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cfp: Voices of Women in Music (VOW) – University of Groningen – Dec. 1-2, 2022

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Call for Papers:

VOICES OF WOMEN: MATERIALITIES, CULTURAL TRANSFER, AND MUSICAL AUTHORSHIP

VOW Erasmus+ Educational Symposium for researchers, music educators, and graduate music students

Dec. 1-2, 2022

University of Groningen

The Voices of Women project, an Erasmus+ funded joint project with the University of Groningen, The University of Stavanger, The Arctic University of Norway (Tromsø), and The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar invites paper presentations from teachers, graduate students, and scholars interested in the theme of musical authorship in connection to women’s voices. We understand voices metaphorically, artistically, and literally to include women or women-identifying genders in a variety of roles whose creative musical ‘voices’ contribute to the authorship of a particular body of work. The two-day symposium explores this theme of authorship in relation to the sub-themes of music materialities and cultural transfer.

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cfp: Music, Research, and Activism

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MUSIC, RESEARCH, AND ACTIVISM

May 10–12, 2023, University of Helsinki

Call for Papers

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/music-research-and-activism/call-papers

What does social and environmental justice mean in music or music

research? How can music and music research advance equality, equity,

human rights or ecological sustainability? What could music

researchers and practitioners do in our contemporary world

characterized by climate emergency, ecocide, racism, gender

discrimination, war, conflict, and humanitarian crises? What is the

relationship between music and the rest of society, and what might

activist research look like in the field of music studies?

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New Collection on Covid and the Music Industries

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Colleagues – for those of you that are interested in the impacts of covid on the music industries – just to inform you of a new edited collection that was published last week in the Journal of World Popular Music. The collection is being launched at this years IASPM conference in Liverpool and is available now. It focuses specifically on the impacts of Covid on the music industries of the Global North. See https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JWPM The details are below.

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[IASPM XXI 2022] E-NEWSLETTER NO. 12: Please check the important updates and information!

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1.   Mode of attendance survey 

– Last week the local organizing committee sent you the email asking you to inform how you participate in the conference – online/virtual or offline/in person. If you have not completed the survey yet, please do so via Google form here:  https://forms.gle/qu33nZbH3A1hJVGV7

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Update regarding the position of Chair of IASPM International

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Dear members,

On 20th May we emailed to advise that, following the Chair of IASPM stepping down from his position, the Executive Committee of IASPM would be operating on a collective basis to deal with a number of urgent matters. These include: the upcoming international conference in Daegu, Korea; an ethics investigation into the sexual harassment allegations that have been made; the construction of a code of ethics for our members; and a social media policy.

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