21st ANNUAL
WESTERN UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON MUSIC
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Society of Graduate Students in Music at Western University is pleased to announce its 21st annual Graduate Symposium on Music (WUGSOM), August 14th – 15th, 2020. This year Dr. Charles Garrett (University of Michigan) will deliver the keynote address titled ““Our AI Lets Humans Take Control”: Popular Music and Collaborative Artificial Intelligence.”
This year WUGSOM is going virtual! The conference will look quite different from what it is usually as it will be held entirely online. To make the conference more manageable as the organizers navigate this new digital format, submissions for this year’s symposium will be limited to only graduate students at Western. Though this will be a significant change of pace from previous years, it also presents new opportunities and organizers are hard at work developing ideas for how to best take advantage of the digital format and the more intimate scale.
The program committee invites Western graduate students of 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. They welcome papers on any topic and encourage a diversity of excellence in research across many fields.
The deadline for submission is Friday, June 19th, 2020 at 4:00 pm EST.
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 wugsom2020@gmail.com. In your cover email, please include your name, 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-2020/
Organized by: The Society of Graduate Students in Music, Western University, wugsom2020@gmail.com
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