Among numerous professional activities, at UCSD in 1982 she organized the International Stravinsky Symposium; in Paris at the CNRS in 1983-84, she helped found the Centre d'information et de documentation "Recherche Musicale; " and in fall 1994, with Philip Brett, she ran a resident research group at the UC Humanities Research Center, "Retheorizing Music. " She has served on numerous program committees, including for the 16th International Congress of the International Musicological Society (London, August 1997) and in 2001-2004 for national meetings of the American Musicological Society, chairing this committee in 2003-2004. She has also served as a founding member of the Editorial Board for Women and Music (1995-present), a member of the Advisory or Editorial Boards of 19th - Century Music, Music Humana (Korea), Journal of Musicological Research, Transpositions (Paris), on various committees of AMS and SEM, and on the Board of Directors of the Pauline Oliveros Foundation. She reviews regularly for academic presses and scholarly journals such as JAMS and the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Currently, Pasler is participating in the research group, "French Music Criticism, 1789-1914," originally funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Network of the UK. In 2011-12, she has been the scholar-in-residence and co-organizer of the Bard Music Festival, Saint-Saens and his World, New York, (summer 2012).