CfP: Music and Mediation (9.-10.06.2025, University of Adelaide, Australia)

Call for Papers
Music and Mediation

Conference at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide

Monday 9–Tuesday 10 June 2025
Deadline for abstracts: Monday 16 December 2024

Conference-Website: https://able.adelaide.edu.au/music/news/list/2024/11/04/call-for-papers-music-and-mediation

Mediation, in all its possible senses, from transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music and the study of music may contribute to the many theories and practices around mediation.

Keynote speaker: Naomi Sunderland, Director, Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University

We invite proposals from all disciplines, for panels, individual papers, and roundtable discussions addressing one of more of these themes:

1. Music and conflict resolution
2. Sustaining and building connections through music
3. Transmission and pedagogy of music
4. Cultural mediation
5. Influencing
6. Histories
7. Entanglements
8. Other: new research beyond the above categories.

Deadline for abstracts: Monday 16 December 2024
Notification of acceptance: Monday 30 December 2024

Registration: Salaried academics: A$88 [= approximately US$59, EUR 54)
Registration for all other delegates is free, thanks to the support of the MSA and the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Registration includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days.

Publication: Presenters will be invited to submit article submissions for a special issue of a journal.