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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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Date: Wednesday, 05/Nov/2025
8:00am - 5:00pm	Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency
9:00am - 6:00pm	France: Musiques, Cultures, 1789-1918 Location: Lakeshore A	Music Leadership Forum: Navigating Crisis and Change Location: Northstar Ballroom A-B
2:00pm - 6:00pm	SMT Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom
9:15pm - 10:00pm	AMS Staff & Board Toast Location: Northstar Ballroom A Closed meeting.

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
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 Program: A Microcosm of Rhythm: Theorizing and Analyzing Groove-Based Music Location: Lake Harriet	SMT Peer Learning Program: Shark!: A Dive into Film Music Analysis Location: St. Croix
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 - 6:15pm	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

Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
12:00am - 12:30am	10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency
7:15am - 8:45am	SMT Retired Members Breakfast Reception Location: Lake Nokomis		SMT Student Breakfast Reception Location: Northwoods
7:45am - 8:45am	AMS Student Chapter Representatives to Council Location: Lake Minnetonka Closed meeting.
8:00am - 9:45am	Joint Poster Session Location: Nicollet Ballroom A
8:00am - 10:00am	Rewriting the History of Nineteenth-Century Music for the Stage: the Parisian vaudeville Location: Minnehaha
8:30am - 10:30am	History of Theory II Location: Mirage
9:00am - 10:30am	Form I Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Liminal and Supernatural Topics Location: Lake Bemidji	Music and Games Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	“The Times They Are A-Changin’”: Musicking through Challenging Times Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
	200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025 Location: Great Lakes B	Listening for the Holocaust in Polish/Jewish Musical Culture Location: Lake Superior A	Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology Location: Great Lakes A	Ravel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives Location: Regency
	French Court Musics in the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Lake Superior B	Gendering Asian Musical Instruments and Forms Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Hip-Hop Identities: Negotiating Boundaries of Race and Nationality Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	In Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
	Medieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions Location: Great Lakes C	Music, Sexual Performance, and Ethno-Porn Location: Lakeshore C	Silence and Sound in Urban Environments Location: Lake Minnetonka	Sounding Disability Location: Lakeshore B
	Soundtrack Semantics Location: Lakeshore A	Transatlantic Contrafacta: Musical Circulations in Colonial Mexico/New Spain and Territorial New Mexico Location: Northstar Ballroom B	Writing about Music Otherwise Location: Northstar Ballroom A
9:00am - 12:00pm	SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Analyzing Antiphony: Theorizing Music-Text Relations for the Digital Episteme Location: St. Croix		SMT Graduate Student Workshop: Hearing Technologies Location: Cedar Lake
9:30am - 4:30pm	Contemporary Issues in Music & Copyright Law: A CLE Special Session Location: Skyway A-B
10:15am - 12:15pm	Politics and Representations of Identity in Music Location: Minnehaha
10:45am - 12:00pm	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.
10:45am - 12:15pm	Analysis of Popular Music II Location: Lake Bemidji	Braille and Beyond: Making Music Theory Accessible through Inclusive Design Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Memory, Affect, and Attention Location: Lakeshore C	American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Changing the Topic: New Paradigms for Topic Theory Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Emerging Directions in Music Theory Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	Form, Voice, and Canonicity: Taking Dolly Parton’s Songwriting Seriously Location: Great Lakes A	Integrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching Location: Northstar Ballroom A
	Reich at 89 Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Defining Femininity and Female Power through Music Location: Lakeshore A	In the Shadow of the Holocaust Location: Lake Superior A	Instrumental and Sonic Masculinities Location: Regency
	Keyboard Technologies: Inscription and Replay Location: Lakeshore B	Chinese and Chinese-American Operatics Location: Great Lakes B	Memory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music Location: Great Lakes C	Sonic Redface Location: Lake Superior B
	The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Why Worcester? Location: Northstar Ballroom B
10:45am - 12:45pm	Black American Composers and Coded Meanings Location: Mirage		Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and the Music of Troubled Minds Location: Lake Minnetonka
11:00am - 12:00pm	Project Spectrum Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
11:00am - 12:15pm	Exhibit Hall Showcases: Auralia & Musition, Artusi, and AMS Publications Location: Exhibit Hall
11:00am - 12:30pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 2 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:30pm - 1:30pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 1 Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS/MLA RISM Committee Meeting Location: Cedar Lake Closed meeting.	Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at the University of Leuven (Belgium) Location: Great Lakes C	SMT Committee on Disability and Accessibility Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lake Nokomis Open to all attendees.	SMT Committee on Feminist Issues and Gender Equity Brown Bag Lunch Location: Lake Harriet Open to all attendees.
	SMT Popular Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Great Lakes A	Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Informal Business Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	AMS Ludomusicology Study Group Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom B	AMS MDSG Business Meeting with Short Papers, 2025: New Directions in Choreomusicology Location: Lake Superior A
	AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Brown Bag Lunch - An AMS Childhood and Youth Study Group Social Location: Lakeshore A	Celebrating Diversity: An Eileen Southern Travel Fund and Howard Mayer Brown Fellowship Reunion Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	SMT Russian and Soviet Music Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Superior B
	SMT Improvisation & Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lakeshore B	SMT Music and Psychoanalysis Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C	SMT Jazz & Hip-Hop and Rap Interest Groups Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	SMT Music Notation and Visualization Interest Group Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji
	SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Music of the Long Thirteenth Century: Genre, Kind, and Culture Location: Minnehaha	Music, Protest, and Systems of Representation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	New Work in LGBTQ Music Studies Location: Great Lakes B
12:30pm - 2:30pm	Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting Location: Northstar Ballroom A
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Knitting Circle Location: St. Croix
1:00pm - 2:15pm	Exhibit Hall Showcases: Boulanger Initiative, Society for Music Theory, and Coalition of Music Organizations Location: Exhibit Hall
1:00pm - 3:00pm	SMT CV Review Session Location: Northwoods		SMT CV Review Session Waiting Room Location: Northwoods
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Song Form Location: Lakeshore C	Techniques and Technologies Location: Lake Bemidji	(Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging Location: Great Lakes B	Constructing Identity in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels's Omar (2022) Location: Mirage
	New Horizons with Historical Notations Location: Northstar Ballroom B	Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree Location: Lake Superior A	Searching for "lo inaudito" in the Sound Archive Location: Great Lakes A	Socio-technical Histories of Digital Music Location: Lake Superior B
	Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Making Use of Jazz on Screen Location: Lake Minnetonka	Capturing Music: Notational Privilege and Practice Location: Lakeshore A	Operatic Cultures of the 17th and 18th Centuries Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Sacred Music and the Performance of Power Location: Lakeshore B	Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Structure and Effect in Beethoven Location: Great Lakes C	Transatlantic Musical Cultures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
2:15pm - 4:15pm	Femininity and Female Archetypes Location: Minnehaha
2:15pm - 5:30pm	Don't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B		Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Analysis of Vocal Music Location: Mirage	Celebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble Location: Northstar Ballroom A	East and West Location: Regency	Form in Popular Music Location: Lake Bemidji
	“Crepi il lupo”: Critiquing Labor, Class, and DEIA in the Early Careers of Opera Singers Location: Great Lakes C	Editing Musicology and Theory Journals: How Can We Improve the System Together? Location: Lakeshore B	City Soundscapes Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Jazz Philosophies and Perspectives Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Music in the Early Modern Luso-Hispanic World Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Perspectives on 19th-Century Sacred Music Location: Lakeshore C	Race, Nation, and Identity Location: Lake Superior A	Soviet Legacies Location: Great Lakes B
	Storytelling Through Dance Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	Embodiment and Musical Gendering Location: Lakeshore A	Structure and Representation in 20th Century Film Music Location: Great Lakes A	Technology, Timbre, and Trans Identities Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
4:00pm - 6:00pm	Generative AI and New Frontiers in Musicology Location: Lake Superior B
4:30pm - 6:30pm	Transcultural Historical Musicology Location: Minnehaha
5:45pm - 6:45pm	Prospective Graduate Student Fair Location: Nicollet Ballroom B-C
5:45pm - 7:45pm	University of Kansas School of Music Reception Location: Cedar Lake
6:00pm - 7:30pm	Tufts Friends and Alumni Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:00pm - 8:00pm	RIPM and RILM Reception Location: Lake Harriet		University of Cincinnati CCM Reception Location: Skyway A-B
6:15pm - 8:15pm	Rice University Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H
6:30pm - 8:30pm	Florida State University Musicology and Music Theory Joint Reception Location: St. Croix	Friends of Stony Brook Location: Lake Superior B	W. W. Norton Reception Location: Lake Superior A
6:45pm - 7:45pm	AMS Explore: Debrief Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.		Joint Student Reception Location: Northwoods
7:00pm - 8:30pm	Taken in Stride: The Mundanity of Ambulation Location: Music Box Theatre	SMT Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency	Satie is Dead, Long Live Satie Location: Mirage
7:00pm - 9:00pm	New York University Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B		University of Illinois Reception Location: Nicollet Ballroom D1
7:00pm - 9:15pm	Dear Lara (film screening) Lara St. John¹, Patrick Hamm² 1: N/A; 2: N/A Location: Lakeshore A
7:30pm - 9:30pm	AMS Music and Media Study Group and SMT Film and Multimedia Interest Group: Poster Session and Business Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji		Birds, Bats, and Broken Ice: Rethinking the “Human” of “More-than-Human Musicking” (Roundtable and ESG Business Meeting) Location: Minnehaha
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Brandeis University and University of Pittsburgh Joint Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
9:00pm - 11:00pm	Columbia University Reception Location: Lake Harriet	Society for American Music Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	University of Chicago Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
9:30pm - 11:30pm	Case Western Reserve University Reception Location: Skyway A-B	CUNY Graduate Center Reception Location: Lake Superior A	Not Another Cocktail Party! (An AMS-SMT Dance) Location: Lakeshore B-C	Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
9:30pm - 11:30pm	University of North Texas Reception Location: Lake Superior B	Voices and Viols Jam Location: Lake Minnetonka

Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
7:15am - 8:45am	AMS Board and Council Breakfast Location: Northstar Ballroom A Closed meeting.		SMT Interest Groups Breakfast Meeting Location: Skyway A-B Closed meeting.
7:30am - 9:00am	Journal of Musicology Pedagogy Editorial Board Meeting Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.
8:00am - 10:00am	SMT-Pod Drop-In Gathering Location: Lake Nokomis Open to all attendees.
9:00am - 10:30am	18th Century Issues Location: Mirage	Form II Location: Regency	New Approaches to Harmonic Function Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	AMS Global Music History Study Group Keynote: Examining the Construction of Continental and Hemispheric Categories in Music History: 'European Music' and 'Western Music' Location: Northstar Ballroom B
	Day-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Expressing Young Adulthood in Post-2010 American Popular Music: Generation Z, Feminist, and Queer Perspectives Location: Lake Bemidji	Listening to Vinyl, Together: Music, Meaning, and Materiality in Communal Listening Practice Location: Great Lakes A	Music, Silence, and Social Action in an Age of Perpetual Crisis Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Opera and Untold Black Stories Location: Great Lakes B	Planning a Research Agenda: Sound Strategies for Faculty and Future Faculty Location: Lake Superior A	Colonial Perspectives, Stereotypes, and Caricatures Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Cultural Representation and Artistic Agency in Asian Popular Music Location: Minnehaha
	Gender Play: Music and Forms of Gender Impersonation Location: Lakeshore A	Listening Through Machines Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Music and the Visual Arts Location: Lakeshore B	Musical and Extramusical Agendas (AMS Explore) Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Responses to Authoritarianism Location: Lake Superior B	Chronicling American Folk Song Location: Lakeshore C	War and Peace in France Location: Great Lakes C
9:00am - 12:15pm	Hearing Marginalization, Demanding Equity Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:45am - 12:00pm	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.
10:45am - 12:15pm	Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music Location: Regency	Expression in Vocal Music II Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Harmony and Narrative in Film Music Location: Mirage	Singing from the original notation: the Libro Primo de la Croce (Rome: Pasoti and Dorico, 1526/1520) and the origins of the madrigal Location: Northstar Ballroom A
	“Demy-Frères: Perspectives on the Collaboration Between Jacques Demy and Michel Legrand” Location: Lake Superior B	Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison) Location: Lake Bemidji	Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel Location: Lakeshore B	Forms of Listening in Contemporary Politics Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law Location: Lakeshore A	Performing Modernity Otherwise: Asian Interventions and Reimaginations of the Western Canon Location: Lake Superior A	State of the Field: Jazz and Gender Location: Minnehaha	Colonial Narratives and Negotiations Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
	Composing Women: Identity and Creative Agency Location: Great Lakes A	Floating: Music on/in Water Location: Great Lakes C	Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage Location: Great Lakes B	New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore) Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Sounding the Healthy and Unhealthy Body Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	The Secret Life of Keyboards Location: Lakeshore C	Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Tracing the Intersection of Dance and Music through the University of Minnesota Performing Arts Archive and the Francis V Gorman Rare Arts Books, Media, and Artists Archives Location: Northstar Ballroom B
11:00am - 11:45am	Exhibit Hall Showcases: Auralia & Musition, Artusi Location: Exhibit Hall
11:00am - 12:30pm	AMS Board Meet & Greet 3 Location: Exhibit Hall
12:00pm - 2:30pm	Dog Therapy Location: Northwoods
12:30pm - 1:30pm	AMS Career Development Grants in American Music: Check-in 2 Location: Executive Boardroom Closed meeting.		AMS Explore: Debrief Location: Lake Nokomis Closed meeting.
12:30pm - 2:00pm	AMS Council Meeting Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D Closed meeting.	Business meeting of the Committee on the Publication of American Music Location: Skyway A-B	Haydn Society of North America Annual General Meeting Location: Lake Harriet	Open Access Musicology Location: St. Croix
	Speed Networking Location: Nicollet Ballroom A	AMS Cold War and Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	AMS Global Music History Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	AMS Jazz and Improvisation Study Group Business Meeting Location: Minnehaha
	AMS Popular Music Study Group Business Meeting Location: Lake Superior A	Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	SMT Music Cognition Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore C	SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group Meeting Location: Lakeshore A
	SMT Analysis of World Musics & Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Groups Meeting Location: Lake Bemidji	SMT Timbre and Orchestration Interest Group Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	SMT Work and Family Interest Group Meeting Location: Mirage	Musicking in Disabled Community: Access Intimacy and Cultural Activism. Location: Lake Minnetonka
	Sounding Just? Pathways to Equity in Global Music Pedagogies Beyond North America Location: Lake Superior B
1:00pm - 2:15pm	Exhibit Hall Showcases: Boulanger Initiative, W. W. Norton Location: Exhibit Hall
2:15pm - 3:45pm	AMS Pedagogy Study Group Business Meeting Location: Lake Harriet	Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity Location: Regency	From Chunking to 8-Bit Soundworlds: Aural Skills Foundations and Musicianship Through Video Game Music (Presented by Auralia & Musition) Location: Lake Bemidji	American Documentary Opera, Reconsidered Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session One: Roundtable Discussion Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Contemporary Musical Modernisms: Organizing Meeting Location: Minnehaha	Hidden Histories of Production and Consumption in Electronic Musical Instruments Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump Location: Great Lakes C
	European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace Location: Great Lakes B	Gendering Strategies in Films Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	Identity and Authenticity in Country Music Location: Lake Superior A	In the Shadow of Mahler Location: Great Lakes A
	Musical Ownership and Value in the 19th Century Location: Lakeshore A	Philosophical Approaches to Composition and Public Presentation Location: Lakeshore C	Race and Defiant Self-Definition through Jazz Location: Lake Superior B	Transmission, Reception, and Aesthetic Experimentation in Russian and Turkish Music Location: Lakeshore B
	The Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Workshop in Research Techniques and Bibliography, led by Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale Location: Lake Minnetonka
2:45pm - 3:30pm	SMT Business Meeting Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
3:30pm - 4:15pm	SMT Awards Ceremony Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Musical Landscapes Across the Americas Location: Northstar Ballroom A	Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Contemporary Approaches to Critical Editions in Music – Session Two: Workshop Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Mastering the Art of the Abstract Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
	Music, Sound, and Medicalized Trauma in Global and Historical Contexts Location: Great Lakes A	Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age Location: Lake Minnetonka	Sound, Image, and Gesture in Composition and Performance (ca. 1425–1725) Location: Lakeshore A	Sounds of the Contemporary City: Music and Musicking in Urban Spaces at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Location: Lakeshore B
	20th Century Musical Institutions Location: Lake Bemidji	Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries Location: Great Lakes B	Italian Opera and Exoticism Location: Lake Superior A	Popular Music and the Global Caribbean Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
	Practices of Memory and Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Seeing and Depicting Queerness Location: Lake Superior B	Women’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor Location: Great Lakes C
4:00pm - 6:00pm	K-Pop: Inside, Outside, New and Old Location: Mirage		Music and the Fight for Civil Rights Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
4:45pm - 6:00pm	SMT Plenary: Queering the Pitch—Thirty Years On Location: Nicollet Ballroom C-D
6:00pm - 7:00pm	AMS Business Meeting Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
6:00pm - 8:00pm	University of Oregon Reception Location: Lake Nokomis
6:45pm - 8:45pm	University of Michigan Reception (Musicology and Music Theory) Location: Lake Superior B		University of Pennsylvania Music Department Reception Location: Lake Superior A
7:00pm - 7:30pm	AMS Awards Ceremony Location: Nicollet Ballroom A-B
7:30pm - 8:30pm	Joint Awards Reception Location: Lakeshore A-B-C
7:30pm - 9:30pm	AMS-SMT Trivia Night Location: Great Lakes C
7:45pm - 9:45pm	Closing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H		Popular Music and/as Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Stanford University Party Location: St. Croix		The University of Texas at Austin Reception Location: Lake Harriet
9:30pm - 11:30pm	Cornell Reception Location: Lake Bemidji	Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Reception Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D	McGill University Reception Location: Lake Superior A	Princeton University Alumni and Friends Party Location: Skyway A-B
9:30pm - 11:30pm	UCLA Musicology Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G	University of California, Berkeley Alumni Reception Location: Lake Superior B	Yale Party Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B
10:00pm - 11:59pm	AMS LGBTQ Study Group Party Location: Lakeshore A-B-C

Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	20th-Century Ideas II Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom A-B	Analysis of Popular Music III Location: Mirage	Dance Location: Lake Minnetonka	Musicking Fans Location: Regency
	Beyond the Specter of “AI”: Algorithmic Bias, Systems of Power, and the Impact of Machine Learning on Contemporary Soundscapes Location: Lakeshore B	Cinematic Sound, Identity, and Memory: Theorizing the Audience in Film Music Analysis Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Fou Ts'ong's Creative Worlds Location: Lake Superior B	Queen Bey: Perception, Reception, and Audience Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
	Sonic Worlds of Race and Ecology Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H	Disney and Musical Representations of American Identity Location: Greenway Ballroom B-I	Jazz Instrumentalities Location: Lake Bemidji	Music and the Lives of Medieval Women Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D
	Opera and Disability Studies Location: Lakeshore C	Re-Sounding the Postcolonial City Location: Lake Superior A
9:00am - 11:00am	Musical Publications in the 18th and 19th Centuries Location: Lakeshore A
9:00am - 12:00pm	Charles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions Location: Northstar Ballroom A
10:45am - 12:15pm	20th Century Compositional Poetics Location: Greenway Ballroom E-F	Choreography Location: Regency	Intertextuality and Interpretation Location: Mirage	Operatic Echoes in the Global Francophone World Location: Greenway Ballroom D-G
10:45am - 12:15pm	Making Music and Meaning on the Internet Location: Lakeshore B	Sounding Excitement and Resistance in Latin American Communities Location: Lake Superior A	Still Here: Protest, Survival and Queer Worldbuilding Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom C-D