Conference Agenda
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 - 10:45amMusic in the Press: Research Methods and the Writing of Music History in Latin America and the Caribbean (ARLAC)
10:00am - 11:30amhappier.rx : Gracie Fagan on Process, Collaboration, and Experimentation in Music and DanceLocation: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan / Zoom Session Room 1
10:00am - 11:30amContemporary Musical Modernisms Study Group: Inaugural Meeting and Training Session
10:00am - 11:30amInternational Conversations about Music, Sound, and Trauma
10:00am - 11:30amTradition and Innovation in Turkish Instrumental Music
10:00am - 11:30amRethinking the A and I of AI: Of Music, Mind, Mechanism, and Machine Lydia Goehr
10:00am - 11:30amEarly Modern Materiality and Identity
10:00am - 11:30amMusic, Resistance, and World War II
10:00am - 11:30amWomen's Agency in Music
10:00am - 11:30amBrahms Reception
10:45am - 11:30amMapping Sources in Musical Iconography: Crossing Borders and Challenging Boundaries (ARLAC)
12:00pm - 1:00pmPopular Music and Faith
12:00pm - 1:30pm"Viral Jazz": A Very Online Discussion About Online Musicking
12:00pm - 1:30pm“Canciones Neogranadinas” and the Latin American Villancico: Domestic Practices and Transregional Networks (1850–1930) (ARLAC)
12:00pm - 1:30pmNew Evidence for (Marginal) Soundscapes of the Early Medieval West
12:00pm - 1:30pmReimagining the PhD: The ACLS Doctoral Futures Initiative
12:00pm - 1:30pmRethinking Backstage
12:00pm - 1:30pm20th Century Historiographies
12:00pm - 1:30pmMusical Childhood in the 20th Century
12:00pm - 1:30pmTheories of Premodern Music: Expectations and Enigmas
2:00pm - 3:30pmAMS Chapter and Study Group Fair
2:00pm - 3:30pmAmerica at 250: A Celebration of American Opera Location: PianoPiano Studios, New York, New York / Zoom Session Room 3
2:00pm - 3:30pmBeyond Binaries: Hybridity, Mobility, and Mediation in the Long Thirteenth Century
2:00pm - 3:30pmDiagrammatic Transformation across Early Music Theory Treatises
2:00pm - 3:30pmInternationalism as Nationalism: Russian Music and Art in the Service of Empire
2:00pm - 3:30pmMusic 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
2:00pm - 3:30pmCross-Cultural Exchange
2:00pm - 3:30pmMedieval Models of Musical Transmission
2:00pm - 3:30pmTechnologies and Terrors: Contemporary Sonic Responses to Violence and Trauma
4:00pm - 5:30pmSpeed Networking
4:00pm - 5:30pmAMS LGBTQ Study Group Business Meeting
4:00pm - 5:30pmAMS Music and Media Study Group Business Meeting
4:00pm - 5:30pmDiscussion and Planning Session for CWMSG 20th Anniversary
4:00pm - 6:00pmWhat 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 - 7:30pmCreating Other Spaces at a Moment of Peril: Music Studies as Critical Practice (AMS President's Endowed Plenary Lecture) Ellie Hisama
8:00pm - 9:30pmOrganology Study Group Paper Session: Timbre, Timber, & Technicians
8:00pm - 9:30pmPerspectives on Kikuko Kanai and Okinawan Music in Modern Japan (IMSEA)
8:00pm - 9:30pmEchoes of Colonialism in Modern Korean Music
8:00pm - 9:30pmMusical Travels In and Out of Russia