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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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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 18th Oct 2025, 11:13:46am EDT
7:30am Conference Registration Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am Exhibits Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am 05A: Academic Freedom Roundtable Location: M-301 Sponsored by the SEM Board
05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition Location: M-302 05C: Historical Soundscapes II Location: M-303 05D: AI and Ownership Location: M-304
05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies Location: M-101 05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions Location: M-102 05G: Queer Worldmaking Location: M-103 05H: International Rap and Hip Hop Location: M-104/105
05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures Location: M-106/107 05J: Operatic Horizons Location: M-109 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-301 06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music Location: M-302 06D: Transgressive Terrains Location: M-304 06E: Digital Sounds in Communities Location: M-101
06F: Border(lands) Location: M-102 06H: Pop Protests Location: M-104/105 06I: Queer Temporalities Location: M-106/107 06J: Community, Collaboration, and Cohesion Location: M-109
06K: Black Keywords In Sound Location: L-506/507
11:15am Rose Library Tour Location: Robert W. Woodruff Library
12:30pm Anatolian Ecumene SIG Location: M-109 Association for Korean Music Research Location: M-102 Deafness and Disability Studies SIG Location: M-101 Education Section Keynote Location: M-104/105
Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting Location: M-302 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
12:30pm Council Lunch Location: L-503
1:45pm 07A: The “Halfie’s” Mental Health: Recentering International Students in the US American Ethnomusicology Location: M-301 Sponsored by the International Student Network for Music and Sound Studies and the SEM Board
07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization Location: M-302 07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire Location: M-303 07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance Location: M-304
07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Location: M-101 07F: Hearing Heritage Location: M-102 07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience Location: M-103 07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana Location: M-104/105
07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections Location: M-106/107 07J: Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S. Location: M-109 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: BFE Rountable: Who Can Be An Ethnomusicologist? Location: M-301 Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board
08B: Divergent Listening Location: M-302 08C: Soundscapes of Sports Location: M-303 08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future Location: M-304
08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe Location: M-101 08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective Location: M-102 08G: Studies in Aging Location: M-103 08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography Location: M-104/105
08I: Collective Convergences Location: M-106/107 08J: Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran Location: M-109 08K: Coloniality and Vocality Location: L-506/507 08L: New Approaches in Music Studies Location: L-508
5:30pm British Forum for Ethnomusicology Tea Break
7:00pm Popular Music Section Meeting Location: L-508 Society for Arab Music Research Keynote Location: M-302
7:00pm Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation Location: M-104/105 Florida State University (FSU) Reception Location: M-106/107 Indiana University Reception Location: M-304 Indigenous Music Section Location: M-103
New York University Reception Location: M-301 Society for Asian Music Keynote and Business Meeting Location: L-506/507 Keynote Address: “What Asia Taught Me”
Texas Reception Location: M-101
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
9:00pm UCLA/UC-Davis Reception Location: M-103 Wesleyan University Reception Location: L-506/507
