Below is a list of upcoming events that might be of interest to SMT members. You may click on the event title for more information.
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2025 Peer Learning Programs
This year's workshops will be led by Anne Danielsen and Frank Lehman.
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2025 Graduate Student Workshops
This year's workshops will be led by Jennifer Iverson and Braxton D. Shelley.
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McGill Music Graduate Symposium 2025
McGill University, MontrealThe McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) is pleased to announce its thirty-seventh annual Symposium, which will be held March 21–23, 2025 at the Schulich School of Music in Montréal.
We welcome abstracts up to 250 words in length (or 275 words in French) from graduate students…
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Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
University of MichiganThe 29th annual meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (MGMC) will be hosted at the University of Michigan on April 18th and 19th, 2025. MGMC is a collaborative organization composed of the graduate students in music from the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa, Northwestern…
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Joint Conference of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis (WCCMTA) and the AMS Pacific Northwest Chapter (AMS-PNW)
University of Victoria, BC, CanadaThe West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis (WCCMTA) and the AMS Pacific Northwest Chapter (AMS-PNW) are excited to announce a joint annual conference, to be held 25-27 April at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC (Canada). We envision an in-person conference that includes one…
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Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio USAFUNK MUSIC IN POPULAR CULTURE CONFERENCE—APRIL 25 & 26, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
Funk Music in Popular Culture Conference
Friday, April 25 & Saturday, April 26, 2025
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
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North American Conference on Video Game Music
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (with options to attend/present virtually)Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the twelfth North American Conference on Video Game Music, which will take place April 26–27, 2025 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and virtually. The conference organizing and program committee is composed of Pete Smucker (program…
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28th Graduate Student in Music Conference (GSIM) at CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016Call for Presentations:
28th Annual Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
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28th Annual Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference
The Graduate Center, CUNY (w/Zoom presentation option)The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce the 28th Annual GSIM Conference, held on April 26–27, 2025. The conference will be held fully in person for attendees. However, we are offering the option for presenters to share their work virtually…
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Music Theory Midwest
OnlineMusic Theory Midwest is pleased to announce a partnership with the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic and the South Central Society for Music Theory on a multi-year rotation of online spring conferences. We are committed to ensuring that music theory scholars have access to one online or…
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Music and Cultural Mobility in the 20th Century. Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schoenberg, and their contemporaries
Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna, AustriaThe concept of Cultural Mobility draws upon ideas from the field of Mobility Studies to reconceptualise the ways we traditionally think about culture and works of art. It encompasses not only the mobility or migration of people, but also of artworks and genres, practices and concepts, techniques…
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Music and Cultural Mobility in the 20th Century. Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schoenberg, and their contemporaries
Arnold Schoenberg Center, ViennaThe concept of Cultural Mobility draws upon ideas from the field of Mobility Studies to reconceptualise the ways we traditionally think about culture and works of art. It encompasses not only the mobility or migration of people, but also of artworks and genres, practices and concepts, techniques…
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Virtuosity in the Music of György Ligeti
Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaVirtuosity plays an important part in the music of György Ligeti. His concertos require extremely versatile soloists, yet the same applies to the performers of his works for keyboard instruments, his chamber music and even the orchestral pieces. Ligeti’s Piano Études in particular can serve as…
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Symposium on Music, Sound, and Antisemitism
Center for Jewish History in New York City on 28–29 May 2025, followed by a Zoom conference scheduled for June 3–4, for those unable to travel to New YorkThis symposium, co-sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum and The Barry S. Brook Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, invites proposals that consider the historical and contemporary intersections between music, sound, and antisemitism. It is now more important…
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Music Theory Pedagogy Summer Graduate Student Workshop
University of Missouri – Kansas CityAre you a graduate student (at any level, including ABD) eager to develop your teaching skills and pedagogical approaches? Then consider joining us for an intensive 3-day "music theory pedagogy bootcamp" at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) sponsored by the Gail Boyd de…
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Call for Papers: Music and the Moving Image XXI
New York UniversityThe 21st iteration of the annual Music and the Moving Image Conference invites abstracts for paper presentations that explore the relationship between the vast universe of moving images (film, television, streaming media, video games, and advertisements) and that of music and sound. We encourage…
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Timbre and Orchestration Summer School
McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaThe Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project is pleased to announce its third Timbre and Orchestration Summer School (TOSS 2025), scheduled for June 3-7 at McGill University in Montréal, QC, Canada. This edition will be linked with the Timbre and Orchestration in Popular…
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Theorizing African American Music
Emory University, Atlanta GAWe are pleased to announce the third meeting of “Theorizing African American Music.” TAAM-Emory will feature paper sessions, a keynote by Horace Maxile, and two evening concerts on June 5 and 7.
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Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song
McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaTimbre and orchestration are essential aspects of musical experience in any culture or style. They enable us to effortlessly identify different genres of music and are particularly important in popular musics. This centrality is reflected in Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song (TOPS), a…
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