[ANPPOM-L] CFP: IMS 2007 - closing date approaching

[Carlos Palombini]

TRANSITIONS
Eighteenth International Congress of the IMS/IGMW 2007
Call for Sessions, Papers, Posters

The eighteenth international congress of the IMS will be held from 10 to 
15 July 2007 at the University of Zurich.  The program committee will be 
chaired by Prof. Ulrich Konrad (University of Wurzburg). The motto of 
the congress is "transitions."  This is meant to suggest all manner of 
historical and cultural processes of transition, as well as shifts in 
music's intellectual and reception history during so-called 
"transitional periods," phenomena of transition and transfer that arise 
from encounters between epochs and regions, and changes in forms of 
musical expression and perspective within the social, cultural, or 
compositional paradigms of a single musical culture.  The focus should 
be more on the fluidity of "process" and less on static "situations." 
The motto is not meant to be understood, however, as a "theme" in the 
strict sense, but as an open-ended invitation to a wide variety of 
methodological premises, which music historians, ethnomusicologists, 
music theorists, and systematic musicologists might use as points of 
departure for fruitful journeys of exploration.  These might, for 
example, orient themselves on oppositions, but they might just as 
successfully focus on "what lies between," on that which remains and is 
yet still to arrive, on that which appears partly "here" and partly 
"somewhere else."  Musical dialogues between nations, ethnicities, and 
peoples are meant just as much as transitions in the "fixity" and 
performance of music (orality, cultures of writing, print cultures, 
performance, and arrangement), and biographical or compositional change.

Further information can be found on the congress's homepage:

http://www.musik.unizh.ch/html/ims_2007.html

All scholars of music are invited (also those who are not members of the 
IMS) to participate; younger colleagues and colleagues from countries 
outside of Western Europe and North America are especially encouraged to 
take part.

The congress will be organized around (1) symposiums and (2) 
thematically-related sessions made up of individual papers.  The program 
committee asks that those interested in other forms of presentation (for 
example posters) make written contact in advance before submitting 
proposals.

1.) Symposiums: the program committee calls in the first instance for 
proposals for half or full-day symposia whose contents reflect the 
congress motto.  Proposals should be made by one organizer who 
represents all participants, and should include the following 
information: title of the symposium, sketch of the symposium's contents 
(400 words), names of the participants, and working titles and abstracts 
(150 words each) of the individual papers.  The committee will be 
especially pleased to consider, and look favorably upon, symposia with 
an international group of participants and those with an 
interdisciplinary focus.

The deadline for proposals for symposia is 15 October 2005. (EXTENSION 
OF TIME-LIMIT UNTIL MID-DECEMBER 2005)

2.) Individual papers.  Proposals for individual papers, which will then 
be grouped by the program committee into thematically-oriented sessions, 
should be 250 words in length.  The abstracts should be accompanied by 
the following information: name, address, highest academic degree 
(candidates for masters and doctoral degrees are requested, if possible, 
to include a short recommendation from their advisor).  It is preferred 
that proposals for individual papers orient themselves to the congress 
motto, although unrelated proposals will also be considered.  Individual 
papers will be limited to a duration of twenty minutes, with ten 
subsequent minutes for discussion.

The deadline for proposals for individual papers is 1 March 2006.

The congress will be conducted in German, English, French, Italian, and 
Spanish.  Proposals and abstracts are welcomed in any of these 
languages.  The program committee prefers these to be in the form of 
E-mails; however, proposals will also be accepted by fax and 
conventional mail.

All proposals and requests for further information should be directed to:

Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universitaet Zurich
IMS 2007
Florhofgasse 11
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland
Fax: 0041-44-634-4780
E-Mail: ims2007 em mwi.unizh.ch

-- 
carlos palombini
diretor
centro de pesquisa em música contemporânea
universidade federal de minas gerais
cpmc-ufmg
<palombini em terra.com.br>