Advance notice: the next joint SMI/ICTM-Ireland postgraduate conference will be held at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, on 17-18 January 2020. The keynote speaker will be Philip Bohlman.

Registration for the SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference on 10-11 January 2019 is now open. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite and a copy of the draft schedule is also available to view there.

Proposals are invited -- deadline 10 December -- for a symposium on Protest and Performance, to be held at the University of Ulster's Magee campus, Derry, on 10 January 2019. 20-minute and 10-minute presentations and video or audio–based responses may be considered on a variety of themes: see full details.

It is with profound sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our colleague Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, who earlier this week died unexpectedly at the age of 67. Mícheál, Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Limerick and founding director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, served on the steering committee of the SMI in 2002-03, and then on the Society's first Council (2003-06). He made an extraordinary contribution to Irish cultural life as a performer, composer, academic, educational innovator, broadcaster and writer.