I had the great privilege to participate in the 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society (IMS)(link is external), which was held in Athens 22 to 26 of August, under the auspices of the Departments of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It was hosted by the Hellenic Musicological Society.

Maria Calderisi was awarded Honorary Membership in IAML during the Prague Congress. Read the citation here by Roger Flury.

Wie immer war der Mittwochnachmittag Exkursionen vorbehalten, und wir entschieden uns für die einzige angebotene Bustour, nach Vysoká u Příbrame, 70 km südwestlich von Prag, zum Sommerhaus von Antonín Dvořák, in dem er und seine Familie viele Sommer verbrachten.

En julio de 2022 se ha celebrado en Praga el Congreso IAML, después de cancelar los congresos anuales de 2020 y 2021, organizado por la Sección Nacional Checa de IAML, en colaboración con la Biblioteca Municipal de Praga y la Biblioteca Nacional de la República Checa. Es la segunda ocasión en que se celebra en Praga, la primera fue en 1991, dos años después de la llamada Revolución de Terciopelo, y organizado por la rama nacional checoslovaca.

I would like to draw your attention to all the material from the congress in Prague that you can find on the IAML website: presentations and slides, congress diaries and more. This has inspired me to write my own congress diary. It is not a congress diary as such (and not in my native language Swedish, I promise!), but just a few reflections from the congress week. I hope very much that members who were not able to attend the congress would like to spend a few minutes to read my “report”, although it is far from exhaustive.