MECAMF- Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum - QMUL

We are delighted to announce that the next Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum will be held on Friday 20th June 2025 (9.30am to 7pm), hosted by Cristina Moreno Almeida (Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures & Arabic Cultural Studies and IHSS Fellow) at Queen Mary, University of London and assisted by Stephanie Amin, research assistant.

The Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum has been running since 2007 and is open to researchers, students and anyone interested in the music and culture of the region. In the spirit of fostering dialogue and interdisciplinarity, we hope that the issues discussed at the Forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of Middle Eastern and Central Asian culture broadly speaking (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc).
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The Forum is convened by Professor Laudan Nooshin from City St George’s, University of London (l.nooshin@city.ac.uk) and Professor Rachel Harris from SOAS, University of London (rh@soas.ac.uk).

The Forum will be taking place on Friday 20 June, from 9:30am to 7pm at Colette Bowe and Marin Harris Rooms at the Queen's Building, 327 Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS.

For those who won't be able to join us at QMUL, please register here to attend the forum online: For those who won't be able to join us at QMUL, please register here to attend the forum online: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjU5MjZhOWItMTQ3ZS00ODdmLThjYjgtMGRjMTZkYzA4ODQ2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22569df091-b013-40e3-86ee-bd9cb9e25814%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22ee4dd004-880f-4dc2-b17a-60cfeecc6e08%22%7d

Confirmed Speakers:

• Polly Withers (LSE)
• Gunseli Ferel Ucar (City St George’s)
• Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (University of Cambridge)
• Irene Fernandez-Ramos (Queen Mary, University of London)
• Gabrielle Messeder (University of Oxford)
• Farid Ghrich (King’s College, University of London)
• Stephen Wilford (Cambridge)

More details on the programme will be following soon.

For enquiries, please contact Dr. Cristina Moreno-Almeida (c.morenoalmeida@qmul.ac.uk) or (stephanie.amin@qmul.ac.uk)