Call for Submissions

The 2024 ISME World Conference aims to foster global understanding and co-operation among the world’s music educators. By strengthening ties and sharing ideas about diverse aspects and issues within music education, the 2024 ISME World Conference helps to promote music education worldwide for people of all ages.

The theme for the 2024 ISME World Conference is Advocacy for Sustainability in Music Education.

Music education has a crucial role in advancing the wellbeing of the individual, community and society. The uncertain times further highlight the importance of envisioning, exploring, and advocating for the many opportunities music education can offer for enhancing a sense of belonging, equity, and inclusion as well as ecological sustainability. What can we learn from the other arts, Indigenous traditions, and past and emerging musical practices around the world in our efforts of advancing resilient societies and ecosystems? And how could we ensure equitable access to music learning opportunities and participation within the wide variety of musics? The 36th World Conference provides a platform that invites music educators and other stakeholders to ask novel questions, imagine ways forward, and create new partnerships for change. The conference will open avenues to explore a sphere of possibilities for pursuing and advocating for sustainability in and through music education.

In addition to the World Conference each of the eight ISME Commissions will hold their own Pre-conference seminars in the week prior to the world conference. 

Proposals for papers, posters, symposia, and workshops are invited from participants worldwide. ISME encourages submissions that align with the conference theme Advocacy for Sustainability in Music Education from researchers and practitioners at all career stages including graduate students and early career professionals.

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