AMIS 2025

The 2025 AMIS meeting will be held in beautiful and historic Savannah, Georgia, at Georgia Southern University, June 3–7, 2025. Georgia Southern is home to the Fred and Dinah Gretsch Instrument, Artifact, and Document Collection, comprising thousands of unique instruments, music industry artifacts, and company records within and across collections and three exhibitions in Savannah and Statesboro, Georgia. Most notably, Georgia Southern’s “That Great Gretsch Sound!” Museum is a featured attraction at Plant Riverside District, Savannah’s premier riverfront entertainment center. As part of the Georgia Southern Museum, the Gretsch Collection supports the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service specifically through collections, exhibits, and educational outreach. Presentations will be held at the auditorium of the Fine Arts Building at the Armstrong Campus in Savannah.  
 
The AMIS program committee invites proposals, due November 15, 2024, for paper presentations, roundtable panels, and lecture-recitals. Papers will be twenty minutes in length plus ten minutes for discussion; roundtable panels and lecture-recitals may request longer time slots. Presenters wishing to use or discuss an instrument in the Gretsch Museum collection should first inquire with the appropriate curator to see if use or display of the instrument is possible. Questions regarding using or discussing instruments from the collection can be directed to Matthew Hill: mhill@georgiasouthern.edu.
 
Proposals must include an abstract of not more than 300 words, a 75-word biography for each presenter, a list of audio-visual or other requirements, and e-mail addresses for all presenters. Please send proposals as e-mail attachments in pdf form to program committee chair Anne Acker, a.acker@comcast.net. 
 
Students are eligible to apply for the William E. Gribbon Memorial Award for Student Travel. See https://www.amis.org/william-gribbon-award.