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.
- October 15 Deadline to sign-up for Conference Guide Program
- October 17-19 International Arnold Schönberg Symposium Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria
- October 18-20 Fifth Biennial Conference of the International Musicological Society Regional Association for East Asia (IMS-EA) Soochow University School of Music, Soochow, China
- October 23-26 Blending Past and Present: Collections and Collectors Oberlin College Conservatory, Oberlin, OH
- October 24-25 Multimodality: Illusion, Performance, Experience Aarhus, Denmark
- October 25 AM Regular Registration Deadline
- October 25 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
- October 30-31 The France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1914 Boston, MA
- October 31 Deadline to Sign-Up to Volunteer at Annual Meeting
- October 31-November 2 Music, Sound, Space and Place: Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies City University of London, UK
- November 1-2 Max Steiner Symposium: Film Scoring in the Classic Hollywood Period Brigham Young University, UT
- November 1-2 Music & Lifetime Memories: An Interdisciplinary Conference Durham University, UK
- November 4-8 20th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval Delft, The Netherlands
- November 7-10 2019 Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency, Columbus Ohio
- November 7-10 Society for Ethnomusicology 2019 Annual Meeting Bloomington, Indiana
- November 9 6th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2019) The Hague, Netherlands
- November 14-16 9th Conference on Musical Research (ENIM 2019) Lisbon, Portugal
- November 14-16 Experiences with Gender and Diversity in Contemporary Music Zurich, Switzerland
- November 17-18 Rhythm in Music since 1900 Boulder, CO
- November 29-December 1 CALL FOR PAPERS 2019 Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Musicological Society: ‘Musical Intersections’ Auckland, New Zealand
- November 29-December 1 Skalkottas Today Athens, Greece
- November 30-December 2 Popular Songs in the 19th Century San Micheletto, Italy
- December 14-16 Music in the Disruptive Era Lucca, Italy
- December 15 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter
- January 15 SMT Conference Proposal Deadline
- January 15 SMT Subvention Grant Winter Deadline
- January 18 37th Annual Music Theory Forum Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (CFP deadline: December 1, 2019)
- January 24-25 Pop Personae: Performing and Negotiating Identities in Popular Music Bayreuth, Germany
- February 22-23 Esoteric Music, Music Performance, & Music Research: A Symposium Nazareth College, Rochester, NY (CFP deadline: October 15, 2019)
- February 28-March 1 Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival 2020 University of Pittsburgh (CFP deadline: November 15, 2019)
- February 28-29 CIRCULATIONS Symposium University of Chicago
- February 28-29 CIRCULATIONS Symposium Call for Papers-Deadline EXTENDED University of Chicago (CFP deadline: November 1, 2019)
- February 28-March 1 South-Central Society for Music Theory Nashville, TN (CFP deadline: December 1, 2019)
- March 12-14 A Powerful Force: Women in Music Ball State University, Muncie, IN (CFP deadline: November 1, 2019)
- April 1 Deadline for SMT Publication Awards Nominations
- April 4-5 Annual Meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State (MTSNYS) Hofstra University (CFP deadline: December 6, 2019)
- May 6-7 Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria (CFP deadline: October 15, 2019)
- May 29-31 International Summit on Gender, Sexuality, and Equity in Grove Music Online University of Guelph, ON
- June 1 Deadline to submit material for the August SMT Newsletter
- June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
- June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
- June 18-20 21st Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music University of British Columbia, Vancouver (CFP deadline: October 15, 2019)
- June 18-20 Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music University of British Columbia, Vancouver
- July 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
- July 23-26 North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA) Biennial Conference Illinois State University, Normal, IL (CFP deadline: January 20, 2020)
- September 10 Annual Meeting Travel and Family Care Grant deadline
- November 5-8 2020 AMS/SMT Joint Conference Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, MN
- December 15 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter
- 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 Graduate Student Workshop
- June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
- July 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
- September 10 Annual Meeting Travel and Family Care Grant deadline
- November 3-7 2021 Annual Meeting Hyatt Regency, Jacksonville, FL
- December 15 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter
- 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 Graduate Student Workshop
- June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
- July 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
- September 10 Annual Meeting Travel and Family Care Grant deadline