UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY

Confounding Expectations – Music and the Creative Act

2012 Graduate Student Conference: Call for Papers

The graduate students of the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Arts, Department of Music, are pleased to

announce a call for papers for their 2012 Graduate Student Conference entitled Confounding Expectations

– Music and the Creative Act. The conference will take place on Monday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 15,

2012 in the Rosza Centre on the U of C campus.

The aim of the conference is to provide a collegial environment in which graduate students can present

their research and form professional connections. We encourage submissions from graduate students in

musicology, theory, music education, performance and composition and from graduate students from

other disciplines, who are working on music topics or music-related topics.

Presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes and lecture-recitals no longer than forty minutes.

A ten-minute question period will follow each presentation. Abstracts should be approximately 350

words and must contain no information that could identify you or your institution. Be sure to attach the

official submission form to your abstract. All abstracts will be evaluated anonymously and should be

suitable for publication in the conference program. Submissions must be received by 23:59 Friday

January 6, 2012. The chosen presenters will be notified on or before February 6, 2011.

Proposals should be sent electronically to Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. . Proposals may also be

mailed to the address at the bottom of the page, attention Cathy Klopoushak. If you have any questions

regarding possible formats of submission, these may also be directed electronically to the above email

address.

A description of the performance venue, forms and other general information can be found at our website

http://ucalgary.ca/gradconference