RILM will participate in the joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory in Minneapolis, 6–9 November 2025. 

On Thursday, 6 November, at 5:00pm CDT, Editor Stella Li will present her research in a paper titled “Jazz queens in women’s magazines: Negotiating femininity in occupied Japan” as part of The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan panel. Also on Thursday, 4:00–5:30pm, Editor Ralph Whyte will chair the panel Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology. 

On Friday, 7 November, 10:45am–12:15pm, Executive Director Tina Frühauf will chair the panel In the Shadow of the Holocaust. That evening, 6:00–8:00pm, RILM and RIPM will host a joint reception for all conference attendees.

On Saturday, 8 November, 9:00–10:30am, Stella will chair the panel Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music. That afternoon, 2:15–3:45pm, Ralph will lead a workshop on research techniques and bibliography. The workshop will consider how music scholars–especially graduate students and other junior scholars–navigate databases, reference works, and other research tools. Finally, later that day, 4:00–5:00pm, Stella will lead a workshop on abstract writing titled Mastering the Art of the Abstract. 

Throughout the conference, RILM staff can also be found at the RILM booth in the exhibition hall. Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. 

And for more details on this event, please visit the conference website on which you’ll find the conference schedule.

RILM will participate in the 70th annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology in Atlanta, Georgia, 23–26 October 2025.

On Thursday, 23 October, at 8:00am local time, Editor Beatriz Goubert will present her paper “Scenes behind the zines: Global music connections in the pre-Internet era”, which features an analysis of some of the 1980s popular music fanzines in the RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) digital archive.

On Thursday, 23 October, at 4:00pm local time, Editor Stella Li will present her research in a paper titled “Jazz queens in women’s magazines: Negotiating femininity in occupied Japan” as part of The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan panel.

On Friday, 24 October, at 4:00pm EDT, Editor Russell Skelchy will conduct a workshop titled Research Tools for Ethnomusicology: Navigating Bibliography, Historiography, and Ethnography. The workshop will be dedicated to developing research techniques with a focus on bibliography, historiography, online databases, and other research tools relevant to ethnographers and practitioners in the field of ethnomusicology, especially graduate students and junior scholars.

RILM staff will also be present at the RILM booth in the exhibition hall throughout the conference. Stop by to learn more about all of RILM’s resources. We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

View the full conference schedule here.

Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will be present at the EBSCO Open Day Torino on 22 October 2025. Held at the Palazzo Reale, this year’s meeting is dedicated to the theme The 2030 Agenda for a Sustainable Future. It provides a forum through which to reflect on the challenges and opportunities related to sustainability and the strategic role that academic libraries, businesses, government agencies, research institutions, and international publishers are called upon to play. Zdravko will be joined by DEUMM Online General Editor Daniela Castaldo.