Sociology of Music Panel-Canadian Sociological Association Conference

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Call for papers
May  29–June 2 2012
Wilfrid  Laurier University / University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario,  Canada)

The 47th Annual CSA Conference will be held from Tuesday May 29 through to Saturday June 2 2012. As usual, the CSA meetings will be held as part of the Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, this year taking place at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario. Continue reading →

Inaugural Celebrity Studies Conference‏

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Call for papers
December 12-14th 2012
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Deadline for abstracts and panels: March 5th 2012 (individual papers: 500words, +50 word bio; and for 3x person panels: panel title, lead/contact person; 3x 500 word abstracts, plus 3x individual 50 word biographies)

Successful abstracts notified by: 6th April

Enquiries/abstracts to: celebritystudies@gmail.com

Conference Website: www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/scca/events/celebrity

Sponsored by the Centre for Memory, Imagination and Invention, Deakin University Continue reading →

Perspectives on Musical Improvisation

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Reminder Call for papers
10th-13th September 2012
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford

This is a reminder that submissions for this conference should be sent to impconfsubmission@music.ox.ac.uk . The deadline for submissions is Monday January 9 2012.

Please visit the website to get further details on the conference and how to submit proposals for papers, poster presentations and practical sessions. The website will go live in March 2012 for registration and programme details.

Contact Mark Doffman at mark.doffman@music.ox.ac.uk for any queries regarding the conference.

Help Rebuild BAPMAF Music Archives

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For anyone wishing to assist John Collins in rebuilding and restoring after the recent Accra floods, donations can be made (through PayPal) via any of the links below:

http://blog.afropop.org/2011/11/flood-disaster-at-john-collinss-bokoor.html

http://bapmaf.blogspot.com

Anyone who already has a PayPal account can simply make a donation through PayPal to newbapmaf@yahoo.com. People who don’t have a PayPal account should click on the donate button. All donations should be marked as a “gift” in order to ensure that PayPal doesn’t take a cut of donations.

PhD studentship at Bristol‏

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The School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS) at the University of Bristol will be offering a postgraduate research scholarship for a new Home (UK or EU) student for September 2012 entry. The scholarship will offer funding for three years to cover tuition fees and a maintenance stipend equivalent to RCUK rates. We invite applications from strong candidates in all areas of sociology, politics or international studies.

Further details are available at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/spais/prospective/prospectivepgr/pgr-scholarship/

Music & Moving Image

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Call for papers
Music and the Moving Image VII Conference
New York University, 1-3 June, 2012

The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPod, computer, and interactive performances) through paper presentations.

More info, practical details, etc. at http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/scoring/conference