The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce its international conference Women and Musical Histories, 1789-1914, which will take place on 3-4 September 2026.
The Academy warmly invites submissions for its two-day international conference, exploring the role of women in shaping historical narratives of music across the long nineteenth century.
Recognising the diversity, complexity and nuance of female engagement with musical historiographies, we invite proposals that consider the agency women exercised as performers, composers, scholars, teachers and recorders of musical practice. Special consideration will be given to submissions that foreground performance as a means of documenting, interpreting and communicating musical/historical narratives.
The call for papers is open until 31 January 2026.
