Unheard Legacies: Rethinking Early Recording Histories
University of Glasgow, 19 and 20 June 2026
Programme Committee: Eva Moreda Rodríguez (University of Glasgow), Inja Stanović (University of Surrey), Patrick Feaster (First Sounds Initiative), Nikos Ordoulidis (AltSol).
https://www.surrey.ac.uk/events/20260619-early-recordings-association-era-conference-2026
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Diskografentag: International Conference on Recorded Music. In honour of Hugo Strötbaum
Die Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger (GHT) and Orient-Institut Istanbul
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October 2026, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2026
Programme committee:
Dr. Inja Stanović (GHT, ERA, University of Surrey)
Dr. Cüneyt Ersin Mıhcı (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Dr. Will Sumits (Orient-Institut Istanbul)
Die Gesellschaft für Historische Tonträger (GHT) is a non-profit association founded in Vienna in November 2002 and open to members worldwide. Its mission is to preserve historical sound recordings and to document, archive, and make their data and content accessible in accordance with scholarly standards. GHT also works to raise public awareness of this field and to promote related activities. GHT’s annual conference, Diskografentag 2026, will be hosted by the Orient-Institut Istanbul and is dedicated to the memory of Hugo Strötbaum (1946–2026), whose tireless work greatly contributed to discographic research in the eastern Mediterranean. This two-day conference will provide a forum for researchers, enthusiasts, and collectors to come together to discuss historical recordings, technologies, and practices.
The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for individual papers (20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions), longer presentations (30 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions), and round-table discussions (90 minutes in total). GHT members and non-members alike—including musicologists, academics, musicians, collectors, enthusiasts, early-career researchers, and PhD students—are warmly invited to submit proposals. The conference language is English, but we welcome papers in Turkish that could be presented in English on behalf of the author. We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to:
- Early recordings from the eastern Mediterranean and extending to South and Southeast Asia
- Ethnomusicological aspects of historical recorded materials
- Ethnomusicological collections and recording practices
- Discographies and record archiving
- The development and compilation of discographies
- Database creation for discographic data and audio files
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word biography to i.stanovic@surrey.ac.uk
The full programme will be announced by 1 May 2026.
Any questions, please contact Dr. Inja Stanović (i.stanovic@surrey.ac.uk)