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: 26th Aug 2025, 07:03:54pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: M-301
Marquis Level 155
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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10:00am
01G: Music and War
Location: M-301
Presenter: Nathan Russell Huxtable, University of California, Riverside
Presenter: Heather MacLachlan, University of Dayton
Presenter: Olga Zaitseva-Herz
Presenter: Briana Nave, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 

“Based on the Spirit of the Empire”: Japanese Military Music and Symbolic Mobility in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II

Nathan Russell Huxtable

University of California, Riverside



Musical Propaganda in Myanmar: Army Songs

Heather MacLachlan

University of Dayton,



Encrypted in Song: Wartime Music as a Medium of Subversive Communication Between Occupied and Free Ukraine

Olga Zaitseva-Herz

University of Alberta



Uncertain Signs: WWI Musico-therapy and Shell Shock

Briana Nave

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

10:45am
-
12:15pm
02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music
Location: M-301
Presenter: Hannaneh Akbarpour, Yale University
Presenter: Ali Hajmalek
Presenter: Hadi Milanloo
 

“Dancing to Modernity”: Musical Everydayness and Politics of Womanhood in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran

Hannaneh Akbarpour

Yale University,



From Silence to Song: Tracing Women’s Ascension in the Qadiriyya Sufi Rituals of Iran

Ali Hajmalek

Boston University



Canon Reformation and Rewriting Women’s History in Iranian Music

Hadi Milanloo

University of Toronto

12:30pm
-
1:30pm
SIG for Ecomusicology
Location: M-301
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Location: M-301
Chair: Felicia K. Youngblood, Western Washington University
 

Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing

Chair(s): Andrea Shaheen Espinosa (Arizona State University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

N/A

Georgia Curran
University of Sydney

 

N/A

Larissa Mulder
The Ohio State University

 

N/A

Grijda Spiri
University of California Santa Cruz

 

N/A

Felicia K. Youngblood
Western Washington University

 

N/A

Chuyi Zhu
University of Michigan

4:00pm
-
5:30pm
04G: Island Listening
Location: M-301
Presenter: Courtney-Savali Andrews, Oberlin College
Presenter: Isabella Mahal Ortega
 

Chronotopic Formulations: The Making of the Music and Musicians in Modern Samoa

Courtney-Savali Andrews

Oberlin College



Excavating Alcina's codiapi: Filipino boat-tutes in the colonial Visayas

Isabella Mahal Ortega

University of Chicago

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
05G: Queer Worldmaking
Location: M-301
Presenter: Charles Hudson Moss, Mercer University
Presenter: Dominika Moravcikova, Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University
Presenter: Sarah Cooper
Presenter: Brandon Lane Foskett
 

Anglo-Catholicism in Atlanta: Musicking Queerness and Neurodivergence in Liturgy

Charles Hudson Moss

Mercer University



Land of the Rat Kings: Queerness, Romaniness, and Popular Music in the Slovak Periphery

Dominika Moravcikova

Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University,



Sounding Transness: ‘Spliced Collage’ and the Co-Creation of Trans and Queer Storyworlds in Drag Performance

Sarah Cooper

University of Bristol



Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens

Brandon Lane Foskett

University of Texas at Austin

12:30pm
-
1:30pm
Society for Arab Music Research Meeting
Location: M-301
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience
Location: M-301
Chair: Shelley Zhang, Rutgers University
 

Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience

Chair(s): Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)

 

Presentations in the Session

 

Asiatic Femininity and the “Yellow Woman” in Western Classical Music

Shelley Zhang
Rutgers University

 

Beyond Release

Tomie Hahn
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

are we ready?

Lei X Ouyang
Swarthmore College

 

No Voice

Deborah Wong
University of California, Riverside

4:00pm
-
5:30pm
08G: Studies in Aging
Location: M-301
Presenter: Melanie Ptatscheck
Presenter: Jeongin Lee
Presenter: Ellen Hebden, Syracuse University
 

“Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)”. An Ethnography of Busking, Well-being, and Aging

Melanie Ptatscheck

New York University



Streaming the Streets: Pumba, Digital Fandom, and the Politics of Aging in South Korea

Jeongin Lee

N/A



Rejuvenation through Remembering: Sonic care at night clubs for the aging in northern Mozambique

Ellen Hebden

Syracuse University

Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am
09G: Listening for Place
Location: M-301
Presenter: Kira Gaillard, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presenter: Gale Franklin, Carleton University
Presenter: Kai Sze Jessica Fung, Saint Francis University
Presenter: William Tallotte, Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université
 

Straining to Hear Palestine: Al-Khalidi’s Radical Act of Listening During British Mandate

Kira Gaillard

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Listening to White Supremacy: Race, Space and the Canadian Sonic Imaginary

Gale Franklin

Carleton University,



Localism and Nationalism: The Politics of Cantonese Music in Hong Kong

Kai Sze Jessica Fung

Saint Francis University



Silenced voices, resilient sounds: Devadāsī songs in the periya mēḷam temple repertoire

William Tallotte

Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université

10:45am
-
12:15pm
10G: Board-Sponsored Panel
Location: M-301
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
11G: Noise and Silence
Location: M-301
Presenter: Tyler Jordan
Presenter: Christopher Copley
Presenter: Yu Hsuan Liao, Duke University
Presenter: Hannah Marie Junco, University of Pennsylvania
 

Unsilenced Bodies: Trauma in Queer Noise Music

Tyler Jordan

Duke University



“The Sound of a Positive Dollar:” The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago’s Street Music Noise Ordinance Debates

Christopher Copley

New York University



Silencing the Nature: The Aesthetic-moralism and Westernization beyond the mountainous Silence Trail in Taiwan

Yu Hsuan Liao

Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Duke University



“Loud and Unnecessary Noise": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus

Hannah Marie Junco

University of Pennsylvania,

10:45am
-
12:15pm
12G: International Student Network Discussion
Location: M-301