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.
A CFP for a Graduate Student Conference in our region:
Bowling Green State University Graduate Student ConferenceFriday 2/9/2018 & Saturday 2/10/2018
The Graduate Student Forum in the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University are pleased to announce the 2018 Graduate Student Conference, which will take place on Friday and Saturday February 9-10, 2018.
Our call for papers extends to all graduate students in the fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, and composition, but also includes students from other disciplines who wish to submit a proposal for a paper that relates in some way to music. Senior undergraduates are also welcome to submit with the guidance of a faculty member. Interdisciplinary papers are especially encouraged with subjects pertaining, but are not limited, to intersections of music with linguistics, philosophy, technology, popular culture, psychology/cognition, and sociology.
Paper presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes in length, to be followed by ten minutes for questions. The deadline for proposals is Friday, December 15th, 2017. All applicants will be notified of their status by Monday, January 1st, 2018. Only one submission per applicant is permitted.
Abstract Submission Guidelines:
- Send abstracts to Jesse Kiser, at jeskise@bgsu.edu, with “BGSU 2018 Graduate Conference” as the subject.
- Abstracts should not exceed 300 words.
- Please attach your abstract in the form of a Microsoft Word document or PDF.
- Name the file with the following format: LASTNAME_BG2018.
- Do not put your name or affiliation in the document.
- Include your name, e-mail, telephone (optional), and academic affiliation in the body of the e-mail.
- List any audio-visual requirements or other special needs in your e-mail.
- Only one submission per applicant.
For additional information or queries please e-mail Jesse Kiser ( jeskise@bgsu.edu ), or visit our website bgsumuctgraduatestudentforum.wordpress.com
We look forward to receiving your submissions!Richard L. D. HopkinsSecretary and Ethnomusicology Representative.BGSU MuCT Graduate Student Forum
From the SEM National Office:
The Society for Ethnomusicology 62nd Annual Meeting will be held on October 26-29, 2017, at the Denver Marriott City Center Hotel, co-hosted by the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder, and Colorado College. For all information, visit the conference website at http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2017/.
Final Program:
http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2017/program.shtmlAbstracts Book:
http://www.indiana.edu/~semhome/2017/abstracts.shtmlRegistration reopens on Wednesday, October 25, in Denver. The conference registration desk is located in the Colorado Ballroom/Denver Ballroom Pre-Function Area, on the Lower Level 2 of the Denver Marriott City Center Hotel.
We look forward to seeing you in Denver!
