SEM 2024 Annual Meeting
October 17-26, 2024 | Virtual
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: Saturday, 19/Oct/2024 | |
9:30am - 10:00am | Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7B: Daily Ethnomusicologies: Or, ethnomusicologists are everywhere and why that matters. Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7C: Geáitse: The Aesthetics of Movement and Gesture in the Expression of Irish Traditional Music and Dance Sponsored by the Dance, Movement and Gesture Section |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7D: Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Sponsored by the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7E: Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACSEM). |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7G: Maqam Creativity on the Borders: Musical Alternatives to the Nation-State Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene Special Interest Group (AESIG) and the Special Interest Group on the Music of Iran and Central Asia |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7H: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Sponsored by the SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music and Violence SIG |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7I: Referentiality and Black Music in the US Chair: Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 7J: Archiving Chair: Shalini Ayyagari, University of Pittsburgh |
10:00am - 2:00pm | 7A: World Music Pedagogy Workshop |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8B: Instruments I |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8D: Gender in Asian American Music Chair: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8E: Nostalgia |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8F: Music/Film Chair: Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8G: Sound Studies I Chair: Marie Abe, University of Calfiornia, Berkeley |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8H: Ecomusicology II |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8I: Musical Representation and Identity II Chair: Sonia Seeman, University of Texas, Austin |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 8J: Chinese Identity |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | African and African Diasporic Music Section Business Meeting |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Chapters |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Education Section Business Meeting |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Latin American & Caribbean Music Section |
2:15pm - 4:15pm | Religion, Music, and Sound Section |
3:15pm - 4:15pm | African and African Diasporic Music Section Keynote |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | An Asian American Listening Party |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | LACSEM Mentoring Session |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | SIG for Japanese Performing Arts |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | Sound Studies Section Workshop - Sound Studies in the Curriculum |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | South Asian Performing Arts Section Business Meeting |
8:00pm - 9:00pm | Sound Studies Section |
8:00pm - 9:00pm | South Asian Performing Arts Section Discussion |
Date: Sunday, 20/Oct/2024 | |
8:00am - 9:00am | Ethics Committee |
10:00am - 11:00am | 9J: Theorizing Phrase Structure in Guqin Music |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9A: Time and Periodicity Chair: Richard Wolf, Harvard University |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9B: Migration, Diaspora and the U.S. |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9C: Indigenous Studies Chair: John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9D: Sonic Cairo: Networking Urban Power and Spirituality Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9E: Musicking Religion I Chair: Andrew Mall, Northeastern University |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9F: UNESCO |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9G: Musical Tradition and Technological Mediation Chair: Chris Scales, Michigan State University |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9H: Colonialism/Christianity |
10:00am - 11:30am | 9I: Dance/Movement I |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10A: President's Roundtable: Care, Conflict, and Commitment in Ethnomusicological Work Sponsored by the SEM Board |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10B: Is A Third Ethnomusicology Possible? : Engaged Music Scholarship & the Undercommons |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10C: Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Ecomusicology SIG |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10D: Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10E: Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10F: Collective Sounds: Crowds and Community in Sports and Festivals Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene SIG |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 10H: Virtual Communities |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Ethnomusicology Journal Editorial Board |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Gender and Sexuality Studies Section Invited Talk |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Popular Music Section Business Meeting |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Celtic Music |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology |
3:15pm - 4:15pm | Popular Music Section: David Sanjek Lecture in Popular Music |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | Robinson Network Group |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | Society for Arab Music Research Mixer |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | Association for Chinese Music Research |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | Association for Korean Music Research |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | Historical Ethnomusicology Section |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | Improvisation Section |
Date: Monday, 21/Oct/2024 | |
11:00am - 12:00pm | SEM Board |
Date: Tuesday, 22/Oct/2024 | |
1:00pm - 2:00pm | SEM Board |
Date: Wednesday, 23/Oct/2024 | |
10:00am - 11:30am | 11J: Ethnomusicological Exits: Breaks, Goodbyes, Partings Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11A: Musicking Religion II Chair: Nathan Myrick, Mercer University |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11B: Memory and Memorialization Chair: Frank Gunderson, Florida State University |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11C: “The Insistence of Being Heard”: Women, Music, and the Circumvention of Oppressive Structures The SEM Section on the Status of Women (SSW) |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11D: Music and Violence Chair: Johnathan Ritter, University of California, Riverside |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11E: Technological Negotiations of Authenticity in Popular Music |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11F: Vulnerability in Fieldwork: beyond methodologies |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11G: Postcolonial Musical Networks of Luso-Sonic Geographies |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11H: Temporalities of Belonging, Architectures of Tradition |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 11I: Creative Intersections: Artistic Influences Between African Art, Popular, and Traditional Music Genres Sponsored by the African and African Diaspora Music Section |
12:00pm - 12:30pm | Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12A: Multi-species Ethnomusicology Chair: Kevin Fellezs, Columbia University |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12B: Disability Studies Chair: Michael Bakan, Florida State University |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12C: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance I |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12D: Affect |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12E: Indigenous Studies: Native America Chair: Liz Przybylski, University of California, Riverside |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12F: Interculturality I Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12G: Policies, Politics, and Polities |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12H: Women as Tradition Bearers Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 12J: Ask a Scholar: Mentoring and Advice from Grad School to Tenure Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
12:30pm - 2:15pm | 12I: The Music of Our Neighbors: Cultural Diversity in Small-Town Germany |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Diversity Action Committee |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Section on the Status of Women |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Ecomusicology |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Musics in and of Europe |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Organology |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for the Study of Music and Violence |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 13A: Queering Media |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 13B: Jazz and Race |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 13C: Towards a Theory and Method for the Study of Music and Nongovernmental Organizations |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 13D: Analysis: Modal Theory Chair: Philip Yampolsky, Independent |
8:00pm - 9:00pm | 13E: The Pluriversal World of Argentine Tango Music |
Date: Thursday, 24/Oct/2024 | |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14A: Behind the Scenes at Ethnomusicology (SEM Journal) Sponsored by the SEM Board |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14B: Comparative Musicology Chair: Erol Koymen, University of Chicago |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14C: Transborder Studies |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14D: Masculinities Chair: Henry Spiller, University of California, Davis |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14E: Migration/Diaspora II |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14F: Dance/Movement II Chair: Tomie Hahn |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14G: Refugees, Trauma, and Healing |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14I: Epistemologies of Inclusion: Lessons from Improvisational Jamming Traditions Sponsored by the Improvisation Section |
10:00am - 11:30am | 14J: Workshop on Transgressive Poetry Writing Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15A: Journeys without End: Centering the Work of Rehearsals |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15B: Contesting Urban Political Auralities Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Economic Ethnomusicology SIG |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15C: Instruments II |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15D: Perspectives on Song and Tune Analysis |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15E: Vocality |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15F: Memory, Continuity, and Rupture Chair: Joe Kinzer, Antioch University |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15G: Rendering the Nation Chair: Shannon Dudley, University of Washington |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15H: Interculturality II Chair: Colter Harper, University at Buffalo, SUNY |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15I: Ethnomusicology and Digital Humanities Roundtable Sponsored by the SEM Board |
12:00pm - 2:00pm | 15J: Archiving: U.S. Chair: Michael Heller, University of Pittsburgh |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Committee on Labor |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section Business Meeting |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Investment Advisory Committee |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Disability and Deaf Studies |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Voice Studies |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | 16E: Producing Digital Vibes and Archives: Orchestrating and Preserving Music Festival Soundscapes |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 16A: Sustainability |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 16B: Interculturality III Chair: Christopher Miller, Cornell |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | 16D: Pedagogy Chair: Yuan-yu Kuan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Date: Friday, 25/Oct/2024 | |
10:00am - 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 |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17B: Diego Carpitella Fellowship’s experiences: reflections on audiovisual ethnomusicology |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17C: Violence, Trauma, Witness Chair: Joshua Pilzer, University of Toronto |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17D: Performing Irishness: Race, Gender and the Global ‘Celtic’ Imaginary Sponsored by the SIG for Celtic Music |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17E: Kenyan Music in Communities, Schools, and Concert Halls |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17F: Blackness, Anti-Blackness, and Praxis Chair: Stephanie Shonekan, University of Maryland |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17G: Transnational Studies Chair: Kwasi Ampene, Tufts University |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17H: Encapsulating Sounds – pedagogical experiments in teaching organology with imaginative instrument design, worldbuiding, and storytelling |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 17I: Desi Hip Hop: Oral History, Placemaking, and Technology in Post-Liberal India |
10:00am - 12:00pm | 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 - 12:00pm | SEM Board |
12:00pm - 12:30pm | Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
12:30pm - 1:30pm | 18I: A Walk Through the Beauty of Natural Scenery in Music for the Yanqin (the Chinese Hammered Dulcimer) |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18A: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance II |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18B: Decoloniality Chair: Jim Sykes, University of Pennsylvania |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18C: Economic Ethnomusicology Chair: Shannon Garland, University of Pittsburgh |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18D: Race, Gender, and the Violin Sponsored by the SIG for Organology |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18F: Memory, Displacement, and Genocide |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18G: Sound Studies III Chair: Peter McMurray, Cambridge University |
12:30pm - 2:00pm | 18H: Writing Ethnomusicology Chair: Sean Williams, Evergreen State College |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Education Section Keynote Address |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Publications Advisory Committee |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | SIG for Music Analysis |
2:15pm - 3:15pm | Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture |
2:15pm - 4:15pm | Indigenous Music Section |
2:15pm - 4:15pm | Professional Development Workshop: Careers in Public Ethnomusicology Sponsored by the SEM Board |
7:00pm - 8:00pm | Society for Arab Music Research Business Meeting |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | International Scholar Networking Event Sponsored by the International Students Network and SEM Board |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | SEM Orchestra |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | Society for Asian Music Business Meeting and Awardee Presentations |
7:00pm - 9:00pm | SSW and GSSS Speed Mentoring |
Date: Saturday, 26/Oct/2024 | |
10:00am - 12:15pm | GMM: SEM General Membership Meeting |
12:30pm - 1:00pm | Practices of Contemplation and Mindfulness Sponsored by the SEM Program Committee |
1:00pm - 2:30pm | Seeger: 2024 Charles Seeger Lecture |
2:45pm - 4:45pm | SEM Council |
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