Conference Time: 3rd May 2025, 09:13:39am EDT
Conference Agenda
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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9:30am - 10:00am
Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
10:00am - 11:30am
4A: Coloniality and Anti-Coloniality
4B: Hearing Jazz Publics in Southeast Asia
4C: Instruments: Drums/Iconography
4D: Ecomusicology I Chair: Nancy Guy, University of California, San Diego
4E: Doing Public-facing (Ethno)Musicology and Community Music Today: Perspectives from Africa
4F: Mennonite Action: Mobilizing Religious Hymns for Political Protest
4G: Historical Studies in Ethnomusicology II Chair: Revell Carr, University of Kentucky
4H: That’s not really music: Orientations toward a neuro-ethnomusicology Sponsored by the Medical Ethnomusicology SIG
4I: Musical and Intersectional Identities in Northern New Mexico
4J: Festivals Chair: Anaar Desai-Stevens, Eastman School of Music
12:00pm - 2:00pm
5A: Performer Interactions Chair: Joanna Bosse, Michigan State University
5B: Foreign pioneers in the post-Independence history of South Asian music
5C: Pesky Auralities: Sounding the More-than-Human, Hearing the Unwanted Animal
5D: Contemporary Dialogues Across the Black Atlantic: Examining African & Diasporic Connections in Education, Religion and Popular Music Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
5E: Socialist and Anti-Capitalist Alternatives through Music, Sound, and Movement Sponsored by the SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
5F: Material culture and craft values in music’s new social formations
5G: Feminist Ethnomusicology
5H: Musical Representation and Identity I
5I: Cumbia Aesthetics and Politics in Latin America Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Music Section (LACSEM)
5J: Critical Ethnographies: Ethics, Challenges, and Dilemmas Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
2:15pm - 3:15pm
Anatolian Ecumene SIG
Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology: Student Open Meeting
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
SIG for Music of the Francophone World
2:15pm - 4:15pm
Applied Ethnomusicology Section
7:00pm - 9:00pm
6A: Guitars in Africa: Histories, Presences, Futures Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section
6B: Sonic Afro-Diasporic Forces and Exchanges in Salvador, Brazil
6C: Explorations of Connectedness and Otherness in Icelandic Musicking Sponsored by the SIG for Musics in and of Europe
6D: K-pop Studies Beyond the K: Exploring New Theoretical and Methodological Possibilities Through Ethnography