CFP: South African Society for Research in Music, Stellenbosch Univ., 26–28 Sep 2025
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The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) invites contributions for its 2025 conference, which will be hosted by Stellenbosch University’s Department of Music. We envisage a hybrid event with both in-person and online presentations. SASRIM welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics in music research, including those that explore disciplinary intersections, and the convergences and divergences between performance and/as research.
All proposals will be assessed individually, without privileging particular subjects or methodologies. SASRIM invites proposals in a wide range of formats. These include papers, panels, performances and/or demonstrations, workshops, exhibitions, film screenings and poster presentations, alternative presentations/formats.
Special interest: Aesthetic education: Towards futures worth having
We are pleased to offer a special interest call alongside the open conference call. Our special interest centres aesthetic education and the creation of futures worth having. As we inhabit a precarious present, marred by increasing inequality, climate injustice, political uncertainty and crippling disillusionment, we seek to engage provocations including, but not limited to, the following:
- Looking back on the past three decades, what gains have been made, what lessons learned and possibilities opened in music studies?
- What does a future-orientated aesthetic education look, sound and feel like?
- Can a future-oriented aesthetic education meaningfully mitigate the multiple crises facing the arts and humanities, ranging from financial unsustainability to factions, cultures of suspicion and fracture?
- What are the provocations for music studies when placed into conversation with key literatures on aesthetic education, including the work of Gayatri Spivak (2012), Premesh Lalu (2022) and others?
- In what ways can and should an aesthetic education redistribute the sensible (Rancière)?
- What are the possible futures of aesthetic education as we grapple with the opportunities, uncertainties and risks posed by the staggering acceleration of advancements in computing technologies?
All proposals must be submitted via Google Forms. Only proposals submitted by 23.59 (SAST) on 4 April 2025 will be considered. For more information please see our website: https://www.sasrim.ac.za/sasrim-19th-annual-conference-2025/.
Queries may be sent to abstracts -at- sasrim.ac.za. Results to be communicated by 4 May 2025.