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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- 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
- 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 7 OBERTO (Oxford Brookes: Exploring Research Trends in Opera) Postgraduate Research Conference Oxford, UK
- 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 Graduate Student Workshop
- June 15 Deadline to apply for SMT Peer Learning Program
- 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
- 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 1-4 Corpus Research as a Means of Unlocking Musical Grammar Tel Aviv, Israel (CFP deadline: May 31, 2019)
- 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 3-5 Congreso Internacional en el centenario(1919-2019) de El sombrero de tres picos Three cornered hat centenary Granada (Spain)
- 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 15 SMT Subvention Grant Summer Deadline
- July 16-18 International conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EUPOP 2019) University of Limerick, Ireland
- 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
- August 8 CogMIR 2019 Brooklyn, NY
- August 9-11 The Queens College (CUNY) Summer Bootcamp in Musicology and Music Theory (CUNY) New York, NY
- August 16 Exhibitor Application deadline
- August 16 Final Program Book Advertising Deadline
- August 16 Final Reception Request Deadline
- August 16-17 Western University Graduate Symposium Western University, London (CFP deadline: May 31, 2019)
- 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 8 AMGS Deadline
- September 10 Annual Meeting Travel and Family Care Grant deadline
- September 10-12 International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (SysMus) Berlin, Germany
- September 11-13 10th Vienna Music Business Research Days Vienna, Austria
- September 11-13 Royal Musical Association 55th Annual Conference Manchester, UK
- September 13-14 Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium Gainesville, FL (CFP deadline: July 19, 2019)
- September 14 Workshop-Symposium on Research Methods in Music & Emotion Durham, UK (CFP deadline: May 28, 2019)
- September 16-19 Magnified and Sanctified: The Music of Jewish Prayer II Hanover University, Germany
- October 1 Program book to printer
- October 1 Deadline for SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship
- October 2-4 Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany (CFP deadline: July 15, 2019)
- 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 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 30-31 The France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1914 Boston, MA
- October 31-November 2 Music, Sound, Space and Place: Ethnomusicology and Sound Studies City University of London, UK (CFP deadline: July 1, 2019)
- 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 (CFP deadline: June 21, 2019)
- 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 (CFP deadline: June 1, 2019)
- November 29-December 1 CALL FOR PAPERS 2019 Annual Meeting of the New Zealand Musicological Society: ‘Musical Intersections’ Auckland, New Zealand (CFP deadline: August 1, 2019)
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- January 15 SMT Subvention Grant Winter Deadline
- January 17 SMT Conference Proposal Deadline
- April 1 Deadline for SMT Publication Awards Nominations