Activities

• 6 November 2026, 11h-13h. First session of Sorbonne University’s Seminar of Ethnomusicology. Christophe Corbier, “Les missions d’Hubert Pernot à Chios (1898 – 1899) : comment construire une identité grecque dans une île ottomane grâce à la musique.”

• 11 November 2026, 14h-18h. Remembering Arnold Whittall (1935-2026): A celebration of his life and work. King’s College, London.

• 12 November 2026, 10h-17h, SMA’s Formal Theory Study Group, Study day “Mainstreams and Exceptions.” Registration Deadline 1 November.

• 16-20 November 2026, Lectures. Prof. Gary Karpinski. VvM, Music Theorist in Residence.

• 18 November 2026, 6 pm GMT. SMA Zoom Colloquium: Joseph Mason, ‘Articulating structure in Old French song’.

• 20 November 2026, 11h-13h. Second session of Sorbonne University’s Seminar of Ethnomusicology: Nathalie Gauthard, “Les arts performatifs tibétains.”

• 20-21 November 2026, Articulating Orality and Notation in Music, Day of Music Analysis of the SFAM, Bordeaux University and Conservatoire. Submission deadline extended to 15 June 2026.

• 26 November 2026, 15-17h CET. Workshop Profiles of a Work of the SBAM and the SFAM: Björk, Jóga. Online.

• 28-29 November 2026, Days of Music Theory, HDGT, Music Academy, Zagreb.

• 2-4 December 2026, Text and Context in Domestic Popular Music, Institute for Literature and Art and the Musicological Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

• 4 December 2026, 11h-13h. Third session of Sorbonne University’s Seminar of Ethnomusicology: Anne Damon, “Pour une ethnomusicologie des musiques enfantines.”

• 18 December 2026, 11h-13h. Fourth session of Sorbonne University’s Seminar of Ethnomusicology: Simha Arom, “Steeve Reich et la polyrythmie africaine.”

• 12 March 2027, Symposium Pierre Boulez – Henri Pousseur, organized by J.-M. Rens and the SBAM, Brussels, Palace of the Academies.

• 10-11 April 2027, Colouring Global Voices: Vocal Timbre in World Music. AAWM 2027. Analytical Approaches to World Musics (AAWM) journal and Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research. Online. Submission deadline 15 December 2026.

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

• 12-15 May 2027, International Scientific Conference Nine Decades – Nine Questions on Higher Music Education in the 21st Century. 90 Years since the Founding of the Faculty of Music, Belgrade. Submission deadline 31 December 2026.

• 24-26 September 2027, 27th Annual Congress of the GMTh, Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen. Details to be announced.

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