The 2021 MIDSEM meeting will be held on April 10-11, jointly with the midwest chapter of the AMS and hosted virtually by the University of Iowa. For additional information, to register for the conference (free, but required for Zoom access), and to view the program, please see the conference page on the AMS-Midwest website.
Jointly held with the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society (AMS-Midwest)
Hosted online by the University of Iowa, April 10-11
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 29, 2021
The Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology invites students and scholars in all branches of music scholarship and related disciplines to submit 250-word abstracts for the MIDSEM annual meeting to be held from Saturday-Sunday, April 10-11, 2021, on Zoom (hosted by the University of Iowa School of Music). The Program Committee will consider papers, panels, and workshops on any topic related to music.
We are pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for this joint meeting is Dwandalyn Reece, Executive Committee Chair of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The program committees of AMS-Midwest and MIDSEM will also assemble joint sessions featuring members from both chapters. In addition, there will be a joint discussion panel on pedagogical approaches to decolonizing survey courses.
Please send abstracts to Joshua Duchan at jduchan@wayne.edu by Friday, February 29, 2021.
For any questions about the conference, please contact Trevor Harvey at trevor-harvey@uiowa.edu.
This spring’s MIDSEM conference will take place on April 10th and 11th. The conference will be hosted jointly with AMS Midwest and will be fully remote via Zoom.
A call for papers and more details will be available in the near future.
Dear colleagues,
Given the suspension of classes and restrictions on travel by many institutions across the country, MIDSEM, which was scheduled for April 4-5 at the University of Iowa, will not be held this year. Following the identification of several COVID-19 cases in the region, the University of Iowa is suspending face-to-face instruction through at least April 3, 2020.
The Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology invites students and scholars in all branches of music scholarship and related disciplines to submit 250-word abstracts for the MIDSEM annual meeting to be held from Saturday-Sunday, April 4-5, 2020, at the University of Iowa School of Music. The Program Committee will consider papers, panels, and workshops on any topic related to music.
Please send abstracts to Matthew Knight at matthew.e.knight@gmail.com by Friday, February 29, 2020.
For any questions about the conference, please contact Trevor Harvey at trevor-harvey@uiowa.edu.
The 2019 MIDSEM chapter meeting at the University of Dayton in the books! These attachments include the meeting schedule and business meeting minutes for those who were unable to attend.
The call for proposals for the next MIDSEM conference, which will take place at the University of Dayton (Dayton, OH) on March 22-24, 2019, is attached below. MIDSEM welcomes proposals from scholars at all stages of their careers, including undergraduate students.
Note: the deadline has been extended to January 31st, 2019. The flyer posted here has the old deadline.
We look forward to reading your proposals! Please circulate this CFP among your networks.
MIDSEM 2019 Call for Papers (PDF)
For those who will be attending the SEM annual meeting in Albuquerque, our MIDSEM chapter meeting will be Friday November 16, 2018, 7:00 am in Potters. The planned agenda is as follows:
Friday March 22, Saturday March 23 and Sunday March 24, 2019
Raymond Fitz Hall (rooms 151 and 153), corner of Brown Street and Caldwell Street, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, 45469
Please note that the conference location is only a short walk from the recommended hotel, the Marriott at the University of Dayton.
Marriott at the University of Dayton, 1414 South Patterson Boulevard, Dayton, Ohio, 45409 (website, call 1-937-223-1000 for reservations)
Twenty Queen or Deluxe Queen rooms are offered at the conference rate of $139.00/night plus taxes of $13.25%; please state that you will be attending the “MIDSEM conference”
Rooms will be available at this rate only until March 1, 2019
Emmett G. Price III (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary)
A preliminary program for the 2018 CSAS/MIDSEM Conference is now available! Click here to see it. The conference will be held April 19-21 in Bloomington, Indiana, jointly with the Central States Anthropological Society.
A local conference that may be of interest to chapter members:
“I Got a Lust for Life”: The Unique Words and Sounds of Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan
January 20, 2018
A series of panel discussions, poetry readings, and musical performances that reflect the impact of the African-American Great Migration on literary and musical expression in the region. Free bus service is provided between events in Detroit and Toledo (see links above). Co-sponsored by the University of Toledo, Wayne State University, and others.
10:00 — Panel Discussion, Q&A, and Musical Performance — Schaver Music Recital Hall, 480 W. Hancock Street, Detroit
2:30 — Poetry Reading by Tyehimba Jess, 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet — McMaster Center, Lucas County Public Library, 325 N. Michigan Street, Toledo
6:00 — Panel Discussion, Q&A, and Musical Performance — GlasSalon, Toledo Museum of Art, 2444 Monroe Street, Toledo
New information is now available for the 2018 MIDSEM Conference, which will be held jointly with the Central States Anthropological Society on April 19-21, 2018 in Bloomington, Indiana. For more information, including the CFP go to our 2018 Conference page.
