*PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 1 NOVEMBER 2017*


*BFE Annual Conference 2018: Europe and post-Brexit Ethnomusicologies*



*Keynote Speaker: Professor Doctor Britta Sweers, University of Bern.*



http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/bfe2018/





*Call for Papers*




*Call for Papers British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2018
12–15 April 2018, Newcastle University*



As with all BFE Annual Conferences, we welcome papers and panels on any
aspect of current ethnomusicological research. The 2018 theme will be *Europe
and post-Brexit Ethnomusicologies.*



Amidst the most profound European (and American) socio-political ruptures
since 1945, the position and roles of ethnomusicology has never been more
important both for the plural and changing constituencies of identity
(‘British’, ‘European’, ‘Global’) and for those in one part of the world
who research and perform musics from another part. In some senses,
displacements and musical changes are consequences of globalization, and
from the growing inequalities that continue to emerge from polarized global
wealth and consumption. We wish to focus attention on the position and
approaches to ethnomusicology within Britain and Europe both before and
after the emerging new European settlements for the academy, European
communities, refugee and migrant communities, students and their Others. By
extension, we are also interested in exploring these same, and parallel,
issues beyond Europe.


We invite you to submit papers, panels, roundtables, posters, and films on
any aspect of ethnomusicological research. We particularly invite
presentations that focus on

   - Changes in British, European or global musical life
   - How ethnomusicology might flourish in times of rapid change
   - Ethnomusicology and internationalism
   - The musicology of migration, refuge and asylum
   - Globalism and the musical politics of regionalism
   - The changing faces of European ethnomusicology
   - Socio-political ruptures and their consequences for ethnomusicology
   - Public and applied ethnomusicology in times of rapid transformational
   change
   - European musics and religions
   - Epistemologies of ethnomusicology
   - Collaborative methodologies in ethnomusicology
   - Economic ethnomusicology and the ethnomusicology of exchange
   - Ethnomusicologies of nationalism
   - Post-Brexit ethnomusicology
   - Non-British/European musics in Britain/Europe
   - Regionalism and musical Others
   - Ethnomusicology and political advocacy



*DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 1 NOVEMBER 2017*. Successful applicants will
be notified in December. *Please note that all presenters must be members
of the BFE.*



*Proposals are invited for:*

   - Papers (20 minutes with 5–10 minutes for questions)
   - Panels (3 or 4 linked papers around a theme, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours)
   - Round tables (3 or 4 shorter presentations, around 15 minutes each,
   followed by a chaired discussion, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours)
   - Posters
   - Films or other media presentations

*Paper and panel abstracts should be submitted to **[log in to unmask]*
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review:

   - *Paper* proposals: include the name and email address of the proposer,
   paper title, and abstract (the latter not exceeding 250 words). The name of
   the proposer should not appear in the body of the abstract.
   - *Organised session* proposals: include the names and email addresses
   of the proposer and the other participants, a title and overall abstract
   for the session (not exceeding 250 words), and abstracts for each
   contributor (no more than 250 words each). The names of the proposer and
   participants should not appear in the body of the abstracts.
   - *Roundtable* proposals: include the names and email addresses of the
   proposer and the other participants (the proposer will be assumed to be the
   chair unless stated otherwise), a title and overall abstract for the
   roundtable (not exceeding 250 words), and abstracts for each contributor
   (no more than 250 words each). The names of the proposer and participants
   should not appear in the body of the abstracts.
   - *Poster* proposals: include the name and email address of the
   researcher, poster title, and a description of the material to be presented
   (not exceeding 250 words). The name of the proposer should not appear in
   the description.
   - Proposals for *films or other media presentations*: include the name
   and email of the proposer, title of film/presentation, abstract (not
   exceeding 250 words), and length of film/presentation. The name of the
   proposer should not appear in the body of the abstract.



*Keynote Speaker: Professor Doctor Britta Sweers*



Professor of Cultural Anthropology of Music, Deputy Director of the
Institute of Musicology, Director of the Center for Global Studies



*Britta Sweers* is Professor of Cultural Anthropology of Music at the
Institute of Musicology (since 2009) and Director of the Center for Global
Studies (since 2015) at the University of Bern (Switzerland). Since 2015
she has also been President of the European Seminar in
Ethnomusicology (ESEM). Having studied at Hamburg University (Ph.D. 1999)
and Indiana University (Bloomington; 1992/93), she was Assistant
(2001-2003) and Junior Professor of Systematic Musicology and
Ethnomusicology at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Rostock (Germany)
from 2003 to 2009. Her research addresses the transformation of traditional
musics (particularly of the British Isles, the Baltic Countries, and
Scandinavia) in global contexts, music and nationalism, gender, applied
ethnomusicology, and soundscapes. She has been leading the inter-European
SNF project City Sonic Ecology: Urban Soundscapes of Bern, Ljubljana, and
Belgrade since 2014. Major publications include *Electric Folk: The
Changing Face of English Traditional Music* (2005), *Polyphonie der
Kulturen* ([“Polyphony of Cultures”] CD/CD-ROM 2006/8), and *Grenzgänge –
Gender, Ethnizität und Klasse als Wissenskategorien in der
Musikwissenschaft* ([“Border Crossing – Gender, Race, and Class as Category
of Knowledge in Musicology”] edited with Cornelia Bartsch, 2016). She is
co-editor of the *European Journal of Musicology* and of the Equinox book
series *Transcultural Music Studies*.