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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 items relating specifically to the SMT, please see the SMT events and deadlines page. 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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2016 Events

September 26-30 The 8th International Symposium of Traditional Polyphony Tbilisi, Georgia
September 27-29 Komitas and Medieval Culture Yerevan, Armenia
September 28-October 2 Semiotic Society of America Delray Beach, FL
September 28-30 “Arts + The Inklings” Verge Conference Langley, British Columbia, Canada
September 29-October 2 13th International Music Theory and Analysis Conference Rimini, Italy
September 29-October 2 Music & Sound Studies Network: Music, Sound, Space San Diego, California
September 30-October 1 Concepts of Improvisation Between the Two World Wars: Performativity, Staged Presence and Participation in Music Basel, Switzerland
September 30-October 2 Sound: A Lucky Bag or a Poor Cousin of Music Theory (GMTH annual congress) Hannover, Germany
October 1-2 AMS Midwest Chapter Chicago, IL
October 1 AMS New England Chapter Fall Meeting Northampton, MA
October 2-4 International Conference on the Blues Cleveland, MS
October 3-5 Zweig at Fredonia 2016 Fredonia, NY
October 4-6 Performance Analysis: A Bridge between Theory and Interpretation Porto, Portugal
October 6-8 International Schönberg-Symposium Vienna, Austria
October 6-7 Shakespeare's Music in France in the 19th-21st Centuries Metz, France
October 6-8 The Universe of Gennaro Magri: Dance, Music, and Opera in Naples during the Enlightenment Naples, Italy
October 7-8 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me": The Music and Lyrics of Billy Joel Colorado Springs, CO
October 7-9 Crisis and Prosperity: The Development of Prussian Court Music from 1713 to 1806 Berlin, Germany
October 7-9 The Many Faces of Camille Saint-Saëns Lucca, Italy
October 10-12 Musica artificiosa: Music as an Art and Profession Brno, Czech Republic
October 12-15 Transpositions: Music/Image Belgrade, Serbia
October 13-14 Confluences, Connections, and Correspondences: Music and Visual Culture Conference Toronto, Canada
October 13-15 Intersections: Conference on the History of Music in Valencia Valencia, Spain
October 15 Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society Pittsburgh, PA
October 17-19 Music Criticism 1900–1950 Barcelona, Spain
October 18-21 Brazilian Musicological Association Belo Horizonte, Brazil
October 20-22 Music-Records-Radio in French-Speaking Countries, 1900–1950 Montreal, Canada
October 21-23 Italian Musicological Society Como, Italy
October 21-23 Miles Davis and John Coltrane at 90: Retrospect and Prospect Guildford, UK
October 22 Radio and Ethnomusicology: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Burntisland, Scotland
October 23 AMS Greater New York Chapter New York, NY
October 24-27 Brazilian Association for Music Theory and Analysis: Music in the Ibero-Afro-American Universe: Interdisciplinary Challenges Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 27-29 College Music Society Santa Fe, New Mexico
October 28-29 In the Face of Destruction: Historical Memory and the Preservation of the Past in the Early Modern Period State College, Pennsylvania
October 28-31 Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies Tomar Region, Portugal
November 2-3 Sixth International New Beethoven Research Conference Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 3-5 6th Conference on Musical Research Aveiro, Portugal
November 3-6 Race-ing Queer Music Scholarship Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
November 3-6 Society for Music Theory/American Musicological Society Annual Meeting Vancouver, British Columbia
November 3 Musical Artifacts: AMS Popular Music Session Vancouver, BC
November 4-5 Music for Liturgy and Devotion in Italy around 1600 Manchester, UK
November 6 Edmund Rubbra Study Day Londan, UK
November 7-9 Young Musicology Today: tendencies, challenges and perspectives Kraków, Poland
November 11-14 Music and Power in the Baroque Era Lucca, Italy
November 18-21 In the Light of Gloriana London, England
November 19-20 New Zealand Musicological Society Annual Conference Hamilton, New Zealand
November 24-27 Old Is New: The Presence of the Past in the Music of the Present Lisbon, Portugal
November 25-28 Nineteenth-Century Programme Music Lucca, Italy
November 29-30 The Role and Position of Sounds and Sounding Arts in Public Urban Environments Leiden, the Netherlands (CFP deadline: October 1, 2016)
November 30-December 3 Shifts and Turns: Moving Music, Musicians and Ideas – 39th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia Adelaide, Australia
December 1-3 Muisicology Applied to the Concert: Performance Studies at Work Baeza, Jaen (Spain)
December 7 Music and Material Culture Cambridge, UK
December 8-9 Musikkarvkonferansen 2016 Olso, Norway
December 9-11 Instrument of Change: The International Rise of the Guitar (c.1870-1945) Melbourne, Australia
December 16-18 Ear Pieces: Listening, Diagnosing, Writing Cambridge, UK
December 16 Russia and the Musical World: Nineteenth-Century Networks of Exchange London, UK (CFP deadline: September 30, 2016)

2017 Events

January 5-7 British Forum for Ethnomusicology/Royal Musical Association Research Students’ Conference Canterbury, UK
January 14-15 North American Conference on Video Game Music Austin, TX (CFP deadline: October 1, 2016)
January 14-16 Vocality/Instrumentality 2017 University of Huddersfield, UK (CFP deadline: October 7, 2016)
January 21 A Great Divide or a Longer Nineteenth Century? Music, Britain and the First World War Durham University, UK
February 9-11 Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Claremont, CA (CFP deadline: October 1, 2016)
February 23-26 International Association for the Study of Popular Music Cleveland, OH (CFP deadline: October 25, 2016)
February 25-26 Annual Conference of the ICTM Ireland: Sound Cultures, Sustainability and Revival Co Kildare, Ireland (CFP deadline: November 15, 2016)
February 26-28 The Improvising Brain III: Cultural Variation and Analytical Approaches Atlanta, GA (CFP deadline: October 1, 2016)
March 19-23 International Musicological Society Tokyo, Japan
March 22-26 Society for American Music, 43rd Annual Conference Monteal, Québec, Canada
March 30-April 2 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Minneapolis, MN
April 1-2 Music Theory Society of New York State Geneva, NY (CFP deadline: October 1, 2016)
April 20-23 Sign O' the Times: Music and Politics Seattle, WA (CFP deadline: November 8, 2016)
April 20-23 Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Providence, RI (CFP deadline: October 1, 2016)
April 26-29 Historical Keyboard Society of North America Greenville, South Carolina (CFP deadline: October 20, 2016)
April 27-29 Artistic Migration and Identity, Paris 1870-1940 Montréal, Canada
May 11-14 52nd International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI
May 11-14 International Machaut Society at the International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, MI
May 15-18 Music Encoding Conference Tours, France (CFP deadline: November 4, 2016)
May 23-27 Musicking: Improvisation, Ornamentation, and Variation Eugene, OR (CFP deadline: November 1, 2016)
June 1-4 Pedagogy into Practice: Teaching Music Theory in the Twenty-First Century Cleveland, TN (CFP deadline: January 15, 2017)
June 2-3 Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780-c.1850 London, UK
June 8-10 Musimorphoses Montreal, Canada
June 21-22 International Conference on Music in Society Vienna, Austria (CFP deadline: December 2, 2016)
June 22-24 Music and the Middlebrow London, UK (CFP deadline: December 1, 2016)
June 28-July 1 European Music Analysis Conference Strasbourg, France (CFP deadline: November 15, 2016)
June 29-July 1 Gaspar van Weerbeke: Works and Contexts Salzburg, Austria (CFP deadline: January 31, 2017)
June 30-July 2 Performing Indeterminacy: An International Conference Leeds, UK (CFP deadline: December 2, 2016)
July 5-7 2nd Transnational Opera Studies Conference Bern, Switzerland (CFP deadline: October 31, 2016)
July 13-14 2017 Biennial Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group London, UK
July 15-17 Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal London, UK (CFP deadline: November 1, 2016)
July 22-29 International Federation for Choral Music Barcelona, Spain
September 6-10 International Musicological Conference "Modus-Modi-Modality" Nicosia, Cyprus
September 14-16 Tracking the Creative Process in Music 2017 Huddersfield, UK (CFP deadline: December 2, 2016)
October 12-15 Performance, Textuality & Orality, Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference Philadelphia, PA (CFP deadline: October 25, 2016)
October 26-28 The College Music Society 2017 National Conference San Antonio, TX (CFP deadline: November 29, 2016)
November 17-19 Opera and the Greek World during the Nineteenth Century Corfu, Greece (CFP deadline: December 31, 2016)

2019 Events

September 22-23 Delius Conf. London UK