Royal Holloway hosts the 2025 Slavonic and East European Music Study Group Colloquium at Senate House, London.
Senate House London
The Slavonic and East European Music Study Group Conference (SEEM) gratefully acknowledges the support of the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London and its lead convenor, Dr Daniel Elphick.
Originally founded as the BASEES Study Group on Russian and East European Music (REEM), this network held its inaugural conference at the University of Bristol in 2006 and has since organised regular events around the UK and abroad. SEEM brings together scholars working at the interface of musicology and Slavonic/Eastern European studies and seeks to foster international and interdisciplinary connections to support research on music and cultural life across the region.
The 2025 colloquium is conceived as an opportunity to bring to attention significant new work and to reflect on the current state of the field of Slavonic and East European Music.
The conference particularly invited proposals on the theme of Music and Gender as it relates to Slavonic/East European music, and allied topics. This includes (but is not limited to):
- Changing attitudes to music and gender within Slavonic/Eastern European communities
- Discussions of female composers, performers, or practitioners in Slavonic/East European music
- Representations of non-binary, queer, and LGBTQ+ identities in music
- Approaches to transgender rights and identities in music
- New theorisations of gender and music
- Depictions of gender in Slavonic/Eastern European music
- Reassessments/interpretations from a critical gender studies perspective
- Intersections between Gender Theory and wider theories/conceptions of Slavonic/East European music
- Wider aspects of equality, diversity, and inclusion within Slavonic/East European music
For full information about the conference, please visit this website: https://basees.org/study-group-for-russian-and-eastern-european-music-reem
