Events

The Winter Meeting of the Greater New York Chapter will take place ONLINE on Saturday, February 6, 2026. The chapter is seeking proposals for presentations at this time. Please send 250 word proposals by December 20th. We invite proposals in all areas of musical scholarship. Send your proposals to both jonathan.waxman "at" gmail.com and DrJSDailey "at" aol.com. Do not send attachments—everything must be pasted in the e mail. Include a brief (3 sentence max) bio and include your current affiliation. Put "AMSGNY Winter 2026" in the subject line.

The Chapter Leaders Meeting is the annual meeting of AMS committee chairs with the AMS Executive Director and members of the Board of Directors. The purpose of the meeting is to share news and information, and to maintain open lines of communications between AMS committees and the Board of Directors. The Zoom link to access the meeting will be shared with chapter leaders via email.

The Winter 2026 meeting of the New England Chapter will take place on Saturday, February 21, hosted online by Dartmouth College. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers or for themed sessions or panels. All abstracts are subject to anonymous review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by January 23 to the Program Committee through this Google form or at the following email: ams.newengland [at] gmail [dot] com. Submitters will be informed of the committee’s decision by the end of January, with the hope of announcing the conference program by February 6.

Florida State University will jointly host the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter in Tallahassee, Florida on 27–28 2026.