Participants need not be members of the IMS, but all are expected to register for the conference. Only one submission per author will be considered, and all proposals will be treated confidentially. Preference will be given to sessions with an interdisciplinary and international panel of speakers. Individual papers are limited to 20 minutes and will be followed by time for questions and discussion. Abstracts must not exceed 250 words.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that the necessary equipment is available.
Proposals must include a description of the research project for display, not to exceed 250 words, and provide, separately, a detailed, complete list of the materials for display and of the equipment and facilities needed. The program committee guarantees venues in the main building of the conference, in proximity to session spaces. In view of the increasing range and variety of scholarship on music, the 17th Congress of the International Musicological Society, to be held 1-7 August 2002, in Leuven, Belgium, will present eight symposia on broad themes introduced below. The symposia will replace the single theme and related round-tables that have characterized recent congresses. The program committee has sent out a call for proposals for complete sessions, individual papers, and poster presentations related to the eight themes, from which the symposia will be composed.