Call for papers
‘This is the Modern World’: For a Social History of Rock Music
International Conference
University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3 (Lille, France)
13-15 June 2013

The deadline for submissions to the conference has been extended to 15 November. Please see the original CFP post for further details.

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The Cultural Memory of Sound and Space
The 17th Finnish Music Researchers’ Symposium
Turku
13–15 March 2013‏

The myriad forms of music and modes of musical performance on offer today have prompted debate about the materials and methods of music research. Uses of music in different media, for example, raise questions about the relationship between music and space. In addition, new interpretations have been offered about the boundaries between music and sound. The temporal dimension, too, has garnered the attention of researchers; particularly how time is bound up with musical cultures and experiences of music. Continue reading →

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Music in TV Series‏
University of Nantes
International Conference
30 and 31 May 2013
Organized by the Atlantic Center for Philosophy

Call for papers on the following issues: Continue reading →

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Hearing Landscape Critically: Music, Place, and the Spaces of Sound
University of Stellenbosch (South Africa)
9-11 September 2013

‘We live in densely storiated landscapes […there are] song-lines, if you will, joining place to place.’ (Robert Macfarlane)

Landscapes are divided and dissonant sites of private and collective being. They bear traces of present, past and future ambitions, injustices, and interventions. And yet, their grammars and sounds, whether intimate, commodified or instrumentalised, push at the limits of theory and representation and simultaneously construct systems of aesthetic, ideological, historical and political appropriation. Continue reading →

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7th Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference
Picturing the Popular
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
13 April 2013
CFP Deadline: 14 January 2013

The graduate students of Critical Studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts seek presentations from fellow graduate students that examine the relationships and tensions between popular culture and academia. Continue reading →

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EUPOP 2013 – PCA Europe Annual Conference
University of Turku
31 July – 2 August 2013
CFP Deadline: 29 March 2013

Individual paper and panel contributions are invited for the second yearly international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), organised with the Popular Culture Association Finland (PCA-Finland) and the International Institute for Popular Culture, IIPC. Continue reading →

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Liminality & Borderlands
2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference
Austin, Texas
28 February–3 March 2013

In recognition of the massive disruption Hurricane Sandy has caused for many in the Northeast, the program committee has decided to extend the deadline to submit proposals for the 2013 IASPM-US conference in Austin to 8 November. Please see the original CFP post or the IASPM-US website for further details. Beyond this, and more importantly, we offer our best wishes to those affected by the hurricane and hopes for the speediest possible recovery for all involved.

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Music And Labour
IASPM-Canada 30th Annual Conference
McMaster University
23-26 May 2013

The deadline for submissions to the IASPM-Canada conference on Music and Labour has been extended to 15 November. Please see the original CFP post for further details. The CFP is also available at the IASPM-Canada website.