Call for Prososals KVNM Student Conference in Musicology “Bodies of/and Music”
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
KVNM Student Conference in Musicology “Bodies of/and Music”
3-4 April 2025, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Submission deadline: 1 December 2024.
Maximum registration fee: €30,- for students, €50,- for non-students (KVNM members will be offered a reduction). This fee includes attendance, a program booklet, coffee/tea and lunch on both days.
The Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (KVNM)
This year’s conference theme is “Bodies of/and Music,” inviting participants to engage with the various ways in which the concept of “bodies” interacts with music and musicological research. It encompasses the concept of “bodies of work,” such as musical repertoires, collections, or genres. Furthermore, it allows for the exploration of the role of the body in performing, creating, and listening to music, and how bodies are represented and shaped through music.
Abstracts of 250 words or less and are to
- Themed panel sessions (90 minutes, including 30 minutes for discussion). The proposal should include a title and abstract of no more than 250 words for each speaker, and an indication of the length of each contribution. An additional 200-word rationale is required that makes clear the purpose of the panel, its theme, and the ways in which the individual contributions relate to each other. While there is no limit on the number of contributors, panel organizers must ensure that the session stays within the 90-minute timeframe, with sufficient time allocated for discussion. Please indicate if an independent chair will be needed.
- Poster presentations. Proposals should include a title and abstract of no more than 250 words. Please note that it will be the student’s responsibility to print their own posters.
The submitted work must be in English or Dutch. A biography is unnecessary to add, as all abstracts will undergo a blind peer-reviewing process before final acc
We encourage students and early career scholars to submit abstracts on topics including, but not limited to:
- Material bodies of musical works (notation, music manuscripts, music and print, music and technologies, music and media, music and digitization)
- Computational methods or analyses of vast bodies of musical data (music information retrieval, optical music recognition, computational music, and analysis)
- Music and performance practices (musical techniques, performance studies, historically informed practices)
- Music and gendered/racialized bodies
- Music and disability
- Music and emotions
- Music and medicine, music and cognition, music therapy
- Music and rituals
Organizing Committee:
Annelies Andries
Anne Frijns
Dorian Hagedoorn
Joana Santos
Lotte de Smet
Maria Zwartbol
For questions or additional information, please contact