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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: Thursday, 17/Oct/2024
9:15am - 9:45am	OC: Opening Ceremony
10:00am - 12:00pm	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 - 2:00pm	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 - 3:15pm	Ask an Archivist: SIG for Archiving	SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology	SIG for Jazz	SIG for Jewish Music
2:15pm - 4:15pm	SEM Council
7:00pm - 9:00pm	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

Date: Friday, 18/Oct/2024
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

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	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	7D: Histories of choreographic exchange - Latin American dance and the Global Easts Sponsored by the Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section	7E: Voicing Quiet and the Acoustically Inaudible
	7F: Contemporary Perspectives on Afro-Venezuelan Tambor Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACSEM).	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	7H: The Ethics and Politics of Care in Music Studies Sponsored by the SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology and the Music and Violence SIG	7I: Referentiality and Black Music in the US Chair: Kyra Gaunt, University at Albany, SUNY
	7J: Archiving Chair: Shalini Ayyagari, University of Pittsburgh
10:00am - 2:00pm	7A: World Music Pedagogy Workshop
12:30pm - 2:00pm	8B: Instruments I	8C: Care Ethics, Participatory Action Research, and New Approaches in the Ethnomusicologies of Deaf Culture and Neurodiversity	8D: Gender in Asian American Music Chair: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University	8E: Nostalgia
	8F: Music/Film Chair: Amanda Weidman, Bryn Mawr College	8G: Sound Studies I Chair: Marie Abe, University of Calfiornia, Berkeley	8H: Ecomusicology II	8I: Musical Representation and Identity II Chair: Sonia Seeman, University of Texas, Austin
	8J: Chinese Identity
2:15pm - 3:15pm	African and African Diasporic Music Section Business Meeting	Chapters	Education Section Business Meeting	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	LACSEM Mentoring Session	SIG for Japanese Performing Arts	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		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	9B: Migration, Diaspora and the U.S.	9C: Indigenous Studies Chair: John-Carlos Perea, University of Washington	9D: Sonic Cairo: Networking Urban Power and Spirituality Sponsored by the Society for Arab Music Research
	9E: Musicking Religion I Chair: Andrew Mall, Northeastern University	9F: UNESCO	9G: Musical Tradition and Technological Mediation Chair: Chris Scales, Michigan State University	9H: Colonialism/Christianity
	9I: Dance/Movement I
12:00pm - 2:00pm	10A: President's Roundtable: Care, Conflict, and Commitment in Ethnomusicological Work Sponsored by the SEM Board	10B: Is A Third Ethnomusicology Possible? : Engaged Music Scholarship & the Undercommons	10C: Whither Eco-Ethnomusicology? Ecomusicology SIG	10D: Musicking Identities, Ruptures, and Emerging Soundscapes in Africa
12:00pm - 2:00pm	10E: Navigating Academic/Non-Academic Interaction in Music and Minorities Research	10F: Collective Sounds: Crowds and Community in Sports and Festivals Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section	10G: Community, Transmission, and Revival in the “Music Village” Sponsored by the Anatolian Ecumene SIG	10H: Virtual Communities
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Ethnomusicology Journal Editorial Board	Gender and Sexuality Studies Section Invited Talk	Popular Music Section Business Meeting	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		Society for Arab Music Research Mixer
7:00pm - 9:00pm	Association for Chinese Music Research	Association for Korean Music Research	Historical Ethnomusicology Section	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	11B: Memory and Memorialization Chair: Frank Gunderson, Florida State University	11C: “The Insistence of Being Heard”: Women, Music, and the Circumvention of Oppressive Structures The SEM Section on the Status of Women (SSW)	11D: Music and Violence Chair: Johnathan Ritter, University of California, Riverside
	11E: Technological Negotiations of Authenticity in Popular Music	11F: Vulnerability in Fieldwork: beyond methodologies	11G: Postcolonial Musical Networks of Luso-Sonic Geographies	11H: Temporalities of Belonging, Architectures of Tradition
	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	12B: Disability Studies Chair: Michael Bakan, Florida State University	12C: Social Movements/Protest/Resistance I	12D: Affect
	12E: Indigenous Studies: Native America Chair: Liz Przybylski, University of California, Riverside	12F: Interculturality I Chair: R. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa	12G: Policies, Politics, and Polities	12H: Women as Tradition Bearers Chair: Ellen Koskoff, Eastman School of Music
	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	Section on the Status of Women	SIG for Ecomusicology	SIG for Musics in and of Europe
2:15pm - 3:15pm	SIG for Organology	SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia	SIG for the Study of Music and Violence
7:00pm - 9:00pm	13A: Queering Media	13B: Jazz and Race	13C: Towards a Theory and Method for the Study of Music and Nongovernmental Organizations	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	14B: Comparative Musicology Chair: Erol Koymen, University of Chicago	14C: Transborder Studies	14D: Masculinities Chair: Henry Spiller, University of California, Davis
	14E: Migration/Diaspora II	14F: Dance/Movement II Chair: Tomie Hahn	14G: Refugees, Trauma, and Healing	14I: Epistemologies of Inclusion: Lessons from Improvisational Jamming Traditions Sponsored by the Improvisation Section
	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	15B: Contesting Urban Political Auralities Sponsored by the Sound Studies Section and the Economic Ethnomusicology SIG	15C: Instruments II	15D: Perspectives on Song and Tune Analysis
	15E: Vocality	15F: Memory, Continuity, and Rupture Chair: Joe Kinzer, Antioch University	15G: Rendering the Nation Chair: Shannon Dudley, University of Washington	15H: Interculturality II Chair: Colter Harper, University at Buffalo, SUNY
	15I: Ethnomusicology and Digital Humanities Roundtable Sponsored by the SEM Board	15J: Archiving: U.S. Chair: Michael Heller, University of Pittsburgh
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Committee on Labor	Dance, Movement, and Gesture Section Business Meeting	Investment Advisory Committee	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	16B: Interculturality III Chair: Christopher Miller, Cornell	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	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 - 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	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
12:30pm - 2:00pm	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 - 3:15pm	Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation	Education Section Keynote Address	Publications Advisory Committee	SIG for Music Analysis
2:15pm - 3:15pm	Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Lecture
2:15pm - 4:15pm	Indigenous Music Section		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	SEM Orchestra	Society for Asian Music Business Meeting and Awardee Presentations	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