Laudan has recently spoken at two conferences. First, she presented a paper at the Perspectives on Musical Improvisation conference at the University of Oxford, 10th to 13th September. Her paper, which was entitled  ‘Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music’, explored the ways in which young Iranian classical musicians are developing new approaches to improvisation which move away from the traditional repertoire known as radif which has been central to the classical tradition for the past 150 years.

Also in September, Laudan spoke at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology’s Graduate Conference ,’Music and Movement’, at the Institute of Musical Research, University of London, on a roundtable on research ethics. Her contribution was entitled: ‘Are Research Ethics Committees Ethical?’.

Forthcoming presentations include a training session on ethics for research students as part of the Institute of Musical Research’s series of training events for research students.

Laudan will also be presenting at the joint conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory, to be held in New Orleans from 1st to 4th November. She is speaking on a panel entitled ‘Improvisation: Object of Study and Critical Paradigm’ and will share a platform with Bruno Nettl and George E. Lewis, among others.