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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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 18th Oct 2025, 10:54:11am EDT

 
 
Session Overview
Location: L-506/507
Lobby Level
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
8:00am
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10:00am		 01K: Jazz Futures
Location: L-506/507
10:45am
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12:15pm		 02K: Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music
Location: L-506/507
1:45pm
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3:45pm		 03K: Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North
Location: L-506/507
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 04K: Critical Biographies
Location: L-506/507
7:00pm
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9:00pm		 Joint Meeting of SIG for Music Analysis and SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology
Location: L-506/507
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 05K: Encounters in Sound Studies
Location: L-506/507
10:45am
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12:15pm		 06K: Black Keywords In Sound
Location: L-506/507
1:45pm
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3:45pm		 07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces
Location: L-506/507
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 08K: Coloniality and Vocality
Location: L-506/507
7:00pm
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9:00pm		 Society for Asian Music Keynote and Business Meeting
Location: L-506/507

Keynote Address: “What Asia Taught Me”
Mark Slobin, Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University
9:00pm
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11:00pm		 Wesleyan University Reception
Location: L-506/507
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 09K: International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows
Location: L-506/507
10:45am
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12:15pm		 10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures
Location: L-506/507
12:30pm
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1:30pm		 SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia
Location: L-506/507
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
8:30am
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10:30am		 11K: Music and Political Climates
Location: L-506/507
10:45am
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12:15pm		 12K: Identity and Preservation
Location: L-506/507