The Graduate Music Forum at Harvard University is pleased to announce its fourth
interdisciplinary graduate student music conference:

MUSIC AND CRISIS

10 March 2007

A day-long graduate student conference to be held at Harvard University.

*Keynote Speaker*

Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at Harvard University, Curator of
the Isham Memorial Library, Director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, President of
the Commission mixte of RISM, Board member of the Packard Humanities Institute,
winner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award for his /Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned
Musician/ (2000).

*Call for Papers*

The conference theme should be interpreted broadly, and proposals of an
interdisciplinary nature are especially welcome. Potential topics might
include, but are by no means limited to, the following: music in times of
crisis, crises in music theory, polemics in music criticism, musical works
resulting from a crisis (personal or otherwise), music in times of war,
musicology in times of war, crisis in music's disciplines.

Proposals are welcome from students engaged in all areas of musical scholarship
(including musicologists, ethnomusicologists, theorists, performers, and
composers), as well as from those in anthropology, history, cultural studies,
sociology, philosophy, and related fields.

Papers should last 20 minutes. Please submit the following materials: (1) paper
title; (2) abstract of approximately 250 words; (3) institutional affiliation
and contact information; (4) audio-visual requirements. All abstracts will be
reviewed anonymously.

Email proposals to Jonathan Kregor, kregor at fas.harvard.edu, or mail them to:

Jonathan Kregor
GMF Program Committee, Chair
Department of Music
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138

The deadline for submissions is Friday, 15 December 2006.