*Call for Papers (Reminder): SysMus18 - Belo Horizonte, Brazil*

The submission deadline for SysMus18 has been extended to January 15, 2018.

We are looking forward to your submissions.


SysMus (*International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology*) is
a series of conferences organized by students for students. In 2018 it will
be held for the first time in Latin America, on June 6th-8th, in the city
of *Belo Horizonte, Brazil*.

The SysMus conferences promote systematic musicology as an
interdisciplinary field by giving students who study music from
computational, psychological, sociological and other non-traditional
perspectives the opportunity to interact with each other and with
successful professionals in the field.

*Submissions *

All the submissions will be made in the form of extended abstracts. The
extended abstracts should be no more than 300 words (extended) in length,
be written in English, and address one of the conference topics listed
below. All submissions will be considered for both spoken paper and poster
presentation categories. However, the author can indicate a preference for either
spoken or poster presentation in the submission form.

All abstracts will be submitted via an online system in the following link:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SysMus2018.

The submission must also include a short abstract (maximum 150 words).

Submissions are due *January 15, 2018*.

Notification of acceptance *February 2, 2018*.

All accepted presenters are invited to submit a 4-8 page proceedings
article that will be published online. The deadline for submitting this
proceedings article is *April 20, 2018*.

*Subject Areas*

SysMus is dedicated to including a broad range of topics within its
conferences, representative of the great diversity within the systematic
musicological study. Submissions addressing any of the following subjects
are particularly welcome:


- Systematic musicology
- Music perception
- Music cognition
- Music psychology
- Music therapy
- Music modelling
- Music information retrieval
- Music sociology
- Music education
- Music technology
- Music and culture
- Musical acoustics
- Music philosophy
- Music theory and analysis


*Oral presentations *

Oral presentations will be allocated slots of 20 minutes, with 12 minutes
for the presentation, 5 minutes for discussion, and 3 minutes to prepare for the
next talk.

*Poster presentations *

Poster presentations will have designated time slots and presentation
spaces that will not overlap with any other activity.

*A quick summary of what you need to know: *

What: 11th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology

When: June 6th-8th, 2018

Where: Music Conservatory of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo
Horizonte, Brazil.

When are the extended abstracts due? January 15th, 2018

For any questions regarding the submission process, please contact us at
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http://musica.ufmg.br/sysmus2018/

https://twitter.com/sysmus2018

https://www.facebook.com/sysmus2018

Best regards,

Tairone Nunes Magalhães