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CIRCULATE WIDELY</u></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The MEI
Board invites proposals for the organization of the 10th edition of
the <font color="#000000">annual </font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Music Encoding Conference</b>, to be held in <b><font color="#0000ff">2022</font></b>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">As many of you
are aware, among its activities MEI oversees the organization of an annual
conference, the Music Encoding Conference (MEC), to provide a meeting place for
scholars interested in discussing the modeling, generation and uses of music
encoding. While the conference has an emphasis on the development and uses of
MEI, other contributions related to general approaches to music encoding are
always welcome, as an opportunity for exchange between scholars from various
research communities, including technologists, librarians, historians, and
theorists.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">In order to
assist prospective organizers, the MEI Board has published <a href="https://music-encoding.org/conference/hosting-guidelines.html">Hosting Guidelinesfor the Music Encoding Conference</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt">. Historically, the conference has been
organized by institutions involved in MEI, such as MEI member institutions or
those hosting MEI-based projects, but proposals from any interested group or
institution will be happily received, and ideas other than those expressed in
the official document are welcome. While
MEC venues have alternated between Europe and North America in the past, there
is no such requirement, so applications from anywhere are invited.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span lang="EN-US">The
deadline for sending proposals is <b><font color="#0000ff">Sunday, 29 March </font></b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><b><font color="#0000ff">2020</font></b></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt"><font color="#0000ff">.</font>The Board will notify bidders of its decision
in late April, and we will jointly inform the MEI community through MEI-L
thereafter. <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Successful
bidders should be prepared to make a short presentation at the upcoming MEC in
Boston, 26-29 May 2020</span><span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)">.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">The MEI
Board is happy to discuss proposals at an early stage already. Please direct
all proposals and inquiries to </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:info@music-encoding.org" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">info@music-encoding.org</a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">On behalf
of the MEI Board, best wishes,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Elsa De Luca</span><br></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:flex"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1006px"><div style="margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div><div><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Researcher in Early Music at CESEM - FCSH, NOVA University of Lisbon</span><br></div><div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1">Board member and administrative chair of the <i>Music Encoding Initiative </i>(<a href="https://music-encoding.org/" target="_blank">MEI</a>)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1">Board member of <i>Musicalia Antiquitatis & Medii Aevi</i>, Brepols<i> </i>(<a href="http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=MUSAM" target="_blank">MUSAM</a>) </font></div><div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1">Coordinator of Monodic Sources for the <i>Portuguese Early Music <a href="http://pemdatabase.eu/" target="_blank"></a>Database</i> (<a href="http://pemdatabase.eu/" target="_blank">PEM</a>) </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1"><br></font></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1"><a href="https://sites.google.com/fcsh.unl.pt/elsadeluca/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/fcsh.unl.pt/elsadeluca/</a> </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#666666" size="1"><a href="https://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt/en/pessoa/elsa-de-luca/" target="_blank">https://cesem.fcsh.unl.pt/en/pessoa/elsa-de-luca/</a> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>