Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the SEM 2025 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, 23/Oct/2025
7:30am
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5:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
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10:00am
SEM Board

Closed Meeting

01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Location: M-101
01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making
Location: M-102
01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology
Location: M-103
01D: Political Limits of Music and Sound
Location: M-104/105
01E: Historical Soundscapes I
Location: M-106/107
01F: Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia
Location: M-109
01G: Music and War
Location: M-301
01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-302
01I: Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic
Location: M-303
01J: Transnational Soundscapes
Location: M-304
01K: Jazz Futures
Location: L-506/507
01L: Jazz, Collectivity, and Space
Location: L-508
     
10:10am
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10:40am
Opening Ceremony
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm
02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Location: M-101
02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers
Location: M-102
02C: Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America
Location: M-103
02D: Music In/As Culture Wars
Location: M-104/105
02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song
Location: M-106/107
02F: Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia
Location: M-109
02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music
Location: M-301
02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-302
02I: Soundscapes of Worship
Location: M-303
02J: Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa
Location: M-304
02K: Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music
Location: L-506/507
02L: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt
Location: L-508
11:00am
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6:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Registration
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Committee on Labor
Location: M-303
Dance, Music, and Gesture Section Meeting
Location: M-106/107
Ethics Committee
Location: L-504
Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting
Location: L-506/507
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Past Presidents' Lunch
Location: L-505
SIG for Ecomusicology
Location: M-301
SIG for Japanese Performing Arts
Location: M-109
SIG for Jewish Music
Location: M-103
SIG for Music and Violence
Location: M-302
SIG for Music of the Francophone World
Location: M-304
 
1:45pm
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3:45pm
03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity
Location: M-101
03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures
Location: M-102
03C: Grief and Memory
Location: M-103
03D: Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”
Location: M-104/105
03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora
Location: M-106/107
03F: The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives
Location: M-109
03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Location: M-301
03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-302
03I: Embodiment
Location: M-303
03J: Fieldwork Considerations
Location: M-304
03K: Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North
Location: L-506/507
03L: New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music
Location: L-508
4:00pm
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5:30pm
04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: M-101
04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context
Location: M-102
04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago
Location: M-103
04D: Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music
Location: M-104/105
04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music
Location: M-106/107
04F: Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India
Location: M-109
04G: Island Listening
Location: M-301
04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-302
04I: Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space
Location: M-303
04J: Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency
Location: M-304
04K: Critical Biographies
Location: L-506/507
04L: Considering Composition(s)
Location: L-508
5:30pm
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6:30pm
First Timer Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
7:00pm
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8:00pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Asian American Listening Party
Location: M-301
International Student Network Meeting
Location: M-303
LACSEM/DMG Community-In-Dialogue Panel
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Publications Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
SIG for Archiving
Location: M-106/107
   
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Improvisation Section Business Meeting
Location: M-302
Religion, Music, and Sound Section Business Meeting
Location: M-304
SIG for Music Analysis
Location: L-506/507
 
8:00pm
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9:00pm
Chapters
Location: L-508
DMG Dance Workshop
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Gertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup
Location: M-101
Sound Studies Section Keynote
Location: M-103

Keynote Speaker: Sidra Lawrence

     
8:00pm
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10:00pm
Association for Chinese Music Research
Location: M-301
9:00pm
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10:00pm
LACSEM/DMG Dance Party w/ DJ
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Sound Studies Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103