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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Location: M-106/107 Marquis Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 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 Presentations in the Session "Saca el petróleo pa' mi nación": Frontier Nostalgia and the Climate Hyperobject in Songs about the Patagonian Petroleum Industry Relistening to the Current Environmental Crises in Chile through Mapuche Ül Metal |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02I: Soundscapes of Worship Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Sharri K. Hall, Harvard University Presenter: Conner Singh VanderBeek, Davidson College Presenter: Ahkeel Andres Mestayer Velasquez, UC Berkeley Affect and Authenticity in Contemporary Christian Worship Soundscapes Harvard University 11:15am - 11:45am Amplifying the Divine Word, or the Aesthetics of Reverb in Sikh Aural Architecture Davidson College 11:45am - 12:15pm Space, Spirits, and Sound 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 Michigan Presenter: Inderjit N Kaur Presenter: Edwin Porras, Haverford College Presenter: Hamidreza Fallahi, University of Texas at Austin "My Body is a Cage": Genre and Embodiment in Heavy Music University of Michigan 2:15pm - 2:45pm Secularizing Social Identity Through Performing Khayyami University of Texas at Austin, 2:45pm - 3:15pm Transportive Sensations: Historicity, Aura, and Embodiment in Sikh Musical Worship University of Michigan, Ann arbor 3:15pm - 3:45pm Cuban Lion Dancing: Embodying Alternative Cubanness 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 Presentations in the Session The Revolution Will Be Sonified: Juan Blanco’s Utopic Soundscapes in Revolutionary Cuba An Experimental Carnival: Material Engagements with Space and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil Our Ship Drum Earth: Decolonial Musicking in Ernesto Neto’s Percussion Installation in Lisbon |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
SIG for Archiving Location: M-106/107 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 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 Presentations in the Session Resonances of the Commons: The Yugoslav Railway and the Infrastructures of Collective Music-Making The Romani Commons: Extraction and Transformation Leisure Legibility, Bad Faith and Ecologies of Musical Expertise: Contesting the Commons Discussion |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
06I: Queer Temporalities Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Kevin C Schattenkirk Presenter: Cahlia A. Plett, University of California Riverside Presenter: Emily Williams Roberts Reframing the Utility of Nostalgia in Gay Chorus Singers’ Recollections of Painful Pasts Longwood University 11:15am - 11:45am Trans and Queer Religious Expression in Brazil: Music, Mission work, and Queer-Indigenous Temporalities University of California Riverside, 11:45am - 12:15pm “I Ain’t Livin’ Life My Mama’s Way”: Reframing Nostalgia in Bluegrass through Queer Songwriting 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 The Songs of Cicadas: The Dong People’s Diverse Imaginaries of Cicadas in Dong Music Hong Kong 2:15pm - 2:45pm Listening to the Bees: Enhancing the Sound-Based Language of Apiology University of Pittsburgh 2:45pm - 3:15pm Atmospheric Sovereignty: Reclaiming Multi-Species Relations in Hawai‘i Exotica University of Virginia 3:15pm - 3:45pm The Human Scale As Ethnomusicological Template New York University |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08I: Collective Convergences Location: M-106/107 Presenter: Melissa Michelle Rios, University of New Mexico Presenter: Pramantha Mohon Tagore, University of Chicago Presenter: Lea Wierød Borčak, Aarhus University The Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference: Redefining Performance Hierarchies on the Student Showcase Stage University of New Mexico 4:30pm - 5:00pm From Salon to Stage: The All Bengal Music Conference and the Public Life of Hindustani Music 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 Aarhus University |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Florida State University (FSU) Reception Location: M-106/107 |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 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 Presentations in the Session “Estos son los códigos”: Musical Creation and Sonic Value in Producing Reggaeton “Va a tener que cantar reparto”: Money, Community, the Clave, and the Tresillo Everything Comes From La Mata: Musical Genealogies and Creation in Chilean Reggaetón Bad Bunny, Yonaguni, and Japón: Japanese Perceptions of Latin American Popular Music |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10I: Improvisation and Gestures Location: M-106/107 Presenter: R.. Anderson Sutton, University of Hawaii at Manoa Presenter: Jennifer W Kyker Presenter: Oscar Smith Discourses of Improvisation and Musical Essence in Korean Music: 21st Century Perspectives University of Hawaii at Manoa, 11:15am - 11:45am Makwa: Rhythm and Improvisation in Zimbabwean Handclapping University of Rochester 11:45am - 12:15pm Unity in Diversity: Regional Identity in Improvised Variations in North Balinese Sekatian University of British Columbia |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring Location: M-106/107 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 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 Presentations in the Session Postcolonial Melancholia and the Sonic Golden Age: White Supremacist Nation-Building in the Netherlands Whiteness and free improvisation in the Netherlands c. 1970 Formal Dutch jazz education and the colonial politics of power Menjadi perantau: delayed diaspora and indigeneity in Maluku-Dutch improvised music |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12I: Games, Play, and Festivals Location: M-106/107 “All My Music is Based off My Home Games:”Musical Literacy and Public Play in Tabletop Role-Playing Game Fan Conventions University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11:15am - 11:45am Transnationalism and South-South Connections in Mobile, Alabama’s Carnival 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 University of Texas at Austin |