Performance Studies Network International Conference 2020

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Music Research at Huddersfield

Music and Drama at Huddersfield

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Email us at: PSN2020@hud.ac.uk

Call for papers

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psn2020

We invite proposals for papers, lecture-recitals, research reports and themed sessions for the Sixth International Performance Studies Conference at the University of Huddersfield, 2-5 July, 2020.

The conference will cover a wide range of musics, approaches, methodologies and practices pertaining to Performance Studies. We welcome presentations that reflect this diversity, including early music, contemporary music, music located across oral and literate traditions, acoustic, electronic and multimedia performance, and more.

In particular, we encourage proposals that reflect the following topics:

• Performance and organology
• 18^th- and 19^th-century performance practices
• Twenty-first-century performance, including working with electronics, experimental practices, and improvisation
• Popular music performance
• Performance and technology
• Performance and archives
• Revisiting Historically-Informed Performance
• Performance and gender
• Historical and contemporary notation practices and performance
• Methodologies for practice-based research, including auto-ethnographic and phenomenological approaches

However, proposals which fall outside of these categories will still be considered.

Proposals should conform to one of the following types:

a. Individual paper (30 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)

b. Group paper (30 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)

c. Lecture-recital (30 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)*

d. Research report (15 minutes)**

e. Themed session, with named participants (1 hour + 15 minutes discussion)

f. Poster presentation (between 1 and 3 sides of A1 paper)***

All proposals should contain the following detail:

1. Names and e-mail addresses of all participants
2. Title of presentation
3. Keywords for presentation (between 3 and 5)
4. A single document, uploaded as a pdf document, containing:

i. Type of presentation (a – f as above)

ii. Abstract for presentation (300 words, or 500 words for themed sessions), including research aims/questions, methodology, and summary of findings/conclusions.

iii. Technical requirements (assume standard AV facilities and wifi available), such as instruments, electronics, other equipment, unusual space requirements.

Please do NOT include your name in the document. All proposals will be assessed anonymously.

The deadline for all submissions is 1^st October 2019.

All proposals must be submitted via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psn2020

* Lecture-recitals should aim to include performance for no more than half of the allocated time.

** Research reports will be grouped together in a single session followed by opportunity for discussion at the end of the session, directed by the chair.

*** Poster presentations are a great way of presenting research for people to view during the conference at designated times, and should make use of the opportunities such a presentation affords, such as diagrams and images.

Accommodation

Delegates booking for the full conference package are booked into rooms at the University’s Storthes Hall. Delegates attending for only part of the conference can book rooms at Storthes Hall via the Registration page.

Rooms cost just £36 per night and include bedding, towels, basic toiletries and a continental breakfast, and bus travel between the hall and the main University campus.

The Wi-fi and car park spaces are also free of charge. Please note all single rooms are en-suite and have access to a shared, fully equipped kitchen.

Read more about Storthes Hall here

Alternatively delegates can manage their own accommodation. The Premier Inn Hotel is directly opposite campus, and the Cambridge Hotel is a 20-minute walk away.

Bursaries

A number of competitive bursaries are available for students in higher education worth £200 each.

To apply for a bursary please email psn2020@hud.ac.uk with the subject title ‘PSN Bursary Application’ and provide details of your name, your place and programme of study, and up to 150 words describing how attendance at the Performance Studies Network Conference will benefit you and your studies.

The deadline for bursary applications is 30 April 2020.

About Performance Studies Network

The international Performance Studies Network comprises professional and amateur musicians, scholars working in a range of musicological disciplines (including music history, analysis, psychology, pedagogy, ethnomusicology and composition) and colleagues from the creative industries. The Sixth International Conference of the Performance Studies Network will be held at the University of Huddersfield, 2–5 July, 2020.  The aim is to debate theories, methodologies and practices of performance, and to engage with increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary developments in the field in order to encourage a more global perspective on performance studies.

The conference has been convened through the Performance Studies Network, previously hosted by the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance Studies (CMPCP), now the Cambridge Centre for Musical Performance Studies, launched in April 2015.

See details of the three PSN International Conferences held at the University of Cambridge in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and the previous two Conferences, held at Bath Spa University and the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo.

Programme Committee

Philip Thomas, Conference Director, Professor of Performance, University of Huddersfield

Amanda Bayley, Professor of Music, Bath Spa University

Darla Crispin, Director of the Arne Nordheim Centre for Artistic Research, Norwegian Academy of Music

Jan Herbst, Director of the Centre for Music, Culture and Identity, University of Huddersfield

David Milsom, Senior Lecturer, University of Huddersfield

John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Director of Studies in Music, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge

Emily Worthington, Director of the Research Centre for Performance Practices, University of Huddersfield

Programme

The full programme will be published in May 2020