Message from the Chapter President, Jessie Ann Owens (March 9, 2020)
The Spring meeting of the Northern California chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on Saturday all day and Sunday morning, May 2 and 3, at UC Davis. Proposals are invited for papers or other scholarly presentations on any subject of musicological interest. We particularly welcome proposals for pre-planned sessions on a specified topic, especially those that cross disciplinary boundaries. Papers should require no more than 20 minutes for full presentation, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
This meeting will also feature the competition for the Ingolf Dahl Memorial Award in Musicology, which is given annually to the best student paper presented at the conference. (Details concerning the Dahl Competition may be found at http://www.ams-net.org/chapters/psc/Dahl2.html.) Students who are currently enrolled in institutions within the boundaries of the Northern California and Pacific Southwest chapters are invited to submit abstracts, specifying in the cover email their intention to participate in the competition. The abstracts will be assessed separately by a committee chaired by last year’s winner, Malachai Komanoff Bandy (USC). Three finalists will be chosen, all of whom will present their papers in the Sunday morning session of the meeting. The Dahl Committee will then decide which paper will receive the award.
Those wishing to make a presentation should submit an abstract of not more than 300 words (500 words for a pre-planned session) by April 7, along with the proposed title, author’s name and institutional affiliation, and a list of the equipment necessary for the presentation. Abstracts may be sent by email to amsnorthcal@gmail.com.