Timeline of IMS Congresses

2027

22nd International IMS Congress
Stavanger (NO), TBA
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2022

21st International IMS Congress
“Music across Borders”
Athens (GR), August 22–26

IMS2022 Athens
2017

20th International IMS Congress
“Theory and Practice, East and West”
Tokyo (JP), March 19–23

IMS2017 Tokyo
2012

19th International IMS Congress
“Musics, Cultures, Identities”
Rome (IT), July 1–7

IMS2012 Rome
2007

18th International IMS Congress
“Passagen”
Zurich (CH), July 10–15

IMS2007 Zurich
2002

17th International IMS Congress
Leuven (BE), August 1–7

IMS2002 Leuven
1997

16th International IMS Congress
“Musicology and Sister Disciplines”
London (UK), August 14–20

IMS1997 London
1992

15th International IMS Congress
“Mediterranean Musical Cultures and Their Ramifications”
Madrid (ES), April 3–10

1987

14th International IMS Congress
“Trasmissione e recezione delle forme di cultura musicale”
Bologna (IT), August 27 – September 1

1982

13th International IMS Congress
“La musique et le rite sacré et profane”
Strasbourg (FR), August 29 – September 3

1977

12th International IMS Congress
“Interdisciplinary Horizons in the Study of Musical Traditions, East and West”
Berkeley (US), August 22–26

1972

11th International IMS Congress
Copenhagen (DK), August 20–25

1967

10th International IMS Congress
Ljubljana (SI), September 3–8

1964

9th International IMS Congress
Salzburg (AT), August 30 – September 4

1961

8th International IMS Congress
New York (US), September 5–10

1958

7th International Congress
Cologne (DE), June 23–28

1955

6th International Congress
Oxford (UK), June 29 – July 4

1952

5th International Congress
Utrecht (NL), July 3–7

1949

4th International Congress
Basel (CH), June 29 – July 3

1936

3rd International Congress
Barcelona (ES), April 18–25

1933

2nd International Congress
Cambridge (UK), July 29 – August 3

1930

1st International Congress
Liège (BE), September 1–6

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The History of the IMS (1927–2017)
Edited by Dorothea Baumann and Dinko Fabris
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2017 • Online Members Edition revised 2022
167 pages
ISBN: 978-3-76182-439-9

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