CHIME – European Foundation for Chinese Music Research

Annual Conference, 4–8 July 2025

University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

 

Digital Futures for Chinese Music

Keynote Speaker: Yu Hui, Changjiang Distinguished Professor, Yunnan University

 

Call for Papers

 

In this conference we focus on the various ways new media (digital media especially) provide spaces for preserving, creating, playing, sharing, teaching, or discussing music, and the ways these spaces are impacting what musicians, culture bearers, and others do in the musical part of their lives. Prospective participants are encouraged to submit proposals that resonate with this theme. However, presentations of any new research in the broad area of Chinese music studies are also welcome, whether these engage with the theme or not.

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New digital media provide for “repackaging” of traditions, access to distant events, gestures of sharing and commemoration, and spaces (and toolkits) for new creation, online learning, critical commentary, or playful remixing. We might study these situations in several ways:

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• as platforms and tools for new kinds of musical creation, curation, and participation

• as spaces for new formats of presentation, repatriation, and commemoration

• as settings where performance facets like musical expression, liveness, or authenticity are open to striking reformulations

• as a source of musical materials, influences, threats, or inspirations

• as contexts that raise expanded economic and reputational possibilities as well as ethical or legal concerns

 

We welcome proposals that address one or more of these questions, or which pose other questions related to the digital futures for Chinese music, as well as those relating to new research more broadly. 

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Please note that this is an in-person conference. 

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DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15 JANUARY 2025. Successful applicants will be notified c. 1 February 2025. A registration website will be available c. 15 January 2025. Attendees who need letters of invitation for visa or funding purposes are encouraged to register as early as possible to allow the necessary time for those arrangements.

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Proposals are invited for: 

• Solo Papers (20 minutes with 10 minutes for questions) 

• Panels (3 or 4 linked papers around a theme, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours) 

• Roundtables (3 or 4 shorter presentations, around 15 minutes each, followed by a chaired discussion, totalling 1.5 or 2 hours) 

• Performance-based presentations or workshops (with durations as above) 

• Films or other media presentations (with durations as above) 

• Collaborative or multidisciplinary presentations that include a group of researchers, practitioners, or other research participants (again with durations as above).

 

Abstracts for individual papers should be 250-300 words in length. For panels and roundtables, send an abstract for each paper/contribution together with an overall panel/roundtable description of c. 150 words. Submission of abstracts: https://www.chimemusic.net/28th-chime

All proposals will be peer reviewed. 

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Keynote speaker: YU Hui is a Changjiang Distinguished Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education and Director of Center for Ethnomusicology at Yunnan University. An ethnomusicologist specializing in Chinese traditional music in the digital era and ethnic minority music in Yunnan, his recent publications include: The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora (Yu, Hui and Jonathan P.J. Stock. Oxford University Press, 2023) and Global Perspectives on Chinese Music in the Internet Age (Yu, Hui and Wild Stephen. eds., Hangzhou: Zhejiang University Press, 2019). He is currently chief editor of Asian Musicology.

 

Conference Organiser and contact for enquiries:

Dr. Lijuan Qian, lijuan.qian@ucc.ie

Dr. Alexander Khalil 

Dr. Keyi Liu

Prof. Jonathan Stock