Events

Every year the AMS and its affiliates organize scores of conferences, workshops, lectures, and performances.

Meetings & Events

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AMS Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) held since 1934

Matty Metcalfe playing electric guitar and acordion

Many Musics of America

A landmark event series spotlighting the richness of America's musical traditions

Jul 27

A line of guitars and other stringed instruments in sepia

Deadline: 27 Jul 2025

2025 Summer Institute

A residential institute on updating the stories we tell about American music

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and downtown Cleveland

AMS/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Lecture

A public lecture series organized in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

AMS/NYU Lecture

A lecture series for the New York University (NYU) community and general public

AMS/Library of Congress Lecture

A public lecture series organized in partnership with the Library of Congress

Hildegard's Cosmos & Its Music: A Digital Model for the Modern Planetarium

This 2014 talk by Margot Fassler explores a collaborative project on performance, scholarship, and technology. In it, the creators transform flat illuminations into moving, sounding three-dimensional images, following Hildegard of Bingen’s instructions for how they work to create a medieval digital model for the modern planetarium.

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April 2025

Upcoming

Fri

4 April @ 12:00 am-6 April 2025 @ 11:59 pm

AMS Greater New York Chapter / Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Joint Annual Meeting

The joint meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the AMS and the Mid Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM), will take place from April 4th through April 6th at AMS headquarters at New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY 10003. The location is accessible to the West 4th Street, West 8th Street, and Astor Place subway stations. Registration is required, but there is no fee to attend. Please visit the AMS Greater New York Chapter's website for the program and more details.

Sat

5 April 2025 @ 12:00 am-11:59 pm

AMS Capital Chapter Meeting

For more information, visit https://www.ams-net.org/chapters/capital/upcoming-meeting-details/. The call for papers will be issued in early January.

Thu

10 April 2025 @ 7:00 pm-7:00 pm

2025 AMS/NYU Lecture

The 2025 AMS/NYU Lecture, “Razza, Race, and the Operatic Voice in Seventeenth-Century Italy,” will be held on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 7:00pm in Room 303 at New York University’s Education Building, 35 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10011. Attendance is free, but registration is required. In this lecture, Professor Emily Wilbourne draws on her recent award-winning book, Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence (Oxford, 2023).

Sat

12 April 2025 @ 12:00 am-11:59 pm

AMS New England Chapter Meeting

The American Musicological Society, New England Chapter, announces its meeting of Spring 2025, to take place on April 12 hosted by Smith College. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers. In addition, the committee would also like to invite proposals for participation in a roundtable discussion that will focus on pedagogy and research during difficult times, connecting emotional, pedagogical, and political experiences to scholarly research and teaching. All abstracts are subject to anonymous review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by March 10 to the Program Committee through this Google form. Submitters will be informed of the committee’s decision by the end of March, with the hope of announcing the conference program by April 4. Questions can be directed to the chapter email ams.newengland -at- gmail.com