Call for Presentations:
28th Annual Graduate Students in Music (GSIM) Conference
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

The students of the Department of Music at The Graduate Center, CUNY, are pleased to announce the 28th Annual GSIM Conference, held on April 26–27, 2025. The conference will be held fully in person for attendees. However, we are offering the option for presenters to share their work virtually via Zoom if they are unable to attend the conference in person. In addition to student presentations, a keynote address will be given by Maureen Mahon, Professor of Music at New York University, whose research focuses on constructions of race, gender, and sexuality in music. Her most recent book, Black Diamond Queens, explores the pivotal part African American women have played in the development of rock and roll.

We invite graduate students in all disciplines who work on music to submit proposals for presentations relating to the theme of “Musical Labor and Process.” This theme is meant to be construed broadly, but we encourage presentations that expand the definition of what constitutes musical labor and especially highlights the work of historically marginalized groups or those who have been excluded from traditional narratives of music-making. Fruitful topics might include (but are certainly not limited to):

  • Compositional process
  • Performance practice
  • Historical narratives of music
  • “Art” and “popular” music distinctions
  • Materiality
  • Work music performs in society
  • Analytical work and paradigms
  • Music pedagogy and scholarship
  • Musical spaces
  • Music technology and production
  • Music publishing
  • Labor and ethics of care
  • Community/nonprofessional music-making

See full call here:

Call for Presentations