Information on past conferences in 2020:
- Media and Communications and Music at Kingston University Present – BTS (방탄소년단) A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project, London, 4–5 January 2020
- MusicaFemina International Symposium, Budapest, 8–9 January 2020
- BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, Milton Keynes, 9–11 January 2020
- Documenting Jazz Conference 2020, Birmingham, UK, 16–18 January 2020
- SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 17–18 January 2020
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Higher Education, London, 24 January 2020
- II International Conference Wind Bands in Focus: Band Research Paradigms in Spain, Jaén, Spain, 30–31 January 2020
- ‘Don’t mention the C Word’ – Re-assessing the Meaning and Impact of Censorship in Opera, Leeds, UK, 5 February 2020
- Annual Meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Waco, Texas, 6–8 February 2020
- Popular Music: Society, Politics, and History, Strasbourg, 7 February 2020
- British-Russian Crossroads: Cultural and Historical Exchanges of Words and Music, St Petersburg, 15 February 2020
- Capitalist Realism: 10 Years On, Huddersfield, UK, 15–16 February 2020
- Historical Fictions Research Conference 2020, Salzburg, 21–22 February 2020
- Musical Women in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, Manchester, UK, 24–26 February 2020
- Beethoven 2020: Analytical and Performative Perspectives, Amsterdam, 29 February – 1 March 2020
- Sondheim@90@Williams, Williamstown, MA, USA, 6–7 March 2020
- The Construction of National Identity in Music, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 14–15 March 2020
- Music Theology Durham: Study Day, Durham, UK, 17 March 2020
- Transnational approaches and Cosmopolitan localisms. 4th Biennal de Música Isabelina, Madrid, 20–21 March 2020
- Researching Music – Education – Technology (MET2020), London, 23–24 March 2020
- Parole del Metastasio – Opera and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Madrid, 25–27 March 2020
- Fail Better: Sharing Challenges and Learning in Classical Music Innovation, Maastricht, 27–28 March 2020
- Beethoven the European, Lucca, Italy, 27–29 March 2020
- The Improviser’s Experience; Knowledge, Methodologies, Communication: An RMA Study Day, Huddersfield, UK, 2 April 2020
- 1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group, York, 3 April 2020
- Duni: An 18th Century Musician from Matera to the Heart of Europe, Matera, Italy, 3–5 April 2020
- Joseph Joachim: Identities / Identitäten, Karlsruhe, Germany, 3–5 April 2020
- Art Readings 2020: New Art Module: Journeys, 6–8 April 2020
- II Conference on artistic research in music of the Pyrenees, Puigcerdà (Girona), Spain, 9–10 April 2020
- Research of Young Musicologists, Moscow, 9–11 April 2020
- Working in Music, Turku, Finland, 15–17 April 2020
- “Musica practica, musica theoretica” – A Musical Work as a Message, Poznań, Poland, 21–22 April 2020
- Responses in Music to Climate Change, New York, 21–23 April 2020
- Early Recordings: The Impacts of a Transformative Technology, London, 23 April 2020
- Ludo2020: Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, Valletta, Malta, 24–25 April 2020
- Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research, Graz, Austria, 6–7 May 2020
- Fragility of Sounds, Graz, Austria, 8–9 May 2020
- String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe, Auckland, 9–10 May 2020
- The Reformed Theology and Spirituality of Music: From the Reformation to the Present, Enschede, Netherlands, 13–15 May 2020
- IASPM Benelux International Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 14–16 May 2020
- The Motherland Resurrected: Manifestations of Nationalism in Music Since the End of the ‘Short Twentieth Century’, Cambridge, 15 May 2020
- Fifth Annual Conference in Historical Performance and International Summit of HP Program Directors in Higher Education, Bloomington, Indiana, 15–17 May 2020
- Low End Theories: Understanding Bass Music and Culture Study Day, Bristol, UK, 16 May 2020
- Music in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Virtual, 19 May 2020
- Early Music Conference: “Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices”, Eugene, Oregon, 19–23 May 2020
- Brain Cognition Emotion Music (BCEM) – The Quartet with a Missing Link, Canterbury, UK, 20–21 May 2020
- Intersections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Opera, Cambridge, 21 May 2020
- Music, Cinema, and Modernism: The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America, Turin, 22–24 May 2020
- Journées d’Informatique Musicale 2020 (JIM 2020), Strasbourg, 25–27 May 2020
- Seventh International Congress: Music and Audio-Visual Culture MUCA, Murcia, Spain, 28–30 May 2020
- Memory, Identity and the Remediation of Musical Lives, London, 29–30 May 2020
- University of York Music Education Conference 2020: Learner Voice, York, 29–30 May 2020
- Music and the Moving Image Conference 2020, New York, 29–31 May 2020
- Music in the Home: A Virtual Symposium, Online, 1–5 June 2020
- Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Paris, 3 June 2020
- Agents and Actors: Networks in Music History, Helsinki, 3–5 June 2020
- 3rd International Music and Musicology Doctoral Conference, Paris, 4–6 June 2020
- Pre-Existing Music in Screen-Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges, Cleveland, 5–6 June 2020
- Early Recordings: Methodologies in Research and Practice, London, 10 June 2020
- Gendered Representations in 20th Century American Art & Culture, London, 10–11 June 2020
- The Autoethnography of Composition and the Composition of Autoethnography, Glasgow, 17 June 2020
- Future Directions of Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS20), Leicester, UK, 17–20 June 2020
- 50+ Years of Creative Music: Anthony Braxton – Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Music Theorist, Hamburg, 18–20 June 2020
- Spem in Alium: 450 Years, Oxford, 19–20 June 2020
- Orchestrating Isolation: Musical Interventions and Inequality in the COVID-19 Fallout, online, 22 June 2020
- Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound, Online, 23–24 June 2020
- Society for Musicology in Ireland: 18th Annual Plenary Conference, Dublin, 25–27 June 2020
- SSCM 2020 Virtual Conference, June 26–28 2020.
- 3rd AEMC Conference on Music, Communication and Performance, Montecassiano, Italy, 27–28 June 2020
- Schumann’s Faust on the Verges of Music Theatre, Ghent, Belgium, 27–28 June 2020
- 10th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA2020), Aalborg, Denmark, 29 June – 1 July 2020
- International Conference on Musical Form, Newcastle, UK, 30 June – 1 July 2020
- Song Studies 2020 – Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Songs and Practices of Singing (1200-today), Ghent, Belgium, 1–3 July 2020
- Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 2020, Edinburgh, 1–4 July 2020
- 2020 Institute for Russian Music Studies Annual Conference, Vipiteno, Italy, 2–5 July 2020
- RMA-KVNM Postgraduate Symposium in Music Research, Rotterdam, 3–4 July 2020.
- Religion and Magnificence – Music and Ceremonies at the European Courts in 17th and 18th Centuries, Lisbon, 3–5 July 2020
- Tzlil Meudcan 2020, Tel Aviv, 4–9 July 2020
- Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2020: Leisure Pasts, Presents and Futures, Manchester, UK, 7–9 July 2020
- Music and Sonic Art: Sounding Identities, Cambridge, UK, 8–10 July 2020
- ACMC 2020 : Australasian Computer Music Conference, Canberra, 8–11 July 2020
- Myriad Materialities: Towards a New Global Writing of Colonial Ports and Port Cities, Berlin, 10–11 July 2020
- Cross-European Summer School on Musical Ability, Finland, Italy, Poland, and the UK, 15–17 July 2020
- 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Birmingham, 15–19 July 2020
- Music & Eye-Tracking, Frankfurt, 16–17 July 2020
- Visualising the Unseen: Music in Visual Culture, Prague, 16–18 July 2020
- Decolonising the Musical University, Edinburgh, 23–24 July 2020
- Birmingham Music Analysis Conference (BrumMAC 2020), Birmingham, 23–25 July 2020
- North American British Music Studies Association Ninth Biennial Conference, Illinois, USA, 23–26 July 2020
- 24th IGEB International Conference on Wind Music, Valencia, Spain, 23–27 July 2020
- isaScience 2020: Heroes, Canons, Cults. Critical Inquiries, Vienna, 12–16 August 2020
- Black Opera Research Network Inaugural Event: Black Experiences in Opera, online, 21 August 2020
- Archaeology of Soundscapes and Soundscapes for Archaeology EAA 2020, Budapest, 26–30 August 2020
- Doctors in Performance, Tallinn, Estonia, 2–4 September 2020
- Bootleg Opera and Pirate Queens, Bern, 2–4 September 2020
- 2nd International Conference on Timbre, Virtual, 3–4 September 2020
- 15th International Congress on Musical Signification, Barcelona, 4–8 September 2020
- Beyond the Object and Back: The Role of Collections in Music Museums, London, 6–10 September 2020
- Sibelius Conference 2020: Sibelius on the Scene, Hämeenlinna, Finland, 7–9 September 2020
- RMA Annual Conference 2020, London, 8–10 September 2020
- SEMPRE Autumn Conference: The Role of Music Psychology Research in a Complex World, Leeds, UK, 10–11 September 2020
- Music and Change Before and After 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania, 10–12 September 2020
- Audio Mostly 2020, Graz, Austria, 15–17 September 2020
- 1st Biennial Carl Nielsen Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, 17–18 September 2020
- Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Iron Curtain, Warsaw, 17–18 September 2020
- Beyond Beethoven, 2020-1770, Ithaca, USA, 17–20 September 2020
- Revisiting Austrian and German Music: from the ‘Spring of Nations’ to the Cold War, and launch of the IAGMR (Institute of Austrian and German Music Research), Guildford, UK, 18–19 September 2020
- 10th European Music Analysis Congress, Moscow, 21–26 September 2020
- Vienna Music Business Research Days 2020, Vienna, 21–23 September 2020
- Young Musicology Belgrade 2020. Shaping the Present by the Future: Ethno/musicology and Contemporaneity, Belgrade, 24–26 September 2020
- Narrating Musicology: Reviewing the History/Histories of Musicology, Bern, 1–4 October 2020
- Like, share and subscribe: Youtube, music and cyberculture before and after the new decade, Lisbon, 2–3 October 2020
- Congress on Sound, Music and Musical Instruments, Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2–4 October 2020
- Music and the Spanish Civil War, Berlin, 8–10 October 2020
- Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs, London, 10–11 October 2020
- SIBE+20 Music and Dance Research – Practices of Social and Political Responsibility, Aveiro, Portugal, 14–17 October 2020.
- Musical Networking in the ‘Long’ 19th Century, Zagreb, 15–17 October 2020
- 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2020), Montréal, 16 October 2020
- Financing Music in Europe from the 18th to the Early 20th Century, Lucca, Italy, 16–18 October 2020
- Società Italiana di Musicologia 27th Annual Conference, Siena, Italy, 16–18 October 2020
- Society for Musicology in Ireland: 18th Annual Plenary Conference (Online), 29–31 October 2020
- Music – Musicology – Interpretation, Belgrade, 22–24 October 2020
- Workshop: Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture, Prague, 23 October 2020
- 10th Anniversary International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi, Georgia, 27–31 October 2020
- Thanatos in Contemporary Music: from the Tragic to the Grotesque, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (via Zoom), 30–31 October 2020
- The 21st Century Guitar, Lisbon, 2–5 November 2020
- Beethoven and the Piano – Philology, Context and Performance Practice, Lugano, Switzerland, 4–6 November 2020
- Keeping Silent, Listening, Speaking Up: Voice and Silence in Audience-Response to Arts and Literature, Nancy, France, 4–6 November 2020
- Body and Corporeality in 20th and 21st Century Music, Graz, Austria, 5–6 November 2020
- Music and Political Democratisation in Late Twentieth Century, Huddersfield, UK, 6 November 2020
- EDI in Music Studies Network Launch Event, 13 November 2020
- 2020 AMS-SMT Virtual Annual Meeting, 7–8 and 14–15 November 2020
- Radio and the Sound of Modernism, Leeds, UK, 10 November 2020
- Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo, Lucca, Italy, 13–15 November 2020
- In Search of Perfect Harmony: Giuseppe Tartini’s Music and Music Theory in Local and European Contexts, Ljubljana and Piran, Slovenia, 16–17 November 2020
- Principles of Music Composing: Phenomenon of Teleology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18–20 November 2020
- ENIM 2020 – 10th Conference on Musical Research, Coimbra, Portugal, 19–21 November 2020
- “Bach and Italy” International Conference, Online, 22–28 November 2020
- 1st Biennial International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ANV) 2020, 23–4 November 2020
- XI Meeting for Researchers in Musical Poetics of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries – Constructing Beethoven, 23–7 November 2020
- Musical Works and Cultural Traditions, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 24–25 November 2020
- Bach and Italy, Turin, 26–28 November 2020
- 36th Annual Conference on Music in 18th-Century Britain, London, 27 November 2020
- Musicology and Its Future in Times of Crises, Zagreb, Croatia, 27–28 November 2020
- ‘Women Are not Born to Compose’: Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950, Lucca, Italy, 27–29 November 2020
- Music Education in the 19th Century, online, 3–4 December 2020
- musichildren’20 | 2nd International Symposium: “Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Composers, Performers and Educators, Aveiro, Portugal, 8–10 December 2020
- Shakespeare and Music: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Universities of Manchester and Huddersfield, 10–11 December 2020
- Enrique Morente: Memory and Heterodoxy in Flamenco, Granada, 10–12 December 2020
- Re-envisaging Music: Listening in the Visual Age, Siena, Italy, 10–12 December 2020
- 12th International Symposium “Music in Society”, Sarajevo, 10–12 December 2020
- Interrogating Sources: Prokofiev, Words and Music, Metz, France, 11–12 December 2020
- Music and Resistance, Lucca, Italy, 11–13 December 2020
- Musicological Expo 2020 (Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands), online, 12 December 2020
- Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, UK, 15–16 December 2020
- Sounds of the Pandemic, Florence, 16 December 2020
- BFE-RMA Research Students’ Conference, Cambridge, 12–14 January 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 13 January 2021
- Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910): International Conference, Paris, 14–15 January 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 21 January 2021
- SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, online, 22 January 2021
- Naturalising Sounds: How Instrumental Music is (Made) National, Regensburg, 22–23 January 2021
- Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, online, 28 January 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 28 January 2021
- 2nd International Congress The Musical Heritage of the Crown of Aragón, Valencia, 28–30 January 2021
- Sinn und Präsenz in Improvisation, Berlin, 29–31 January 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Schimana/Kogler), online, 9 February 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Lehmann/Electric Indigo), online, 11 February 2021
- The Art Song Platform – Art Song out of the Concert Hall, online, 12 February 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Sharif/Lessiak), online, 18 February 2021
- Historical Fictions Research Network 2021, online, 18–21 February 2021
- Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Crispin/Könemann), online, 25 February 2021