Call for Presentations:

26th Annual Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference

The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce

the 26th Annual GSIM Conference, to be held virtually on March 24-25, 2023.

In addition to paper presentations and lecture-recitals, the conference will include a keynote address

by Dr. Robin James, a philosopher of popular music whose work centers on neoliberalism,

technology, and contemporary Top 40 pop and electronic dance music.

We invite graduate students in all disciplines who work on music to submit proposals for

presentations on any topic. We are accepting proposals for academic papers and lecture-recitals. We

especially encourage interdisciplinary work and presentations of new compositions. Applicants

should plan for a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion. Presentations will be

pre-recorded and streamed live via Zoom on the days of the conference followed by question and

answer sessions. If necessary, the option to present live may be made available.

 

Proposal requirements:

 

• Proposals should be no more than 300 words in length. Up to two additional pages of

examples/references and/or three minutes of a recording excerpt may be included but are

not required. Everything should be compiled together in a single PDF and a single MP3 file.

Files should be no bigger than 5 MB.

 

• Proposals must not include the author’s name and should be purged of any indication of the

author’s identity. Digital author tags should be removed from the metadata of PDF files.

 

• Please include one sentence at the top of your proposal indicating the preferred format(s) of

your presentation. For example:

o I wish to be considered for a lecture-recital.

o I prefer to do a lecture-recital but would also consider an academic paper.

 

• If you are submitting a proposal featuring a new composition, please include a summary of

your planned remarks about your piece (e.g., musical analysis, cultural context, historical

framing, etc.)

 

Proposals should be submitted via email to CUNY.GSIM@gmail.com. Please be sure to include

your name and institutional affiliation (if any) in the email body when submitting your proposal.

 

The deadline for submission is January 16, 2023.

 

Questions may be addressed to co-chairs Madison Schindele and Maurice Restrepo at CUNY.GSIM@gmail.com.

 

Information regarding the GSIM Conference at The Graduate Center, CUNY (including a link to

this Call for Presentations) can be found online at the conference website:

https://gsim.commons.gc.cuny.edu/