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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Session Overview
Location: M-106/107
Marquis Level
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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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
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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
 
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
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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
 
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
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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
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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

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
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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
 
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
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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
 
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
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

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
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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
 
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
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

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
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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