Annual Conference - 2027
Dates: February, 2027
Venue: Bengaluru, India
(Details to be announced soon)
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Annual Conference of the Forum for Research in Indian Music, to be held in February 2027 at Bengaluru, India and online. The conference seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in the study of Indian music across its textual, performative, and theoretical dimensions.
Call for Papers
We invite papers that analyse practice and/or interrogate texts to illuminate the relationship between musical texts (treatises, compositions, commentaries, notations) and musical practices (performance, pedagogy, transmission, aesthetics), while engaging with historical, philosophical, or analytical questions.
Papers may be theoretical, analytical, ethnographic, or practice-based in form. We welcome submissions from academics and researchers as well as from performer-scholars, practitioner-researchers, and those working in collaborative or cross-disciplinary frameworks.
Potential Topics Include
Close readings of Indian musicological texts
Analytical studies of rāga, tāla, or compositional forms
Historical Musicology
Music Philology and Manuscript Studies
Histories of performance, pedagogy, or patronage
Music and aesthetics in Indian philosophical systems
Transmission of musicological knowledge (oral, textual, digital)
Intersections with dance, ritual, or religious practice
Music and colonial/postcolonial knowledge formations
Comparative frameworks and global musicology
Themes in Philosophy of Music
Histories of instruments, techniques
Conceptual and methodological issues
We welcome proposals for:
Individual papers (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion)
Thematic panels (3-4 papers + moderator; 60 minutes presentations +30 minutes discussion) - Contact Editor@frim.co.in
Lecture-demonstrations or practice-based presentations (20-minute presentation + 10-minute discussion)
Submission Guidelines
Abstract: 100-400 words with Bio: 100 words (including institutional affiliation, if any)
The abstract should clearly mention the following: Purpose and scope of the study, the methodology employed, findings and conclusions from the study.
The abstract should be objective and analytical in nature. Eulogistic and hyperbolic language should be avoided.
Deadline for Abstract and Panel Proposals: 30 September, 2026
Notification of Acceptance: 30 Oct 2026
Deadline for submission of full paper: 1 December, 2026
Deadline for Registering for Conference: 31 December, 2026
