Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.

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Session Overview
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
10:45am - 12:15pmMeter
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmMusical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 5:30pmSonic Specters: Cross-Cultural Hauntings, Collective Grief, and Musicking Trauma
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
7:30pm - 9:30pmHistories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmChanging the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
12:30pm - 2:00pmSMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmSymbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 5:30pmTechnology, Timbre, and Trans Identities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
8:00pm - 10:00pmBrandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30amListening Through Machines
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmSounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
12:30pm - 2:00pmAMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
2:15pm - 3:45pmGendering Strategies in Films
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 6:00pmPopular Music and the Global Caribbean
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:30pm - 11:30pmUCLA Musicology Reception
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30amJazz Instrumentalities
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pmOperatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World
Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G