The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

2025 Annual Meeting, April 3–6, 2025

2025 Annual Meeting: Call for Papers
Yale University, April 3–6, 2025

The Society for Seventeenth-Century Music will hold its Thirty-Third Annual Meeting from Thursday through Sunday, April 3­–6, 2025, in New Haven, CT, hosted by the School of Music at Yale University. Proposals on all aspects of seventeenth-century music and its cultural contexts are welcome, but submissions that relate to the conference theme of “Revivals, Remembrance, and Authority” are especially encouraged. This theme acknowledges Yale’s role in the development of the early music movement in the US, and can also relate to canon formation, the revival of marginalized traditions, and the history of scholarship and practice in seventeenth-century music. To that end, proposals on topics and perspectives that have been previously underrepresented in seventeenth-century studies are particularly welcome. Presentations may take a variety of formats, including individual papers (20 minutes in length), lecture-recitals (45 minutes), workshops on issues of diversity and inclusion, pedagogy workshops, and workshops involving group participation, roundtable discussions, and panel sessions.

Anyone may submit a proposal, but all presenters must be members in good standing of the Society. 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; please specify any audio-visual needs. 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. Proposals for lecture-recitals must also include short biographies as well as brief recordings (.mp3 format or links to a website) of the proposed performer(s) playing the exact or similar repertory.

All proposals, formatted as PDF files, should be sent by email attachment to the Chair of the Program Committee, Stewart Carter, at carter@wfu.edu, with the subject line “Name_SSCM Proposal.” Two PDF versions of the proposal should be attached, one with only the title and abstract, and another with the author’s information: name, address, telephone number, email address, and professional or institutional affiliation or city. This information should also be pasted into the body of the email in case of transmission problems. The Irene Alm Memorial Prize will be awarded for the best presentation given by a graduate student. Students should identify themselves as such on the non-anonymous copy of the abstract. The deadline for submission of all proposals (and supporting materials, if needed) is 11:59pm (EDT) on October 1, 2024.