The 45th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference 2019 will be held from 11th to 17th July 2019 at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Activities include academic presentations, ASEAN music and dance workshops, international music and dance workshops, concerts, jam sessions, exhibitions, and excursions.
Conference Themes
- Transborder Flows and Movements
Migration is and has been a widespread experience in many regions of the world. The borders that migrants cross include those within as well as between nations. The reasons for the mobility include trade, warfare, service to empires, religious quests, education, environmental degradation, search for a better life, and urbanization. Migration allows cultures, religious practices, ideas and institutions to flow and travel within or across continents. How do mobile people make sense of their encounters with others? How do non-migrants make sense of their new neighbours? What are the outcomes of these interactions? Through their music and dance, how do mobile people negotiate the power of nation states?
- Music, Dance, and Sustainable Development
Music, dance, and other performing arts are essential to the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. How can music and dance strengthen social cohesion, inclusion, and gender equality? How can music and dance help communities navigate the challenges of global culture and technology on one hand, and biodiversity and ecological change on the other? How can researchers engage communities to sustain their own endangered cultural traditions, and what role should UNESCO and other international organizations take?
- The Globalization and Localization of Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology
Working together means valuing different traditions of scholarship, and balancing academic traditions from the Global South as well as the Global North. Do our own experiences confirm this claim? Within our globalized world, what methodologies are being explored to develop cross-cultural collaborations? How does our academic research benefit the communities we study? What ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology paradigms have developed outside “the West,” and how can the insights these give help us build stronger global disciplines?
- Music and Dance as Expressive Communication
This theme seeks contributions that explore music and dance as language, as speech surrogacy, as therapy, and as the carriers of cultural knowledge, experience and/or history. There are many approaches that may be taken in these explorations, and we anticipate contributions will include one or more of the following: formal analysis, studies of cognition and embodiment, the use of linguistic, psychological, and psychotherapeutic methodologies, as well as fine-grained, detailed ethnography.
- Approaches to Practice-Based Research and its Applications
The distance between scholarship and performance is narrowing as increasing numbers of ethnomusicologists and ethnochoreologists perform the music and dance that they study, as they teach performance, and as performers take on academic research. Performance also features in a wide range of applied music and dance research, while composers, dance creators, DJs, curators, film-makers and those who record and document can also be considered practitioners. What are the challenges, advantages, and benefits of practice-based research and/or in applied research involving performance? How are asymmetries of power enacted and resolved in practice-based research that includes performance? In addressing this theme, we particularly encourage submissions that consider the many and varied ways in which performance can be included within academic presentations.
- New Research
We invite submissions that fall within the broad area of “new research.”
Proposal Submission
Abstracts should be no more than 300 words in length, and written in English (papers may be presented in either English or Thai, but all abstracts must be in English). Abstracts should include a clear statement of the problem, a coherent argument, evidence of the author’s knowledge of previous research, and a statement of the implications for ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology, or other disciplines. Because abstract review is anonymous, do not include your name or the names of other panellists in the body of the abstract.
The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2018. Following evaluation by the Programme Committee, authors will be notified in December 2018. Only one proposal can be submitted per person.
- Individual paper
Individual papers should be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The proposal must include a 300-word maximum abstract. If you are submitting practice-based research, please remember that your paper and presentation should be 20 minutes long in total. Click here to submit an individual paper proposal.
- Panel
Organized panels should be 90 minutes (3 papers, each 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion) or 120 minutes (4 papers or 3 papers and a discussant). You may propose a variation to this format to accommodate practice-based research, using either the 90-minute or 120-minute total panel length. Proposals by the panel organizer (300 words) as well as one by each individual presenter (300 words each) are required. Where an independently submitted abstract appears to fit a panel, the programme committee may suggest the addition of a panellist. The programme committee may also recommend acceptance of only some of the papers on a panel. Click here to submit a panel proposal.
- Film/Video session
Recently completed films introduced by their authors and discussed by conference participants may be proposed. Submit a 300-word abstract including titles, subjects, and formats and indicate the duration of the proposed films or videos and introduction/discussion. Click here to submit a film/video session proposal.
- Forum/Roundtable
Forum/Roundtable sessions provide opportunities for participants to discuss a subject with each other and with members of the audience. Sessions of up to two hours long should include at least 4 but no more than 5 presenters. We encourage formats that stimulate discussion and audience participation. The organizer will solicit position papers of up to 15 minutes from each presenter (or, of papers supplemented by practice-based presentations within the 15 minute frame) and will facilitate questions and discussion for the remaining time. Proposals for forums/roundtables should be submitted by the session organizer (300 words). Click here to submit a forum/roundtable proposal.
