising Committee: Yves Balmer, Lucie Kayas

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Music Theory Southeast & South Central Society for Music Theory, 2024 joint meeting

Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN

The program committee for the Music Theory Southeast (MTSE) and the South Central Society for Music Theory (SCSMT) joint meeting, hosted by Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN, on March 15–16, 2024, invites proposals on any topic related to music theory, analysis, or music theory pedagogy. As…

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The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic Twenty-Second Annual Meeting

Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA

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CfP: 2024 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (RMSMT)

Boise State University, Boise, ID

The Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory is pleased to announce a call for presentations for the Annual Meeting of the society to be held on Friday and Saturday, March 15–16, 2024, hosted by Boise State University.
Boise State University is located in Boise, Idaho. It is well served by…

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Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, March 15–16, 2024

Christopher Newport University (Newport News, VA)

The Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic is excited to announce a call for papers for its next annual meeting, which will take place on March 15–16, 2024, at Christopher Newport University.

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11th International Conference on New Music Concepts

Treviso, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS
ICNMC 2023 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied Music Studies. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from…

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Music Theory Society of New York State Annual Meeting

Ithaca College

The 2024 Annual Meeting will take place at Ithaca College during the weekend of April 6–7, 2024. More details about the conference will be announced soon.

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NECMT Annual Conference

Boston University

The Northeast Conference of Music Theorists (NECMT) is pleased to announce its thirty-seventh meeting, which will be held April 19-20, 2024 at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Proposals are solicited on any topic related to music theory or analysis. Presentations will be twenty…

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MTMW 35th Annual Conference

Ball State University, Muncie, IN

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West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis

UC-Irvine

The West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis (WCCMTA) is pleased to announce a call for presentations for our annual meeting, to be held on Friday and Saturday, May 17-18, 2024, at the University of California-Irvine. The conference will be held jointly with AMS-Pacific Southwest.…

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Music and the Moving Image XX

New York City

CALL FOR PAPERS 2024
Music and the Moving Image Conference XX
Friday, May 24 - Sunday, May 26
New York University

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The Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism

Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Belgrade, Serbia

MINIMALIST INTERSECTIONS
The Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism

Dates: 29–31 May 2024
Location: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

Organizers:
Society for Minimalist Music
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA)…

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Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age

University of Music and Theatre Munich, Germany (in-person & online)

Streaming has had a profound effect on how audiovisual narrative media have been produced, distributed, and consumed. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from diverse fields, this conference aims to spotlight aspects of music and sound in the audiovisual narrative landscape – what…

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Music, Musicology and Academic Responsibilities in the 21st Century

Dublin, Ireland

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 2005 Harold Pinter said: “There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false … I believe that these assertions still make sense ... [in] art. So as a writer I stand by them but as a citizen I…

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