Annual Conference
Graduate Music Forum Conference 2027
Organizers: Jordan R. Brown and Shiva Ramkumar
The theme for the upcoming GMF conference will be "Black Surrealisms." Please check back soon for our CFP!
GMF2026: THE MATTER OF THE POROUS
Organizers: Victor Anand Arul and Zehra Shah
GMF2025: TRANS∗Media
Organizers: Stephen Tian-You Ai and Christina Misaki Nikitin
GMF2024: "An Adventurous Undertaking": Reconsidering Music Criticism in the 21st Century
Organizers: Elaine Fitz Gibbon and Leo Sarbanes
GMF2022: Music for a New World: Music and Decoloniality
Organizers: Eloy Ramirez and Sharri K. Hall
GMF2021: To Begin Again: Music, Apocalypse, and Social Change
Organizers: Cana McGhee and Siriana Lundgren
GMF2020
Organizer: Jinyi Zhang and Lee Cannon-Brown
GMF2019: Music, Sound, & Censorship
Organizer: Sarah Koval and Samantha Jones
GMF2018: Ex-centric Music Studies
Organizers: Giulia Accornero and Payam Yousefi
GMF2017: Black Lives Matter: Music, Race, and Justice
Organizers: Laurie Lee and Ian Copeland
GMF2016: Musical Cartographies
Organizer: Etha Williams
GMF2015: Work and Play: Economies of Music
Organizer: Hayley Fenn
GMF2014: Color and Music
Organizers: Caitlin Schmid, Krystal Klingenberg, and Stephanie Probst
GMF2013: Music at the Margins
Organizer: William O'Hara