We are pleased to announce our four keynote speakers:

Dr Andrew Milne, MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, will present 'Do psychoacoustic features predict the stability of intervals and triads in remote Papua New Guinean communities?'

Prof. Martin Norgaard, Georgia State University, will present 'Connectivity of brain functional domains during Jazz improvisation'

Prof. Aniruddh Patel, Tufts University, will speak about 'Measuring and modeling melodic expectation using singing: surprising findings and new opportunities for cross-cultural research'

Dr Katie Rose Sanfilippo, Goldsmith, University of London, will present 'Testing a community-led music intervention to support antenatal mental health in The Gambia'

Locations will be organised into time-zone clusters

-5 UTC Americas - Colombia (-5) and Mexico (-5) as organising hubs

+1 UTC West-Europe-Africa - UK (+1), Poland (+2), South Africa (+2) as organising hubs

+ 4 UTC East - Lithuania (+3), Azerbaijan (+4), and India (+5.30) as organising hubs

+10 UTC Far East - Australia as organising hub

Updated program for presenters (Last update 21st July)

We have added a UTC/ GMT timing, to make it easier for presenters from different timezones to decipher the date and time of their presentation. For example if your contribution is scheduled at 23:00 PM GMT on Wednesday 28 July. Then for someone based in India, that is GMT + 5:30 hours= 04:30, the next day (Thursday). For someone based in Chicago, that would be GMT-5, so 18:00. For people in Sydney, it is GMT +10, so 9am in the morning (Thursday).

Please note that the IDs that are included on the programme are the ones of your ORIGINAL contribution. If you are not sure what the ID of your original submission is, log in to Confool (https://www.conftool.pro/escom2021/index.php?page=index), go to Your Submissions, and check for Submission Type: Abstract Submissions (and NOT Final Paper Submissions).

The different colours on the spreadsheet text represent the different hubs in change of the sessions (Orange for Australia, Purple for India, Green for UK, and Blue for Mexico) and the changes from the old programme (in Red). Please check the colour of your scheduled session(s), and if there any any issues on the day (technical or otherwise) please contact the hub-in-charge directly, so there is no delay due to time differences. The emails of the hubs are below and on the main page of our website.

General admin enquiries, Sheffield hub: icmpc-escom2021@sheffield.ac.uk

General (non-urgent) IT enquiries, Sheffield hub: ICMPCESCOM2021helpdesk@gmail.com

Urgent and IT enquiries, Australia hub:

ICMPCESCOM2021Australiahub@gmail.com

Urgent and IT enquiries, India hub:

ICMPCESCOM2021Indiahub@gmail.com

Urgent and IT enquiries, Mexico hub:

ICMPCESCOM2021Mexicohub@gmail.com

Conference dates:

28-31 July 2021

Days will consist of up to 5 sessions as indicated in the time-zone map.

Programme may be reduced per day to avoid overload, depending on demand.

Start time: 9 am UK time (8 UTC), 28 July 2021

End time: 6 pm UK time (4 UTC), 31 July 2021