<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Call for Papers </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Music and Mediation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">Conference at the Elder
Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">9-10 June 2025</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Keynote
speaker: Naomi Sunderland, Director, Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith
University</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:center;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Deadline for abstracts:
Monday 16 December 2024</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 76.55pt 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:107%"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Mediation, in all its senses, from
transmission to conflict resolution, is particularly relevant in times of
technological innovation, sustainability challenges, forced displacement and
struggles for equality or survival. This conference, generously supported by
the Musicological Society of Australia (MSA), is concerned with the ways music
and the study of music may contribute to the many theories and practices around
mediation. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We invite proposals from all disciplines,
for panels, individual papers and roundtable discussions addressing one or more
of these themes: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">1. <b>Music and conflict resolution</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What roles can music play in contexts of
conflict, post-conflict and the negotiation of improved relations and potential
healing? From interpersonal relationships to community divisions, industrial
relations and postwar societies, music may enable the articulation of unspoken
emotions and the promotion of mutual understanding and recognition. Is
‘resolution’ always possible or are there other ways of surviving conflict and
trauma with or through music?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">2. <b>Sustaining and building connections
through music</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">How does music contribute to connections –
or disconnections – across space and time? When relationships are disrupted,
e.g. by migration, displacement or social change, how do musical practices
sustain those relationships and/or build new connections with people and places?
Related topics include the roles of music in cultural traditions, memory,
environmental sustainability, sociopolitical movements, community health and
wellbeing.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">3. <b>Transmission and pedagogy of music</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">New technologies and mobilities have made
some music more accessible in more places than ever before. What are the
effects and conditions of this accessibility? Is ‘other’ music overlooked in
the process? How are musical ideas mediated? What are the roles of technology,
media, composition, performance, instrument/equipment design, venues,
infrastructure and educational methods? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">4. <b>Cultural mediation</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">What mediating roles does music play in
literature, theatre, film, television, radio, audio/visual arts and gaming? How
do interactive cultural forms shape related musical practices? How does music
shape and contribute to translations and adaptations?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">5. <b>Influencing</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Music and dance are central features in the
world of influencing, from social media and advertising to government and
election campaigns. How do music and dance ‘influence’ listeners and viewers in
such areas as lifestyle, fashion, body image, spending habits, voting practices
and political action? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">6. <b>Histories</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Music histories enjoy great popularity,
from biopics, curated playlists, tributes and social media galleries to memoirs,
authorised and unauthorised biographies and analytical accounts. What forms of
mediation emerge from historical analysis, narratives about music and musical
narratives?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">7<b>. Entanglements</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Are notions of music and mediation
problematic? Since Adorno, scholars have devised many new ways of understanding
music’s multiple entanglements. Topics may include music and accountability, materiality,
relationality, constellations and the destabilisation of boundaries.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">8. <b>Other</b>: new research beyond the
above categories. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Submit proposals </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPcN6xY_ooX1k8oU9tRctII1rmfMbUToAKx2DaNwyUUDqMeg/viewform" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b>here</b></a>
for panels (3 or 4 presenters), individual papers, roundtable discussions or
workshops. For individual papers and for each presenter on a panel, a 250-word
abstract is required. For roundtable discussions and workshops, one abstract is
required for the whole session. Papers will be 20 minutes in length, followed
by 10 minutes’ Q&A. Online participation is available. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Deadline for abstracts: Monday 16
December 2024 </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Notification of acceptance: Monday 30
December 2024</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Registration</b>: Salaried academics: A$
88 [= approximately US$ 59, EUR 54]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Registration for all other delegates is free,
thanks to the support of the MSA and the Elder Conservatorium of Music. Registration
includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea on both days. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Publication</b>: Presenters will be invited
to submit article proposals for a special issue of a journal.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Keynote speaker Professor Naomi
Sunderland</b> is Director of the Creative Arts Research Institute at Griffith
University. She is a proud descendant of the Wiradjuri First Nations People of
Australia alongside her mixed European heritage. Naomi has an expansive
research and publishing record in arts-health, well-being, and First Nations
social justice with a particular focus on creative, anti-oppressive, and
trauma-informed research approaches.<span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:107%"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">More invited speakers and special guests to
be announced soon! </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b>Enquiries</b>: Please email the
convenor, Gay Breyley, at <a href="mailto:gay.breyley@adelaide.edu.au" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">gay.breyley@adelaide.edu.au</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm 0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This event is generously supported by the
Musicological Society of Australia’s Special Funding Scheme. The conference
stems from a research project that is generously supported by the Elizabeth
Wood Research Fellowship in Musicology at the Elder Conservatorium of Music.</p><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>