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-302 Marquis Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making Location: M-302 Chair: Sonia Tamar Seeman, University of Texas Austin Presenter: Sonia Tamar Seeman, University of Texas Austin Musicking through European migratory Spaces: Gendered, ethnic and racial place-making Presentations in the Session Performative Social Space: Trauma, Ritual, and Music among Kosovo Romani Migrants in Germany Re-creating “Mu[h]acir” [“Immigrant”] through Women’s Work: Musicking and Social Reproduction Post-Migrant Musicking and the Restriction of Public Space: Sonic color and class lines in provincial Germany |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers Location: M-302 Chair: Anna Valcour, Brandeis University Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers Presentations in the Session The Voice Cult: Trauma and Tribalism in Undergraduate Voice Studies “Other Duties as Assigned”: Abuse, Labor, and Surviving the American Opera Industry’s Resident Artist Programs Meeting “The Other’s” Need: An Analytic Framework to Evaluate DEI Initiatives in American Opera Companies as Acts of Care |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
SIG for Music and Violence Location: M-302 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures Location: M-302 Presenter: Warrick Moses Presenter: Kai Barratt, University of Technology, Jamaica Presenter: Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon Presenter: Nathaniel Ash-Morgan They Not Like Us: The Relationship Between (Black) American Sign Language and Hiphop Performance UW Madison 2:15pm - 2:45pm Too Bla (ck)xx? The Trinbagonian Calypso and Soca Experience 1: University of Technology, Jamaica; 2: South Carolina State University; 3: University of the West Indies, Mona 2:45pm - 3:15pm “I ain changing meh dialect, meh patois…” Language change, attitudes and identity in the Carnival musics of Trinidad and Tobago. University of Trinidad and Tobago 3:15pm - 3:45pm Afro-Dancehall: The Impact of Global Afrobeats on Ghanaian Dancehall University of North Texas |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context Location: M-302 Chair: Thi Lettner, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context Presentations in the Session Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century Binder’s Volumes Undercontextualizing a Musical Miracle: North America’s Reception to the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra Decontextualization and the Music Historical Scholarship of Bernice Johnson Reagon |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Improvisation Section Business Meeting Location: M-302 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition Location: M-302 Chair: Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition Presentations in the Session N/A N/A N/A |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music Location: M-302 Chair: Juan Eduardo Wolf, University of Oregon Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music Presentations in the Session Los Pleneros de la 23 Abajo: Music, Community and Resistance Reimagining the Taino Past: Music, Indigeneity, and Colonialism in Puerto Rico Building a Local Community in the Homeland through Diasporic Experiences: the case of bomba mayagüezana |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting Location: M-302 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization Location: M-302 Chair: Duncan Reehl, Harvard University Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization Presentations in the Session Sounding Japanese Buddhism in the Attention Economy and Spiritual Marketplace Strumming Against Capital: Decommoditizing Son Jarocho through Radical Collectivities Domesticating Cuban Contradanza: Music, Social Reproduction, and the Value Form |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08B: Divergent Listening Location: M-302 Presenter: Janice Protopapas Presenter: Nalini Ghuman Presenter: Winnie W. C. Lai Infusing the Khushboo in Diaspora: Exploring the musical soundscape of the Namdhari child in the UK Punjabi University, Patiala, India 4:30pm - 5:00pm Relics of Freedom: Resounding Hong Kong’s Muted Voices in Transnational Protests Dartmouth College |
| 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 |
09B: Organology Location: M-302 Chair: Jay Michael Loomis Presenter: Tsz-ching Tung Presenter: Wan Huang, Shanghai Conservatory of Music Presenter: Julio Mendivil, University of Vienna Instrument Making and Sound Design in Son Jarocho: A Multispecies Eco-Organology Brown University 9:00am - 9:30am The 'Cantonisation' of Violin and Hawaiian Guitar: Instrumental Adaptation and Performance Practice in Early Twentieth-Century China The University of Hong Kong 9:30am - 10:00am The Charango in History. Between Reification and Symbolic Reduction University of Vienna, 10:00am - 10:30am Decolonizing the Classical Saxophone Field: Operating Within “Otherness” as a Singaporean Saxophonist University of Georgia |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone Location: M-302 Chair: Charlotte D'Evelyn, Skidmore College Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone Presentations in the Session Sounding Queer Indigeneity: Adju Performativity, Nandao Narratives, and Trans-Indigenous Alliance in Taiwan Transnational Networks and Musical Boundary-Making in Inner Mongolia, China Yunnan Reggae: Music, Minoritization, and Afro-Asian Imaginaries in Southwest China |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
African and African Diaspora Studies Keynote Location: M-302 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11B: Sounding the Environment Location: M-302 Presenter: Daniel Benson Sharp, Tulane University Presenter: Haiqiong Deng, Florida State University Presenter: Elizabeth Frickey Musical Responses to the Flooded Ruins of a Brazilian Hydroelectric Project Tulane University, 9:00am - 9:30am Sounding Nature: An Ecomusicological Perspective on Ancient Chinese Guqin Music Florida State University 9:30am - 10:00am Sounding the “Ecological City”: Politics of Audibility in the Urban Garden New York University |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment Location: M-302 Presenter: Yuxin Mei Presenter: Fernando Rios, University of Maryland Presenter: MingLei Niu, Xi'an Conservatory of Music From Courtesans to Clickbait: Gender, Power, and the Persistent Marginalization of Women in China’s Pipa Tradition University of North Texas 11:15am - 11:45am “Mujer Sandinista” (“Sandinista Woman”): The Nueva Canción Band Sabiá and the Intersections between the US-Central America Solidarity and Feminist/Women’s Movements University of Maryland 11:45am - 12:15pm Empowering Women Through Song: Analyzing Music and Gender Expression in Chinese Coal Mining Communities Amid Social Transformation Xi'an Conservatory of Music, |