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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Session Overview
Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024
10:00am
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12:00pm
17A: ICTMD-SEM Roundtable: Literary Translation in Ethnomusicology
Sponsored by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (ICTMD) and the SEM Board
17B: Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology
17C: Violence, Trauma, Witness
Chair: Joshua Pilzer, University of Toronto
17D: Performing Irishness: Race, Gender and the Global ‘Celtic’ Imaginary
Sponsored by the SIG for Celtic Music
17E: Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls
17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis
Chair: Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland
17G: Transnational Studies
Chair: Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University
17H: Encapsulating Sounds – pedagogical experiments in teaching organology with imaginative instrument design, worldbuiding, and storytelling
17I: Desi Hip Hop: Oral History, Placemaking, and Technology in Post-Liberal India
17J: Music and the Internet: A Roundtable on Online Methods, Metaphors, and Disciplinary Mapping
Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Popular Music Section
   
11:00am
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12:00pm
SEM Board
12:00pm
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12:30pm
Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness
Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee
12:30pm
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1:30pm
18I: A Walk Through the Beauty of Natural Scenery in Music for the Yanqin (the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer)
12:30pm
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2:00pm
18A: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance II
18B: Decoloniality
Chair: Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania
18C: Economic Ethnomusicology
Chair: Shannon Garland, University of Pittsburgh
18D: Race, Gender, and the Violin
Sponsored by the SIG for Organology
18F: Memory, Displacement, and Genocide
18G: Sound Studies III
Chair: Peter McMurray, Cambridge University
18H: Writing Ethnomusicology
Chair: Sean Williams, Evergreen State College
 
2:15pm
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3:15pm
Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Education Section Keynote Address
Publications Advisory Committee
SIG for Music Analysis
Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture
     
2:15pm
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4:15pm
Indigenous Music Section
Professional Development Workshop: Careers in Public Ethnomusicology
Sponsored by the SEM Board
7:00pm
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8:00pm
Society for Arab Music Research Business Meeting
7:00pm
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9:00pm
International Scholar Networking Event
Sponsored by the International Students Network and SEM Board
SEM Orchestra
Society for Asian Music Business Meeting and Awardee Presentations
SSW and GSSS Speed Mentoring

 
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