Black History Month - a Research Event at RCS

We're very happy to help promote this research event here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland!

Event: Black History Month (BHM) Doctoral Researchers’ Event
Event Date: 25/10/2019
Deadline for abstracts: 7/10/2019

The Equality and Diversity Forum in partnership with the Research and Knowledge Exchange directorate at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is pleased to present the first Black History Month (BHM) Doctoral Researchers Event to be held at the RCS on 25th October. 

This event is to promote and celebrate BAME researchers and their work.

Call for presentations: We would like to invite abstracts for a fifteen-minute presentation (performances are also encouraged) followed by discussion and questions. This call is open to all BAME arts and humanities doctoral researchers from the UK. The programme allows for 8 presentations and presenters are free to choose whether or not their presentation will directly address the challenges and/or opportunities of being a BAME researcher.

Please send a title and a 250-word outline of your presentation to a.arockiam@rcs.ac.uk by Monday 7th Oct.

The event is free to all. If you would prefer to just attend the event or are interested in chairing or moderating please email a.arockiam@rcs.ac.uk. Please note that there are limited places due to the venue capacity.

Non-BAME doctoral researchers are also welcome to attend and can email a.arockiam@rcs.ac.uk.

Presentations will be followed by an evening event of poetry, opera and a panel discussion focused on ‘Decolonising the curriculum in the arts.’ All participants will be eligible for a free ticket.

Musical Pedagogues! Remember ISME

Remember we hosted the ISME conference (International Society for Music Education) here at RCS a few years ago?  Well, this year it's in Helsinki.

We've just received the CFP (Call for Papers), so we thought we'd share it with you:- 

"Welcome to the website for the 34th ISME World Conference.

The call for papers is already out and planning is underway for submissions. The submissions process will open later this month. Note: submissions close on 1 October and there can be no extensions, so start your planning now.

In response to feedback from the previous conference, the call for papers outlines several new opportunities to enable members to interact in different ways and to help members connect and engage even more.

The call for performers is also announced. Submissions will open in the next few weeks and closes on 31 August.

Both the venues - Finlandia Hall and the Music Academy (home of the Sibelius Academy, part of UniArts) -  are very close, almost side by side, so the conference precinct is very walkable. The venues are also accessible."

All you need now is the website, so you can follow up these opportunities!

https://www.isme2020.fi/ 

Like Buses, Music Conferences Sometimes Come All At Once ... This one is Trad

We've noticed there's a Call for Papers by the Canadian Society for Traditional Music, for their 2015 Conference. 

• Call for Papers: Canadian Society for Traditional Music 2015 conference: DETAILS HERE.

Royal Musical Association - Research Conferences

Researchers at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland may find events to interest them amongst this events listing from the Royal Musical Association:-

• RMA Research Students' Conference, 8-10 January 2015, University of Bristol. Deadline for proposals of academic papers or compositions in several categories, 27 October 2014.
• DETAILS

• A) RMA Study Day, "Amateur music-making in the British provinces", 18 June 2014, University of Leeds.DETAILS
•  B) RMA-supported conference, "Music, emotions and well-being:
• historical and scientific perspectives", 20 June 2014, Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary, University of London. DETAILS
• C) RMA-supported conference, "Music and screen media", 25-6 June 2014, University of Liverpool.DETAILS
• D) RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group, 4th Annual Conference, 27-8 June 2014, King's College London.  DETAILS
• E) RMA-supported 42nd Medieval and Renaissance music conference, 3-6 July 2014, University of Birmingham. DETAILS
•  F) RMA-supported conference, "Continuities and ruptures: artistic responses to Jewish migration, internment and exile in the long twentieth century", 6-8 July 2014, University of Leeds.  DETAILS
• G) RMA-supported conference on Music literature, historiography and aesthetics, 17-18 July 2014, Institute of Musical Research, London. DETAILS
• H) RMA-supported conference, "Hollywood's musical contemporaries and competitors in the early sound-film era", 26-8 July 2014, University of Surrey. DETAILS
• I) RMA-supported conference, "The music of war: 1914-1918", 29-31 August 2014, British Library, London. DETAILS
• J) 50th RMA Annual Conference, 4-6 September 2014, University of Leeds. DETAILS
• K) RMA-supported conference, "Schoenberg at 140: legacy and reminiscence", 13-14 September 2014, Canterbury Christ Church University. DETAILS

Visit http://rma.ac.uk/conferences/ for information on more RMA events from November 2014 onwards.

Digital Libraries for Musicology Workshop

First call for papers:-

ACM/IEEE Digital Libraries conference 2014

Call for Papers: Understanding Scotland Musically

We've received notice of a CFP for a conference:-

University of Newcastle, 21 October 2014

Read the CFP here.

Researching, Studying, Playing Scottish Music?

Musica Scotica 2014

The Spring conference of Musica Scotica is a big event on the Scottish music scene. The call for papers for the 2014 conference is now out.  Click here for full details.

 

Musica Scotica

Ninth Annual Conference

Sat 26th - Sun 27th April 2014

University of Aberdeen

Call for Papers

http://www.musicascotica.org.uk/conferences.shtml

Music Researchers - the Royal Musical Association is there for you

RMA (Royal Musical Association)

 

What's in it for you?  As well as the big annual conference, there's a research student conference, other colloquia and study days.  For example, the monthly bulletin shares what's coming up in the next few months.  Visit http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/ for information on more RMA events from April 2014 onwards.

CALLS FOR PAPERS 

 

• RMA Study Day, "Memory in post-1980s music: history, form, perception", 22 February 2014, University of York. Deadline for proposals of papers on any aspect of the topic, 29 November 2013. http://www.rma.ac.uk/news-and-events-html/2014-music-memory-cfp.pdf
• 50th RMA Annual Conference, 4-6 September 2014, University of Leeds.  Deadline for proposals of 20-minute papers or 90-minute themed sessions, 30 November 2013. http://music.leeds.ac.uk/research/rma-50th-annual-conference-in-leeds/ 
• RMA Study Day, " Music and mathematics", 12 April 2014, University of Leeds. Deadline for proposals of papers or themed sessions, 6 December 2013. http://www.rma.ac.uk/conferences/event.asp?id=637
• Joint Study of the RMA and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology, "Music, circulation, and the public sphere", 11 April 2014, University of Manchester. Deadline for proposals of 20-minute papers, 17 January 2014. http://musicandthepublicsphere.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/

IV. FORTHCOMING RMA ACTIVITIES

 

• RMA Study Day, "Researching music as process: methods and approaches", University of Oxford, 22 November 2013. http://www.music.ox.ac.uk/musicasprocess/
• RMA-supported Gesualdo 400th anniversary conference, 23-4 November 2013, University of York. http://gesualdo.co.uk/400/index.htm 
• RMA Training Day in collaboration with the British Library and the Institute of Musical Research, "Exploring collections at the British Library", 29 November 2013, British Library. http://events.sas.ac.uk/imr/events/view/14590/Exploring+Collections+at+the+British+Library
• RMA Study Day, "Crosscurrents in music and theology", University of Sheffield, 6 December 2013.  http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/music/newsandevents/2013/gparsons25061
• RMA Research Students' Conference, 6-8 January 2014, University of Birmingham. Booking now open: http://shop.bham.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&catid=62&prodid=742  
• RMA Study Day, "Memory in post-1980s music: history, form, perception", 22 February 2014, University of York. http://www.rma.ac.uk/news-and-events-html/2014-music-memory-cfp.pdf

Golden Pages - conference listings for musicologists

Golden Pages (click here)

Whittaker would be failing in 'his' duty to budding musicologists if we didn't share this key resource for anyone interested in attending or organising a music conference.  So, here are the Golden Pages.

You first need to get a login to the Golden Pages WordPress blog.  If you experience any difficulty with this initial step, you'll find the webmaster's email link on the conference listing login page.

'Whittaker' recently posted details of the Musica Scotica for editorial approval - and here's the link.

• http://goldenpages.jpehs.co.uk/

And Whittaker's back!

Image from CreativeTimes.blogspot.com, with thanks

Two weeks away, and coming back to Whittaker Live is like coming back to a fusty, dusty room.  Blogs shouldn't stagnate - they need regular updating.  Fling open the windows! Get some AIR into the place! 

For a start, here are some calls for papers.  Maybe our colleagues might be interested - or might interest their researchers - in something here:-

CALLS FOR PAPERS from the Royal Musical Association

A) RMA Study Day, "Music and the Seicento", 20 October 2012, University of York (with University of Huddersfield). Deadline for receipt of proposals for 20-minute research or recital papers, extended to 31 July 2012. http://www.rma.ac.uk/news-and-events-html/2012-Music_and_the_Seicento.pdf

B) RMA Study Day, " Challenging musical ontologies", 23 November 2012, University of Nottingham. Deadline for receipt of proposals for 20-minute papers, 30 August 2012. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/music/research/conferences/rma-day-call-for-papers.aspx

C) RMA Research Students' Conference, 3-5 January 2013, University of Southampton. Deadline for receipt of proposals for 20-minute research papers or compositions for saxophone, piano, percussion, and/or electronics, 29 October 2012. http://www.southampton.ac.uk/rma_studentconference/papersworks/index.page?