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 | |
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Location: M-301 Marquis Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies Location: M-301 Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies Presentations in the Session Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies |
| 10:10am - 10:40am |
Opening Ceremony Location: M-301 |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana Location: M-301 Chair: John Wesley Dankwa, Wesleyan University Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana Presentations in the Session Beyond Missionary Legacies: Examining the Musical Practices in Ghanaian Methodist Worship Cultural Identity and Future Directions in Ghanaian Choral Music: A Synthesis of Tradition and Innovation Colonial Residue or Sheer Love for Music? G.F. Handel in Ghanaian Choral Art Music |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
SIG for Ecomusicology Location: M-301 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity Location: M-301 Chair: Anthony Wilford Perman, Grinnell College Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity Presentations in the Session The Problem of the Banjo “You’re Not My Kind of Balinese”: Carving Musical Identity in the Silencing of Cultural Essentialism From Empathy to Justice: Ethnomusicological Paradoxes, Music Participation, and the Utility of Indebtedness Bridging the Gap: The Complicated Politics and Potentials of Creative Bi-musicality |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Location: M-301 Chair: Stella Li, RILM The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan Presentations in the Session “When Will You Return?”: The Voice(s) of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Reclaiming the Voices of Chinese Singsong Girls Beyond “Yellow” in 1940s Shanghai Jazz Queens in Women’s Magazines: Negotiating Femininity in Occupied Japan |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
Asian American Listening Party Location: M-301 |
| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Association for Chinese Music Research Location: M-301 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05A: Academic Freedom Roundtable Location: M-301 Sponsored by the SEM Board |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
06A: President's Roundtable (Board) Location: M-301 |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Society for Arab Music Research Meeting Location: M-301 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07A: The “Halfie’s” Mental Health: Recentering International Students in the US American Ethnomusicology Location: M-301 Chair: Chun-Chia Tai Presenter: Ana Maria Diaz Pinto, University of California Diaz Presenter: Diandian Zeng, University of California, Santa Barbara Presenter: Chun-Chia Tai Presenter: Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng Sponsored by the International Student Network for Music and Sound Studies and the SEM Board |
| 4:00pm - 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 - 9:00pm |
New York University Reception Location: M-301 |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology Location: M-301 Music, Power, and Agency in the 16th- and 17th-Century Kingdom of Kongo University of Connecticut, 9:00am - 9:30am Tuning to Fit In: The Reform of the Miao Lusheng and the Construction of Modern Chinese Soundscape in Post-1949 China" Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University, 9:30am - 10:00am BEZMARA’S FATE: Why the Ottoman Early Music Movement Never Took Off New England Conservatory, 10:00am - 10:30am Music Crosses Time and Space: From Ancient Chinese Poetry to Modern English Song – A Study Case of SU Shih’s “Prelude to Water Melody” VerseVoice.org, UK |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10A: The Current Crisis and the Future of Ethnomusicology Location: M-301 Chair: Matt Sakakeeny 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 - 1:30pm |
SIG for Brazilian Music Location: M-301 |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting Location: M-301 |
| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk Location: M-301 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11A: Traditional Transformations Location: M-301 Presenter: John C Walsh, University of Wisconsin, Madison Presenter: Abraham Landa, University of Oregon Presenter: Inbar Shifrin, Brandeis University Presenter: Yanxiazi Gao The Rise and Fall of the Azmaribet: Traditional Music Venues as Urban Form in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia University of Wisconsin, Madison, 9:00am - 9:30am Fluidity in Tradition: Gender and the Chilena in Costa Chica University of Oregon, 9:30am - 10:00am Shifting Sounds of Yemen in Ofra Haza's music Brandeis University 10:00am - 10:30am Classical Music as Cultural Capital: The Lived Experiences and Harmful Stereotypes of Gen-Z Asian American Pianists Skillman, New Jersey |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration Location: M-301 Presenter: Uri Schreter Presenter: Matthew Williams, University of York “As Natural to Me as Breathing”: Wedding Music and Jewish Identity in Postwar New York City Harvard University 11:15am - 11:45am Gospel, the Monarchy, and the Politics of Representation in British Popular Culture University of York 11:45am - 12:15pm The Return of the Prayer: Navigating Identity through Cantonese Contemporary Christian Music in Postcolonial Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |