Activities

This page lists forthcoming activities of the participating societies and of their European friends. Most of the entries link to a call for papers; a separate page lists these calls by date of the deadline. Past activities are recalled in the Archive.

• 10-11 April 2026. Renegotiating the Musical Masterwork Symposium, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven.

• 23-24 April 2026, Tonality and Pitch Centricity: Analytical Challenges in Post-War Western Art Music, Univesidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal (hybrid). Submission deadline 5 January 2026.

• 7 May 2026, Regards croisés sur l’ekphrasis musicale, Study day, Conservatoire National Supérieur, Lyon, France. Submission deadline 30 September 2025.

• 27 May 2026, Study Day Timbre and Orchestration, Paris, Maison de la Recherche. Submission deadline 31 March 2026/

• 2-6 June 2026, “Music as a Meaningful Art”, 16th International Congress on Musical Signification (ICMS 16), Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki in collaboration with the University of Helsinki. Submission deadline extended to 15 February 2026.

• 13-15 July 2026, Dublin Music Analysis Conference 2026, hosted jointly by Trinity College Dublin and the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Submission deadline 13 February 2026.

• 16 July 2026, Formal Theory Study Group DubMAC Study Day

• 17-19 July 2026, Fifth Popular Music Theory and Analysis Summer School, Liverpool, UK. Deadline for applications April 3rd, 2026.

• 7-10 September 2026, EuroMAC 11, Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC), Barcelona. Submission deadline (postponed) 18 January 2025.

• 2-4 October 2026, Polyphony of Music Theory. Methodological Pluralism in Scholarship, 16th Conference Music Theory and Analysis, Faculty of Music, University of Arts, Belgrade. Submission deadline 15 April 2026.

• 2-4 October 2026, The miracle of hearing. Musical hearing between artistic ambition, creativity, and science. 26th Annual Congress of the GMTH, Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale). Submission deadline 10 May 2026.

• 16-18 October 2026, International Conference Beyond the Drawing Room: Women in the Promotion of Music in the Long 19th Century, Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. Submission deadline 29 March 2026.

• 15-16-17 April 2027, HarMA Seminar Event. University of Ljubljana – Academy of Music (Slovenia). Submission deadline 15 January 2027.

If you want to announce a European activity in the field of music theory and/or analysis, write us at europeanmusictheory@gmail.com