The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce the 30th Annual GSIM Conference, held on Saturday and Sunday, March 20–21, 2027. The conference will be held fully in person for attendees. We are offering the option for a limited number of presenters to share their work virtually via Zoom. In addition to paper presentations and lecture-recitals, the conference will include a keynote address by Dr. Anna Yu Wang, Assistant Professor of Music and Class of 1931 Bicentennial Preceptor in the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Yu Wang’s research interests revolve around listening across lines of difference. She is currently completing a monograph on Huangmei and Taiwanese opera, titled Musicality and the Myriad Things: Worldmaking through Sinitic Opera (Oxford University Press, 2027), and a second project, Difficult Listening, on listening across rifts in aesthetic and political sensibility.
We invite graduate students in all disciplines who work on music to submit proposals for presentations on any topic. We are accepting proposals for academic papers and lecture-recitals. Applicants should plan for a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion. We especially encourage interdisciplinary work and presentations of new compositions. This year, we are particularly interested in topics including, but not limited to:
Cross-Cultural Discourse and Exchange
Global, Intercultural, and Decolonial Approaches
New Modes of Listening
Embodiment, Gesture, and Performance
Music and Intersectionality
Music and/in Media
Musical Meaning, Narrative, and Intertextuality
Music, Society, and Activism
Public-Facing Scholarship
Music Pedagogy
For proposal requirements and submission instructions, please see https://gsim.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/10/10/call-for-papers/.