2013 Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
The eleventh annual conference of the Society for Musicology in
Ireland/Aontas Ceoleolaíochta na hÉireann will be hosted by the Music
Department at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, between 21
and 23 June 2013. The keynote speakers will be Professor Katharine Ellis
(Royal Holloway, University of London) and Professor Harry White
(University College Dublin).
The conference committee invite proposals for individual papers in all
areas of musicology (in its broadest sense), as well as for themed panel
sessions (of three to four papers), for lecture recitals, and for
roundtable sessions.
Particularly welcome are papers and panels which address one of the
three conference themes which are outlined below.
Individual papers should be twenty minutes long, with a subsequent ten
minutes allowed for questions.
Conference Themes
Musicology in Ireland: Reflection, Consolidation and Directions
The conference marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the
Society for Musicology in Ireland. Following on from the SMI Symposium
Musicology in Ireland, held at UCD in April, 2012, papers and panels are
particularly invited in a number of related areas:
· Reflections on recent trends, both local and global
· Musicology in Ireland: Developing and Strengthening the Discipline
· Popular Music
· Irish Traditional Music
· Music and Theology
· Musicology and Irish Studies
An Integrated Musicology: Musicology and Music Research
· Performance as Research and Composition as Research
· Music Pedagogy
· Music and Technology
· Musicology and the Digital Humanities
2013 Anniversaries: Music and the Theatre
· Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
· Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
· Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
· The Rite of Spring
Proposals can also be submitted for papers which jointly address the
conference ‘Modernism, Memory and Media: Ireland 1913-1916’, which is
being held by the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies. See
https://www.facebook.com/events/447929725259961/ for full details of
this conference.
Submission Procedure
Proposals should be sent as e-mail attachments (.doc or .docx or .pdf) to:
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Proposals for individual papers should be in the form of an abstract of
no more than 250 words.
Proposals for panel sessions should include a summary (maximum 300
words) by the convenor and an individual abstract (maximum 200 words)
for contributions by other participants.
All proposals should include:
the name and institutional affiliation of each speaker;
a short biography (maximum 100 words) for each speaker;
audiovisual and other requirements (data projector, CD/DVD player,
overhead projector, document viewer, piano, etc.).
The submission deadline for proposals/abstracts is Friday 1 February 2013.
For further information please contact Dr Adrian Scahill, Music
Department, NUI Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare at [log in to unmask]
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http://www.musicologyireland.com/index.php/conferences/annual-smi-conference
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Dr Adrian Scahill
Music Department
NUI Maynooth
Co. Kildare
00-353-1-7084638
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