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Call for Papers: 2019 University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference

Friday March 15– Sunday March 17, 2019
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

The University of Toronto Music Graduate Students’ Association is pleased to announce our annual Graduate Music Conference, which will take place March 15-17, 2019. The program committee invites graduate students to submit proposals for twenty-minute paper presentations, with a ten-minute question period to follow each presentation. We encourage the submission of papers on all genres of music and in any area of music research, including musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, performance, music education, composition, and music technology. We also invite applicants to submit proposals for themed sessions of 2-3 papers. In this case, please include an abstract describing the proposed session as well as individual abstracts for each paper. Proposals for thirty-minute lecture-recitals are also encouraged. We particularly welcome proposals that discuss anti-colonial methods and initiatives in music.

Abstracts must be limited to 250 words; submissions should include the title of the paper, but not any information that could personally identify the author. Please email abstracts, in .docx and .pdf format, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than January 15th, 2019. In the body of the submission email, please include your name, institutional affiliation, preferred email address, and phone number. Standard audio/visual equipment and a piano will be made available to all presenters, though you must supply any other necessary instruments, mixers, amplifiers, etc. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by email beginning in early February 2019. Please direct any inquiries to the conference email address.

We are proud to welcome Dr. Naomi André to deliver our keynote presentation at this year’s conference. She will be speaking on the ways engaged and anti-colonial approaches to music can inform our work as music researchers, performers, and educators.

Call for Papers: McGill 2019 Music Graduate Students’ Society Symposium

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The McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) is pleased to announce its thirty-second annual Symposium, which will be held March 22–24, 2019 at the Schulich School of Music in Montréal, Canada. All submissions must be received by Friday 4 January 2019.

Our research keynote, Anna Zayaruznaya, will be delivering a talk entitled "Beasts, in Theory: Knowing and Doing in Western Musical Thought." She is an Associate Professor of Music at Yale University where she teaches courses in music history, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance and the history of musical notation. Her first book, The Monstrous New Art: Divided Forms in the Late Medieval Motet, explores the role of monstrous and hybrid exempla in the musical aesthetics of fourteenth-century French motets.