Welcome to ESCOM12 – the 12th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.
Navigate this website and find out more about the conference, the host hubs, the organising committees, and how to contact us. Keep up to date with information about the conference by checking our website regularly, and following our social media channels.
Event venue at La Plata hub: Sergio Karakachoff Building, 48th Street, #575 <Location>
About ESCOM
ESCOM is an international non-profit society to promote theoretical, experimental and applied research in the cognitive sciences of music.
The ESCOM triennial conference takes place every three years .ESCOM 12 will be hosted by The University of York (UK), with satellite locations atUniversidad Nacional de la Plata (Argentina), and The University of Melbourne (Australia).
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The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary and intercultural platform for the dissemination of the most recent developments in music cognition research. The goal is to offer a green and inclusive format that combines high scientific standards with lower emissions associated with flying.
Participation is encouraged in person in one of these hubs, or entirely remotely (e.g., from their home computer). We invite all participants to go to the nearest hub, trying to avoid flying for environmental reasons. The conference will be live-streamed across the hubs (and remotely) and all talks will be recorded and made available to all attendees for the weeks following the event.
We are not the first to run our conference in this way. There have been other examples from which we are learning. Richard Parncutt et al. (2021) found that a multi-hub academic conference affords “global, inclusive, culturally diverse, creative, [and] sustainable” participation.
The way it works is that each site preserves the experience of an in-person event, but the sites are spaced geographically to facilitate overland transportation and require much less flying.
Professor Parncutt and colleagues in the field of music and psychology demonstrated the feasibility of this format at the 15th biennial International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (“ICMPC15/ESCOM10”), which had simultaneous sites in Montreal (Canada), La Plata (Argentina), Graz (Austria), and Sydney (Australia).
Read more about it here:
The Multi-hub Academic Conference: Global, Inclusive, Culturally Diverse, Creative, Sustainable
Parncutt, R., Lindborg, P., Meyer-Kahlen, N., & Timmers, R. (2021). The multi-hub academic conference: global, inclusive, culturally diverse, creative, sustainable. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 6, 699782.
Or watch this short video: https://youtu.be/3VAqjUqZL0k
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Venues
ESCOM12 will be hosted by The University of York (UK), with additional satellite hubs in La Plata (Argentina), and Melbourne (Australia).
Participation is encouraged in person at one of these hubs, or entirely remotely (e.g., from their home computer). We invite all participants to go to the nearest hub, trying to avoid flying for environmental reasons. The conference will be live-streamed across the hubs (and remotely) and all talks will be recorded and made available to all attendees for the weeks following the event.
The University of York [ UK ]
The University of Melbourne [ Australia ]
Committes
Hub chairs
Dr. Solange Glassser – University of Melbourne
Dr. Isabel Martínez – Universidad Nacional de la Plata
Prof. Helena Daffern – University of York
Dr. Margaret Osborne – University of Melbourne
Dr. Joaquín Blas Perez – Universidad Nacional de la Plata
Dr. María Marchiano – Universidad Nacional de la Plata
University of York organising team
Dr. Andrea Schiavio (conference chair) / Prof. Helena Daffern (co-chair) / Dr. Mimi O’Neill / Adrian Kempf / Hannah Gibbs / Naomi Norton / Connor Kirts (Head of the Tech Team)
University of Melbourne organising team
Dr. Solange Glasser (hub chair) / Dr. Margaret Osborne (co-chair)
Universidad Nacional de la Plata organising team
Prof. Isabel Cecilia Martínez (hub chair) / Dr. Joaquín Blas Pérez (co-chair) / Dr. María Marchiano (co-chair)
Conference Advisors
Reviewing committee
TBD.
