CFP: Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, San Antonio, Apr 2014

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music: 2014 Call for Proposals

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music will hold its Twenty-second Annual Conference from Thursday through Sunday, 3–6 April 2014 in San Antonio, Texas, hosted by the Department of Music at Trinity University. Proposals on all aspects of seventeenth-century music and its cultural contexts are welcome. For 2014, submissions reflecting the region’s Latin American, German, and Czech heritages are particularly encouraged.

Presentations may take a variety of formats, including individual papers of twenty minutes in length, lecture-recitals (forty-five minutes), workshops involving group participation, roundtable discussions, and panel sessions. The Irene Alm Memorial Prize will be awarded for the best scholarly presentation given by a graduate student.

It is the policy of the Society that all presenters be members in good standing. A presenter may not give an individual paper at two consecutive meetings, nor make more than one presentation at a single meeting. For individual papers, abstracts not exceeding 350 words should clearly represent the title, subject, and argument, and should indicate the significance of the findings. Proposals for presentations in other formats should be of a similar length; they should clearly state and justify the intended format and should indicate the originality and significance of the material to be delivered. Those for lecture-recitals must include recordings of the proposed performer(s) playing examples of the same repertory if not the exact proposed work(s). All proposals should include audio-visual needs. Examples of successful abstracts may be seen in the Conference Archives of the Society’s web site.

Proposals should be sent by e-mail (deadline: midnight, Eastern Daylight Time, 1 October 2013) to the Program Committee Chair, Jennifer Williams Brown, at brownjen at grinnell.edu, with the subject-line “SSCM Proposal.” The e-mail should carry two attachments in Microsoft Word. The first (file name: “anonymous submission”) should include only title and abstract; the second (file name: your own last name and short title of the proposal) should contain your name, address, telephone, fax, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation or city, along with the paper title and abstract. The content of the second attachment should also be pasted into the body of the e-mail in case of transmission problems. Submissions will be acknowledged within three days of receipt.

Students should identify themselves as such on the non-anonymous copy of the abstract. Students whose abstracts are accepted will become eligible for the Alm Prize if they submit a completed paper by the date given them by the Program Committee. Anyone proposing a lecture-recital should attach a short biography. Audio or video recordings supporting proposals for lecture-recitals are required and should be received by the same deadline as the abstract; we regret that they cannot be returned. Electronic submission of audio/video files is permissible; we advise the use of an electronic delivery/file sharing service such asyousendit.com or Dropbox.com.

More information about the SSCM and its activities may be seen on the Society's web site, http://sscm-sscm.org.