Mark your calendars for the Western University Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM) 2021, scheduled for August 20-21. The symposium will feature keynote speaker Dr. Philip Ewell, (Hunter College of the City University of New York).
Like last year, the conference will be entirely online, although this year submissions from outside of the Western community will be accepted.
Call for Proposals:
The deadline for submission is Friday, May 21st, 2021 at 4:00 pm EST.
The program committee invites graduate students of from all institutions and all disciplines to submit proposals for papers on any aspect of music, including but by no means limited to music theory, musicology, ethnomusicology, music cognition, music education, composition, and performance. Papers are welcome on any topic and encourage a diversity of excellence in research across many fields.
Presentations are limited to 20 minutes, with a 10-minute question period. All submissions must include the title of the paper and a proposal not exceeding 350 words. Proposals should not include supplementary materials or figures and should not include your name or other identifying information. Please send submissions in MS Word format (.doc or .docx) to wugsom2021@gmail.com. In your cover email, please include your name, university, program, year in program, and preferred email address.
Further information will be posted to the conference website as it becomes available: http://sogsim.com/conference-2021/
Questions or more information: The Society of Graduate Students in Music, Western University wugsom2021@gmail.com
