Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
7:30am - 12:00pm	AMS Board Meeting Location: Skyway A-B Closed meeting.
8:00am - 12:00pm	Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency		SMT Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
9:00am - 10:30am	A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture) Location: Remote Session	Encoding Conflict in Music Location: Remote Session	Exploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century Location: Remote Session
9:00am - 12:00pm	"Whose Brahms?" Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day Location: Lakeshore C	SMT Peer Learning Workshop: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music Location: Lake Harriet By invitation only.	SMT Peer Learning Workshop: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis Location: St. Croix By invitation only.
9:00am - 1:00pm	France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A
10:45am - 12:15pm	Analysis of Popular Music I Location: Lake Bemidji	Expression in Vocal Music I Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	Joni Mitchell Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Living in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture) Location: Remote Session
	Meter Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Pedagogy Location: Lakeshore B	AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis Location: Remote Session	Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship Location: Remote Session
	Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition Location: Remote Session
11:00am - 1:00pm	Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Governing Board Meeting Location: Cedar Lake Closed meeting.
11:45am - 12:30pm	AMS Student Grantees Meet & Greet Location: Lake Nokomis By invitation only.
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Joint New Attendee Reception Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Orientation Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.		SMT Music Informatics Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
1:00pm - 2:00pm	AMS Buddy Program Meet-up Location: Lake Harriet		SMT Conference Guides Location: Skyway A-B
1:15pm - 2:00pm	AMS Explore: Orientation Location: Lake Nokomis Closed meeting.
2:15pm - 3:45pm	African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers Location: Regency	Disability in Musical Topics and Form Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	History of Theory I Location: Mirage	Music Theory and Spirituality Location: Lakeshore B
	Between Finger Spans and Harmonic Theory: Reconstructing the Meroë Doublepipes Location: Minnehaha	Developing a Student-Centered Approach to Classroom Learning Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
	Opera as Worldmaking Location: Northstar Ballroom B	Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Beyond the Score Location: Lakeshore C	Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets Location: Lakeshore A
	Jewish Musical Theater and Song Location: Northstar Ballroom A	Manuscript Histories Location: Great Lakes A	Music and the Cold War: Cultural Anxieties and Diplomacies Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Natural Landscapes and Sound Ecologies Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Rock Narratives Location: Lake Superior B	Video Game Franchises and Musical Recontextualization: An Intergenerational Approach Location: Lake Superior A
3:15pm - 4:30pm	Coffee Break Location: Exhibit Hall Join us in the Exhibit Hall for a complimentary service of coffee and other beverages with light snacks. First come, first served.
3:15pm - 4:45pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 1 Location: Exhibit Hall
4:00pm - 5:30pm	20th-Century Ideas I Location: Mirage	Groove Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Sets and Solfège Location: Lake Bemidji	Beyond Misinformation: Early Nineteenth-Century Dubious Sources and the Historical Post-Truth Location: Northstar Ballroom B
	New Perspectives in Canadian Jewish Music Location: Minnehaha	Puccinian Endings, One Hundred Years On: Rotation, Focalization, and Climax in Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Turandot Location: Great Lakes A	Sonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Cultural Imaginings in Global Organology Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
	Gender and Embodiment in Chopin Location: Regency	Motets as Mediums of Power and Sovereignty Location: Lakeshore A	Music, Education, and Care Location: Lake Minnetonka	Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Sound Worlds: Music, Nostalgia and Augmenting Reality in Video Games Location: Lake Superior A	Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Teaching Electronic Dance Music in Core Theory: Practical Applications and Critical Pedagogy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: Lakeshore C
	The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture) Location: Northstar Ballroom A	Theorizing Popular Music in the Interregnum: Stylistic Shifts in an Era of Upheaval Location: Lake Superior B
4:00pm - 6:00pm	Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings Location: Lakeshore B
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Joint Interest Groups and Affiliates Fair Location: Great Lakes B-C
5:00pm - 5:45pm	AMS Presidential Reception Location: Lake Nokomis By invitation only.
6:00pm - 7:00pm	12-Step Recovery Meeting Location: St. Croix
6:30pm - 7:45pm	Joint Welcome Reception Location: Nicollet Ballroom
7:00pm - 9:00pm	UNC Chapel Hill Reception Location: Lakeshore C
7:15pm - 8:45pm	SMT Scholars for Social Responsibility Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F		SMT Dance and Movement & Performance and Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Mirage
7:30pm - 9:30pm	8-Bit Chiptunes, Retro-Aesthetics, and Nostalgia Location: Lake Superior A	AMS Global East Asian Music Research Annual Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji	Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Musical Explorations of Jewish Past(s) Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Minnesota Party (University of Minnesota, Carleton College, St. Olaf College) Location: Lake Harriet
8:30pm - 11:59pm	10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
9:30pm - 11:30pm	Northwestern University Reception Location: Skyway A-B