Uniarts Helsinki hosts the 36th World Conference of the International Society of Music Education ISME in August 2024
Carrying the theme Advocacy for Sustainability in Music Education, the conference aims to foster global understanding and co-operation among music and arts educators around the world.
The 36th ISME World Conference is organized in Helsinki, Finland from 28 July to 2 August 2024. By strengthening ties and sharing ideas about diverse aspects and issues within music and arts education, the conference helps to promote music and the arts worldwide for people of all ages. It provides a platform that invites music education scholars, educators, and other stakeholders to ask 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.
Bringing forward global aspects, visions, and possibilities of music education
Music education has a crucial role in advancing the wellbeing of the individual, community, and society. The recent uncertain times further highlight the importance of envisioning, exploring, and advocating for the many opportunities that music education can offer for enhancing a sense of belonging, equity, and inclusion as well as ecological sustainability.
Music education can have its own significant role in transforming the world towards a sustainable future. Uniarts Helsinki, as the host organization of this event, believes that music and other arts have enormous potential to make a difference in the world. We need all that potential, all the questions and new partnerships for change that music educators and other stakeholders can offer.
Call for submissions for various types of programmes is now open
Registration to the event will open in January 2024 and the call for programme proposals is now open to ISME members. Proposals for papers, posters, symposia, workshops, and performances for the conference 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.
Please note that you must be an ISME member to submit a proposal.
Key dates
- Call for submissions: closes October 2nd, 2023. Acceptances by January 31st, 2024
- Call for performance submissions: closes September 15th, 2023, acceptances by October 15th, 2023
- Pre-conference seminars submission closes November 1st, 2023, acceptances by February 28th, 2024