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Florida State University will jointly host the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter in Tallahassee, Florida on February 27–28, 2026.
Although the meeting will be held jointly between two chapters, each chapter will have its own program committee that will independently review the proposals it receives. Members of the AMS Southern Chapter should follow the instructions in this CFP. (Members of the SEM Southeast/Caribbean Chapter should look for a separate CFP.)
To submit a proposal for the chapter meeting as a member of the AMS Southern Chapter, send an abstract as an email attachment in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx extension) to Abstracts Editor Katie Rios (rios_kj -at- mercer.edu). The abstracts editor will remove the names from the proposals and submit them anonymously to the program committee. Submissions must be received by Friday, November 14, 2025, 11:59 pm (EST). Abstracts should be double spaced and no longer than 350 words. Papers as read should not exceed 20 minutes.
The AMS Southern Chapter has expanded the participation options available to its membership. In addition to soliciting individual presentations, the chapter invites proposals for panel discussions and presentations in alternative formats, such as lecture-recitals, film screenings, seminars, and pedagogical sessions. We also invite collaborative sessions between AMS-S and SEM-SEC members; such sessions should be identified as an “AMS-SEM Collaboration” in the proposal and sent to both program committees.
All presenters whose papers are accepted by the Southern Chapter must be members in good standing of both the AMS national organization and the Southern Chapter. Once the Program Committee has selected a list of presenters, the program chair will forward the names to the national office to ensure membership is current before sending out responses to those who have submitted proposals.
