Past conferences 2020

Information on past conferences in 2020:

1. Media and Communications and Music at Kingston University Present – BTS (방탄소년단) A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project, London, 4–5 January 2020
2. MusicaFemina International Symposium, Budapest, 8–9 January 2020
3. BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, Milton Keynes, 9–11 January 2020
4. Documenting Jazz Conference 2020, Birmingham, UK, 16–18 January 2020
5. SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 17–18 January 2020
6. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Higher Education, London, 24 January 2020
7. II International Conference Wind Bands in Focus: Band Research Paradigms in Spain, Jaén, Spain, 30–31 January 2020
8. ‘Don’t mention the C Word’ – Re-assessing the Meaning and Impact of Censorship in Opera, Leeds, UK, 5 February 2020
9. Annual Meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Waco, Texas, 6–8 February 2020
10. Popular Music: Society, Politics, and History, Strasbourg, 7 February 2020
11. British-Russian Crossroads: Cultural and Historical Exchanges of Words and Music, St Petersburg, 15 February 2020
12. Capitalist Realism: 10 Years On, Huddersfield, UK, 15–16 February 2020
13. Historical Fictions Research Conference 2020, Salzburg, 21–22 February 2020
14. Musical Women in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, Manchester, UK, 24–26 February 2020
15. Beethoven 2020: Analytical and Performative Perspectives, Amsterdam, 29 February – 1 March 2020
16. Sondheim@90@Williams, Williamstown, MA, USA, 6–7 March 2020
17. The Construction of National Identity in Music, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 14–15 March 2020
18. Music Theology Durham: Study Day, Durham, UK, 17 March 2020
19. Transnational approaches and Cosmopolitan localisms. 4th Biennal de Música Isabelina, Madrid, 20–21 March 2020
20. Researching Music – Education – Technology (MET2020), London, 23–24 March 2020
21. Parole del Metastasio – Opera and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Madrid, 25–27 March 2020
22. Fail Better: Sharing Challenges and Learning in Classical Music Innovation, Maastricht, 27–28 March 2020
23. Beethoven the European, Lucca, Italy, 27–29 March 2020
24. The Improviser’s Experience; Knowledge, Methodologies, Communication: An RMA Study Day, Huddersfield, UK, 2 April 2020
25. 1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group, York, 3 April 2020
26. Duni: An 18th Century Musician from Matera to the Heart of Europe, Matera, Italy, 3–5 April 2020
27. Joseph Joachim: Identities / Identitäten, Karlsruhe, Germany, 3–5 April 2020
28. Art Readings 2020: New Art Module: Journeys, 6–8 April 2020
29. II Conference on artistic research in music of the Pyrenees, Puigcerdà (Girona), Spain, 9–10 April 2020
30. Research of Young Musicologists, Moscow, 9–11 April 2020
31. Working in Music, Turku, Finland, 15–17 April 2020
32. “Musica practica, musica theoretica” – A Musical Work as a Message, Poznań, Poland, 21–22 April 2020
33. Responses in Music to Climate Change, New York, 21–23 April 2020
34. Early Recordings: The Impacts of a Transformative Technology, London, 23 April 2020
35. Ludo2020: Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, Valletta, Malta, 24–25 April 2020
36. Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research, Graz, Austria, 6–7 May 2020
37. Fragility of Sounds, Graz, Austria, 8–9 May 2020
38. String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe, Auckland, 9–10 May 2020
39. The Reformed Theology and Spirituality of Music: From the Reformation to the Present, Enschede, Netherlands, 13–15 May 2020
40. IASPM Benelux International Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 14–16 May 2020
41. The Motherland Resurrected: Manifestations of Nationalism in Music Since the End of the ‘Short Twentieth Century’, Cambridge, 15 May 2020
42. Fifth Annual Conference in Historical Performance and International Summit of HP Program Directors in Higher Education, Bloomington, Indiana, 15–17 May 2020
43. Low End Theories: Understanding Bass Music and Culture Study Day, Bristol, UK, 16 May 2020
44. Music in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Virtual, 19 May 2020
45. Early Music Conference: “Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices”, Eugene, Oregon, 19–23 May 2020
46. Brain Cognition Emotion Music (BCEM) – The Quartet with a Missing Link, Canterbury, UK, 20–21 May 2020
47. Intersections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Opera, Cambridge, 21 May 2020
48. Music, Cinema, and Modernism: The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America, Turin, 22–24 May 2020
49. Journées d’Informatique Musicale 2020 (JIM 2020), Strasbourg, 25–27 May 2020
50. Seventh International Congress: Music and Audio-Visual Culture MUCA, Murcia, Spain, 28–30 May 2020
51. Memory, Identity and the Remediation of Musical Lives, London, 29–30 May 2020
52. University of York Music Education Conference 2020: Learner Voice, York, 29–30 May 2020
53. Music and the Moving Image Conference 2020, New York, 29–31 May 2020
54. Music in the Home: A Virtual Symposium, Online, 1–5 June 2020
55. Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Paris, 3 June 2020
56. Agents and Actors: Networks in Music History, Helsinki, 3–5 June 2020
57. 3rd International Music and Musicology Doctoral Conference, Paris, 4–6 June 2020
58. Pre-Existing Music in Screen-Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges, Cleveland, 5–6 June 2020
59. Early Recordings: Methodologies in Research and Practice, London, 10 June 2020
60. Gendered Representations in 20th Century American Art & Culture, London, 10–11 June 2020
61. The Autoethnography of Composition and the Composition of Autoethnography, Glasgow, 17 June 2020
62. Future Directions of Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS20), Leicester, UK, 17–20 June 2020
63. 50+ Years of Creative Music: Anthony Braxton – Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Music Theorist, Hamburg, 18–20 June 2020
64. Spem in Alium: 450 Years, Oxford, 19–20 June 2020
65. Orchestrating Isolation: Musical Interventions and Inequality in the COVID-19 Fallout, online, 22 June 2020
66. Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound, Online, 23–24 June 2020
67. Society for Musicology in Ireland: 18th Annual Plenary Conference, Dublin, 25–27 June 2020
68. SSCM 2020 Virtual Conference, June 26–28 2020.
69. 3rd AEMC Conference on Music, Communication and Performance, Montecassiano, Italy, 27–28 June 2020
70. Schumann’s Faust on the Verges of Music Theatre, Ghent, Belgium, 27–28 June 2020
71. 10th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA2020), Aalborg, Denmark, 29 June – 1 July 2020
72. International Conference on Musical Form, Newcastle, UK, 30 June – 1 July 2020
73. Song Studies 2020 – Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Songs and Practices of Singing (1200-today), Ghent, Belgium, 1–3 July 2020
74. Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 2020, Edinburgh, 1–4 July 2020
75. 2020 Institute for Russian Music Studies Annual Conference, Vipiteno, Italy, 2–5 July 2020
76. RMA-KVNM Postgraduate Symposium in Music Research, Rotterdam, 3–4 July 2020.
77. Religion and Magnificence – Music and Ceremonies at the European Courts in 17th and 18th Centuries, Lisbon, 3–5 July 2020
78. Tzlil Meudcan 2020, Tel Aviv, 4–9 July 2020
79. Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2020: Leisure Pasts, Presents and Futures, Manchester, UK, 7–9 July 2020
80. Music and Sonic Art: Sounding Identities, Cambridge, UK, 8–10 July 2020
81. ACMC 2020 : Australasian Computer Music Conference, Canberra, 8–11 July 2020
82. Myriad Materialities: Towards a New Global Writing of Colonial Ports and Port Cities, Berlin, 10–11 July 2020
83. Cross-European Summer School on Musical Ability, Finland, Italy, Poland, and the UK, 15–17 July 2020
84. 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Birmingham, 15–19 July 2020
85. Music & Eye-Tracking, Frankfurt, 16–17 July 2020
86. Visualising the Unseen: Music in Visual Culture, Prague, 16–18 July 2020
87. Decolonising the Musical University, Edinburgh, 23–24 July 2020
88. Birmingham Music Analysis Conference (BrumMAC 2020), Birmingham, 23–25 July 2020
89. North American British Music Studies Association Ninth Biennial Conference, Illinois, USA, 23–26 July 2020
90. 24th IGEB International Conference on Wind Music, Valencia, Spain, 23–27 July 2020
91. isaScience 2020: Heroes, Canons, Cults. Critical Inquiries, Vienna, 12–16 August 2020
92. Black Opera Research Network Inaugural Event: Black Experiences in Opera, online, 21 August 2020
93. Archaeology of Soundscapes and Soundscapes for Archaeology EAA 2020, Budapest, 26–30 August 2020
94. Doctors in Performance, Tallinn, Estonia, 2–4 September 2020
95. Bootleg Opera and Pirate Queens, Bern, 2–4 September 2020
96. 2nd International Conference on Timbre, Virtual, 3–4 September 2020
97. 15th International Congress on Musical Signification, Barcelona, 4–8 September 2020
98. Beyond the Object and Back: The Role of Collections in Music Museums, London, 6–10 September 2020
99. Sibelius Conference 2020: Sibelius on the Scene, Hämeenlinna, Finland, 7–9 September 2020
100. RMA Annual Conference 2020, London, 8–10 September 2020
101. SEMPRE Autumn Conference: The Role of Music Psychology Research in a Complex World, Leeds, UK, 10–11 September 2020
102. Music and Change Before and After 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania, 10–12 September 2020
103. Audio Mostly 2020, Graz, Austria, 15–17 September 2020
104. 1st Biennial Carl Nielsen Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, 17–18 September 2020
105. Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Iron Curtain, Warsaw, 17–18 September 2020
106. Beyond Beethoven, 2020-1770, Ithaca, USA, 17–20 September 2020
107. 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
108. 10th European Music Analysis Congress, Moscow, 21–26 September 2020
109. Vienna Music Business Research Days 2020, Vienna, 21–23 September 2020
110. Young Musicology Belgrade 2020. Shaping the Present by the Future: Ethno/musicology and Contemporaneity, Belgrade, 24–26 September 2020
111. Narrating Musicology: Reviewing the History/Histories of Musicology, Bern, 1–4 October 2020
112. Like, share and subscribe: Youtube, music and cyberculture before and after the new decade, Lisbon, 2–3 October 2020
113. Congress on Sound, Music and Musical Instruments, Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2–4 October 2020
114. Music and the Spanish Civil War, Berlin, 8–10 October 2020
115. Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs, London, 10–11 October 2020
116. SIBE+20 Music and Dance Research – Practices of Social and Political Responsibility, Aveiro, Portugal, 14–17 October 2020.
117. Musical Networking in the ‘Long’ 19th Century, Zagreb, 15–17 October 2020
118. 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2020), Montréal, 16 October 2020
119. Financing Music in Europe from the 18th to the Early 20th Century, Lucca, Italy, 16–18 October 2020
120. Società Italiana di Musicologia 27th Annual Conference, Siena, Italy, 16–18 October 2020
121. Society for Musicology in Ireland: 18th Annual Plenary Conference (Online), 29–31 October 2020
122. Music – Musicology – Interpretation, Belgrade, 22–24 October 2020
123. Workshop: Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture, Prague, 23 October 2020
124. 10th Anniversary International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi, Georgia, 27–31 October 2020
125. Thanatos in Contemporary Music: from the Tragic to the Grotesque, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (via Zoom), 30–31 October 2020
126. The 21st Century Guitar, Lisbon, 2–5 November 2020
127. Beethoven and the Piano – Philology, Context and Performance Practice, Lugano, Switzerland, 4–6 November 2020
128. Keeping Silent, Listening, Speaking Up: Voice and Silence in Audience-Response to Arts and Literature, Nancy, France, 4–6 November 2020
129. Body and Corporeality in 20th and 21st Century Music, Graz, Austria, 5–6 November 2020
130. Music and Political Democratisation in Late Twentieth Century, Huddersfield, UK, 6 November 2020
131. EDI in Music Studies Network Launch Event, 13 November 2020
132. 2020 AMS-SMT Virtual Annual Meeting, 7–8 and 14–15 November 2020
133. Radio and the Sound of Modernism, Leeds, UK, 10 November 2020
134. Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo, Lucca, Italy, 13–15 November 2020
135. 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
136. Principles of Music Composing: Phenomenon of Teleology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18–20 November 2020
137. ENIM 2020 – 10th Conference on Musical Research, Coimbra, Portugal, 19–21 November 2020
138. “Bach and Italy” International Conference, Online, 22–28 November 2020
139. 1st Biennial International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ANV) 2020, 23–4 November 2020
140. XI Meeting for Researchers in Musical Poetics of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries – Constructing Beethoven, 23–7 November 2020
141. Musical Works and Cultural Traditions, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 24–25 November 2020
142. Bach and Italy, Turin, 26–28 November 2020
143. 36th Annual Conference on Music in 18th-Century Britain, London, 27 November 2020
144. Musicology and Its Future in Times of Crises, Zagreb, Croatia, 27–28 November 2020
145. ‘Women Are not Born to Compose’: Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950, Lucca, Italy, 27–29 November 2020
146. Music Education in the 19th Century, online, 3–4 December 2020
147. musichildren’20 | 2nd International Symposium: “Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Composers, Performers and Educators, Aveiro, Portugal, 8–10 December 2020
148. Shakespeare and Music: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Universities of Manchester and Huddersfield, 10–11 December 2020
149. Enrique Morente: Memory and Heterodoxy in Flamenco, Granada, 10–12 December 2020
150. Re-envisaging Music: Listening in the Visual Age, Siena, Italy, 10–12 December 2020
151. 12th International Symposium “Music in Society”, Sarajevo, 10–12 December 2020
152. Interrogating Sources: Prokofiev, Words and Music, Metz, France, 11–12 December 2020
153. Music and Resistance, Lucca, Italy, 11–13 December 2020
154. Musicological Expo 2020 (Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands), online, 12 December 2020
155. Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, UK, 15–16 December 2020
156. Sounds of the Pandemic, Florence, 16 December 2020
157. BFE-RMA Research Students’ Conference, Cambridge, 12–14 January 2021
158. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 13 January 2021
159. Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910): International Conference, Paris, 14–15 January 2021
160. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 21 January 2021
161. SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, online, 22 January 2021
162. Naturalising Sounds: How Instrumental Music is (Made) National, Regensburg, 22–23 January 2021
163. Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, online, 28 January 2021
164. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 28 January 2021
165. 2nd International Congress The Musical Heritage of the Crown of Aragón, Valencia, 28–30 January 2021
166. Sinn und Präsenz in Improvisation, Berlin, 29–31 January 2021
167. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Schimana/Kogler), online, 9 February 2021
168. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Lehmann/Electric Indigo), online, 11 February 2021
169. The Art Song Platform – Art Song out of the Concert Hall, online, 12 February 2021
170. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Sharif/Lessiak), online, 18 February 2021
171. Historical Fictions Research Network 2021, online, 18–21 February 2021
172. Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Crispin/Könemann), online, 25 February 2021