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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The SMT Student Presentation Award is given annually to a graduate or undergraduate music student for a scholarly presentation (paper or poster) at the Annual…
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MusicaIQ, a professional platform for music professionals and educators, is now accepting submissions for Issue #6 of MusicaIQ Magazine, centered on the theme:
“Playing to Your Strengths – Recognizing and Applying Professional Strengths in Music.”
We welcome essays, case studies,…
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The Society for American Music's Education Committee solicits proposals for a series of online video lectures on American music topics. Designed for general audiences (including, but not limited to, high school and university students, concertgoers, and/or historical societies), these…
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The Society for American Music's Education Committee solicits proposals for a series of online video lectures on American music topics. Designed for general audiences (including, but not limited to, high school and university students, concertgoers, and/or historical societies), these…
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A “radicle” is the first part of a seedling to emerge, the beginnings of new growth. Similarly, radical practices are fundamental. Around the world, people organize sonic art, media, and design in heterodox ways that challenge hegemonies and nurture community. This radical organizing is the…
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I'm happy to announce the return of the Eastman School of Music's summer study-abroad program in Paris (https://summer.esm.rochester.edu/course/paris/), which will be offered in June 2026 alongside the ManiFeste-2026 festival…
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Call for Proposals: “Ludomusicology and Value” for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games
This Special Issue seeks to bring together contributors from ludomusicology scholarship and beyond to contribute articles on video game music's place, particularly in terms of how game music’s…
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This conference will draw together scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners across music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, music cognition, public music theory and related fields, who use interviews, (auto)ethnography, and other quantitative and qualitative…
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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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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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To honor the 100th anniversary of the founding of The Ohio State University School of Music, we are excited to invite you to a conference on Practitioner-Centered Music Theory: Concepts, Methods, Perspectives.
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The year 2025 marks the third installment of the Analytical Approaches to World Musics Special Topics Symposium series, dedicated to the intersections of indigenous and contemporary music theories, music analysis, and diverse musical traditions of Asia. The symposium will be held October 11-14,…
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Festival Dates: October 16–18, 2025
Location: Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH, USA)
Submission Deadline for Proposals: August 8, 2025
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Celebrating Arts+, a year long focus on the arts at UMBC, and the Livewire Contemporary Music Festival, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Music solicits papers and presentations around the theme of “Trailblazers,” a festival and symposium scheduled for October 16-…
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On October 18, the 6th Cycle of Webinars organized by the Sociedad de Análisis y Teoría Musical (SATMUS) will begin.
This cycle consists of a series of presentations of about 45 minutes on a subject based on an interesting article by the speaker previously published in any medium. This is…
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The Artsong and Gender in Dialogue online lecture series, organized by Maria Behrendt (from the Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media) and Anna Bredenbach (from the University of Erfurt) is seeking proposals that explore the intersections between art song and gender, including studies…
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Since at least the nineteenth century, Western concert music has been used by divergent political and social causes as a rallying point, as model, and as a potent communicator of personal and group identities. Brahms's music, for example, has represented the political ideals of Vienna'…
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The France: Musiques, Cultures 1789-1918 network is assembling a pre-conference on November 5-6, 2025 before the joint annual meeting of the AMS and SMT in Minneapolis. Proposals for papers, organized panels, workshops, performances, or other activities on any topic relating to French music…
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The Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11) will take place Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday morning, November 6, in Minneapolis, prior to the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. We are seeking proposals concerning new…
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