[Commlist] Call for Papers for MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest - “Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds”

*Call for Papers for the MusicaFemina International Symposium Budapest*

*“Gender and Creativity in Music Worlds”*

8-9 January 2020**

As part of its Hungarian event series, MusicaFemina International is 
organizing a symposium and workshop in Budapest on 8-9 January 2020. The 
initiative, involving Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Germany, is 
primarily aimed at creating the conditions for more balanced relations 
of gender in the various spheres and institutions of music production.

The Budapest symposium will provide a public forum for researchers and 
music professionals — including musicians, educators, critics and 
industry personnel — interested in the causes and modalities of gender 
inequalities and gendered power dynamics present in the multiple genres 
and worlds of music. The symposium is co-supported by the Creative 
Europe Programme of the European Union.

For music professionals and academics in post-socialist Europe 
opportunities to participate and share ideas concerning gender and music 
have been relatively limited in comparison with colleagues in Western 
countries. For this reason, we particularly welcome proposals from the 
Central and East European region.

The programme will include a keynote talk, three conference panels, a 
roundtable discussion with artists, and a workshop for musicians, music 
(industry) students and music industry professionals. Presentations at 
the conference panels detailed below will be selected by a committee of 
experts.

Our invited keynote speaker is *Ann Werner, **Associate Professor, 
Gender Studies, Södertörn University.*

The conference panels will be organized around the following themes:**

*1.**Gender (Studies), Education and Pedagogies*

This panel will consider the intersection of gender studies and the 
field of music education and pedagogy. We welcome explorations of the 
ways in which theories and methodologies of gender studies have informed 
music education and pedagogical theory, methodology, as well as 
practice. We also invite studies of gender-based roles, hierarchies, 
relations of power and divisions of labour in music education. 
Furthermore, we seek general reflections on the relationship between 
gender and musical socialisation as well as studies of gender and 
musical learning in informal settings such as amateur learning.

*2.**Gender and Music in Central and East Europe*

Focusing on the Central and East European region, this panel will 
include papers that address topic with a geographically and/or 
historically informed perspective. In their recent history, popular 
music and music industry studies, musicology, sociology of music or 
media studies have been dominated by a Western, in particular, 
Anglo-American focus oriented towards the core of the global cultural 
industries. In order to counterbalance this orientation, we invite 
papers analysing the relations between gender and music — composition, 
music making, musical texts and genres, music consumption, education and 
learning, the music industry, music scenes and genres — in Central and 
East European societies, past and present. We also welcome gender and 
music studies of local scenes in terms of their position within global 
economic, political and social hierarchies, as well as explorations of 
regional particularities and differences.

*3.**Gender and the Music Industries*

The recent years have seen many initiatives – international and local, 
academic as well as industry- or community-initiated – interrogating 
gender inequalities in terms of opportunities, participation, access and 
representation, as well as everyday sexism within the music industries. 
The media events around the Harvey Weinstein scandal in the Hollywood 
film industry and the following “MeToo” social media hashtag campaign 
also generated multiple responses and actions from within the music 
industry. The panel invites papers discussing the visibility of women, 
unequal divisions of labour, sex segregation across musical professions, 
as well as explorations of working conditions, experiences and 
narratives of women in the music industries. We also welcome 
investigations of the relationship between gender and the digitisation 
of the music industries, such as, online (self-)representation; artist 
and fan relationships (including gender and fan labour); gender and the 
uncertainty of digital labour; digital curation – algorithmic as well as 
human, and gendered practices in the fields of composition, music making 
and digital plus online technology.

We invite scholars and experts in the field — musicians, educators, 
music critics, and music industry professionals — to submit proposals 
relating to the wide range of topics of “gender and music”. Abstracts of 
approximately 300 words (PDF format) presenting the subject, the 
conceptual framework and the analytical approach along with a brief CV 
(one page at most) should be sent to 
(budapest /at/ musicafeminainternational.eu) 
<mailto:(budapest /at/ musicafeminainternational.eu)> by *20 September 2019.* 
Applicants will receive a response regarding their submission by *20 
October 2019.*

This conference is being organised by MusicaFemina International, the 
Hungarian Artisjus Society, the Department of Sociology and 
Communication of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the 
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European 
University, Budapest, the Liszt Academy of Music and Department of Media 
and Communication of Eötvös Loránd University. There is no participation 
fee and refreshments will be provided for participants.

For further inquiries please email us at 
(budapest /at/ musicafeminainternational.eu) 
<mailto:(budapest /at/ musicafeminainternational.eu)>

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