Dear MSA colleagues,

We are delighted to announce our two keynote speakers for the 45th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, to be held online 1–3 December, 2022:

Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University; President of the International Musicological Society, 2022-2027): “Songs in Une…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new book, A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, this book presents accounts of creative processes and contextual issues of current-day and early-twentieth-century women composers. This collection…[Read more]

This two-day symposium will bring together interdisciplinary scholars and interpreters of music in rethinking how musical programs of the past might be meaningfully reimagined in the present. Contributors are invited to consider how contemporary scholarship offers new possibilities for staging musical concerts in ways that innovatively weave…[Read more]

Dear MSA members,

Please find attached a call for papers for an online music research journal.

The Journal of Music Research Online (JMRO) is a freely accessible, peer-reviewed journal for the publication of scholarly research in music. It has a distinguished international editorial board, broad scope and only publishes research which is of the…[Read more]

https://events.unimelb.edu.au/finearts-music/event/16521-1

Please join us at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music for a guest lecture by our visiting Macgeorge Fellow, Prof Kyle Devine (University of Oslo).

When: 18 August 6pm

Where: On Zoom, and at the Prudence Myer Studio (513), in the The Ian Potter Southbank Centre (880), Southbank Campus…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of IMS member Lucia Marchi I would like to bring to your attention the CFP for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, which will be held in a new hybrid format from May 11 to 13, 2023. The submission deadline is September 15, 2022.

Visit…[Read more]

Dear MSA forum members

On behalf of IMS member Assaf Shelleg I would like to bring to your attention a job opening at Hebrew University (IL). The application deadline is September 11, 2022.

Visit en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions<https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions&gt; for more details.

Cheers
Fred

Dear MSA forum members

On behalf of IMS member Natasha Loges I would like to bring to your attention the CFP for the international conference, “Women at the Piano 1848–1970,” which will be held at the University of California, Irvine, from March 17 to 19, 2023. The submission deadline is November 1, 2022.

See the attached PDF for more detai…[Read more]

Hello all,

A colleague from Germany asked me to share this with the MSA. She and the other organisers are especially keen to get proposals/topics from outside of North America and Europe!

International Conference: Women at the Piano 1848–1970

University of California, Irvine, 17–19 March 2023

Keynote Speaker: Professor Jann Pasler (Un…[Read more]

Hello MSA friends,

Please come along to my upcoming book launch for Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire, co-hosted by the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage and the MSA Victorian Chapter.

Thursday 7 July 2022, 5:30 – 7 pm

Japanese Room, Level 4, Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design), Masson…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

On behalf of Emile Wennekes, chair of the IMS Study Group “Music and Media,” I would like to bring to your attention a job opening at Utrecht University (NL). The application deadline is September 9, 2022.

Visit uu.…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members

On behalf of Laura Tunbridge, IMS Directorium Member, I would like to bring to your attention that for the first time, All Souls College has opened their five-year postdoctoral fellowships to the history of music. International candidates are encouraged to apply.

Visit…[Read more]

THE ASIAN-GERMAN STUDIES IN MUSIC WORKING GROUP** PRE-IMS SEMINAR
In association with the IMS Global Music History Study Group

We are holding a pre-conference seminar online on 8–9 August 2022, prior to the IMS2022 Congress in Athens.We invite interested researchers, teachers, and art practitioners to share work-in-progress in an open and s…[Read more]

Musicology Australia is pleased to announce the publication of issue 43/1–2, available here at https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmus20/current

Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia. Since its inception in 1963, the journal has published articles on all aspects of music research, including h…[Read more]

Please find below details of my book launch (in-person and online) for Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944.

If you are interested in purchasing the book, please visit https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781580469708/claiming-wagner-for-france/ and use the promo code BB135 to save 35% before 31…[Read more]

The Musicology and Ethnomusicology Area at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music welcomes Helen O’Shea for an online talk as part of our 2022 Louise Hanson-Dyer Colloquium Series. Please join us!

Date: June 2, 6pm – online

Registration:  https://bit.ly/OSheaLHD 

Title: Listening to Paddy Canny: Writing a Musical Life

The subject of Helen O’S…[Read more]

REMINDER: 5 June Celebration of Louise Hanson-Dyer and the Lyrebird Music Society
We are pleased to announce a concert and symposium celebrating the centenary of the Lyrebird Music Society (formerly British Music Society Victorian branch) founded by Louise Hanson-Dyer in 1921, and the unveiling of a new portrait of Hanson-Dyer by artist Andre…[Read more]

Dear colleagues

In case you missed it, here is the link to the video of the launch of the Musicology and Ethnomusicology Hub at The University of Adelaide on 5 May:

https://able.adelaide.edu.au/music/about/research/musicology-and-ethnomusicology-hub

In the video, you will see the launch of three exciting new research projects, and what…[Read more]

Symposium ‘Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) and the performance of power’

University of Sydney and online, 23-25 September, 2022

Call for Papers

Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) was one of the pre-eminent composers of his generation. Born in Venice, he was successively court composer to Duke Ferdinando Carlo of Mantua and Prince Ruspoli in Rome, and fin…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

I’m happy to let you know that we’re extending the call period for the Musicological Society of Australia’s 2022 conference, to be held 1-3 December this year.

Proposals for individual papers or panels/themed sessions are now due by MONDAY 30 MAY.

You can consult the information about submitting a proposal at https://msa.&hellip;[Read more]