After a brief hiatus, THEMUS, the music graduate society at Temple University, is proud to announce its Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Conference: Phoenix! The conference will be held in person on April 17-18, 2026.
We invite graduate students in all disciplines who work with music to submit proposals for presentations relating to the theme of “Phoenix: Rebirth.”
Some relevant themes include:
- The renewal of interest in a subject
- The revitalization of a field
- Cycles of birth and death
- Mythologies relating to rebirth
Applicants should plan for a 20-minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion.
Proposal requirements:
- Proposals should be no more than 250 words in length. Up to two additional pages of examples/references and/or three minutes of a recording excerpt may be included but are not required. Everything should be compiled together in a single PDF and a single MP3 file. Files should be no bigger than 5 MB.
- Proposal PDFs must not include the author’s name and should be purged of any indication of the author’s identity. Digital author tags should be removed from the metadata of PDFs.
- Please indicate at the top of your proposal your preferred modality of presentation (lecture-recital or academic paper), as well as a title for the presentation.
- If you are submitting a proposal featuring a new composition, please include a summary of your planned remarks about your piece (e.g., musical analysis, cultural context, historical framing, etc.).
- Proposals should be submitted via email to themus.tu@gmail.com. Please be sure to include your name, pronouns, and academic program or position (if any) in the email body when submitting your proposal. The deadline for submission is Monday, February 23, 2026 at 11:59 pm EST. Questions may be addressed to Conference Chair Joanna Moxley at themus.tu@gmail.com.
Information regarding the THEMUS Graduate Student Conference can be found online at sites.temple.edu/themus.