Conference Agenda

Since 2016, we at AMS After Dark have hosted an annual comedy panel to accompany the fascinating scholarship we encounter at AMS/SMT/SEM conferences. Panelists will each deliver a 5–7-minute parodic presentation, after which the audience will hopefully woo them with the most delightful Q&A they have ever experienced. Awards will be given for categories like most esoteric, most likely to be a real conference paper in 50 years, and most self-indulgent question.

The theme for this year’s 10th annual(!) panel is “Toward a Truly Historically Informed Music Theory,” with a focus on numerology. As always, however, we will welcome papers that satirize ANY aspect of music scholarship, so long as they do not cross the line into personal offenses.

Full Call for Papers (to circulate in September): amsafterdark.neocities.org (or https://bit.ly/amsad2025cfp if you prefer to read the Chicago Manual of Style for funsies)

Program (to be posted in early November): https://bit.ly/amsad2025program

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