The Sterling E. Murray Award for Student Travel, named in honor of SECM’s founding president, was established in 2011 to encourage and enable college and university students aged 35 years or under, enrolled as full-time undergraduate or graduate students in accredited academic programs and having career interests that relate to the mission of the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, to attend the Society’s biannual meetings. The award consists of $500 to support travel expenses as well as a student membership in the Society for one year. Award recipients are announced in the Society’s newsletter and recognized at the meeting that they attend.

Application Procedure: download application

Please submit applications as a PDF or WORD document to:

Kathryn Libin,
Sterling E. Murray Award Committee Chair
kalibin@vassar.edu

Applications must be received by 15 February 2012 for the April 2012 conference in Charleston, and should consist of the following items:

1. Applicant information form.
2. A statement of 300 words or less describing your academic interests as they relate to the study of eighteenth-century music.
3. Two letters of recommendation written by persons who are familiar with your work and career interests. At least one must be from a teacher or professor who can verify your student status.
4. Your current curriculum vitae.
5. A brief itemized budget of the expenses you are likely to incur by attending the SECM biannual meeting, including travel, accommodations, and conference registration. The following documents (items 6 and 7) are optional but should be included, if appropriate, with your application:
6. If you have proposed a paper for the meeting, a copy of the abstract submitted to the Program Committee.
7. If you have attended one or more SECM meetings in the past, a brief statement about what you gained from the experience.

The Scholarly Societies Project, founded in 1994, is devoted to facilitating access to information about scholarly societies across the world. It currently contains information about over 4,000 scholarly societies.
Of particular interest to SECM members is a subsection of the Project entitled Repertorium Veterrimarum Societatum Litterariarum (Inventory of the Oldest Scholarly Societies), which covers scholarly societies that were founded up to the year 1829. This is an area rich in information about societies that were active during the eighteenth century. It is located at http://www.scholarly-societies.org/history/
Over 250 of the societies mentioned in this area have associated history pages, which include basic historical information for the society, as well as information on the major journals published by the society, including references to full-text archives of the volumes, where appropriate.
The abbreviations area lists contemporaneous journal-title abbreviations and gives links to the history pages where the corresponding journals are described. This area includes the vast majority of abbreviations used in the pre-eminent index to journal articles of that time period: the Repertorium Commentationum a Societatibus Litterariis Editarum, Secundum Disciplinarum Ordinem, compiled by Jeremias David Reuss and published in 16 volumes from 1801 to 1821.

The University of California Press has graciously extended to the SECM membership a 20% discount on individual subscriptions to The Journal of Musicology. This would amount to an annual subscription price of $33.60 (American dollars). For price list and details click here. To claim the discount, SECM members should use the discount code SECM20 when they subscribe.

Cambridge University Press has graciously extended to the SECM membership a 20% discount on individual subscriptions to the new journal Eighteenth-Century Music. This would amount to an annual subscription at approximately $26.00 (American dollars). For price list and details click here. To claim the discount, SECM members simply need to indicate that they are members when they contact Cambridge University Press to subscribe.