Advance notice: the next joint SMI/ICTM-Ireland postgraduate conference will be held at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, on 17-18 January 2020. The keynote speaker will be Philip Bohlman.
The deadline for the Call for Papers for the following conference is Friday,18 January 2019.
Conference: Music and Sound Design for the Screen Maynooth University, Friday 6th and Saturday 7th September 2019 Keynote speaker: Miguel Mera, City, University of London Panel discussion with composer Stephen Rennicks
Registration for the SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference on 10-11 January 2019 is now open. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite and a copy of the draft schedule is also available to view there.
The call for papers and other proposals for the Society's 17th Annual Plenary Conference has been announced. The conference will be held on 28–30 June 2019, at Maynooth University, and the deadline for the submission of proposals is 3 March. For details, see https://musicologyireland.com/plenary-conference-june-2019-maynooth
Are you ready to present your paper at the SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference in January? The SMI is offering and subsidising two half-day public-speaking and presentation-skills workshops for graduate students for Monday 7 January and Tuesday 8 January, to be led by Fiona O'Meara, a public-speaking expert. They will be held at 11 am - 2 pm each day, at McCann Hall, DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama, Chatham Row, Dublin 2. Further details are below.
The SMI Jazz Studies Reading Group meets once a month for informal discussion of papers, articles and book chapters that have impacted jazz studies. It is a group of graduate and early-career researchers interested in jazz studies and related socio-cultural issues, including race, gender and identity. The group, organised by Dr Damian Evans and Mr Kevin Higgins, meets in room B118, Block B, St Patrick's Campus, Dublin City University, Dublin 9. The first meeting - as an official SMI reading group - will take place on Friday 2 November at 1.00pm.
Registration is now open for the conference "Music and Musicology in the Age of Post-Truth" which will take place at University College Dublin on 7 and 8 September. You can access its programme, advice on accommodation and the registration page at https://www.ucd.ie/music/events/conferences/
