The Online Program of events for the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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10:00am Music in the Press: Research Methods and the Writing of Music History in Latin America and the Caribbean (ARLAC)
10:00am happier.rx : Gracie Fagan on Process, Collaboration, and Experimentation in Music and DanceLocation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom Session Room 1 Contemporary Musical Modernisms Study Group: Inaugural Meeting and Training Session International Conversations about Music, Sound, and Trauma Tradition and Innovation in Turkish Instrumental Music
Rethinking the A and I of AI: Of Music, Mind, Mechanism, and Machine Lydia Goehr
Early Modern Materiality and Identity Music, Resistance, and World War II Women's Agency in Music
Brahms Reception
10:45am Mapping Sources in Musical Iconography: Crossing Borders and Challenging Boundaries (ARLAC)
12:00pm Popular Music and Faith
12:00pm "Viral Jazz": A Very Online Discussion About Online Musicking “Canciones Neogranadinas” and the Latin American Villancico: Domestic Practices and Transregional Networks (1850–1930) (ARLAC) New Evidence for (Marginal) Soundscapes of the Early Medieval West Reimagining the PhD: The ACLS Doctoral Futures Initiative
Rethinking Backstage 20th Century Historiographies Musical Childhood in the 20th Century Theories of Premodern Music: Expectations and Enigmas
2:00pm AMS Chapter and Study Group Fair America at 250: A Celebration of American Opera Location: PianoPiano Studios, New York, New York / Zoom Session Room 3 Beyond Binaries: Hybridity, Mobility, and Mediation in the Long Thirteenth Century Diagrammatic Transformation across Early Music Theory Treatises
Internationalism as Nationalism: Russian Music and Art in the Service of Empire Music History From Below in (and Across) the Gulf-Caribbean World: Archival Envelopment, Thick Description, and Atlantic Methods in Musicology Benjamin Barson
Location: University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas / Zoom Session Room 2 Cross-Cultural Exchange Medieval Models of Musical Transmission
Technologies and Terrors: Contemporary Sonic Responses to Violence and Trauma
4:00pm Speed Networking AMS LGBTQ Study Group Business Meeting AMS Music and Media Study Group Business Meeting Discussion and Planning Session for CWMSG 20th Anniversary
4:00pm What Class Time Is For: Music History Pedagogy across Formats and Student Bodies Location: University of North Texas, Denton, Texas / Zoom Session Room 2
6:00pm Creating Other Spaces at a Moment of Peril: Music Studies as Critical Practice (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture) Ellie Hisama
8:00pm Organology Study Group Paper Session: Timbre, Timber, & Technicians Perspectives on Kikuko Kanai and Okinawan Music in Modern Japan (IMSEA) Echoes of Colonialism in Modern Korean Music Musical Travels In and Out of Russia
