AMS Jobs / Fellowships / Conferences / Calls for Papers Bulletin Boards
The AMS forwards job vacancy notices, fellowship announcements, conference announcements, calls for papers for conferences, contents of new journal issues, and other similar announcements to its "AMS-Announce" (or "Musicology-announce") bulletin boards.
For ease of use, postings to the bulletin boards are prefixed by category: JOB, FWP, CONF, CFP, ANNOUNCEMENT.
This is a free service for those wishing to advertise jobs, fellowships, conferences, and other announcements. Membership in the AMS is not required.
To have an item posted: after reading the guidelines for posts, please forward your information and request in an e-mail to the AMS office. Bob Judd will forward it to the bulletin board, typically within 24 hours. Posts are sent to some 3,000 subscribers via email, and posted to the internet. Once posted, they cannot be deleted. The service is free.
This list is commercial-free and run with Mailman software, thanks to the administrative assistance of Bowdoin College. It was begun in September 2006. See the AMS-Announce info page to subscribe; to unsubscribe or make changes, send a request to Bob Judd. See the AMS-Announce archives to browse previous posts. This list has the advantage of being advertising-free; it has the disadvantage of lack of ease for searching the archives.
2) Musicology-announce via Google Groups
This list is hosted via Google. It has e-mail options similar to (1) above, with the advantage of an easily searchable web-based archive. It includes Google's standard advertising. To subscribe or view the archives, see the Google Groups Musicology-Announce-2 page.
You may also subscribe to the Google musicology-announce-2 group via RSS feed.
Click here to see the archived list of older announcements.
3) Musicology-announce via Yahoo Groups
This list is hosted via Yahoo. It has e-mail options as 1 and 2 above, and an easily searchable web-based archive. It includes Yahoo's standard advertising. To subscribe or view the archives (which date from 4/25/2001), See the Yahoo Groups Musicology-Announce page.
You may also subscribe to the Yahoo musicology group via RSS feed.
For a bulletin board that focuses on conferences in musicology (chronological order), see the Music Conferences page maintained by J.P.E. Harper-Scott.
For a listing of ongoing grants and fellowships, see the AMS Ongoing Grants and Fellowships page.
Topics: AMS-Announce posts should be clearly related to musicology and musicologically-related subjects of more than mere local interest. Job postings unrelated to musicology, concert announcements unlikely to be of widespread interest, and the like are not appropriate for this list.
Size of posts: Posts should be clear and short, directing interested readers to a web site for fuller information wherever possible. Posts longer than three hundred words are subject to editing or rejection. Posts with nonfunctioning URL references will be rejected. (Rationale: readers tend to avoid longer posts, web sites work well for details, and short posts save bandwidth.)
Repetition of information: "Reminder" posts may be submitted no more than once for any given announcement. Reminder posts will be fewer than fifty words and will refer interested readers to a web site and the original AMS-Announce post. Reminder posts may be submitted six or more weeks after the date of the original post. (Rationale: list readers tire of repetition and the purpose of the list is undermined if too much repetition occurs.)
Conference Announcements: Each event may have one Call for Papers (CFP) with a reminder and one Conference (CONF) announcement with a reminder during a 12 month period.
Frequency of announcements: Organizations may submit announcements no more than once every six weeks. Please consolidate your information into a single post wherever possible.
To have an item posted, please forward your information and request in an e-mail to the AMS office. Bob will forward it to the bulletin board, typically within 24 hours.
Format and Content: Posts are sent in "plain text." HTML markup, paragraph formatting, Italics, underlining, bold, and all other non-plain-text characters and formatting will be stripped from posts. Attachments are not sent to the list.
Keep the post short and to the point, and use a URL to direct readers to a web site with full information.
All CONF and CFP notices, please note the Required Format:
Conference title (spell out acronymns)
[Deadline, if CFP]
Conference dates
Conference web site URL
Conference venue (institution and city)
Details (300 words max)
Please proofread your announcements carefully. "Correction" follow-up announcements cannot be sent.
Appeals to AMS-Announce Decisions. Decision appeals may be made to the AMS Communications Committee. The petitioner should explain why the announcement decision made by the AMS office staff should be overturned, and provide background correspondence in support of the appeal. The Committee on Communications, in consultation with the AMS office staff involved with the initial decision, will consider such an appeal and respond within two weeks. The decision of the Communications Committee is final.
Further information: Please contact Bob Judd at the AMS if other questions arise.
