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-303 Marquis Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology Location: M-303 Presenter: Yun Emily Wang, Duke University Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology Presentations in the Session Of Ghosts and Goddesses: Musical Commemoration and the Afterlives of Teresa Teng Romani Agency, Remembrance, and Recording with the Ghosts of “Du Schwarzer Zigeuner” How to Listen in Taiwan’s Time of No Future Discussant Remarks |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02C: Labor and the Job Market Location: M-303 Sponsored by Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Committee on Labor Location: M-303 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03C: Grief and Memory Location: M-303 Presenter: Valentin Mansilla, University of Turin Presenter: Omar Sobhy Presenter: Courtney Elizabeth Blue, UCLA Presenter: Jessie Lee Rubin, Columbia University When Death Sounds: Exploring the Sound-Death Relationship in the Mocoví, Abipón, and Qom Cultures of the Southern Chaco University of Turin, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2:15pm - 2:45pm Old Cairo’s Mourning: Nostalgic Pop’s Rise Over Mahraganat in Egypt Carleton College 2:45pm - 3:15pm Nodes of Memory: Reconciling Individual Agency with Forces of Representation in Sephardic Song UCLA 3:15pm - 3:45pm Irish Sound Paintings: Belfast’s Palimpsestic Politics in the Aftermath of October 7th Columbia University |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago Location: M-303 Chair: Tanya Landau Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago Presentations in the Session Carnatic Music in the Chicago Diaspora: Tradition, Transformation, and Transmission Religious Hybridity and Musical Circulation in Chicagoland’s Ukrainian Community |
| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
International Student Network Meeting Location: M-303 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05C: Historical Soundscapes II Location: M-303 Presenter: Ziwen Zhang Presenter: Paul David Flood, Eastman School of Music Presenter: Maeve Carey-Kozlark, New York University Thirteen Hundred Years in a Glance: Hani Harvest Song during the Kuzaza Festival University of Iowa 9:00am - 9:30am Music, our Empire: The Skopje 2014 Project and the Politicization of Roma Eastman School of Music 9:30am - 10:00am From Berlin to Teelin: Principles of WWII Radio Propaganda in Ireland New York University 10:00am - 10:30am WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons University of Connecticut, |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology Location: M-303 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire Location: M-303 Chair: Ahmet Erdogdular Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire Presentations in the Session Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatnâme and Ottoman Music Theory: Mythmaking and Textual Ethnography Virtuosity as Resistance: Yorgo Bacanos and the Cosmopolitan Legacy of Ottoman Music Gazel: Rupture and Continuity in Vocal Improvisation in Ottoman Turkish Classical Music Discussion |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08C: Soundscapes of Sports Location: M-303 Presenter: Luis Achondo Presenter: Sarah Politz Presenter: Eduardo Herrera, Indiana University The Sounds of Aguante: Necropolitics, Acoustemology, and Soccer Fandom in Chile Memorial University 4:30pm - 5:00pm Aya Nakamura, Language Ideology, and Francophone Afrobeats at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics The City College of New York 5:00pm - 5:30pm Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums Indiana University, |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09C: Embodiment Location: M-303 Presenter: Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu Presenter: Sinem Eylem Arslan Presenter: Dunya Habash, University of Cambridge Presenter: Autumn Eckman, Kennesaw State University Secular Trance in Cultural Context: The Dynamics of Body, Emotion, and Entrainment Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Musicology at National Taiwan University 9:00am - 9:30am Maqsum Rebranded: Affective Colonial Remaking of Rhythm in White Feminist Spirituality University of Toronto 9:30am - 10:00am From Maqām to Makam: Syrian Musicians and the Cultural Dynamics of Forced Migration in Türkiye University of Cambridge 10:00am - 10:30am Emboided Cartographies: Choreographic Tools For Place-Making Kennesaw State University, |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10C: Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms Location: M-303 Chair: Payam Yousefi, University of Florida Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms Presentations in the Session Awakened Hearts: Remembrance and Listening as Creative Process in the Contemporary Sufi Music of the MTO Shahmaghsoudi Zendeh Delan Ensemble Invoking the Unseen: The Virtues and Virtuosities of Sufi Jazz Sufi Aesthetics and Musical Minimalism: Sonic Desolation in the Music of Arooj Aftab |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Rising Voices Student Open Meeting Location: M-303 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11C: Drumming Across Cultures Location: M-303 Presenter: Tim Murray, University of Florida Presenter: Andrew Aprile, City College of New York, CUNY Presenter: Michelle Anne Rudder, University of Leeds Presenter: Eve A. Ma, Palomino Productions Inuit Drum Dancing and the Unfolding Taskscape University of Florida, 9:00am - 9:30am Weave Notation: Visualizing Kadodo with a Color-Coded Metric Matrix City College of New York, CUNY 9:30am - 10:00am The African Influence in Panorama Steelband Music: Illustrated in the Panorama Music of Leon “Smooth” Edwards composer-arranger for the Trinidad All Stars steelband. University of Leeds, Leeds, England 10:00am - 10:30am From Box to Cajón: Peta's Heritage Palomino Productions, |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12C: Embodied Knowledge Location: M-303 Presenter: Gus Dalan Holley, UC Berkeley Presenter: James Gabrillo Presenter: Erika Jean Soveranes, University of North Texas Heterokinesis as Embodied Knowledge Production: China’s New Music Historiographies University of California Berkeley 11:15am - 11:45am Embodied Listening, Sonic Mediation, and Ivo Van Hove’s Theatrical Liveness University of Texas at Austin 11:45am - 12:15pm Tradición al Talón: Mariachi, Identity and Embodying Tradition Through Musical Work University of North Texas, |