Conference Time: 3rd May 2025, 09:24:05am EDT
The Online Program of events for the SEM 2024 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early October.
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9:15am OC: Opening Ceremony
10:00am 1A: African Musics and Musicians in Europe Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
1B: Music and Politics: Humanitarianism, Electoral Politics, Soft Power 1C: Crafting Hindu Identities Through Music and Dance in South India and the Diaspora. 1D: Queering Performance Chair: Jayson Beaster-Jones, University of California-Merced
1E: Migration/Diaspora I Chair: Christi-Anne Castro, University of Michigan
1F: Teaching Palestine through Music, Dance, and the Arts Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research (SAMR)
1G: Gender in Music of Iran Chair: Amaneh Youssefzadeh, Encyclopedia Iranica
1H: “Calypso is Soca and Soca is Calypso”: Calypso, Soca, and Competition
1I: Partying on the Periphery: Global Queer/Trans Nightlives 1J: Ethnomusicology and Urban Planning: Reflection on New Research Opportunities
12:30pm 2A: Liberal Subjects and Neoliberal Academic Production: Theory and Text 2B: Instruments and Timbre Chair: Made Hood
2C: The Intimacies of Musical Formation 2D: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
2E: Gender Exclusion in Performance Spaces Chair: Sarah Weiss, KunstUniversitätGraz
2F: Devotional Music 2G: Publics and Counterpublics Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan
2H: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology I
2I: Scenes Chair: Jay Hammond, Georgetown University
2J: Radio
2:15pm Ask an Archivist: SIG for Archiving SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology SIG for Jazz SIG for Jewish Music
2:15pm SEM Council
7:00pm 3A: Histories and Ethnomusicologies 3B: Indigenous Studies: Pacific Chair: Amy Stillman, University of Michigan
3C: Sound Ecologies of the Anthropocene in Latin America 3D: Music and Activism in the United States: Then and Now
