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 (*)..
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- April 19-22 Annual Conference of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Boulder, Colorado
- April 20-22 20th and 21st-Century Song Cycles for Voice and Piano East Lansing, MI
- April 20-22 Material Cultures of Music Notation: An Interdisciplinary Conference Utrecht University, The Netherlands
- April 20-22 Music and Freedom: The 150th Anniversary of the Glorious Revolution Madrid, Spain
- April 26-28 Biennial Meeting of the American Bach Society: Bach Re-Worked—Parody, Transcription, Adaptation Yale University, New Haven, CT
- April 26-27 Midwestern Graduate Music Consortium Evanston, IL
- April 27-28 From Les Mouflettes d’Atropos to Les Sorcières de la République : The Evolution and Work of Chloé Delaume Ontario, Canada
- April 27-28 Sound and Sonorities: Form and Forms in Music Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
- April 29 Jewish Music and Humor New York, NY
- May 9-13 7th Annual Meeting of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America (HKSNA) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (CFP deadline: November 20, 2018)
- May 9-12 Historical Keyboard Society of North America Ann Arbor, MI
- May 9-11 Reading Musicals: Sources, Editions, Performance Carmel, IN
- May 11-12 Thirty Years of War: Henrich Schütz and Music in Protestant Germany Boston, MA
- May 14-16 Music between China and the West in the Age of Discovery Hong Kong
- May 18-20 Historical Performance: Theory, Practice, and Interdisciplinarity Bloomington, IN
- May 19 Music in the Psychoanalytic Ear: Thinking, Listening and Playing London, UK
- May 19 Rethinking Musical Transcription and Arrangement University of Cambridge
- May 19 Rethinking Musical Transcription and Arrangement University of Cambridge, UK
- May 21-22 Ligeti: a Portrait with Reich and Riley “I. Lapedatu” Hall of the National Bank of Romania
- May 22-27 International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation Montréal, QC
- May 23-26 American Musical Instrument Society Bethlehem and Nazareth, PA
- May 23-25 Music Encoding Conference University of Maryland, College Park
- May 24-29 2018 Music & The Moving Image Conference New York University
- May 25-27 Terminology research in musicology and the humanities University of Zagreb - Music Academy, Zagreb, Croatia
- May 31-June 3 Song, Stage and Screen XIII: "The Musical and Its Others, Then and Now" Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
- June 1-4 The Soundscape of the Venetian Terraferma in the Early Modern Era. International Conference celebrating 475 Years of the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona Verona (Italy)
- June 1 Diaspora Sounds: Innovation and Creativity in Music Learning and Performance Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
- June 1 Deadline to submit material for the August SMT Newsletter
- June 2-3 Tonal Structures in Early Music at Twenty Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- June 6-8 Inside, Outside, and In Between: Institutionalization in Music History Helsinki, Finland
- June 6-8 Inside, Outside, and in Between: Institutionalization in Music History. Fifth Sibelius Academy Symposium on Music History Helsinki, Finland
- June 7-9 Authorship in Historical Keyboard Music Lisbon, Portugal
- June 8-9 Teaching Music History Conference 2018 Terre Haute, IN
- June 8 Surrealism and music in France, 1924-1952: interdisciplinary and international contexts London, UK
- June 11-12 XXIst Century Challenges to the History of XVIIIth Century Musical Aesthetics Turin, Italy
- June 13-15 U2: POPVision Belfast, Northern Ireland
- June 15-17 16th Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland Cork School of Music, Ireland
- June 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
- June 18-21 “Full of Your Glory”: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation New Haven, CT
- June 20-23 Rethinking Music in France during the Baroque Era Paris, France
- June 21-23 DISCO! An Interdisciplinary Conference University of Sussex, UK
- June 26-29 Analytical Approaches to World Music Thessaloniki, Greece
- June 27-28 Music, Medievalism, and Modernism: Between Old and New Huddersfield, UK
- June 27-July 1 The Anatomy of Polyphonic Music around 1500 Cascais, Portugal
- June 28-30 Lasting impressions: Music and Material Cultures of Print in Early Modern Europe Salzburg, Austria
- June 28-July 1 MuSA 2018 - Music / Sonic Art: Practices and Theories Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe, Germany (CFP deadline: April 27, 2018)
- June 29-30 Centennial Reflections on Women's Suffrage and the Arts University of Surry, UK
- July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Graduate Student Workshop
- July 1 Deadline for applying for SMT Peer Learning Program
- July 5-8 CityMAC (Society for Music Analysis Conference 2018) City University, London
- July 5-8 Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference - MedRen 2018 Maynooth University, Ireland
- July 5-9 PSN 2018 – Performance Studies Network Fifth International Conference Oslo, Norway
- July 5-7 Timbre is a Many-Splendored Theing McGill, Montreal, QC
- July 6-7 France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 (FMC): biennial conference Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, France
- July 9-12 Music and image in cultural, social and political discourse Canterbury, UK
- July 10-15 18th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music Pavia University, Cremona, Italy
- July 11-13 Institute for Russian Music Studies: Russian – Italian Musical Connections Vipiteno, Italy
- July 19-24 International Society for Researching and Promoting Wind Music: Wind music, new media and music education Norbertine Abbey, Wadgassen, Saarland, Germany
- July 22-27 IAML Congress 2018 Leipzig, Germany
- July 23-28 15th ICMPC/10th ESCOM (Music Perception and Cognition) conference Graz/Montreal/Sydney
- July 26-29 On Belonging: English Conceptions of Migration and Transculturality, 1550 – 1700 London
- July 28-31 FLUTE: Hands on Research University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal (CFP deadline: April 30, 2018)
- July 30-August 1 North American British Music Studies Association Logan, UT
- August 1 Annual Meeting Travel Grant and Childcare Grant deadline
- August 8-11 Affect Inquiry / Making Space Millersville University, Lancaster, PA
- August 10-14 isaScience 2018: Participatory Approaches to Music & Democracy Reichenau an der Rax, Austria
- September 10-12 Perspectives on Historically Informed Practices in Music Oxford, UK
- September 13-15 Royal Musical Association Annual Conference Bristol, UK
- September 26-29 International Chopinological Conference: 'The integration of a work: from miniature to large scale' Warsaw, Poland
- September 27-30 Liberalism and Its Discontents: Music and Culture in German-Speaking Europe, 1848-1914 Pittsburgh, PA
- September 27-October 1 Shastra Symposium 2018 on Connections between Western and Indian Music William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey, USA (CFP deadline: June 1, 2018)
- September 28-29 Broadway Bodies: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Musical Washington University, St. Louis, MO
- September 30-October 2 Trailblazers: Women's Impact on Organ, Harpsichord, Carillon and Sacred Music University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
- October 5-8 Creative Women at the End of the First World War: Endings and New Beginnings Guelph, ON
- October 5 Machines and the Musical Imagination (1900-1950) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (CFP deadline: May 15, 2018)
- October 11-13 2018 College Music Society National Conference Vancouver, BC
- October 11-13 International Arnold Schönberg Symposium Vienna, Austria
- October 17-19 Iberian Musical Crossroads through the Ages: Images of Music-making in their Transcultural Exchanges Barcelona, Spain
- October 18-20 Music and the Nation III: ‘Music and Postwar Transitions (19th-21st Centuries)’ Montréal, QC
- October 19-22 XXV Annual Conference of Italian Musicological Society Bolzano (CFP deadline: June 15, 2018)
- October 25-27 44th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium: Celebrity/Obscurity Los Angeles, CA
- October 31-November 2 Diversifying Music Academia: Strengthening the Pipeline San Antonio, TX
- November 1-4 AMS/SMT Annual Meeting, San Antonio
- November 9-11 François Couperin: a 350th anniversary symposium Birmingham, UK
- November 9-12 Leonard Bernstein at 100: A Celebration Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
- November 15-19 Roundtable: Intersections of Disability and Deaf Studies, Music Therapy, and Medical Ethnomusicology Albuquerque, New Mexico
- November 16-19 Music and Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth Century Lucca, Italy (CFP deadline: May 6, 2018)
- November 20-24 Pierre de la Rue and Music at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court Mechelen, Belgium
- November 21-24 Nova Contemporary Music Meeting - Composing Music Today Lisbon
- November 24-26 Handel Institute Conference London, UK
- November 24-26 Meter Symposium 3 Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Australia
- December 1 Deadline to Submit Material for the February SMT Newsletter
- December 3-6 Music and the Stage in Latin America (1954-2006) Casa del Bicentenario, Centro de Arte Sonoro (CASo), Buenos Aires, Argentina (CFP deadline: May 31, 2018)
- December 3-6 “Playing Along”: Music, Participation, and Everyday Life Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec), Hamilton, NZ (CFP deadline: June 1, 2018)
- January 15 SMT Subvention Grant Winter Deadline
- January 17 SMT Conference Proposal Deadline
- February 1-4 The Intellectual Worlds of Johannes Brahms University of California, Irvine, CA (CFP deadline: June 15, 2018)
- 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
- December 1 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 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
- December 1 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