CFP: New Beethoven Research, Louisville, Nov 2015

Call for Papers
Fifth International New Beethoven Research Conference,
November 11-12, 2015, Louisville, Kentucky
CFP Deadline: 15 June 2015

The Fifth International New Beethoven Research conference will take place Wednesday, November 11, and Thursday morning, November 12, in Louisville prior to the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. Proposals on any Beethoven topics are welcome. Preference will be given to presenters who did not give papers in Bonn at the Fourth NBR Conference.

Beethoven scholars, including musicologists, theorists, and performers, are invited to submit proposals (one per author) for individual papers, lecture/demonstrations, or lecture/performances.  Papers and presentations should not exceed 30 minutes. Ten minutes will be allotted for questions and discussion following the papers and presentations.

Deadline for abstract submissions: June 15, 2015.

1) For paper proposals: submit proposed abstract (350-400 words), and institutional affiliation or status as independent scholar. Paper proposals should articulate the most important aspects of the research, discuss the relationship of the new work to previous scholarship, and describe the significance and potential future usefulness of the findings.

2) For Lecture/Demonstrations: submit proposed abstract (limit 400 words), institutional affiliation or status as independent scholar/performer(s), recording of proposed demonstration, and technical requirements.

3) For Lecture/Performances: submit proposed abstract (limit 400 words), title of work, institutional affiliation or status as independent scholar, length of work, and program notes.

For all proposals, please indicate your keyboard and technical requirements.

Abstracts are to be submitted as an email attachment in Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF to William Meredith, william.meredith -at- sjsu.edu

This conference is sponsored by the American Beethoven Society, the University of Alabama, Wake Forest University, and the University of Illinois, and organized by Joanna Biermann (University of Alabama), William Kinderman (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), David Levy (Wake Forest University), and William Meredith (American Beethoven Society, Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San José State University).