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-301 Marquis Level 155 |
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
8:00am - 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 University of California, Riverside Musical Propaganda in Myanmar: Army Songs University of Dayton, Encrypted in Song: Wartime Music as a Medium of Subversive Communication Between Occupied and Free Ukraine University of Alberta Uncertain Signs: WWI Musico-therapy and Shell Shock 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 Yale University, From Silence to Song: Tracing Women’s Ascension in the Qadiriyya Sufi Rituals of Iran Boston University Canon Reformation and Rewriting Women’s History in Iranian Music 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 Presentations in the Session N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A |
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 Oberlin College Excavating Alcina's codiapi: Filipino boat-tutes in the colonial Visayas 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 Mercer University Land of the Rat Kings: Queerness, Romaniness, and Popular Music in the Slovak Periphery Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Sounding Transness: ‘Spliced Collage’ and the Co-Creation of Trans and Queer Storyworlds in Drag Performance University of Bristol Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens 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 Presentations in the Session Asiatic Femininity and the “Yellow Woman” in Western Classical Music Beyond Release are we ready? No Voice |
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 New York University Streaming the Streets: Pumba, Digital Fandom, and the Politics of Aging in South Korea N/A Rejuvenation through Remembering: Sonic care at night clubs for the aging in northern Mozambique Syracuse University |
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
8:30am - 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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Listening to White Supremacy: Race, Space and the Canadian Sonic Imaginary Carleton University, Localism and Nationalism: The Politics of Cantonese Music in Hong Kong Saint Francis University Silenced voices, resilient sounds: Devadāsī songs in the periya mēḷam temple repertoire 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 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 New York University Silencing the Nature: The Aesthetic-moralism and Westernization beyond the mountainous Silence Trail in Taiwan Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Duke University “Loud and Unnecessary Noise": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus University of Pennsylvania, |
10:45am - 12:15pm |
12G: International Student Network Discussion Location: M-301 |