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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: 18th Oct 2025, 08:56:57am EDT
8:00am 01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology Location: M-303 Presenter: Yun Emily Wang , Duke University
Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology
Chair(s): J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)
Discussant(s): J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)
Presentations in the Session
Of Ghosts and Goddesses: Musical Commemoration and the Afterlives of Teresa Teng
Meredith Schweig (Emory University)
Romani Agency, Remembrance, and Recording with the Ghosts of “Du Schwarzer Zigeuner”
Siv Lie (University of Maryland)
How to Listen in Taiwan’s Time of No Future
Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)
Discussant Remarks
J. Martin Daughtry (New York University)
10:45am 02C: Labor and the Job Market Location: M-303 Sponsored by Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board
12:30pm Committee on Labor Location: M-303
1:45pm 03C: Grief and Memory Location: M-303 Presenter: Valentin Mansilla , University of TurinPresenter: Omar Sobhy Presenter: Courtney Elizabeth Blue , UCLAPresenter: Jessie Lee Rubin , Columbia University
1:45pm - 2:15pm When Death Sounds: Exploring the Sound-Death Relationship in the Mocoví, Abipón, and Qom Cultures of the Southern Chaco
Valentin Mansilla
University of Turin, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
2:15pm - 2:45pm Old Cairo’s Mourning: Nostalgic Pop’s Rise Over Mahraganat in Egypt
Omar Sobhy
Carleton College
2:45pm - 3:15pm Nodes of Memory: Reconciling Individual Agency with Forces of Representation in Sephardic Song
Courtney Elizabeth Blue
UCLA
3:15pm - 3:45pm Irish Sound Paintings: Belfast’s Palimpsestic Politics in the Aftermath of October 7th
Jessie Lee Rubin
Columbia University
4:00pm 04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago Location: M-303 Chair: Tanya Landau
Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago
Chair(s): Inna Naroditskaya (Northwestern University)
Presentations in the Session
Carnatic Music in the Chicago Diaspora: Tradition, Transformation, and Transmission
Anisha Srinivasan (Northwestern University)
Religious Hybridity and Musical Circulation in Chicagoland’s Ukrainian Community
Tanya Landau (Northwestern University)
7:00pm International Student Network Meeting Location: M-303
8:30am 05C: Historical Soundscapes II Location: M-303 Presenter: Ziwen Zhang Presenter: Paul David Flood , Eastman School of MusicPresenter: Maeve Carey-Kozlark , New York University
8:30am - 9:00am Thirteen Hundred Years in a Glance: Hani Harvest Song during the Kuzaza Festival
Ziwen Zhang
University of Iowa
9:00am - 9:30am Music, our Empire: The Skopje 2014 Project and the Politicization of Roma
Paul David Flood
Eastman School of Music
9:30am - 10:00am From Berlin to Teelin: Principles of WWII Radio Propaganda in Ireland
Maeve Carey-Kozlark
New York University
10:00am - 10:30am WE ARE NOT AFRAID: Music and Resistance in Apartheid Prisons
Janie Cole
University of Connecticut,
12:30pm SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology Location: M-303
1:45pm 07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire Location: M-303 Chair: Ahmet Erdogdular
Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
Chair(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University)
Discussant(s): Denise Gill (Stanford University)
Presentations in the Session
Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatnâme and Ottoman Music Theory: Mythmaking and Textual Ethnography
Lara Balikci (The University of Chicago)
Virtuosity as Resistance: Yorgo Bacanos and the Cosmopolitan Legacy of Ottoman Music
Adem Birson (New York University)
Gazel: Rupture and Continuity in Vocal Improvisation in Ottoman Turkish Classical Music
Ahmet Erdogdular (Makam New York, Inc.)
Discussion
Denise Gill (Stanford University)
4:00pm 08C: Soundscapes of Sports Location: M-303 Presenter: Luis Achondo Presenter: Sarah Politz Presenter: Eduardo Herrera , Indiana University
4:00pm - 4:30pm The Sounds of Aguante: Necropolitics, Acoustemology, and Soccer Fandom in Chile
Luis Achondo
Memorial University
4:30pm - 5:00pm Aya Nakamura, Language Ideology, and Francophone Afrobeats at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics
Sarah Politz
The City College of New York
5:00pm - 5:30pm Affective Economies, Excitation Transfers, and Sonic Atmospheres in Argentine Soccer Stadiums
Eduardo Herrera
Indiana University,
8:30am 09C: Embodiment Location: M-303 Presenter: Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu Presenter: Sinem Eylem Arslan Presenter: Dunya Habash , University of CambridgePresenter: Autumn Eckman , Kennesaw State University
8:30am - 9:00am Secular Trance in Cultural Context: The Dynamics of Body, Emotion, and Entrainment
Tasaw Hsin-chun Lu
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
Sinem Eylem Arslan
University of Toronto
9:30am - 10:00am From Maqām to Makam: Syrian Musicians and the Cultural Dynamics of Forced Migration in Türkiye
Dunya Habash
University of Cambridge
10:00am - 10:30am Emboided Cartographies: Choreographic Tools For Place-Making
Autumn Eckman
Kennesaw State University,
10:45am 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
Chair(s): Payam Yousefi (University of Florida,)
Presentations in the Session
Awakened Hearts: Remembrance and Listening as Creative Process in the Contemporary Sufi Music of the MTO Shahmaghsoudi Zendeh Delan Ensemble
Payam Yousefi (University of Florida)
Invoking the Unseen: The Virtues and Virtuosities of Sufi Jazz
Mark Lomanno (Assistant Professor, University of Miami)
Sufi Aesthetics and Musical Minimalism: Sonic Desolation in the Music of Arooj Aftab
Sonia Gaind-Krishnan (University of the Pacific)
12:30pm Rising Voices Student Open Meeting Location: M-303
8:30am 11C: Drumming Across Cultures Location: M-303 Presenter: Tim Murray , University of FloridaPresenter: Andrew Aprile , City College of New York, CUNYPresenter: Michelle Anne Rudder , University of LeedsPresenter: Eve A. Ma , Palomino Productions
8:30am - 9:00am Inuit Drum Dancing and the Unfolding Taskscape
Tim Murray
University of Florida,
9:00am - 9:30am Weave Notation: Visualizing Kadodo with a Color-Coded Metric Matrix
Andrew Aprile
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.
Michelle Anne Rudder
University of Leeds, Leeds, England
10:00am - 10:30am From Box to Cajón: Peta's Heritage
Eve A. Ma
Palomino Productions,
10:45am 12C: Embodied Knowledge Location: M-303 Presenter: Gus Dalan Holley , UC BerkeleyPresenter: James Gabrillo Presenter: Erika Jean Soveranes , University of North Texas
10:45am - 11:15am Heterokinesis as Embodied Knowledge Production: China’s New Music Historiographies
Gus Dalan Holley
University of California Berkeley
11:15am - 11:45am Embodied Listening, Sonic Mediation, and Ivo Van Hove’s Theatrical Liveness
James Gabrillo
University of Texas at Austin
11:45am - 12:15pm Tradición al Talón: Mariachi, Identity and Embodying Tradition Through Musical Work
Erika Jean Soveranes
University of North Texas,
