Call for Papers
2017 Meeting of the NYSSL Chapter of the AMS
April 22 - 23, 2017
Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
Deadline for Proposals: Friday 17 February 2017, by 5:00 p.m. EST
The Spring meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Saturday 22 April through Sunday 23 April 2017 at the University of Toronto.
You are invited to submit abstracts in all areas of scholarship on music to the Program Committee Chair, Caryl Clark, at c.clark@utoronto.ca. The deadline for submissions is 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday 17 February 2017.
Other Conference Details
The conference coincides with the Canadian Opera Company's new, all-Canadian production of Harry Somers' and Mavor Moore's centennial-commissioned opera Louis Riel, which runs in Toronto from 20 April through 13 May, and with the interdisciplinary symposium "Hearing Riel," which will take place at the University of Toronto on Friday, 21 April. Open to the public, this symposium features a roster of distinguished speakers who will investigate the opera, its fraught historical subject matter, and its political implications for today, in the context Truth and Reconciliation and the Canadian Sesquicentennial. For further information about performances of the opera and the symposium, please see the websites of the Canadian Opera Company and of the University of Toronto's Canada 150 initiative (details are forthcoming).
Local Information will be made available closer to the time of the conference.
Review Process
Review of proposals is blind. In the body of an email, include your name, title of the paper, A/V requirements (sound, piano, projector, etc.), affiliation, and contact information. Please attach an abstract of no more than 250 words to your email (.pdf, .doc or .docx file formats only). Do not include your name in the title or in the abstract document. Presenters will be notified of the results by March 1, 2017.
Length
Papers should be 20 minutes in length.
Membership
You do not need to be a member of the AMS or the NYSSL chapter to submit a proposal. Should your paper be selected for presentation, however, you will need to join the NYSSL chapter and pay the dues fee of ten dollars (CAD/USD).
