CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS

Who organizes the conference?

The Doctoral Studies Conference in Art and Musicology is an activity promoted by the doctoral program in Art History and Musicology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is in its fifth call, after the editions held between 2020 and 2024. This edition is coordinated by Anna Fusté Labaila (area of music/musicology) and Nil Rider Enrique (area of art history).

However, the conference is an activity open to the participation of doctoral students from other programs and universities, both national and international, with the aim of sharing proposals and knowledge and creating collaborative research networks.

Who are they aimed at?

Doctoral students enrolled in studies preferably in art history or musicology, but also in different humanities specialties and other disciplines that raise specific analysis topics linked to the theme and objectives expressed in this proposal.

Main topics

The following thematic axes are proposed as the backbone of the Conference:

Uses of technology for creation in music and arts.
Uses of technology for research in music and arts.
Opportunities, challenges, problems, in general consequences of collaboration between humans and machines to create or research in music and arts.

How to send your abstract

The proposals for communication, of individual responsibility, must be sent in a summary format of between 250 and 350 words, attached as PDF file. If accepted, the informant must develop their oral communication in a maximum of 20 minutes, plus 10 of questions and debate about their presentation.

The conference will be held on June 16 and 17, 2025 at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. It would be possible to participate online or in person.

The proposals must include:

- A title.

- The name, contact details and institutional affiliation of the author.

- The body of the summary (between 250 and 350 words).

- From 3 to 5 key words that define the proposed topic.

- A brief curriculum of the speaker (max. 200 words).

The speakers will have the possibility to publish the content of their presentation as an article in the book of proceedings of the conference, according to the guidelines of extension, format and editorial rules that will be indicated in due time. The book will be published in digital format at the digital repository (DDD) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in open access.

The proposals must be sent to doctorands.artimusicologia.uab@gmail.com before the closing of the abstract reception (deadline: March 30, 2025). The decision of the committee on the acceptance of proposals will be communicated personally from May 15th 2025 and is binding and unremovable. The results of the evaluation may be: accepted or not accepted.

For participants who request it before the conference is held, acceptance certificates will be prepared. Furthermore, every informant will be given, by default, a certificate of participation.

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