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CFP: Winter 2021 Chapter Meeting -- Saturday, February 13 (Virtual -- Tufts University)

The Winter 2020-2021 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday, February 13, 2021. It will be hosted virtually by the Music Department at Tufts University; details and Zoom link will follow with the program announcement in mid-January. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers and for roundtable sessions or workshops (pedagogical, performative, and/or scholarly). All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by Thursday, December 31, 2020 , to Mark DeVoto: mdevoto -at- granite dot tufts dot edu. Please refer to the AMS guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal typically articulates the main aspects of the argument or research findings clearly, positions the author’s contribution with respect to previous scholarshi

NEW OFFICERS for AMS-NE!

Newly elected officers of the AMS New England Chapter are as follows  Evan MacCarthy , President (2020-22) Mark DeVoto , Program Chair (2020-22) Richard Mueller , Representative to AMS Council (2020-23) Ginger Dellenbaugh , Student Representative to AMS Council (2020-22). Additionally, the 2020 recipient of the Chapter's Schafer Award is  Samuel Chan  (New York University), who presented the paper "Sinophonic Discords: Musical Hatred and the Negotiation of Sonic Difference" at our Fall 2019 meeting. And we are indebted and grateful  to Jacquelyn Sholes for her four years of service as President of the chapter.