#CFP

Society of Music Production Research (SMPR) Conference 2026
Annual conference bringing together research in music production, recording, and popular music studies.

📍 University of Huddersfield, UK
📅 9–11 September 2026

Deadline: 02/03/2026

https://musicproductionresearch.org/2026-conference

#MusicProduction #PopularMusicStudies #RecordingStudies #SMPR

#CFP

Global Music Production in Times of Longevity

Interdisciplinary conference on ageing, musical aesthetics, markets, technologies, new professional competences, well-being, and knowledge transmission. Perspectives from musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies, sociology, neuroscience, anthropology, and practice-based research.

📅 10–12 November 2026

Deadline: 15/06/2026

https://www.cini.it/en/cini_news/global-music-production-in-times-of-longevity-aesthetics-markets-technologies-new-professional-competences-and-transmission-of-knowledge/

#Musicology #Ethnomusicology #PopularMusic #PopularMusicStudies #Anthropology

International Conference

THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
🎉 60 Years of Music Sociology @ mdw 🎉

🗓️ 5–7 February 2026
📍mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
& online (Zoom)

Conference Programme & Info:
👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology

This conference explores archives and historiographies in music sociology through feminist, queer, grassroots, and decolonial perspectives and draws attention to ethics and care, lived experiences, cultural labour, methodological questions, and the challenges of digitalisation and platforms.

Keynote Speakers:
› Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
› Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)
› Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Organisers:
Tianyu Jiang, Rainer Prokop, Rosa Reitsamer
Department of Music Sociology
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

#mdw #musicsociology #archives #archivalturn #musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #Vienna

International Conference

THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
5–7 February 2026
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Fanny Hensel-Hall
& online

Conference Programme & Info:
👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology

Keynote Speakers:
› Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
› Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)
› Nick Prior (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Organisers:
Tianyu Jiang, Rainer Prokop, Rosa Reitsamer
Department of Music Sociology
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

#musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #archives #archivalturn #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #migrant #postmigrant #histories #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #mdw #Vienna

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
› Extended Deadline for Abstract Submission: 12 October 2025

THE ARCHIVAL TURN IN MUSIC SOCIOLOGY
5-6 February 2026
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

Keynote speakers:
› Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
› Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)

Organisers:
Tianyu Jiang, Rainer Prokop, Rosa Reitsamer, Lis Vovka

More info: 👉 https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology

#musicsociology #culturalsociology #sociology #popularmusicstudies #culturalstudies #genderstudies #socialsciences #humanities #music #archives #archivalturn #socialinequalities #inequality #class #race #ethnicity #gender #feminist #queer #antiracist #migrant #postmigrant #histories #culturalmemory #culturalheritage #culturalidentity #identity #mdw #Vienna

Conference CfP »The Archival Turn in Music Sociology« 🗃️

📡 Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 Oct 2025

Conference

🗓️ 5–6 February 2026
📍 mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Fanny Hensel-Hall, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna 🇦🇹

🔗 for more information see https://www.mdw.ac.at/ims/events/the-archival-turn-in-music-sociology/

Keynotes

Kate Eichhorn (The New School, USA)
Uchenna Ngwe (Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance & Royal Academy of Music, UK)

In the course of the 60th anniversary of the Dept. of Music Sociology in 2025, we propose this conference “The Archival Turn in Music Sociology” in order to acknowledge the contributions of female, feminist, queer and post-/decolonial scholars, musicians, activists, and archivists to the history of music sociology and to critically engage with the historiographies of music’s past. (…)

#music #academia #MusicSociology #MusicHistory #Sociology #PopularMusicStudies #CulturalStudies #MediaStudies #Vienna #mdw

🧵1/3  #LeuphanaUniversität is going to host a free two-day online symposium on November 28/29 2025 that promises to be

the first-ever comprehensive symposium dedicated to the intersection of music and cats.

See posts below for details …  

#cats #music #MusicStudies #MusicHistory #MusicTheory #PopularmusicStudies #HumanAnimalStudies #psychology #BehavioralBiology #MediaStudies #CulturalStudies #LiteraryStudies #ArtisticPractice