Conference Time: 26th Aug 2025, 08:58:26pm EDT
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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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7:30am Conference Registration Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am Exhibits Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am 05A: Music and Trauma Location: M-101 05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition Location: M-102 05C: Historical Soundscapes II Location: M-103 05D: AI and Ownership Location: M-104/105
05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies Location: M-106/107 05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions Location: M-109 05G: Queer Worldmaking Location: M-301 05H: International Rap and Hip Hop Location: M-302
05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures Location: M-303 05J: Operatic Horizons Location: M-304 05K: Encounters in Sound Studies Location: L-506/507 05L: Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation Location: L-508
10:45am 06A: President's Roundtable (Board) Location: M-101 06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music Location: M-102 06D: Transgressive Terrains Location: M-104/105 06E: Digital Sounds in Communities Location: M-106/107
06F: Border(lands) Location: M-109 06H: Pop Protests Location: M-302 06I: Queer Temporalities Location: M-303 06J: Community, Collaboration, and Cohesion Location: M-304
06K: Black Keywords In Sound Location: L-506/507
12:00pm Council Lunch Location: L-503
12:30pm Anatolian Ecumene SIG Location: M-109 Deafness and Disability Studies SIG Location: M-101 Education Section Keynote Location: M-104/105 Journal Editorial Board Location: L-504
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology Location: M-303 SIG for Jazz Location: M-103 SIG for Musics in and of Europe Location: M-106/107 Society for Arab Music Research Meeting Location: M-301
1:45pm 07A: ICTMD Panel (Board) Location: M-101 07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization Location: M-102 07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire Location: M-103 07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance Location: M-104/105
07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Location: M-106/107 07F: Hearing Heritage Location: M-109 07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience Location: M-301 07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana Location: M-302
07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections Location: M-303 07J: Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S. Location: M-304 07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces Location: L-506/507 07L: Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina Location: L-508
4:00pm 08A: 08A: BFE Panel (Board) Location: M-101 08B: Divergent Listening Location: M-102 08C: Soundscapes of Sports Location: M-103 08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future Location: M-104/105
08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe Location: M-106/107 08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective Location: M-109 08G: Studies in Aging Location: M-301 08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography Location: M-302
08I: Collective Convergences Location: M-303 08J: Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran Location: M-304 08K: Coloniality and Vocality Location: L-506/507 08L: New Approaches in Music Studies Location: L-508
7:00pm Association for Korean Music Research Location: M-101 Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation Location: M-104/105 Popular Music Section Meeting Location: L-508 Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Location: M-302
7:00pm Indigenous Music Section Location: M-103 Society for Asian Music Keynote and Business Meeting Location: L-506/507 Keynote Address: “What Asia Taught Me”
8:00pm Popular Music Section David Sanjek Lecture Location: L-508 SIG for Celtic Music Location: M-102 Society for Arab Music Research Mixer Location: M-302
