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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

January 19 Music Theory Forum Tallahasee, Florida
January 24-26 International conference on Sound and Music in the Prism of Sound Studies Paris, France
January 25-26 "Vierhändig, immer einmal!" Piano Four Hands Music Symposium Graz, Austria
February 1-3 The Intellectual Worlds of Johannes Brahms University of California, Irvine, CA
February 8-9 Indiana University Annual Symposium of Research in Music Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, IN
February 8-9 Music, Sound, and Censorship (Harvard Graduate Music Conference) Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
February 9 Notation for Improvisors Conference Senate House, London, UK
February 9 Women and Traditional / Folk Music: Research Symposium National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
February 14-16 Annual Meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, Canada
February 15-16 4th Annual Graduate Student Music Conference University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
February 22-24 Contested Frequencies: Sonic Representation in the Digital Age Richmond, VA
February 22-23 Texas Society for Music Theory Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
February 24 RUMS 2019 Graduate Student Conference New Brunswick, NJ
February 24 Rutgers University Musicological Society (RUMS) Fifth Annual Graduate Student Conference Rutgers University, New Jersey
March 1-2 Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory The University of Texas at El Paso
March 6-8 Twin Talks: Understanding Collaboration in DH Copenhagen, Denmark
March 7-8 International Women and/in Musical Leadership Conference Institute of Musical Research, London, UK
March 15-16 South Central Society for Music Theory Conference Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
March 15-17 University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference Toronto, Canada
March 17 Deadline to renew for spring MTS
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 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 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 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 (CFP deadline: January 27, 2019)
April 17-19 Music and Sciences Symposium Istanbul, Turkey
April 26-27 Legacies of Resistance, Responding to Oppression: Changing Dynamics in LGBTQ+ Music Activism and Scholarship University of Southampton, UK (CFP deadline: January 20, 2019)
April 27 2019 UT-Austin Graduate Music Conference Butler School of Music, The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, TX
April 27 ACLS Spring Meeting New York, NY, United States
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 (CFP deadline: January 31, 2019)
May 9-12 Musicology at Kalamazoo Western Michigan University
May 9-11 Performing Music History Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
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 24-25 International Conference 'Soundscapes of Trauma': Music, Violence, Therapy Athens, Greece
May 28-31 16th Sound and Music Computing Conference Malaga, Spain (CFP deadline: January 31, 2019)
May 29-June 1 Music Encoding Conference University of Vienna, Austria
May 31-June 2 Music and the Moving Image Conference New York University
June 1 Deadline to submit material for the August SMT Newsletter
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 (CFP deadline: February 15, 2019)
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 (CFP deadline: February 15, 2019)
June 15-16 Clara Schumann (née Wieck) and her World University of Oxford, UK
June 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
June 17-20 Locating Heavy Metal Music and Culture Nantes, France
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 (CFP deadline: March 15, 2019)
July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Peer Learning Program
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 (CFP deadline: February 15, 2019)
July 10-12 Sixth Biennial North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (CFP deadline: February 15, 2019)
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 (CFP deadline: February 1, 2019)
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 (CFP deadline: January 20, 2019)
August 1 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Childcare Grant deadline
September 8-10 11th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 University of Huddersfield, UK (CFP deadline: February 8, 2019)
September 16-19 Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer II Hanover University, Germany (CFP deadline: February 10, 2019)
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 (CFP deadline: March 15, 2019)
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 (CFP deadline: February 2, 2019)
October 23-26 Blending Past and Present: Collections and Collectors Oberlin College Conservatory, Oberlin, OH
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 1 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter
December 14-16 Music in the Disruptive Era Lucca, Italy (CFP deadline: May 5, 2019)

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 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Peer Learning Program
August 1 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Childcare Grant deadline
October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
November 5-8 AMS/SMT Joint Conference
December 1 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 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Peer Learning Program
August 1 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Childcare Grant deadline
October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
November 3-7 Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency Jacksonville
December 1 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter

2022 Events

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