CFP Music, Migration, and the Exchange of Knowledge: The Baltics in Global Perspective

 Call for papers Music, Migration, and the Exchange of Knowledge: The Baltics in Global Perspective

Second Bicontinental Symposium of The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, Vilnius–New York

Vilnius, 25–26 November 2027, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre

New York, 19–20 April 2028, The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, CUNY

Call for Papers

In 2027 and 2028, The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation will host a bicontinental symposium, coorganized in partnership with the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. The central question of this symposium is how the migration of peoples as well as their ideas, practices, and cultural artifacts has shaped the epistemic systems through which musical knowledge is produced, transmitted, and understood across different territories. The symposium focuses specifically on the migration of musical knowledge to and from the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—from the late nineteenth century onward. 

Drawing on theoretical discourses of migration in music and culture, the symposium considers how large-scale movements of peoples profoundly transformed musical life during the twentieth century. Migration from the Baltics was often shaped by political upheavals, particularly during and after the First and Second World Wars, when musicians, scholars, and cultural agents sought refuge from wars, totalitarian regimes, and occupations. In their new host countries, these individuals encountered musical environments and traditions that contributed to processes of cultural exchange, internationalization, and the transformation of musical knowledge.

Scholars from all disciplines whose work engages with music in specific and broader cultural contexts are invited to submit proposals addressing the following topics:

Musical and musicological knowledge created in the context of displacement and exile

Historical transformations in the exchange of musical knowledge

The role of intellectual and scholarly networks in the creation, dissemination, and circulation of musicological knowledge across geographical areas

The impact of migration on institutional collaborations and networks, including the relationship between institutional and individual exchanges

The role of women, Indigenous peoples, and other often underrepresented groups in the production and transmission of musical knowledge

The influence of migration and exile experience on academic, popular, pedagogical, and other forms of musical thought

We hope to receive proposals that seek to examine diverse forms of musical knowledge exchange, including academic, popular, pedagogical, and religious aspects.

This is the second edition of the bicontinental symposium by The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, following its first event on musical exchanges between Spain and the Americas, organized in cooperation with the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (Barcelona) in 2024/2025.

Convenors & Coordination:

Tina Frühauf (The CUNY Graduate Center / RILM, New York, USA)

Rima Povilionienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Scientific Committee:

Tina Frühauf (The CUNY Graduate Center / RILM, New York, USA)

Rima Povilionienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Stefan Keym (Institute of Musicology of the Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany) 

Jolanta Guzy-Pasiak (Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)

Rūta Stanevičiūtė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania)

Jānis Kudinš (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga, Latvia)

Brigitta Davidjants (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Tallinn, Estonia)

 

The bicontinental symposium will take place in person in Vilnius and New York:

Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA)

Gedimino pr. 42

10001 Vilnius, Lithuania

www.lmta.lt

 

The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3108

New York, NY 10016-4309

https://brookcenter.gc.cuny.edu/

 

We welcome proposals for individual papers and whole panels in English. For individual papers, please submit abstracts of 200 words. For the panel proposal, please submit a 200-word panel abstract along with abstracts for individual papers. The abstract should be accompanied by a short biography, including affiliation (max. 80 words). 

Proposals should be submitted through the following form https://forms.gle/kHGemRJJLCtBUbMG7 by 15 March 2027. Participants must indicate whether they want to participate in the Vilnius symposium in 2027 or in the New York symposium in 2028. All applicants will be notified by 1 May 2027.

There is no conference registration fee.

The selected papers will be invited for publication. 

Please direct any questions to cmrd@gc.cuny.edu 

The conference organizers look forward to receiving your submissions!

Contact Information

The Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3108

New York, NY 10016-4309

Contact Email

cmrd@gc.cuny.edu

CFP: STAND Conference 2027 – "Asymmetries of Power in Science Diplomacy"

 CFP: STAND Conference 2027 – "Asymmetries of Power in Science Diplomacy" (Lisbon, 21-23 July 2027) [Extended Deadline]

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the Call for Papers for the upcoming STAND Conference 2027. Please note that the submission deadline has been extended to 15 November 2026.

-Conference: STAND Conference 2027: Asymmetries of Power in Science Diplomacy

-Dates: 21–23 July 2027

-Location: Lisbon, Portugal (NOVA FCSH, Campolide Campus)

-Submission Deadline: 15 November 2026 (Extended)

-Submission Email: dgm@fct.unl.pt (Subject: STAND Conference 2027)

Looking forward to receiving your proposals.

Best wishes,

Jaehwan Hyun (Communications Officer, DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

STAND Conference 2027: Asymmetries of Power in Science Diplomacy

Lisbon, Portugal, 21 to 23 July 2027

International relations have entered an "age of disruption," as it was termed by the Royal Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in their 2025 joint report on science diplomacy. In this context, the potential of science diplomacy solely as a tool of cooperation is being increasingly questioned in the face of divisive nationalisms, destabilizing technologies, and mounting geopolitical competition.

Recent historical research has shown that when experts, politicians, diplomats, activists, and other actors come together, they bring national and local interests that must be negotiated with the ideals and practices of global cooperation. Moreover, these negotiations do not take place on neutral ground, and historical research has demonstrated how asymmetries of power and hierarchies of knowledge fundamentally shape the international arena. Historical approaches can provide context for contemporary tensions in the discourse on science diplomacy, providing nuanced and critical perspectives for scholarship and policymaking.

The Commission on Science, Technology, and Diplomacy (STAND) of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST) wishes to discuss these matters in its next international conference on Asymmetries of Power in Science Diplomacy, which is jointly organized with the NOVA University of Lisbon, in a partnership between the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) at NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT), and the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI) at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH). It will take place at NOVA FCSH, Campolide Campus, in Lisbon, Portugal, from 21 to 23 July 2027.

We welcome proposals that critically address power dynamics in current and past international negotiations on science, technology, medicine, and related fields, considering:

The political, economic, and cultural integration of regional and national spaces across the Global North/South and East/West divides, as well as within each bloc

The design and implementation of cooperation and assistance programs to build technological infrastructure, scientific capability (including exchange student programs), public health (e.g. vaccination campaigns), etc.

The coordination of efforts to contain transnational threats, such as cyberattacks, pandemics, nuclear proliferation, bioterrorism, pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change or existential AI risks

Formal and informal imperialist relations, including continuities and discontinuities from colonial to postcolonial times

The definition and imposition of standards for scientific nomenclature, units, concepts, theories, practices, instrumentation, etc.

We are interested in looking at the roles played not only by individuals, but also by expert organizations (universities, academies, professional societies) and non-state actors (national and international NGOs, the private sector, civil society initiatives). Likewise, we encourage proposals that consider the agency of women, indigenous peoples, and other historically underrepresented or marginalized communities.

[SUBMISSION GUIDELINES]

Please send us an abstract (150 to 300 words), including proponents' name(s) and affiliation(s) by email to:

Email: dgm@fct.unl.pt (with subject: STAND Conference 2027)

Extended Deadline: 15 November 2026

The STAND Commission remains committed to finding ways to support in-person attendance for scholars in need, including those at early career stages.

Call for papers: Carbon Cultures: Practices, Visualities and Material Ecologies in the Fossil Age

 Call for papers: Carbon Cultures: Practices, Visualities and Material Ecologies in the Fossil Age, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Universität Kassel, 04.03.2027 - 05.03.2027, Deadline 30.11.2026

The research center "Rohstoffwelten - Kulturen im Umbruch", a Käte Hamburger Kolleg at the University of Kassel, investigates how societies constitute, organize, and transform their relations with raw materials. Rather than treating resources as given material objects or as neutral inputs into economic processes, the center approaches them as part of historically specific “resource worlds”: configurations in which material properties and infrastructures intersect with institutions, power relations, social practices, knowledge, technologies, cultural meanings, and imaginaries. Bringing together perspectives from the humanities and social sciences, the center examines how such resource worlds emerge and stabilize, how they organize access, use, and distribution, and how they are contested and transformed. Its four Profile Areas – Raw Material Cultures, Raw Material Practices, Raw Material Regimes, and Critique/Reflection – provide integrative, interdisciplinary, connected, and complementary perspectives on these processes.

The center’s first thematic year, Carbon Culture, takes the fossil foundations of modern societies as its common point of departure. Coal, oil, and gas have not simply supplied energy to otherwise independently developing societies; their extraction, circulation, and use have become deeply embedded in infrastructures, institutions, patterns of production and consumption, everyday practices, forms of social reproduction, and cultural meanings and imaginaries. Carbon Culture therefore refers to the historically specific social formations through which fossil resources have become constitutive of modern ways of life and societal organization. The first thematic year asks how these fossil-based resource worlds emerged and became institutionalized, why they have proven so persistent despite mounting ecological, technological, political, and geopolitical pressures, and how they are currently being challenged, adapted, and recomposed. Rather than assuming a linear transition from a fossil to a post-fossil order, the center examines the tensions between persistence and transformation and the ways in which existing and emerging resource worlds become layered, recombined, fragmented, or replaced.

Workshop Description:

This workshop is organized by the Profile Area Raw Material Cultures, Prof. Dr. Liliana Gómez and Dr. Katrin Nahidi, at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Rohstoffwelten, University of Kassel. We use carbon culture as an analytical category to situate modern and contemporary art and cultural production within the fossil resource worlds of their creation, circulation, and valuation. These conditions have long been treated as neutral background rather than as culture. This workshop takes that invisibility itself as its object of study. To this end, we propose establishing a research field called Carbon Art History, a rewriting of artand cultural history through the lens of carbon culture. It asks how fossil resources came to be perceived as a natural condition instead of a political project that produces legitimation, visual regimes, and orders of knowledge.

Carbon culture produces more than just narratives; it produces a material culture in the most literal sense: artworks, exhibitions, archives, and the apparatuses through which images and collections are created, transported, and preserved, and the material and epistemic conditions of producing art. Methodologically, the workshop builds on Energy Humanities, extending them specifically into art history as cultural history. It brings together approaches from archaeology, museum studies, material cultural studies, and visual culture, combining them with close readings of artistic and archival production.

As an emerging field, Carbon Art History cannot rely solely on Energy Humanities. It requires a genuinely interdisciplinary methodology that combines materialist approaches with postcolonial and decolonial material histories. Drawing on posthumanist thought, we shift attention from human actors to the material life of resources, artifacts, and images. However, we hold this shift accountable to questions of power. In our approach, materiality is never abstracted from the colonial and postcolonial histories through which specific resources, sites, and images became extractable, valuable, or invisible.

The workshop employs several complementary lenses. A sociopolitical and historical lens asks about the entanglements between extractivism, petromodernity, archaeology, and museum formation, and how coloniality persists as a structure while manifesting in different forms across various modes of extractivism. A material lens examines the ecological footprint of image production and the underlying resource dependencies of photography and cultural heritage. A political lens traces how oil economies have shaped visuality, cultural and artistic infrastructures.

Considering these different accounts, the workshop asks what it means to (re)write a decolonial material history of art, one that acknowledges the agency of things and the colonial and postcolonial conditions of their extraction, circulation, and preservation. How do material and discursive registers co-produce each other in these processes? Aesthetics may become complicit with fossil ways of life through these very material entanglements, without losing sight of the specific historical, geopolitical, and institutional conditions under which carbon cultures take shape. At the same time, the arts constitute their own mode of knowledge production, which can challenge and unsettle dominant epistemologies and has the potential to resist and dismantle dominant forms of fossil modernity. This tension serves as the workshop’s productive starting point. Thus, the workshop aims to test the analytical potential of carbon culture across regions, periods, and media, as well as to develop shared concepts and methods for Carbon Art History.

Guiding Questions:

- How does carbon culture manifest itself in aesthetics, narratives, and worldviews across different historical and regional contexts? What new periodization does this reveal?

- What visual, material, and media cultures have formed around fossil and carbon-based raw materials, and how have these cultures shaped perceptions of energy and modernity?

- How does coloniality persist as a repeatable yet variable structure across different extraction regimes?

- Which cultural blind spots, silences, and exclusions have allowed carbon cultures to persist unnoticed as merely infrastructural?

- How have oil economies built, funded, and shaped cultural infrastructures, such as museums, biennials, and collecting institutions?

Information and requirements for participants:

The workshop offers space for up to 12 participants, and the call is addressed to researchers at postdoctoral level and above. A publication is planned to follow the workshop. Prospective contributions should be presented and discussed during the sessions. Limited funds are available to support travel and accommodation.

Application modalities:

Applicants are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio to rohstoffwelten@uni-kassel.de by 30 November 2026 as a single PDF including the title, abstract, and short bio, affiliation, and contact details. If the abstract is accepted, a five-page paper draft will be required for circulation among workshop participants in advance.