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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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 26th Aug 2025, 08:58:27pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
7:30am
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12:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
-
1:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am
-
10:30am
09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
09B: Organology
Location: M-102
09C: Embodiment
Location: M-103
09D: Discrimination and Violence in the United States
Location: M-104/105
09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa
Location: M-106/107
09F: Jazz Stories
Location: M-109
09G: Listening for Place
Location: M-301
09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-302
09I: Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto
Location: M-303
09J: Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals
Location: M-304
09K: International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows
Location: L-506/507
09L: Sonic Care Work
Location: L-508
8:30am
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12:15pm
Education Section Workshop
Location: Marquis Ballroom A
10:45am
-
12:15pm
10A: Rising Voices Panel
Location: M-101
10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone
Location: M-102
10C: Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms
Location: M-103
10D: Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?
Location: M-104/105
10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany
Location: M-106/107
10F: Generative Collaborations
Location: M-109
10G: Board-Sponsored Panel
Location: M-301
10H: Racialization
Location: M-302
10I: Improvisation and Gestures
Location: M-303
10J: Global Ensembles
Location: M-304
10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures
Location: L-506/507
10L: Modes of Storytelling
Location: L-508
12:30pm
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1:30pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Keynote
Location: M-302
Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Location: M-104/105
Diversity Action Committee
Location: L-505
Education Section Business Meeting
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103
Investment Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
Rising Voices Student Open Meeting
Location: M-303
Section on the Status of Women Meeting
Location: M-102
SIG for Brazilian Music
Location: M-301
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia
Location: L-506/507
SIG for Voice Studies
Location: M-304
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
General Membership Meeting
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
4:30pm
-
5:45pm
Charles Seeger Lecture
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
6:00pm
-
10:00pm
Sounding Board (Sound Studies Section)
Location: M-201 and M-202
7:00pm
-
8:00pm
South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting
Location: M-301
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
SEM Orchestra
Location: Imperial Ballroom B
SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring
Location: M-106/107
8:00pm
-
9:00pm
South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk
Location: M-301