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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Award for Diversity Course Design Application Deadline

Diversity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice are important goals of the Society for Music Theory. These goals cannot simply be proclaimed; we must all work toward them. There is no better starting point than in our undergraduate classrooms. It is for this reason that the SMT introduces…

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Sponsor, Exhibitor, Advertiser, and Event Reservation Deadline

The Society for Music Theory, with 1,200 members, brings together academics, graduate students, and other professionals specializing in musicology and music theory in higher education. It will be the forty-seventh Annual Meeting and provides an opportunity for…

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Student Presentation Award

The SMT Student Presentation Award is given annually to a graduate or undergraduate music student for a scholarly presentation (paper or poster) at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Music Theory.

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The International Conference on Arts and Humanities 2024

Colombo Sri Lanka (and remotely)

Rhythm under the Microscope: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Microrhythm and Groove in Popular Music

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Institute of Popular Music

Since Charles Keil (1987) argued that very small variations in timing, which he called
“participatory discrepancies,” were crucial for a sensation of groove, microrhythm has been
the subject of much scholarship in a variety of disciplines. Researchers have struggled to find

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Diffractions: An International Symposium on Barad and Music Studies

Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University, and online

We warmly invite submissions for ‘Diffractions’, a forthcoming international symposium on intra-actions between music studies and the theoretical, philosophical, and political work of Karen Barad.

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UB International Guitar Research Conference

University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus,

The second annual UB International Guitar Research Conference will be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus, from Saturday, September 28, to Sunday, September 29, 2024.

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UB International Guitar Research Conference

University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus

Call for Proposals

The second annual UB International Guitar Research Conference will be held at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), North Campus, from Saturday, September 28, to Sunday, September 29, 2024.

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Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

You are cordially invited to join us for Charles Ives at 150: Music, Imagination, and American Culture, a large-scale music festival coming to the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music from Monday, Sept. 30 through Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. All events are FREE of charge, but registration is…

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24th Annual Congress of the Association of German-speaking Music Theory (GMTH)

Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg, Institute of Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy

The Institute of Instrumental and Vocal Pedagogy at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg is delighted to be the venue for the next annual congress of the Association of German-speaking Music Theory (GMTH).

Expression, Language, and Music (ELM2), 2nd Meeting

University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)

The Second Biennial Conference on Expression, Language, and Music (ELM2) will bring together researchers from linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, music theory, dance theory, anthropology, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives…

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15th International Biennial Conference on Music Theory and Analysis

University of Arts, Belgrade

The 15th Biennial International Conference on Music Theory and Analysis, organized by the
Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, will take place from Friday 4 to Sunday
6 October 2024 at the University of Arts in Belgrade. We welcome paper proposals on different…

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Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire 5th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

Online

The LGBTQ+ Music Study Group is delighted to announce our 5th symposium, “Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire.” In resistance to ongoing insidious ahistorical extortionist neoliberal greed, our symposium echoes the call of our previous events to center care and community in…

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Caring Amidst Neoliberalism: History, Solidarity, Desire; 5th Symposium of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group

Virtual

Call for Papers, Panels and Performances

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Symposium on Gustav Holst

Utah State University

The year 2024 marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the British composer Gustav Holst, as well as the ninetieth anniversary of his death. Although his music remains an enduring fixture of the orchestral (The Planets) and wind band (Suites, Hammersmith) canons,…

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Digging Schönberg – Approaches in Popular Musics

International Symposium at the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna

On the occasion of Arnold Schönberg's 150th birthday, the Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, the Research Center Arnold Schönberg und die Wiener Schule, the Department of Music Sociology, the Department of Popular Music, the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies (mdw - University…

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ATMI 2024 Call for Proposals

Washington DC

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Accommodation and Accessibility in the Music Classroom: Joint session, AMS Music and Disability Study Group and Pedagogy Study Group, Annual Meeting of AMS

Chicago, IL

For higher education, the terms “accessibility” and “accommodation” are often presented in a narrow framework that mandates institutional compliance to legal statutes, which has limited Instructors’ and students’ understanding of the concepts. This especially pertains to musicology, a discipline…

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New perspectives on orchestral music by female composers

University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Palais Meran, Kleiner Saal

In recent years, musical compositions by women have increasingly been included and discussed in concert programmes, commercial recordings, radio broadcasts and social media. The focus of these efforts has been, however, primarily on vocal music, depite the fact that many women were and are…

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CFP International Conference "Femininity and Music for the Screen: Creation, Representation and Identities"

University of Tours, France

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Femininity and Music for the Screen: Creation, Representation and Identities"
International Conference organized by Jérémy Michot and Chloé Huvet
Monday, November 25, and Tuesday, November 26, 2024,
University of Tours, France

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