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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music & online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem

Nova University, Lisbon

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 'music & online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem’ conference, taking place on 19–21 June 2025 at FCSH, Nova University Lisbon. We have a wonderful programme lined up, the full extent of which we look forward to…

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music and online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem

NOVA University, Lisbon and livestream

The Music and Online Cultures Research Network (MOCReN) is delighted to announce the programme for its upcoming ‘music and online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem’ conference, taking place at NOVA University Lisbon, 19–21st June 2025.

23rd Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology

Ireland University College Dublin

We are delighted to announce that Esteban Buch (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will deliver the keynote address. Proposals are invited from all areas of musical scholarship, including – yet not restricted to – historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies,…

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North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

The program committee for the 2025 North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music invites proposals for presentations on topics related to the “long” nineteenth century. The conference will be held Wednesday through Friday, June 25–27, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

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The Lost Voices of Electronic Music History

University of Huddersfield, UK

The dominant narratives of electronic music tend to centre around institutions including the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, radio studios such as WDR (Germany), INA-GRM (France), PRES (Poland), and NHK (Japan) as well as Universities including Princeton and Columbia, and the activity of composers…

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Screening Live Performance

University of Southampton

A two-day cross-disciplinary conference, "Screening Live Performance" will bring together scholars and practitioners to consider the impact, aesthetics, history, and future of multi-camera production in the performing arts. "Screening Live Performance" will feature a workshop…

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Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

Cincinnati, OH

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and
the National Endowment for the Humanities present

Cincinnati Sounds:
Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

July 6–11 and July 20–25, 2025

Applications Due: 5 March 2025

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Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies

Zoom

The topic of the 2025 biennial symposium is Rethinking Landscape: Environment, Place, and Heritage in British Music Studies. Landscape and environment have been topics of perennial interest in British Music Studies, inspiring both celebrated and controversial readings of connections between…

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Workshop on Probabilistic Models of Music Cognition

Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY

Probabilistic models and methods are a central part of modern cognitive science and have been widely used in music cognition as well. Probabilistic models have been proposed for musical processes such as key perception, meter perception, segmentation, and expectation; recently, several studies…

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Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025)

Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester

The SMA is pleased to confirm dates for the Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025), which will take place from Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 July 2025 at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester.

The McrMAC 2025 programme committee welcomes…

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Workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’ (Leeds, 17 July 2025)

The School of Music, University of Leeds

The School of Music, University of Leeds is pleased to announce a workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’, to be held on Thursday 17 July 2025.

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Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

Cincinnati, Ohio

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and
the National Endowment for the Humanities present

Cincinnati Sounds:
Exploring a Musical City's Spaces, Places, and Sounds

July 6–11 and July 20–25, 2025

Applications Due: 5 March 2025

University…

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Open Access Musicology

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Sixth Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Music Theory and Analysis (TeMA): Knowledge production in Music: relevance of Musical Theory and Analysis and its intersections with Practice

Hybrid - UDESC in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina

The Brazilian Association of Musical Theory and Analysis (TeMA) is pleased to invite all interested parties to submit paper proposals for the VI TeMA Meeting, which will be held in hybrid mode between August 18 and 21, 2025 at UDESC in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina.

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Musica Viva Festival: Music in the Galant Style and Beyond – A Modern Renaissance

Florence (Italy)

The Musica Viva: Florence Festival presents an International Mini-Conference titled "Music in the Galant Style and Beyond – A Modern Renaissance," taking place from August 20 to 22, 2025, in Florence, Italy. This scholarly gathering will bring together performers, musicologists,…

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Eduard Hanslick 1825-2025: Background, Context, Legacy

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

We warmly invite you to submit an abstract in either German or English on any topic related to Hanslick. Critical assessments of his writings and activities are as welcome as explorations of broader topics and issues related to Hanslick as an aesthetic theorist, scholar, music critic, and…

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8th Biennial Conference of the International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA)

Yunnan University, China

The International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA) is pleased to announce its upcoming biennial meeting, under the theme: “Heritage and Community”

We invite proposals that address topics and issues related to the creation, transmission, and inheritance of…

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12th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology

Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

The Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) conference is the premiere
venue for scholars engaging with digital libraries in the domain of
music and musicology. It provides a forum for musicians, musicologists,
librarians, and technologists to share findings and expertise.…

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Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM 2025)

Aalborg University, Denmark

Conference Theme: "Getting to Grips with Musical Complexity"

This year’s theme encourages submissions addressing large and complex
musical works or insights from diverse digital music collections. We
especially welcome research using innovative computing paradigms (e…

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Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025)

Aalborg University, Denmark

The Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology (ICCCM2025) will take place at Aalborg University, Denmark, on October 8–10, 2025. Following editions in Athens (2023) and Utrecht (2024), ICCCM2025 invites researchers to explore the intersection of musicology,…

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