RILM will participate in the seventh congress of the Regional Association for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Musicological Society (ARLAC/IMS), which will take place at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10–14 August 2026.
On Thursday, 13 August, at 4:00pm local/3:00pm EDT, RILM will host a plenary session, featuring three presentations. Executive Director Tina Frühauf will open the panel by addressing RILM at 60: “From bibliography to cultural memory in the age of AI: Stewardship, infrastructure, and the next platform”. Supervising Editor James Melo will survey RILM’s resources and their significance for Latin America and the Caribbean, and provide a behind-the-scenes look at our editorial processes. Finally, Executive Editor Zdravko Blažeković will highlight the six-decade relationship between RILM and the IMS. The session is chaired by Maria Alice Volpe, who will lead discussions on RILM’s evolving mission, how scholars engage with databases in the age of AI, and what can be learned from RILM’s cooperative model as musicological literature continues to grow. RILM’s Principal Architect, Guillaume Hérrison, will be present as well.
Please feel free to find us to ask questions, provide feedback, or just say hello. You can find more details about this event on the conference website.
RILM at ARLAC/IMS in Rio de Janeiro, 2026
03 August 2026