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PhD in AI-Assisted Musical Composition
📍IRCAM / Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Three-year doctoral position developing controllable audio generative models for music composition and sound design. Research includes multimodal control, adapting models to composers’ own material, and machine learning for audio.
Deadline: 15/12/2026
https://www.ircam.fr/en/jobs-offers/phd-candidate--ai-assisted-musical-composition
Technology and Agency in Global Music History
The IMS Study Group “Global History of Music” invites papers on musical and sonic technologies, their role in global histories, colonial and capitalist networks, material and environmental histories, digital research and AI.
📅 Online, 21/01/2027
20-minute papers or 90-minute roundtables.
Deadline: 13/11/2026
https://www.musicology.org/docs/study_groups/global_history/2026_gh_study_day.pdf
14th International Conference on New Music Concepts (ICNMC 2027)
📍 Treviso, Italy / online
📅 20–21/03/2027
Interdisciplinary conference on music, art, science, technology and culture. Contributions on composition, performance, sound, AI, music cognition, education and more are welcome. Papers, posters and workshops.
Deadline: 17/01/2027
Music Making and Social Change
📍 Reykjavík, Iceland
📅 18–20/05/2027
Conference on musical practice and social change, including collaboration, diversity and inclusion, health and well-being, cross-sector partnerships, leadership and impact.
Deadline: 31/10/2026
https://buildingbridges.lhi.is/conference/
Submit proposals: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/gsdFeHrnft
ESEM & ICTMD Nordic-Baltic Joint Seminar
The 2027 joint seminar welcomes research in ethnomusicology and ethnochoreology, focusing on ethics and spatiality in music and dance research. Contributions on other topics are also welcome. Papers, lecture-recitals, panels, roundtables & audiovisual sessions.
📍 Växjö, Sweden
📅 13–19/09/2027
Deadline: 06/12/2026
#AcademicJob | #PhDStudentship
Praedoc in Digital Music Research
📍mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria
Funded, part-time PhD position (30 hours/week) combining digital musicology, music encoding, citizen science, corpus creation and software development. Applicants need training in both musicology and informatics, plus programming experience.
Deadline: 28/10/2026
https://www.mdw.ac.at/bewerbungsportal/mittelbau/396
#DigitalHumanities #ComputationalMusicology #MusicInformatics #MIR
Celtic
Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie 41/2028
The special issue explores Celtic music and dance, cultural identity, revival movements, spiritualities, media representations and global musical circulations, from historical traditions to contemporary hybrid forms.
Proposals: 500–1,000 words + indicative bibliography.
Deadline: 01/05/2027
https://adem.ch/fr/publications-cahiers-dethnomusicologie-cahiers-41-appel-a-co
Beyond Cultural Transfer
Societas Communitas – Special Issue
The special issue explores how objects, ideas, practices and knowledge move across cultural boundaries, focusing on translation, intermediaries, colonial histories, unequal exchange and multidirectional transfers.
Contributions from sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies and related fields are welcome.
The Participatory Turn in Music: Education, Cognition, Knowledge
SEMPRE Spring Conference on musical participation across education, cognition, performance and communities. Contributions on other music-related topics are also welcome.
📍 King’s College London, UK / Online
📅 15–16/04/2027
Papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, posters & media.
Deadline: 04/12/2026
Assistant Professor in Musicology (2 positions)
📍National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
GIM seeks two full-time Assistant Professors for autumn 2027: one scholar using systematic approaches and able to teach music theory, sound/voice, music & technology or film music; and one ethnomusicologist.
Deadline: 15/10/2026
Konpa Dirèk: Popular Music and Social Relations in Haiti and the Haitian Diaspora
Special issue of the Journal of Caribbean Music & Sound Cultures on konpa as a space for social meaning, identity, power and heritage-making in Haiti and its diasporas.
📅 Abstracts: 250–300 words
Deadline: 01/11/2026
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-caribbean-music-sound-cultures#call-for-papers
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PhD & PostDoc positions in Machine Learning & AI for Music
@ ELLIS Institute Finland / University of the Arts #Helsinki
Fully funded positions in music AI, MIR, generative modelling, computational creativity and artistic research.
Deadline: 21/09/2026
https://www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-and-phd-recruit-autumn-2026
#MusicTechnology #AI #MIR #ComputationalMusicology #ComputationalMusicProcessing #DigitalMusicology #DigitalHumanities
Citizenship, belonging, and emancipation in the 19th and 20th centuries
Conference on citizenship and belonging in the emancipatory struggles of marginalised communities, with a focus on Roma, Jewish and disability histories.
📍 Prague
📅 31/05–02/06/2027
Submissions and questions should be emailed to romanihistories@ff.cuni.cz and dalen@wustl.edu by December 15, 2026.
PhD students and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 15/12/2026
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
📍University of Manchester, UK
The Music Department invites applications for three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships. The scheme supports early-career researchers developing original publishable research, with projects spanning musicology, music analysis, ethnomusicology, composition and performance studies.
Deadline: 28/10/2026
https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships
#Musicology #Ethnomusicology #ResearchFunding #EarlyCareerResearchers
From Archives to Algorithms: Memory, Digital Infrastructures, and Ethnomusicological Research on the Musical Traditions of the Greek World
Conference on archives, digital humanities, MIR, algorithmic approaches, ethics and the preservation of Greek musical traditions.
📍 Athens
📅 21–23/05/2027
Individual papers, posters and panels welcome.
Deadline: 10/12/2026
Up to 20 Jean Monnet Fellowships
📍European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Fellowships for postdocs, tenure-track academics and scholars on sabbatical, with research proposals fitting one of the Robert Schuman Centre's research themes, programmes or projects. Applicants must have obtained their doctorate more than 5 years before the fellowship starts.
Deadline: 23/10/2026
https://www.eui.eu/apply?id=jean-monnet-fellowships
https://www.eui.eu/en/academic-units/robert-schuman-centre-for-advanced-studies
Bernadotte Programme Scholarships 2027
📍Sweden
Up to two SEK 125,000 scholarships for postdoctoral researchers from outside Sweden working on Swedish folk culture in a broad sense. Projects should engage at least two participating Royal Academies and involve 4–6 months of research at a Swedish institution in 2027.
Deadline: 30/09/2026
https://gustavadolfsakademien.se/posts/de-kungliga-akademierna
#PostdoctoralResearch #FolkCulture #InterdisciplinaryResearch
5–9 Postdoctoral Researchers, CoE in Music, Mind, Body and Brain
📍University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Three-year postdoctoral positions in research on music, mind, body and brain, combining experimental, computational, psychometric and statistical approaches. Themes include music and emotion, movement, social interaction, development, health and wellbeing, and music therapy.
Deadline: 13/09/2026
5th International Scientific Session: “Gheorghianism and the Foundations of the Roma Nation”
Research on Roma history, identity and culture, with contributions from social sciences, humanities, anthropology, sociology and Romani studies.
📍 Bucharest, Romania
📅 05–06/11/2026
Deadline: 30/10/2026
#Roma #RomaniStudies #Anthropology #History #CulturalStudies
... it was also a great pleasure and honour to participate in a roundtable dedicated to the beloved memory of David Hughes, who passed away in May 2025.
David’s work beautifully connected musical analysis with the embodied realities of performance and orality — topics we explored during the discussion, alongside many memories and reflections on David himself and his inspiring work in ethnomusicology.
(Participating scholars are named in the image alt text.)
