Upcoming IASPM-ANZ Conferences

 

Call For Papers: IASPM-ANZ 2025 (Dunedin)

CTRL+PLAY: Participation and Power in Popular Music Futures

Organisers: University of Otago

Conference Date: 08-10 December, 2025

Location: Dunedin, New Zealand

Deadline for Submissions: 16 June, 2025 — Midnight NZST

Conference Theme:

This conference explores the nature of participation, agency, and authorship in popular music amid dramatic technological transformations. As artificial intelligence and digital platforms increasingly mediate the processes of music creation and consumption, we ask: In what ways is human influence in music cultures being diminished, redirected, or augmented? What does the future look like regarding human participation and agency in popular music?

We welcome papers that interrogate how individuals and communities engage with, resist, or are reshaped by these shifts, with particular attention to the barriers and enablers to participation across diverse demographic and sociocultural contexts.

Key topics may include (but are not limited to):

  • Human roles in music creation, production, and community building

  • Shifts in music work: automation, AI, and the future of creative labour

  • Intersectional identities in music making and consumption (class, race, gender, sexuality)Intellectual property, ownership, and performance in technologically mediated musicpractices

  • Fan cultures and participatory practices

  • Music venues, spaces, and the significance of place in popular music

  • Governance and regulation of music industries and spaces

  • Historicisation and memory-making in music communities

  • Media representation and music journalism

Submission Details:

We invite abstracts of 250–300 words for 20-minute papers or 90-minute panels. Please include a short bio (max 150 words) for each presenter. Please submit the required material to iaspm-anz.conference@otago.ac.nz.

Further enquiries: iaspm-anz.conference@otago.ac.nz

Previous IASPM-ANZ Conferences

2024

Host University: Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa Massey University and Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington

Location: Massey University Pukeahu Campus, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa

Theme: Musical Translations and Transformations

2023

Host University: Wintec | Te Pūkenga and the University of Auckland

Location: Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and Kirikiriroa/Hamilton

Theme: Diversity In Popular Music Spheres

2022

Host University: RMIT University

Location: Narrm/Melbourne

Theme: Opening Up: Reconnecting, Remixing, Remastering

2020/21

Host University: UTS University

Location: Warrane/Sydney

Theme: Popular Music Scales