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), 22–26 August

IMS2022 Athens
2017

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

IMS2017 Tokyo
2012

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

IMS2012 Rome
2007

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

IMS2007 Zurich
2002

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

IMS2002 Leuven
1997

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

IMS1997 London
1992

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

1987

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

1982

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

1977

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

1972

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

1967

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

1964

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

1961

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

1958

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

1955

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

1952

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

1949

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

1936

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

1933

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

1930

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

Find Out More About Our History …

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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