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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: 18th Oct 2025, 08:55:05am EDT
8:00am - 10:00am
01I: Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic Location: M-106/107
Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic
Chair(s): Jan Koplow (Duke University)
Presentations in the Session
"Saca el petróleo pa' mi nación": Frontier Nostalgia and the Climate Hyperobject in Songs about the Patagonian Petroleum Industry
Lydia Wagenknecht (University of Colorado Boulder)
Relistening to the Current Environmental Crises in Chile through Mapuche Ül Metal
Jan Koplow (Duke University)
10:45am - 12:15pm
02I: Soundscapes of Worship Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Sharri K. Hall , Harvard UniversityPresenter: Conner Singh VanderBeek , Davidson CollegePresenter: Ahkeel Andres Mestayer Velasquez , UC Berkeley
10:45am - 11:15am Affect and Authenticity in Contemporary Christian Worship Soundscapes
Sharri K. Hall
Harvard University
11:15am - 11:45am Amplifying the Divine Word, or the Aesthetics of Reverb in Sikh Aural Architecture
Conner Singh VanderBeek
Davidson College
11:45am - 12:15pm Space, Spirits, and Sound
Ahkeel Andres Mestayer Velasquez
UC Berkeley
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Dance, Music, and Gesture Section Meeting Location: M-106/107
1:45pm - 3:45pm
03I: Embodiment Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Paige Carter Dailey , University of MichiganPresenter: Inderjit N Kaur Presenter: Edwin Porras , Haverford CollegePresenter: Hamidreza Fallahi , University of Texas at Austin
1:45pm - 2:15pm "My Body is a Cage": Genre and Embodiment in Heavy Music
Paige Carter Dailey
University of Michigan
2:15pm - 2:45pm Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami
Hamidreza Fallahi
University of Texas at Austin,
2:45pm - 3:15pm Transportive Sensations: Historicity, Aura, and Embodiment in Sikh Musical Worship
Inderjit N Kaur
University of Michigan, Ann arbor
3:15pm - 3:45pm Cuban Lion Dancing: Embodying Alternative Cubanness
Edwin Porras
Haverford College
4:00pm - 5:30pm
04I: Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space Location: M-106/107 Chair: Andrew Snyder
Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space
Chair(s): Andrew Snyder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Presentations in the Session
The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscapes in Revolutionary Cuba
Marysol Quevedo (University of Miami)
An Experimental Carnival: Material Engagements with Space and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil
James McNally (University of Illinois Chicago)
Our Ship Drum Earth: Decolonial Musicking in Ernesto Neto’s Percussion Installation in Lisbon
Andrew Snyder (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
7:00pm - 8:00pm
SIG for Archiving Location: M-106/107
8:30am - 10:30am
05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures Location: M-106/107 Chair: Ioanida Costache
Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures
Chair(s): Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts) , Ioanida Costache (Stanford University)
Discussant(s): Eric Drott (University of Texas at Austin)
Presentations in the Session
Resonances of the Commons: The Yugoslav Railway and the Infrastructures of Collective Music-Making
Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
The Romani Commons: Extraction and Transformation
Ioanida Costache (Stanford University)
Leisure Legibility, Bad Faith and Ecologies of Musical Expertise: Contesting the Commons
Ruard William Absaroka (University of Salzburg)
Discussion
Eric Drott (UT Austin)
10:45am - 12:15pm
06I: Queer Temporalities Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Kevin C Schattenkirk Presenter: Cahlia A. Plett , University of California RiversidePresenter: Emily Williams Roberts
10:45am - 11:15am Reframing the Utility of Nostalgia in Gay Chorus Singers’ Recollections of Painful Pasts
Kevin C Schattenkirk
Longwood University
11:15am - 11:45am Trans and Queer Religious Expression in Brazil: Music, Mission work, and Queer-Indigenous Temporalities
Cahlia A. Plett
University of California Riverside,
11:45am - 12:15pm “I Ain’t Livin’ Life My Mama’s Way”: Reframing Nostalgia in Bluegrass through Queer Songwriting
Emily Williams Roberts
University of Chicago
12:30pm - 1:30pm
SIG for Musics in and of Europe Location: M-106/107
1:45pm - 3:45pm
07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Jerry Hu Presenter: Adriana Helbig Presenter: Jade Conlee Presenter: David W Samuels , New York University
1:45pm - 2:15pm The Songs of Cicadas: The Dong People’s Diverse Imaginaries of Cicadas in Dong Music
Jerry Hu
Hong Kong
2:15pm - 2:45pm Listening to the Bees: Enhancing the Sound-Based Language of Apiology
Adriana Helbig
University of Pittsburgh
2:45pm - 3:15pm Atmospheric Sovereignty: Reclaiming Multi-Species Relations in Hawai‘i Exotica
Jade Conlee
University of Virginia
3:15pm - 3:45pm The Human Scale As Ethnomusicological Template
David W Samuels
New York University
4:00pm - 5:30pm
08I: Collective Convergences Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Melissa Michelle Rios , University of New MexicoPresenter: Pramantha Mohon Tagore , University of ChicagoPresenter: Lea Wierød Borčak , Aarhus University
4:00pm - 4:30pm The Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference: Redefining Performance Hierarchies on the Student Showcase Stage
Melissa Michelle Rios
University of New Mexico
4:30pm - 5:00pm From Salon to Stage: The All Bengal Music Conference and the Public Life of Hindustani Music
Pramantha Mohon Tagore
University of Chicago
5:00pm - 5:30pm Singing in Times of Crisis: Collective Singing, Social Trust, and Cultural Resilience in the Scandinavian and Baltic Regions
Lea Wierød Borčak, Katrine Frøkjær Baunvig
Aarhus University
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Florida State University (FSU) Reception Location: M-106/107
8:30am - 10:30am
09I: Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto Location: M-106/107 Chair: Jorge Luis Mercado Méndez
Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana : Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto
Chair(s): Kaleb Goldschmitt (Wellesley College)
Presentations in the Session
“Estos son los códigos”: Musical Creation and Sonic Value in Producing Reggaeton
Jorge Luis Mercado-Méndez (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“Va a tener que cantar reparto”: Money, Community, the Clave, and the Tresillo
Mike Levine (Christopher Newport University)
Everything Comes From La Mata: Musical Genealogies and Creation in Chilean Reggaetón
Ana María Díaz-Pinto (University of California, Davis)
Bad Bunny, Yonaguni, and Japón: Japanese Perceptions of Latin American Popular Music
Kelsey Milian-Lopez (City University of New York)
10:45am - 12:15pm
10I: Improvisation and Gestures Location: M-106/107 Presenter: R.. Anderson Sutton , University of Hawaii at ManoaPresenter: Jennifer W Kyker Presenter: Oscar Smith
10:45am - 11:15am Discourses of Improvisation and Musical Essence in Korean Music: 21st Century Perspectives
R.. Anderson Sutton
University of Hawaii at Manoa,
11:15am - 11:45am Makwa: Rhythm and Improvisation in Zimbabwean Handclapping
Jennifer W Kyker
University of Rochester
11:45am - 12:15pm Unity in Diversity: Regional Identity in Improvised Variations in North Balinese Sekatian
Oscar Smith
University of British Columbia
7:00pm - 9:00pm
SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring Location: M-106/107
8:30am - 10:30am
11I: Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands Location: M-106/107 Chair: Floris Schuiling , Utrecht University
Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands
Chair(s): Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University,)
Presentations in the Session
Postcolonial Melancholia and the Sonic Golden Age: White Supremacist Nation-Building in the Netherlands
Thomas Overdijk (Utrecht University)
Whiteness and free improvisation in the Netherlands c. 1970
Floris Schuiling (Utrecht University)
Formal Dutch jazz education and the colonial politics of power
Loes Rusch (Utrecht University)
Menjadi perantau: delayed diaspora and indigeneity in Maluku-Dutch improvised music
Reïnda Hullij (Utrecht University)
10:45am - 12:15pm
12I: Games, Play, and Festivals Location: M-106/107
10:45am - 11:15am “All My Music is Based off My Home Games:”Musical Literacy and Public Play in Tabletop Role-Playing Game Fan Conventions
Andrew James Borecky
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:15am - 11:45am Transnationalism and South-South Connections in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival
Emily Ruth Allen
University of South Carolina
11:45am - 12:15pm “At the End of the Street”: The Marching Band as a Sonic Marker of U.S. American Identity
Anna Marinela Lopez
University of Texas at Austin