ISPS 2025
Performance Science in Practice

October 29 | 01 November 2025
Shanghai | China

Convened by

https://www.shcmusic.edu.cn/Graduate School
Shanghai Conservatory of Music 

https://performancescience.ac.uk/Centre for Performance Science
Royal College of Music | Imperial College London 

The ISPS 2025 theme, Performance Science in Practice, is intended to encourage discussion and debate on connections between performance, education, science, and society. Specific research topics, fields of study, and methodological approaches have been left open intentionally to encourage interdisciplinary exchange.

Submissions detailing original research are invited from all performance disciplines, offering new perspectives from across the arts and sciences.

We intend to offer both on-site and electronic presentation options, although the former will depend on possible restrictions on public meetings and international travel in place at the time of the event. 

Submissions are invited for

• Spoken papers
• Poster presentations
• Symposia

https://imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2i2BSgLnSO3P8oKABSTRACT SUBMISSION PORTAL »

Submissions should be made online by 01 April 2025.

Graduate awards

The Scientific Committee is keen to encourage the attendance of students, as well as established researchers and practitioners.

The ISPS 2025 Graduate Paper Award will be offered to one graduate student to present a keynote paper at the conference. Information on how to make a submission for the award is available via the abstract submission portal. 

In addition, at the symposium, delegates will be able to vote for the highest quality poster presentation delivered by a graduate student. The student(s) with the highest vote tally will be given the ISPS 2025 Graduate Poster Award. 

Review process

Each submission will be reviewed anonymously by the Scientific Committee according to its originality, importance, clarity, and interdisciplinarity. Corresponding authors will be notified by email of the Committee’s decision by 15 May 2025.

Important dates

01 April 2025: Paper/poster abstract submission deadline
15 May 2025: Notification of submission decision
01 June 2025: Article submissions open for ISPS 2025 Research Topic in Frontiers
01 September 2025: End of early registration
29 October 2025: Start of ISPS 2025
31 January 2026: Article submission deadline for ISPS 2025 Research Topic in Frontiers

Registration

Full and one-day registration options will be available, which also include student discounts and online-only options.

Online registration will open on 15 May 2025.

The official language of the conference is English. There is also a special section for English/Chinese bilingual submissions as part of the Third International Forum on Musical Performance Studies (IFMPS 2025) that will be held together with ISPS 2025. 

Source: https://performancescience.org/conference/isps-2025/