CFP: Emerging Scholars, Boston University, 4-5 Oct 2024

[AMS Office]

Boston University’s Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology is pleased to announce an Emerging Scholars program on the theme: "Posthuman Pop: Technology, Nature, Bodies, and Popular Music." The program aims to bring together promising young scholars from historically underrepresented groups working in the fields of musicology; ethnomusicology; popular music studies; women’s, sexuality, and gender studies; queer studies; disability studies; ethnic/area studies; and media and technology studies.

The symposium will explore the relationship of popular music to the category of the human and its outer limits (including non-human nature and the environment as well as technological factors like artificial intelligence and streaming algorithms) and to the body (gendered, racialized, dis/abled, technologically enhanced) with recourse to contemporary theoretical paradigms.

We will select 8-10 emerging scholars whose work on these themes demonstrates excellence, innovation, and exceptional promise. Emerging scholars will showcase their work and build networks and receive mentorship from senior scholars at BU.

Selected scholars will present their work in public presentations at Boston University on October 5, 2024. They will also be able to schedule ongoing mentoring conversations with department faculty members at the meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicology and American Musicological Society. All travel, lodging, and food expenses will be covered for the duration of the program by BU, and participants will also receive a modest honorarium.
We are seeking postdocs, ABDs, and early-stage Assistant Professors from historically underrepresented groups in music scholarship whose research engages with the symposium theme. If these criteria apply to you, please submit the following materials by Friday, September 20th in one combined PDF to Graduate Assistant Shari Antmann santmann -at bu.edu:

• Cover letter (max 1 page) detailing your interest and fit for this program
• CV
• Response (max 1 page) to the following question: What do you consider to be the most interesting and important new insights into popular music, gender, race, and/or media/technology and how does your work contribute to this scholarship? (Feel free to cite sources that have been influential to your own work.)
  

For questions, please contact: Michael Birenbaum Quintero (mbq -at- bu.edu) 

Website for more information: https://www.bu.edu/cfa/academics/degrees-programs/musicology-and-ethnomusicology/