Deadline: 11:59 p.m. CDT, 15 March 2024

The ninetieth Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) will be held on 14–17 November 2024.

The Annual Meeting promotes the study and teaching of music. It builds community and supports scholars through a range of approaches and presentational modes, including historical musicology, creative practice, ethnography, analysis, performance, musical demonstrations, policy, civic engagement, sound artifact curation, and digital humanities. 

Guided by the AMS’s Statement on Fair Practice and Representation, the Program Committee seeks to create a positive working, learning, and social environment in which a diverse society may flourish. Issues of fairness and representation will be an integral part of the process of creating the program.

At the Annual Meeting, the society invites music scholars, teachers, performers and public intellectuals to share work and ideas in the proposal types listed below. A successful proposal articulates the main points of the presentation clearly, positions its contributions in the context of previous work, and suggests its significance for conference attendees. Session organizers are advised to convene panels with representative participants.

AMS committees and study groups are guaranteed one session at the Annual Meeting. And this call, which is directed exclusively at AMS Committees and Study Groups, is a call for proposals for business meetings, paper sessions, workshops, and social events that help advance the Society’s mission and provide opportunities for members to network, share their research, and organize around themes of common interest.

Application Restrictions

Excluding guaranteed study group and committee sessions, no one may appear on the AMS Annual Meeting program more than twice. However, the alternate years rule has been suspended for the 2024 annual meeting. Thus, those who appeared on the program for the 2023 AMS Annual Meeting are eligible to be included in proposals for the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting.

Submission Procedure

The submission form for proposing committee and study group sessions will become available on 10 December 2023. Proposals must be received by 11:59 p.m. CDT, 15 March 2024. Proposals are to be submitted electronically on the AMS 2024 annual meeting site. Please note that proposal submission ceases precisely at the deadline. To avoid technical problems with submission please submit at least twenty-four hours before the deadline. Proposals received after the deadline cannot be considered.

Proposal submitters will be required to state the format of the session (multi-paper panel or single abstract proposal) and must also include full, detailed information on session participants. The form is not a placeholder for a session, it should provide all of the information needed to organize the session.

All committees and study groups wishing to include a session on the program must submit a proposal by the deadline. Committees and study groups that fail to submit proposals by the deadline will forfeit their right to have their sessions included on the program; including annually recurring sessions, such as named lectureships.