Past Conferences
From 1973 to 1980 annual RIdIM meetings were held at the Research Centre for Music Iconography at The City University New York (CUNY). This tradition of wide-reaching meetings with an International scope continued with the conferences, symposiums and scholarly meetings:
- De l’image à l’objet: La méthode critique en iconographie musicale, held in Paris in 1985, held in memory of Madame Geneviève Thibault de Chambure (1902–1975), proceedings published in Imago musicae IV (1987)
- Imago musicae: Musikkultur im Spiegel der bildenden Kunst, held in Hamburg in 1991, selection of papers published in Musikalische Ikonographie. Ed. Harald Heckmann, Monika Holl, and Hans Joachim Marx (Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1994).
- Music, Body, and Stage: The Iconography of Music Theater and Opera, held in New York in 2008, selected papers published in Music in Art XXXIII (2008) and XXXIV (2009).
- Enhancing Music Iconography research: Considering the current, setting new trends, held in Salvador de Bahia in 2011, publication of proceedings in prepration.
- Study Day of Association RIdIM as part of the 19th International Congress of the IMS in Rome (July 1-7, 2012), papers delivered by Richard Leppert, Angela Bellia, Theodore E. Ulieiu-Rostás and Pablo Sotuyo Blanco.
- Visual Intersections: Negotiating East and West, 14th International RIdIM Conference, Pera Museum, Istanbul, 5–7 June 2013. Programme_Book_14th Association RIdIM Conference_Istanbul 2013
- Visual Manifestations of Power and Repression in Music, Dance, and Dramatic Arts, 15th International Conference, The Ohio State University Libraries, Columbus (Ohio), 8-10 November 2015. Programme_ Book_15th_Association RIdIM Conference_Columbus, Ohio, 2015
- The Musical Salon in Visual Culture, 16th International Conference of Association RIdIM in 2016, 7-9 Sept 2016, at the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum, in St. Petersburg, Russia, in collaboration with the Study Group on Musical Iconography of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the Center for New Technology in the Arts Art-parkING, St. Petersburg. programm-book_16th_association_ridim_conference_st-petersburg_2016
- Music and Dance in Visual Culture, 17th International Conference of Association RIdIM, 5-7 Oct 2017, in collaboration with the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” – The Friends of Music Society, Athens, Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”. The programme book is available here: 2017_10_02_Programme_Book_finale_version
- Music and Image in Cultural, Social, and Political Discourse, 18th International Conference of Association RIdIM, 9-12 July 2018, in collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church University. The programme book is available here: 2018_Programme_Book
- Belonging and Detachment: Representing Musical Identity in Visual Culture, 19th International Conference of Association RIdIM, Hobart, Tasmania, 13-15 Nov 2019, in collaboration with The University of Tasmania. The programme can be downloaded here.
- Visualizing the Unsee: Music in Visual Culture, 20th International Conference of Association RIdIM, Lucerne and St. Gallen, 27-29 Oct 2021 in collaboration with Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Music. Programmbook can be accessed online via the following link: Programm_final vers. 2021_08_13.
- Looking Popular: Representations of the Popular in Music Visual Culture, 21st International Conference of Association RIdIM, Prague (Czech Republic), 29-31 July 2022, in collaboration with Národní Muzeum, České Muzeum Hudby. Programme and Abstracts can be accessed online.
- It’s impressive but is it real? Considering the visual representation of music in the context of illusion, deception, and the visual imaginary: past and present, 22nd International Conference of Association RIdIM, Paju Book City Center, Seoul (South Korea), 19-21 October 2023, in collaboration with RIdIM Korea. Full Programme RIdIM Seoul 2023.
- Laughing your staves off: irony, satire, and parody in visual representations and narratives of music, 23rd International Conference of Association RIdIM, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (mdw), Vienna (Austria), 29-31 August 2024, in collaboration with mdw. Full Programme RIdIM Vienna 2024.