Annual Conference - 2026
First Annual Conference of the Forum for Research in Indian Music
Dates: February 7-8, 2026
Venue: Room# 301, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, India
Hybrid Mode (In person and Online)
The Conference is co-organized by the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. The Forum for Research in Indian Music (FRIM) is a extra-institutional collective of scholars and performers interested in promoting critical research in Indian music and musicology. We aim for the forum to be a space that fosters creative and rigorous research in the music of South Asia, in a spirit of openness and collaboration.
Note: Registration for abstracts is closed.
Conference Theme
This is the inaugural international conference of FRIM, organized in the hybrid mode. We seek to have representation for all the investigative styles seen in research in the performing arts: textual, philosophical, historical, empirical, experimental and anthropological, to name but a few. We are keen to include practitioners as well as researchers; and hope that the first FRIM conference serves to connect senior and young researchers with each other. The conference includes collective text-reading sessions.
Some of the themes represented in the conference include:
Histories of Pedagogy and Performance
Rāga interpretation and reification
The Musical systems of Nepal and Srilanka
Histories of Vocal and Instrumental Praxis
Genre Criticism
Rāga iconography and their musical counterparts
Speakers
We have an exciting lineup of senior and young scholars presenting their research.
Feb 7: Jyoti Singh, Priyashri V. Rao, Rajshri Ramakrishna, R. Goswami, Naresh Keerthi, KJ Kunte, J Prateek Pattanaik, Arati N. Rao, N. Ramanathan, Richard Widdess
Feb 8: Dard Neuman, Eshantha Peiris, Aishwarya Shankar, Sugnan Dani, Ayesha Sheth, Martin Clayton, Noé Dinnerstein, Peter Manuel
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