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SysMus12 – Fifth International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology
May 24th-26th, 2012, The Université de Montréal, Canada
Organized by graduate students, the SysMus conference allows young researchers in systematic musicology at the master’s and doctoral levels to present their work in the form of papers, poster sessions and online publications. Graduate students are encouraged to submit a proposal in English (maximum 2 pages) for either a formal paper or a poster session. Papers should be twenty minutes in length and may be given in either English or French. A ten minute question period will follow.
Allying epistemological, scientific principals and methodologies with a humanistic, critical approach, systematic musicology is interdisciplinary in character. As such, we have provided a (non-exhaustive) list of possible themes to be explored: the role of institutions in the dissemination of music; public behaviour and reception; music and media; music and society; perception and cognition; multi-modal perception; emotion; analysis of expressivity in performance; gesture and movement; music pedagogy; musical structure; methodology; music and language; music and technology.
Proposal applications are now closed
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7th Nordic Music Therapy Congress
13-17 June 2012: University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
The title of the congress, “Music therapy models, methods and techniques”, refers to the fundamental basis of music therapy, which we aim to explore from various perspectives. We encourage researchers, clinicians, trainers and students to join together and share their findings, expertise and experiences. The main focus will be around the title of the congress, but we welcome interdisciplinary perspectives as well, and hope to have many music psychologists, music educators, musicologists, and psychotherapists among us. The congress will include invited keynote lectures, oral presentations, poster sessions, workshops and symposia arranged around specific themes.
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CMMR 2012 (Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval): Music and Emotions
19-22 June 2012: Queen Mary University of London: UK
Jointly organised by the Centre for Digital Music and the CNRS – Laboratoire de Mécanique et d’Acoustique (France), CMMR 2012 welcomes researchers, educators, librarians, (film) music composers, performers, music software developers, members of industry, and others with an interest in computer music modeling, retrieval, analysis, and synthesis to join us for what promises to be a great event.
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12-14 July, 2012: Kings College University of London: UK
Booking is now open for the Music and Shape conference. Please click here to follow the booking process and for the conference programme.
Musicians habitually describe music as being shaped, especially when speaking of performance. This conference contributes to the AHRC-funded Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice and its project, based at King’s College London, on Shaping Music in Performance, and is organised in collaboration with the Institute of Musical Research. The aim of the conference is to explore, from as many perspectives as possible, relationships between music and shape.
The Music and Shape conference happens two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games. Accommodation in or near London will be hard to find and very expensive. 100 rooms have been reserved for the conference at Travelodge Euston (£109 per night) and King’s Cross (£99). Please book as soon as possible via the Institute of Musical Research (music@sas.ac.uk), and in any case before 1 June 2012. No rooms can be booked after 1 June 2012.
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23-28 July 2012: University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
12th International Conference on Music Perception & Cognition; 8th Triennial Conference of the European Society of the Cognitive Sciences of Music. The event includes presentation of the ICMPC SEMPRE Young Researcher Award.
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Helsinki Summer School on Cognitive Neuroscience is a three-week academic event organised in August 7-23,2012, for PhD Students and PostDocs.
The course will provide an excellent platform to gain knowledge of the most recent developments particularly in the field of auditory cognitive neuroscience.
The course programme will focus on speech and music functions in the framework of neuroplasticity. It will introduce both short-term and long-term learning effects in both domains, and deal with the interplay between these highly important forms of human communication. Moreover, particular attention will be given to new findings related to training and rehabilitation in educational and neurological settings.
The course will consist of tutorials on brain research methods and lectures about current topics. Furthermore, there will be several demonstrations on practical laboratory work with modern brain imaging techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalography (MEG), optical imaging (OI), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Additionally, poster sessions in which the students have an opportunity to introduce their projects and research outcome will be organized. The teachers and lecturers are international specialists with excellent expertise in graduate teaching.
In Helsinki, a city known for brain research, design, technology and a vibrant cultural life, you will discover the perfect environment for studying, making new friends and having fun! The deadline for applications is May 15, 2012.
For further information, see
www.helsinkisummerschool.fi/
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Hearing, Seeing and Imagining: Music and the Visual Arts
28- 31 August 2012: East Sussex: UK
This summer, the Institute for Music in Human and Social Development (IMHSD), in collaboration with Queen’s University, Canada and the Bader International Study Centre (BISC) at Herstmonceux Castle, will hold a three-day, interdisciplinary summer workshop on the topic of Hearing, Seeing and Imagining: Music and the Visual Arts.
The meeting invites researchers and practitioners to meet and discuss a variety of experimental, theoretical, and practical concerns relating to music, visual art and imagination. The aim of the meeting is to bring together composers, neuroscientists, visual artists, historians, psychologists, theorists and musicians to consider the imaginative, interactive worlds of music and the visual arts, which may include topics such as: sound and the moving image; the neural basis of musical and visual imagery; representations of visual art in music and music in the visual arts; the arts and social engagement; graphic scores and musical improvisation; creative practice; sensory integration; cognitive prediction and planning; and synaesthesia.
The meeting will consist of lectures and poster presentations, as well as smaller workshops, musical performances and interactive presentations. The workshop organisers are pleased to announce there will be three competitive scholarships (covering the registration fee, meals and accommodation) available for full-time students whose proposal for a paper, poster, workshop or performance is chosen for presentation. For more information, please visit the website. (Submissions closed)
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Perspectives on Musical Improvisation
10-13 September 2012, University of Oxford, UK
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 our website (above) 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.
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SEMPRE 40th Anniversary Celebration Event
14-15 September 2012: Institute of Education, London: UK
The SEMPRE 40th Anniversary Conference will be hosted by the Institute of Education, London (UK) from 14–15 September 2012. The event will present leading international research and will also be a celebration of SEMPRE’s activities and achievements over the past 40 years. In order to reflect the celebratory nature of the conference, it will include a range of special sessions bringing together distinguished members of the Society as well as other eminent researchers, enabling discussion of the challenges and opportunities for future work. Registration is now available here
It will feature keynote presentations as well as addresses and roundtable panels by distinguished members of the Society, including current and former Chairs and Journal Editors: Professors Graham Welch and Eric Clarke, Dr Desmond Sergeant, Professors Raymond MacDonald, Susan Hallam, Jane Davidson, David Hargreaves, John Sloboda, Margaret Barrett, Gary McPherson and other distinguished colleagues, including Professor Alf Gabrielsson (SEMPRE Lifetime Achiever), Professor John Baily (SEMPRE Ambassador for Afghanistan), Dr Charles Plummeridge and Dr Gordon Cox.
The event will afford opportunities for small-group discussion, while postgraduate students will be given the opportunity to sign up for individual tutorial sessions with established scholars from the Society. The Conference Dinner (Friday evening) will take place at The Russell Hotel and it will include the launch of Special Issues of the Society’s journals Psychology of Music and Research Studies in Music Education as well as enable scholars to meet with publishing representatives at SAGE
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If you hear of any conferences that may be interesting for music psychologists then please forward details to me: v.williamson- at- gold.ac.uk
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