CFP: Music Biennale Zagreb, Univ. of Zagreb Academy of Music, 7-9 Apr 2025

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CALL FOR PAPERS (Deadline: 15 October 2024)
MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB CONFERENCE: BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS
7-9 April 2025
University of Zagreb Academy of Music
Croatia

Founded in 1961, the Music Biennale Zagreb was the most significant cultural event in Yugoslavia in the early 1960s and continued to play a pivotal role in the country’s cultural diplomacy over the next three decades. In addition to performances, the festival offered a robust program of accompanying events, including art exhibitions, compositional workshops, and lectures.

The 2025 Music Biennale Zagreb (5–12 April 2025) is reviving this tradition with an international interdisciplinary conference, held at the University of Zagreb Academy of Music (7–9 April 2025). The conference shares the festival’s theme: “Broken Relationships.”

We invite proposals for 20-minute individual presentations, 10-minute lightning talks, poster sessions, themed panels, or roundtable discussions. We welcome a broad range of interpretations of “broken relationships,” including:

  • references to the Cold War era
  • compositional process
  • technological obsolescence
  • performance practice
  • new art practices
  • archival documentation
  • music and improvisation
  • spectralisms
  • new lutherie and extended instruments
  • music festivals
  • electronic and computer music
  • the Music Biennale Zagreb.

Proposals must be submitted by 15 October 2024 to MBZconference2025 -at- gmail.com. Please include a title and abstract (150–300 words). For themed sessions (3–4 papers), please submit all abstracts together with an additional proposal describing your session theme (100 words). In your submission, please include your name, a short bio (up to 150 words), email, any institutional affiliation, and technical requirements. The conference programming committee will review all submissions by 15 November 2024.

Please note that all successful applicants must register for the conference. The registration fee is €80 for affiliated scholars, €60 for independent researchers, €40 for students. Registration information will be announced separately.

For additional information, please contact laura.emmery -at- emory.edu or visit https://www.mbz.hr/index.php?opt=item&act=mlist&id=7219&lang=en 

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