Past IMS Events (2024ff.)

The IMS Study Group “Music and Cultural Studies” will hold the Baltic musicological conference, “Music History Beyond State Borders: Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-Regionality of Musical Culture,” in Vilnius (LT) from October 29 to 31, 2024.

The IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies” will hold its third meeting in Elche (Alicante) during the IX Congress of the Sociedad Española de Musicología in a wide international context. The call for papers will be circulated later this year.

The IMS Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean (ARLAC) will hold its sixth conference, “In Memory of Juan Francisco Sans (1960–2022),” in Mexico City (MX) from August 7 to 10, 2024.
IMS members are entitled to a reduced registration fee rate.

Quadraginta annis! In 2024, it is forty years since the IMS Study Group “Cantus Planus” was founded in Veszprém (Hungary) by a distinguished group of plainchant scholars.

The IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies” will hold its second meeting in Valencia (ES) from July 11 to 13, during the III International Conference AVAMUS, “Music in the Mediterranean: West and East, Traditions and Modernities.” The call for papers is open until May 8, 2024. The dates were conveniently chosen immediately after the MedRen Conference to be held in Granada from July 6 to 9.

The Istituto per lo Studio della Musica Latinoamericana (IMLA), which coordinates the IMS Study Group “Italo-Ibero-American Relationships” (RIIA), is organizing an international conference to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of IMLA. The conference will take place in Rome (IT) from June 7 to 8, 2024, and will be streamed on IMLA’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/IMLAofficial.

In 2024 the IMS Study Group “Music and Media” will organize its 15th annual conference, this time jointly with the Kieler Gesellschaft für Filmmusikforschung. The gathering will take place at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and will focus on “Music, Media, and Narrative in the Streaming Age.”

The IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies” will hold an international conference in Valletta (MT) from April 26 to 27, 2024, in collaboration with the University of Malta and the Italian Cultural Institute of Valletta. The conference will pick up on the meeting in Athens with the same title, “The Circulation of Opera and Operatic Companies around the Mediterranean Theaters: Part II.” Scholars interested to participate can send an email to: giuseppe.sanfratello@unict.it.

The IMS Study Group “Stravinsky: Between East and West” will hold a session as part of the program of the international conference “In Memory of Liudmila Kovnatskaya” at the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts in St. Petersburg (RU). The meeting of the study group will be held on February 7, 2024.