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: Remote Session
Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 A Feminist Killjoy at the AMS (CWG Lecture)
Location: Remote Session
 

Chair(s): Jane Hatter

Discussant(s): Suzanne Cusick, Rena Roussin

Presenter(s): Laurie Stras

 Encoding Conflict in Music
Location: Remote Session
 

“Whatever small part we could do”: Community and Grassroots Leadership in Benefit Concerts for Ukraine

April Pauline Morris


Sketches of "Stalingrad": The Genesis of Prokofiev’s Seventh Piano Sonata

Nathan Seinen

 Exploring Regional and Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century
Location: Remote Session
 

Traditional Âşık/Alevi Musicians as Cultural Critics in Urban Life of Modern Turkey, 1960-1980

Özgür Balkılıç


Reconfiguring Bel Canto: Operatic Voice, Cultural Negotiation, and Performance Economies in Postcolonial Lagos.

Joshua Tolulope David


'Into your Sussex quietness I came': rediscovering the orchestral music of Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Tom Edney

  
10:45am
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12:15pm		 Living in the Longer Now: Indigenous Music/Dance as History (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture)
Location: Remote Session
Chair: Julie Emelyn Cumming, McGill University
Presenter: Beverley Diamond, Memorial University of Newfoundland
 AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Meeting: A Conversation with Dr. Marie Thompson on Music/Reproduction/Crisis
Location: Remote Session
 

Chair(s): Eric Drott

Discussant(s): Stephanie Doktor

Presenter(s): Marie Thompson

 Roundtable on Supporting and Uplifting the Transgender, Non-Binary, and Gender-Expansive Communities in Music Scholarship
Location: Remote Session
 

Chair(s): Jane Hatter

Presenter(s): Morgan Bates, Christi Jay Wells, Stephan Pennington

 Musical Imperialisms: Forms of Domination and Ambition
Location: Remote Session
Chair: D Linda Pearse, Mount Allison University / McGill University
 

Concerts, Commerce, and Colonialisation: Eighteenth-century London’s Concert Life and the Slave Trade

Eric Joseph Coutts


On idiom and the whiteness of free improvisation

Floris Schuiling


Views from the Wienerwald and the Making of Vienna as Musikstadt around 1900

Sadie Menicanin