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Below is a list of upcoming events that might be of interest to SMT members; all CFP (Call for Papers) deadlines that have not yet expired are indicated as well. Recently posted listing are highlighted with an asterisk (*).

For a list of upcoming CFP deadlines only, listed in the order of the CFP deadline date, please see the Upcoming CFP deadlines page.

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For items relating specifically to the SMT, please see the SMT events and deadlines page.

2019 Events

March 17-19 The Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Annual Conference Toronto, ON, Canada
March 18-20 Rimsky-Korsakov at 175: A Survey of his Legacy Year on Year St Petersburg, Russia
March 19-22 Mapping Spaces, Sounding Places conference (deadline extended) Cremona (Italy)
March 21-23 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 50th Annual Meeting Denver, CO
March 21-23 Música Analítica 2019: Porto International Symposium on the Analysis and Theory of Music Porto, Portugal
March 22-24 2019 McGill Music Graduate Symposium McGill University, Canada
March 25 SEMPRE Graduate Conference 2019 University of Cambridge, UK
March 28-29 Rome and Lisbon in the 18th Century: Musica, Visual Arts and Cultural Transfers Lisbon, Portugal
March 28 Sound, Act, Presence: Classical Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman University of London, UK
March 29-30 Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
March 29-30 Music Theory Southeast 2019 Meeting Elon University, NC, USA
March 29-30 University at Buffalot Graduate Student Conference University at Buffalo, New York
March 30-31 North American Conference on Video Game Music University of Hartford, CT
April 1 Deadline for SMT Publication Awards Nominations
April 5-6 Music and Contexts in the Medieval and Renaissance Iberian World (MEDyREN) Borja, Spain
April 5-6 Temple University Theory, History, and Ethnomusicology Society Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
April 6-7 Music Theory Society of New York State The College of Saint Rose (Albany, NY)
April 8-9 Syntagma Musicum 1619-2019 Ljubljana, Slovenia
April 10 Program Subvention Grants Deadline
April 11-14 British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference University of Aberdeen, Scotland
April 11-13 The Multivalent Voice in Transcultural Music-Making Istanbul, Turkey
April 11-14 The Sixth Rhythm Changes Conference: Jazz Journeys University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz, Austria (CFP deadline: September 15, 2019)
April 12-13 Sewanee Medieval Colloquium: Lives and Afterlives The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
April 12-13 Bach in the Imaginary Museum and Bach Re-Imagined: Contemporary Perspectives on Performing and Re-Creating Bach University of Massachusetts, Amherst
April 12-13 GSIM 2019 (Graduate Students in Music Conference), "Musical Centers and Peripheries" City University of New York, NY
April 17-19 Music and Sciences Symposium Istanbul, Turkey
April 25-26 Again and Again: Musical Repetition in Aesthetics, Analysis, and Experience City University, London, UK
April 26-27 Legacies of Resistance, Responding to Oppression: Changing Dynamics in LGBTQ+ Music Activism and Scholarship University of Southampton, UK
April 26-28 Ludo2019: the Eighth European Conference on Video Game Music and Sound Leeds Beckett University, UK
April 27 2019 UT-Austin Graduate Music Conference Butler School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, TX
April 29 Nordic Music study University of York
May 3-5 Musica Scotica 2019 Stirling, Scotland
May 3-5 West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis 28th Annual Meeting University of British Columbia, Canada
May 9-12 Musicology at Kalamazoo Western Michigan University
May 9-11 Performing Music History Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
May 9-11 Symposium: Singing Speech and Speaking Melodies: Musical Theatre (1650-1918) Oviedo, Spain
May 10-11 Music Theory Midwest University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
May 11 Sustainable Sounds: Interrogating The Materials of Music Making Technologies University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
May 13-15 Gusto Italiano: Italian Style and Transalpine Exchanges in Early Keyboard Music Huntsville, TX
May 17-19 Phish Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Band, its Music, and its Fans Corvallis, Oregon
May 22 Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art and Song Helsinki, Finland
May 23-24 Composer(s) in the Middle Ages Université de Rouen, France
May 23-25 Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century UCSB, California
May 23 The Classical Musician in the 21st Century King's College, London, UK
May 23 The Classical Musician in the 21st Century University of Cambridge, UK
May 24-25 International Conference 'Soundscapes of Trauma': Music, Violence, Therapy Athens, Greece
May 28-31 16th Sound and Music Computing Conference Malaga, Spain
May 29-June 1 Music Encoding Conference University of Vienna, Austria
May 31-June 2 Music and the Moving Image Conference New York University
May 31-June 2 Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2019) Karlsruhe, Germany (CFP deadline: March 29, 2019)
June 1 Deadline to submit material for the August SMT Newsletter
June 6-8 Elements Bristol Hip-hop conference University of Bristol, UK
June 6-8 Musical Events and the Soundscape of Italian Cities, XVI-XIX Century Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
June 7-8 Brandeis University Graduate Music Conference, "Forms of Music" Brandeis University, MA
June 8 Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs - Transmission, Persistence and Transformation University of Sheffield, UK
June 13-15 Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy University of Sheffield, UK
June 13 Spectralisms, 2nd edition Ircam (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), Paris
June 14-15 Domenico Scarlatti Forwards and Backwards-FIMTE Symposium Almería, Spain
June 15-16 Clara Schumann (née Wieck) and her World University of Oxford, UK
June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
June 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
June 17-20 Locating Heavy Metal Music and Culture Nantes, France
June 17-18 MUME 2019: The 7th International Workshop on Musical Metacreation Charlotte, North Carolina (CFP deadline: March 24, 2019)
June 24-25 Sonic Circulations 1900-1950: Musical Thought, Scientific Fantasies, Global Contexts London, UK
June 24-28 Workshops in Music Theory Pedagogy University of Massachussets, Amherst
June 27-29 3rd Transnational Opera Studies Conference Paris, France
June 27-29 Eighteen Century Theatre Capitals: from Lisbon to St. Petersburg Queluz national palace, Portugal
June 27 Making Musical Works in Early Modern Europe 1500-1700: Composition, Improvisation, Notation and Performance Senate House, London, UK
July 2-4 1st Analytical Approaches to World Music Special Topics Symposium (AAWM 2019) Birmingham City University, UK
July 3-5 12th Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Conference Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
July 3-5 Audience Research in the Arts Conference The University of Sheffield, UK
July 7-10 IMS Intercongressional Symposium: Agency and Identity in Music Lucerne, Switzerland
July 8-10 From Past to Present:Transforming historical musical data into possible realities Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
July 8-13 ninth Bach Network Dialogue Meeting Madingley Hall, Cambridge, UK
July 9-12 Symbols, Signs, and Meanings in Russian Music Vipiteno, Italy
July 10-12 Sixth Biennial North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
July 11-12 7th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group King’s College London, UK
July 11-12 Musical Notation' (themed session at the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Conference) Kings College, London, UK
July 11-12 Philosophies and theories of musical transcription and arrangement (themed session within Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Biennial Conference) King’s College London, UK
July 12-13 Jewish Music in South Germany—History, Exile, Continuance Hochschule für Musik und Theater München, Germany
July 27-28 SMA Music Analysis Summer School Southampton, UK
July 29-31 SotonMAC (Society for Music Analysis Conference 2019) Southampton, UK
July 29-31 Southampton Music Analysis Conference University of Southampton, UK
July 29-31 Southampton Music Analysis Conference (SotonMAC 2019) University of Southampton
August 1 2019 Annual Meeting Registration Opens
September 3-7 European Seminar in Ethnomusicology Durham University, UK
September 4-6 The Second International Conference on Women’s Work in Music Bangor University, UK
September 6-7 Music and Sound Design for the Screen Maynooth University, Ireland
September 8-10 11th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 University of Huddersfield, UK
September 10 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Family Care Grant deadline
September 10-12 International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus) Berlin, Germany (CFP deadline: April 1, 2019)
September 16-19 Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer II Hanover University, Germany
October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
October 4-6 Music and Spatiality; 13th Biennial International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis Belgrade, Serbia
October 9-11 Tracking the Creative Process in Music (TCPM 2019) Lisbon, Portugal
October 17-19 International Arnold Schönberg Symposium Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria
October 23-26 Blending Past and Present: Collections and Collectors Oberlin College Conservatory, Oberlin, OH
October 30-31 The France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1914 Boston, MA (CFP deadline: April 30, 2019)
November 1-2 Max Steiner Symposium: Film Scoring in the Classic Hollywood Period Brigham Young University, UT (CFP deadline: May 1, 2019)
November 4-8 20th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Delft, The Netherlands (CFP deadline: April 5, 2019)
November 7-10 2019 Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency, Columbus Ohio
November 7-10 Society for Ethnomusicology 2019 Annual Meeting Bloomington, Indiana
November 30-December 2 Popular Songs in the 19th Century San Micheletto, Italy (CFP deadline: April 28, 2019)
December 14-16 Music in the Disruptive Era Lucca, Italy (CFP deadline: May 5, 2019)
December 15 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter

2020 Events

January 15 SMT Subvention Grant Winter Deadline
January 17 SMT Conference Proposal Deadline
April 1 Deadline for SMT Publication Awards Nominations
June 1 Deadline to submit material for the August SMT Newsletter
June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
June 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
September 10 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Family Care Grant deadline
October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
November 5-8 2020 AMS/SMT Joint Conference Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, MN
December 15 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter

2021 Events

January 15 SMT Subvention Grant Winter Deadline
January 17 SMT Conference Proposal Deadline
April 1 Deadline for SMT Publication Awards Nominations
June 1 Deadline to submit material for the August SMT Newsletter
June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
June 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
September 10 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Family Care Grant deadline
October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
November 3-7 2021 Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency, Jacksonville, FL
December 15 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter

2022 Events

January 15 SMT Subvention Grant Winter Deadline
January 17 SMT Conference Proposal Deadline