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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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Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts, an interdisciplinary conference
Saint Anselm College, Manchester, NH [New Hampshire Institute of Politics]Drawing the Line: Race, Gender, Ethics, and the Arts
An interdisciplinary conference
Saint Anselm College
New Hampshire Institute of Politics
March 28–29, 2025
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Northeast Conference of Music Theorists (NECMT)
Williams College; Williamstown, MAThe Northeast Conference of Music Theorists (NECMT) is pleased to announce its thirty-seventh meeting, which will be held April 4-5, 2025 at Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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MTSNYS 2025
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Music Biennale Zagreb
Zagreb, CroatiaFounded in 1961, the Music Biennale Zagreb was the most significant cultural event in Yugoslavia in the early 1960s and continued to play a pivotal role in the country’s cultural diplomacy over the next three decades.
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Music Biennale Zagreb Conference: Broken Relationships
Zagreb, CroatiaKeynote Speakers
- Andrea F. Bohlman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
- Dalibor Davidović, “Nikša Gligo and John Cage––The Chronicle of a Friendship” (University of Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia)
- Peter J. Schmelz (Johns Hopkins…
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CFP International Conference "A Tribute to Georges Delerue (1925-1992)"
University of Evry Paris-Saclay, FranceCALL FOR PAPERS
« Au creux du souvenir… trois petites notes de musique ». A Tribute to Georges Delerue (1925-1992)
International Conference organized by Chloé Huvet (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay) and Jérôme Rossi (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Hosted by the University of Évry…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Hearing the Virtual Cue: An Online Conference on Theme Park Music and Sound
VirtualMusic and sound are critical elements for shaping the theme park experience. The burgeoning field of scholarship in this area has forged a path for further study of the musical materials and sonic qualities of themed experiences, including sonic/musical design in theme park attractions and…
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North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
Wayne State University, Detroit, MichiganThe program committee for the 2025 North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music invites proposals for presentations on topics related to the “long” nineteenth century. The conference will be held Wednesday through Friday, June 25–27, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
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Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025)
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of ManchesterThe SMA is pleased to confirm dates for the Manchester Music Analysis Conference (McrMAC 2025), which will take place from Monday 14 to Wednesday 16 July 2025 at the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, University of Manchester.
The McrMAC 2025 programme committee welcomes…
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8th Biennial Conference of the International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA)
Yunnan University, ChinaThe International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association (IMSEA) is pleased to announce its upcoming biennial meeting, under the theme: “Heritage and Community”
We invite proposals that address topics and issues related to the creation, transmission, and inheritance of…
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