As we all know, COVID-19 continues to affect the global population. Due to travel restrictions, limits to the holding of public meetings, and other measures enacted to contain the spread of the virus, the following ICTM events (sorted by originally scheduled date) have been postponed:

• 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe (Trabzon, Turkey, 13–17 April 2020): postponed to 23–25 April 2021

• 11th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Maqām (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 20–22 May 2020): postponed to 2021

• 2nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music, Education and Social Inclusion (Puerto Rico, USA, 21–23 May 2020): postponed

• 23rd Symposium of ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources
 (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 26–31 May 2020): postponed to 3–7 November 2021

• 10th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania (Honolulu, USA, 13–14 June 2020): postponed

• 13th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Mediterranean Music Studies (Tangier, Morocco, 15–20 June 2020): postponed

• 11th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Minorities (Uppsala, Sweden, 22–28 June 2020): postponed to 25–30 October 2021

• 11th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music, Gender, and Sexuality (Zagreb, Croatia, 10–14 July 2020): postponed to 24–28 September 2021

• 31st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology (Klaipėda, Lithuania, 18–25 July 2020): postponed to 12–18 July 2021

• 6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (Bagan, Myanmar, 25 July–5 August 2020): postponed to 13–21 March 2021

• 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Musics of East Asia (Inner Mongolia, China, 27–29 August 2020): postponed

• 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music of the Turkic-speaking World  (Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan, 6–9 September 2020): postponed to 6–9 September 2021

• 3rd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Audiovisual Ethnomusicology (Bologna, Italy, 21–23 September 2020): postponed to 2021

• 3rd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on African Musics (Maputo, Mozambique, 23–26 September 2020): postponed to 2021

• 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Iconography of the Performing Arts (Lisbon – Alpiarça, Portugal, 15–17 October 2020): postponed to 7–9 October 2021

• 3rd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World (Poznań, Poland, 16–19 October 2020): postponed to 20–23 October 2021

• 1st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Global History of Music (Chengdu, China, 16–18 November 2020): postponed to 12–14 May 202

• 27th ICTM Colloquium (Shanghai, China, 28–30 November 2020): postponed to 28–30 December 2020

• 6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Performing Arts of Southeast Asia (Bagan, Myanmar, 13–20 March 2021): postponed to 29 July–5 August 2021

• 46th ICTM World Conference (Lisbon, Portugal, 22–28 July 2021): postponed to 21–27 July 2022

More information can be found on the links above. We urge all members of the ICTM community to follow the recommendations of their respective local or national health services. We will be updating this article as news develop. 

The ICTM Secretariat

• Last update: 12 February 2021