Call for Contributions

We look forward to receiving your contributions to “The Nature of Music 2025”. These can be submitted from 17.03.2025. Deadline is the 15. June 2025  07. July 2025 (final extension). Contributions should preferably be in English, but can also be submitted and presented in German. Students of all qualification levels from bachelor's degree to doctorate are eligible to submit. 

• Oral presentation:  Regular (15 min. presentation + 5 min. discussion)

• Oral presentation: Short (5 min. presentation, 5 min. discussion on three short presentations)

• Poster: Poster presentation during the poster sessions

• Peer reviewer: Participation in a double-blind peer review in the selection of abstracts - by students for students.

Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words including references and keywords. 

Please upload your abstract HERE. 

Submissions should contain headings and follow an outline appropriate to the type of research, for example: 

Empirical research (planned, ongoing and completed projects):

1. Background

2. Aims

3. Methods

4. Results/expected results

5. Conclusions

6. References

Theoretical contributions/reviews

1. Background

2. Aims

3. Main contribution

4. Implications

5. References

Abstract Deadline on Oxford Abstracts: 15. June 2025  07. July 2025 (final extension)

If you would like to act as a reviewer in addition to your submission, please select this in the corresponding field in Oxford Abstracts.

If you would like to volunteer as a reviewer but do not wish to submit an abstract, please send us a message at NaMu.isf@oeaw.ac.at