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Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Global & Transnational Studies

Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:56 -0500

Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

Erin Fulton started the topic Literature on Meter/Rhythm in Relation to Lyrics? in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:09:19 -0500

Greetings, theorist friends! I am a historical musicologist working on how hymn meter (in which poems of closely defined forms are “mixed and matched” with a repertoire of tunes that fit the same scansions) developed over the course of the nineteenth century. The scansion of the poem gives it a distinct rhythmic (and to some degree metrical)…[Read more]

Sophia Wetzel started the topic PMIG Officer Nominations Are Open in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:42:59 -0500

We are seeking nominations for the following officer positions for SMT’s Popular Music Interest Group. Self-nominations are encouraged! Please email all nominations to pmigwebmaster@gmail.com. Nominations will close at 5:00 pm EST on Dec. 3, 2025.

CHAIR: The Chair is responsible for the management of the Interest Group, including submitting r…[Read more]

Varun Chandrasekhar started the topic Emo Conference in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:02:01 -0400

With apologies for cross posting, we proudly present the call for papers for “A Conference…But It’s Midwestern Emo”

Since first appearing as a stylistic outgrowth of the D.C. hardcore scene, emo has expanded across the world and to every corner of the internet. Like the genre’s often pubescent audience, this emergence has come with its own g…[Read more]

Sophia Wetzel started the topic Popular Music Interest Group Awward Nominations 2025 in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:27:25 -0400

Nominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award (https://tinyurl.com/opnominations2025) and the Adam Krims Award (https://tinyurl.com/aknominations2025). Please follow these links to access the nomination forms. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively…[Read more]

Varun Chandrasekhar started the topic Jazz Interest Group Award in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Thu, 08 May 2025 23:48:26 -0400

Apologies for posting issues, HC is not very reliable!

The SMT Jazz Interest Group Solicits nominations for the 2025 Award for Excellence in Jazz Scholarship. This award acknowleges outstanding contributions to the field of jazz theory and analysis. Eligibility extends to books, book chapters, articles, delivered conference papers, dissertations,…[Read more]

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:46:19 -0500

Dear All,

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:09:14 -0500

Dear All,

Best wishes,

Vivien

Sophia Wetzel started the topic Call for Proposals: Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:07:47 -0500

Call for Proposals:

Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song
June 5–7, 2025, McGill University, Montreal QC, Canada

Timbre and orchestration are essential aspects of musical experience in any culture or style. They enable us to effortlessly identify different genres of music and are particularly important in popular musics. This centrality is r…[Read more]

Sophia Wetzel started the topic 2024 Publication Awards in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:37:06 -0500

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 PMIG Publication awards!

This year’s Outstanding Publication Award winner is Lori Burns for her article “Female Subjectivities in the Words, Music, and Images of Progressive Metal: The Case of Tatiana Shmayluk (Jinjer),” published in Music Theory Online in 2023. In this article, Burns combi…[Read more]

Monica Berger started the topic Another Zotero library! in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:48:12 -0500

As an outgrowth of my master’s thesis and a recent grant, I’ve created and regularly update a large, group library in Zotero of single-author monographs on rock and pop. Please note that I exclude many non-rock genres including country, rap, hip-hop, techno, and folk. Older books are annotated and books after 2012 are not.

I’m not a member of SMT…[Read more]

Kerem Duymus deposited Afroglobale Geschichte der Gegenwart (Beiträge zur Theorie der Globalgeschichte) in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:21 -0400

Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

Kerem Duymus deposited Tadbir as Marine Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction in Practice and the Debate of Piracy in Case of Tripoli between 1790s-1835 in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:57 -0400

The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

Kerem Duymus deposited The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:20 -0400

Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

Kerem Duymus deposited 1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:08 -0400

Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

Kerem Duymus deposited Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:02:54 -0400

African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

Arif Camoglu deposited Gönül Ferman Dinlerse in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:38 -0400

Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefs…[Read more]

Guylian Nemegeer edited the blog post International Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration and Modernity (29 October 2024) in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:38:42 -0400

Members of this group may be interested in the following conference, which may be followed online. Registration is needed to receive the meeting link: […]

Walt Everett started the topic Recent pubs in popular-music analysis techniques in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:56:17 -0400

The pop-music-bib at https://hcommons.org/docs/popular-music-bibliography/ is excellent for what it is, but I see only a handful of sources published in the past fifteen years. If you have citations of recent useful items in the analysis of popular music, I’d be grateful if you can send them to me at weverett at umich.edu, substituting “@” for “…[Read more]

Sophia Wetzel started the topic 2024 Award Nominations Reminder in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:57:56 -0400

Nominations are officially open for the Popular Music Interest Group’s Outstanding Publication Award https://tinyurl.com/opnominations2024 and the Adam Krims Award https://tinyurl.com/aknominations2024. Please follow these links to access the nomination forms. I encourage you to reflect on recent scholarship you’ve read that has positively i…[Read more]

John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:54 -0400

Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:23 -0400

As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:01:17 -0400

Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the lin…[Read more]

Noriko Manabe started the topic JOB: Indiana University, Music Theory (Open-Rank TT, Popular Music) in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 02:09:38 -0400

JOB: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor of Music Theory (Popular Music)

The Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University Bloomington seeks candidates for a tenured or tenure-track position in music theory to develop and teach in its new programs in music production and music business, with an expected start date of August 1, 2025. https://ind…[Read more]

Marvin Cheung edited the blog post Invite: Seminar on "Solving Grand Challenges with Transdisciplinary Research" in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:18:51 -0400

For scholars, founders, and executives — Grand challenges are wicked problems characterized by their global scope, high significance, and potential to be solvable. Potential to be solvable is important to e […]

Arif Camoglu deposited Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:06 -0400

This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the
British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning
the Ottoman Empire. Montagu’s racially marked depictions of women in
Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her cap…[Read more]

Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Digital Art History

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:06 -0400

This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi’s icons have been sep…[Read more]

Sophia Wetzel started the topic Jacksonville PMIG Meeting CFP in the forum Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:09:07 -0400

The Popular Music Interest Group currently has a CFP for the upcoming SMT annual meeting in November. Please read the full CFP below for more details!

The SMT Popular Music Interest Group invites proposals for works-in-progress lightning talks (7-10 minutes) for our interest group meeting during the upcoming Society for Music Theory Annual…[Read more]

Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Global & Transnational Studies

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:09:40 -0400

Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

Steve McCarty deposited English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400

The Japan Times quoted the author extensively in a recent article on bilingual education. The reporter agreed to share the full interview with the Japan Association for Language Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (JALT Bilingualism SIG) publication Bilingual Japan. Asked why the level of English in Japan remains low, the author goes well…[Read more]

Marvin Cheung deposited 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:00:28 -0400

Why are we stuck here and how do we move forward? Amidst escalating global crises and growing climate anxiety, “5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy” offers actionable recommendations to aspiring changemakers to close the compliance gap between political commitment and action, and advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The book journeys beyond…[Read more]

Katrina Grant deposited Collaboration, flexibility, skill-sharing: The future of museum and cultural heritage work in the age of digital transformation in Australia in the group Digital Art History

Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400

The COVID-19 pandemic created huge challenges for the galleries, libraries, archives and museum (GLAM) sector as institutions were shut and travel and tourism became almost non-existent. Globally, cultural institutions large and small suddenly had to rely almost entirely on digital platforms to engage their missing audiences. Digital…[Read more]

Sophia Wetzel replied to the topic Shared Zotero Library in the discussion Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Tue, 28 May 2024 16:36:29 -0400

Hello All!

I’m excited to see how many folks have been requesting to join the Zotero library, and I appreciate your patience with getting approvals done!

The Zotero library is a living bibliography, so we will need to continue adding resources to it. I am resharing our bibliography submission form so that we can continue to build out our…[Read more]

Yizhou Xu deposited DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:30 -0400

The pandemic-imposed lockdowns and the shift to remote work during COVID-19 have fundamentally changed the notion of the workplace as workers are forced to work from home. Tech work, in particular, seems especially adept at adjusting to this disruption as much of existing labor practices are already digitally-mediated via software and platforms.…[Read more]

Rita Singer deposited LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 01 May 2024 03:06:04 -0400

This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the edited and published version in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The article discusses Linden’s life, scientific research on mineral waters and their medicinal use.

Megan Lavengood replied to the topic Shared Zotero Library in the discussion Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:27:04 -0400

YESSS thank you! I love this!!

Sophia Wetzel started the topic Shared Zotero Library in the discussion Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:13:52 -0400

Hello everyone! Summer research is almost upon is, so I wanted to share a new resource that two members of the PMIG group have worked on over the last couple of years.

Jacob Cupps, our outgoing Webmaster, and Holly Bergeron-Dumaine put together a large Zotero group library, which we will all be able to use going forward! On behalf of the PMIG, I…[Read more]

Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Digital Art History

Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:24 -0400

The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

Frédéric Lefrançois deposited « Itinéraire pour retrouver la géographie de soi »,"Itinerary to Reclaim a Mapping of the Self" in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:34 -0400

March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]

Cora Palfy started the topic Freelance copyediting/content editing in the discussion Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:35:12 -0500

Hey, PMIG friends! I am doing freelance editing work and wanted to offer these services to anyone in PMIG who might be interested. As a professor, I know how taxing it can be (especially during the semester) to get publications turned around. It can be challenging to edit anyway, but when you are stressed and pressed for time, the task can seem…[Read more]

Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:42:45 -0500

I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives, Ref…[Read more]

Arif Camoglu deposited Plague, Paradox, and the Ends of Community: Defoe's Epidemiological Orientalism in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:50 -0500

Revisiting Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) in tandem with a selection of medical sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this essay examines the ethnocultural underpinnings of plague. Although plague approximates community to its imagined outsiders through a shared sense of precarity, the divide between the two…[Read more]

Alicia Mihalic deposited Digitisation of Historical Dress and Textile Collections: Facilitating Platforms for Accessibility, Preservation, and Research of Material Culture in the group Digital Art History

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 03:00:19 -0500

By adopting new museological functions, surviving artefacts open up the possibility of illuminating complex interrelations between the lifecycle of humans and objects. Imbued with a unique and intimate material memory, historical textiles encapsulate evidence surrounding their conceptualisation, production, and consumption, as well as their…[Read more]

Rita Singer deposited ‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French Invasion of Fishguard in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:00:08 -0500

This article investigates three Victorian historical novels in Welsh and English about the Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797. The article discusses the metaphorical function of landscape and geography in their relation to national identity and historical events against the late-Victorian backdrop of the fear of invasion of the British mainland.

Sonia D. Andras deposited Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor in the group Global & Transnational Studies

Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:34 -0500

Contribuția mea inovativă constă în identificarea și analiza lucrărilor internaționale de modă și frumusețe, care au fost traduse în limba română. Traducătorii în limba română vor fi studiați din perspectiva temelor abordate în acest domeniu, limbilor din care au tradus, a autorilor traduși, intervalului dintre original și traducere (sincroniz…[Read more]

Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:42:56 -0500

CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural int…[Read more]

Matthew Ferrandino started the topic Job: UC Riverside, Assistant Professor of Popular Music in the discussion Society for Music Theory - Popular Music Interest Group

Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:17:27 -0500

From Leonora Saavadra:

Assistant Professor of Popular Music
University of California, Riverside

Anticipated start: July 1, 2024
Salary will be commensurate with education and experience and will be dependent on final placement at rank and step.
To ensure full consideration, applications and supporting material should be received by Monday,…[Read more]

Ana Dumitran deposited Icoana Sfântului Ioan Botezătorul cu scene din viață de la Budești‑Josani in the group Digital Art History

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:01:58 -0500

In the history of old Romanian painting, the icon of Saint John the Baptist with scenes from his life from Budești‑Josani occupies a very important place due to its exceptional artistic quality, as well as the Slavonic inscription with the master’s signature and date. The inscription, in a very poor state of preservation, has already been part…[Read more]

Ana Dumitran deposited Le patriarche Sylvestre d’Antioche, son disciple spirituel Constantin César Dapóntes et l’histoire de leurs icônes in the group Digital Art History

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:01:16 -0500

This study identified the icon of Virgin Moscovita and the icon of the Holy Mandylion, described in Konstantinos Dapontes’ writings, with the icon of the Virgin and the icon of the Holy Mandylion preserved in his family monastery Evangelistria in Skopelos island. We can now retrace the “biography”of these two artefacts, the history of their creat…[Read more]

Ana Dumitran deposited The Chronology of the Murals in the Râmeț Monastic Church (Alba County, Romania) Based on a Reevaluation of the Dating of the Narthex Inscription in the group Digital Art History

Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:00:20 -0500

La découverte d’une inscription slavonne dans le narthex de l’église du monastère de Râmeț (comté d’Alba) en 1966, sa relecture avec des moyens techniques spéciaux en 1978 et sa publication officielle en 1985 ont porté à l’attention des historiens le nom du peintre (Mihul du Criș-Blanc), le nom de l’évêque fondateur (archevêque Gélase),…[Read more]