Saturday 25 October 2025, London
Royal Holloway, University of London
Venue: Stewart House (entrance via Senate House), Bloomsbury (central London).
Event format: in-person only
SEEM gratefully acknowledges the support of the Music Department and School of Performing and Digital Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London.
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.
Our 2025 colloquium is conceived as an opportunity to bring to attention significant new work and to reflect on the current state of our field. We particularly invite 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
Beyond this theme, proposals are also invited for presentations on Slavonic/East European music and allied topics more broadly. The conference committee would particularly welcome contributions on subjects that have received limited attention in English-language scholarship. The organisers welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage, including postgraduate researchers. The working language of the conference will be English.
Abstracts of no more than 250 words and short biographical notes (c.100 words) should be sent by Tuesday 1 April. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by end of April.
A limited number of bursaries will be available to assist graduate students and presenters without access to institutional support. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, you should indicate this in your covering letter when submitting your abstract. Please be aware that we are unlikely to be in a position to cover participants’ costs in full.
The colloquium will be conducted in alignment with BASEES’ current policies on participation in its annual conferences and research events. We welcome all students and scholars who oppose Russia’s war on Ukraine. Anyone supporting Russia’s war, or justifying it in any way, will not be welcome. Colleagues based in Russia or Belarus will participate in a personal capacity. BASEES’s anti-harassment policy will apply.
Convenors: Daniel Elphick, Christoph Flamm, Christina Guillaumier, Katerina Levidou, Ivana Medić, and Patrick Zuk.
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