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, 04:46:24pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: M-301
Marquis Level
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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10:00am		 01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Location: M-301
10:10am
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10:40am		 Opening Ceremony
Location: M-301
10:45am
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12:15pm		 02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Location: M-301
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 SIG for Ecomusicology
Location: M-301
1:45pm
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3:45pm		 03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity
Location: M-301
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: M-301
7:00pm
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8:00pm		 Asian American Listening Party
Location: M-301
8:00pm
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10:00pm		 Association for Chinese Music Research
Location: M-301
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 05A: Academic Freedom Roundtable
Location: M-301

Sponsored by the SEM Board
10:45am
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12:15pm		 06A: President's Roundtable (Board)
Location: M-301
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 Society for Arab Music Research Meeting
Location: M-301
1:45pm
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3:45pm		 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
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 08A: BFE Rountable: Who Can Be An Ethnomusicologist?
Location: M-301

Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board
7:00pm
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9:00pm		 New York University Reception
Location: M-301
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-301
10:45am
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12:15pm		 10A: The Current Crisis and the Future of Ethnomusicology
Location: M-301

Alan Burdette (Society for Ethnomusicology), Shannon Garland (University of Pittsburgh), Amelia López López (Indiana University), Alejandrina M. Medina (University of California - San Diego), Gabriel Solis (University of Washington), with Matt Sakakeeny (moderator) (Tulane)
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 SIG for Brazilian Music
Location: M-301
7:00pm
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8:00pm		 South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting
Location: M-301
8:00pm
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9:00pm		 South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk
Location: M-301
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 11A: Traditional Transformations
Location: M-301
10:45am
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12:15pm		 12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration
Location: M-301