On this site you find selected Calls for Papers that are of interest to the MPSG
Seventh International Conference on Music Since 1900 / Lancaster University Music Analysis Conference (LancMAC) Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University 28-31 July 2011 Call for Papers Deadline: 3 December 2010 The Seventh Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 and the international conference of the Society for Music Analysis will take place at the...
Royal Musical Association Annual Conference 2011 (Horizons) University of Sussex, Brighton 14-16 July 2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Building on the boundaries theme of the 2010 RMA Annual Conference, this conference explores new horizons affecting music and its study. Practitioners and researchers alike are encouraged to explore the ways in which new and emerging horizons are affecting diverse areas...
Philosophy of music is a second-level reflection on the nature of music and our experience of it. Music is a practice fraught with meaning and value in the lives of many people and occupies an important place in our artistic culture. However, it raises philosophical questions perhaps more difficult than other artistic practices. Many philosophers, from the Pythagoreans and Plato to Wittgenstein...
Thinking Through Dance: The Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices Saturday 26th February 2011, 9:00 – 17:00, Froebel College, Roehampton University, London. This conference explores the philosophical questions raised by and in dance. Relatively under-theorised as it has been in the history of aesthetics, dance presents fertile ground for philosophical enquiry. Abstracts are invited...
Maison Européenne des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société, Lille 29 Sep – 1 Oct 2011 Deadline for submissions: 1 Dec 2010 What procedures, techniques, knowledge and/or know-how do musicians utilize when they ‘create’ music? Beethoven’s famous walks in the park and the no less famous sketchbooks have, since the 19th century, popularized the idea that the creative activity of...
Enchanting Modernity: Theosophy and the Arts in the Making of Early Twentieth-Century Culture Event type: Workshop Date: 3 December 2010 Founded in 1875, The Theosophical Society fused the study and practice of ancient mystical traditions with a commitment to shape, rather than reject, the modern world. Its ubiquitous worldwide presence in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture...
May 27-28, 2011 Where: Caen, France Deadline: January 15, 2011 This international conference is intended to explore how time may be represented aesthetically in excessive, eccentric and unthinkable ways. Art appears to have found a means of getting around time’s dilemmas by depicting it as irrational or portraying the impossibility of getting a firm grasp of it. In art, time...
Music, Gender, and Globalization Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; April 1–2, 2011. Inviting graduate students and recent PhDs from across the humanities and the social sciences to submit presentation proposals for an interdisciplinary conference at Cornell University on April 1–2, 2011. We especially welcome submissions from scholars in: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology...
Deadline extended Place and Time: University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, March 10th and 11th, 2011 Conference language: English Pre-Conference Doctoral Course: March 9th, 2011 New Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 18th, 2010. Send 200-word abstracts to Associate Professor Per Krogh Hansen (University of Southern Denmark, Center for Narratological Studies): pkh@litcul.sdu.dk. Please...
Deadline for Submissions: October 31, 2011 Advisory Editor: Julian Dodd, The University of Manchester (julian.dodd@manchester.ac.uk) Music raises many fascinating questions for both analytical aesthetics and philosophy quite generally. Ontological concerns have been particularly pressing in recent times. What kind of entity is a work of music? How are such entities individuated? Do they depend...