ESEM

You are cordially invited to the annual One-Day Conference of the British Forum of Ethnomusicology, which will be held on Saturday 7 November 2009, at King's College London in the Strand.

Please see the Call for Papers pasted in below. Do feel free to circulate this further to any potentially interested parties.

Further details will be posted on the conference website as they become available - see http://bfe2009.net/4.html

Call for Papers

The Ethnomusicology Department of the University for Music and Drama at Hanover, Germany, is organising an international workshop for Ph.D. candidates in ethnomusicology and its sister disciplines. The workshop will be directed by Prof. Dr. Raimund Vogels (Hanover) and Prof. Dr. Philip V. Bohlman (Chicago/Hanover).

Topic:
"Ethnomusicological Research Today"

24-28 June 2009
University for Music and Drama, Hanover, Germany

Indigeneity in the Contemporary World: Performance, Politics, Belonging

A unique opportunity exists for an outstanding Post-doctoral Research Associate to contribute to a new interdisciplinary research project that will examine how Indigeneity is expressed and understood in our complex, globalising world. With funding of €2.36M over five years from the European Research Council, this frontier research, led by Professor Helen Gilbert at Royal Holloway (University of London), will develop along four broad conceptual themes: ‘Commodity and Spectacle', ‘Heritage and Material Culture', ‘Reconciliation and Social Cohesion' and ‘Mobility and Belonging'. Applicants will be considered from across a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, the following: theatre/performance studies, film, cultural geography, anthropology, history, indigenous studies, sociology, politics, dance, ethnomusicology, international relations.

17th meeting of the ICTM Study Group

FOLK MUSIC INSTRUMENTS

1-4 April 2009 in Erkner, Germany

The programme and abstracts for the upcoming ICTM study group meeting on folk music instruments is online and can be found at erkner2009.musikethnologie.org.

Topics

Please find attached the Call for Proposals for the Society for Ethnomusicology 2009 annual meeting in Mexico City.

The conference theme for the 2009 meeting will be “Borderless Ethnomusicologies.”

Topics will include:

1) Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and Intangible Heritage;

2) Instruments and Organologies;

Department of Music Science and Art, University of Macedonia

International Conference "The growth of the art of music in Greece of Europe"

May 29-31, 2009
Concert & Ceremony Hall, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

Distinguished personalities of international status have been invited as main speakers.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Towards a new kind of Archive?
The Digital Philosophy in Audiovisual Archives?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission Deadline: January 30th 2009

The Organising Committee of the IASA 2009 Annual Conference invites
presentation proposals for the 40th IASA Annual Conference, to be held
September 20-25, 2009, in Athens, Greece, hosted by the Hellenic National
Audiovisual Archive.

Presentation proposals are due January 30th, 2009, on the following themes:

Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, Barcelona

7-9 de maig de 2009

Després de l'èxit de la primera edició de les Jornades d'Estudiants de Musicologia i Joves Musicòlegs, realitzada el mes de maig de 2008 a l'Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (Barcelona), la Jove Associació de Musicologia (JAM) i els estudiants de musicologia de l'ESMuC convoquen les II Jornades d'Estudiants de Musicologia i Joves Musicòlegs per al mes de maig de 2009.

Network / Workshops Research Project (2008‐2009)

Performance, politics, piety: music as debate in Muslim societies of North Africa, South Asia, West Asia and their diasporas

Directed by Dr Kamal Salhi

(School of Modern Languages and Cultures. University of Leeds)