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.

Use the search bar to search by name or title of paper/session. Note that this search bar does not search by keyword.

Click on the session name for a detailed view (with participant names and abstracts).

Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 26th Aug 2025, 08:57:16pm EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: M-302
Marquis Level 96
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
-
10:00am
01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-302
10:45am
-
12:15pm
02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-302
12:30pm
-
1:30pm
SIG for Music and Violence
Location: M-302
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-302
4:00pm
-
5:30pm
04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-302
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
Improvisation Section Business Meeting
Location: M-302
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
8:30am
-
10:30am
05H: International Rap and Hip Hop
Location: M-302
10:45am
-
12:15pm
06H: Pop Protests
Location: M-302
1:45pm
-
3:45pm
07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana
Location: M-302
4:00pm
-
5:30pm
08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
Location: M-302
7:00pm
-
8:00pm
Society for Arab Music Research Keynote
Location: M-302
8:00pm
-
9:00pm
Society for Arab Music Research Mixer
Location: M-302
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
8:30am
-
10:30am
09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-302
10:45am
-
12:15pm
10H: Racialization
Location: M-302
12:30pm
-
1:30pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Keynote
Location: M-302
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
8:30am
-
10:30am
11H: Singing and Spirituality
Location: M-302
10:45am
-
12:15pm
12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement
Location: M-302