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-101 Marquis Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01E: Historical Soundscapes I Location: M-101 Presenter: Hannah Laurel Rogers, Institute for Public Ethnomusicology Presenter: Armaghan Fakhraeirad, University of Pennsylvania Mozambique!: Cuba’s Revolutionary Music on the International Stage, 1964-2025 Institute for Public Ethnomusicology, 8:30am - 9:00am Arba'in 1401 University of Pennsylvania, 9:00am - 9:30am The Traditional Vocal Repertoire of Central Visayas (Philippines) Kennesaw State University, 9:30am - 10:00am Sanshin in the Survival of Okinawan Culture through time. N/A |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song Location: M-101 Chair: Isabel Frey, University of Music and Performing Arts Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song Presentations in the Session Koplas as Resistance: The Ladino Liturgy of Reuven Eliyahu Israel in Seattle’s Sephardi Community “Everywhere We Gather Power”: Articulations of Blackness Through Yiddish Music Lider mit palestine: Articulating Jewish Solidarity with Palestinians through New Yiddish Song |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora Location: M-101 Chair: Jordan Renee Brown Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora Presentations in the Session Hang like a Man: Gender and the Jazz Jam Session Centering Blackness at the Margins: Embodying Queerness through Alternative R&B Her Beat, Her Story: Bridging Practice and Scholarship in African Musicology We’re So (Emo)tional: Exploring Affect and the Erotic in Queer Black Women’s Participation in Emo Musicking |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music Location: M-101 Chair: Eric Galm, Trinity College Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music Presentations in the Session Preserving, Documenting and Expanding Access to Histories of Music at Historically Black Colleges and Universities through the HBCU Digital Library Trust Post-Custodial Archiving and the Lloyd Best Archive: Decentering Custodianship in the Preservation of Caribbean Intellectual Traditions Recovering Musical Memory in São Paulo |
| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup Location: M-101 |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies Location: M-101 Chair: Althea SullyCole, Schulich School of Music, McGill University Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies Presentations in the Session Gifts From Nature: Akan Episteme, Palmwine Music and Galamsey in the Anthropocene The Business of Culture: Contemporary Field Sites and African Popular Music Colonial Postcard Archives and Reimagining Music Fieldwork in Eritrea Fesfop and the Social Life of Material Cultural Heritage in Senegal |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
06E: Digital Sounds in Communities Location: M-101 Presenter: Ashley Ann Greathouse, University of Cincinnati & Marshall University Presenter: ZIXUAN WANG, UT Austin Ready Player Two: Embodiment and Social Play in Multiplayer Virtual/Augmented Reality Rhythm/Dance Games University of South Carolina 11:15am - 11:45am Collective Musicking in the Digital Age: Participation, AI-Singing, and Virtual Community on Bilibili UT Austin, 11:45am - 12:15pm THERE ARE NO DWELLERS, ONLY BUYERS: GENTRIFICATION, TOURISTIFICATION, AND THE URBAN AURAL SPHERE IN MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA. University of Houston, Moores School of Music |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Deafness and Disability Studies SIG Location: M-101 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Location: M-101 Chair: Dwandalyn Reece, Smithsonian, Natl Mus of African American Hist & Culture An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Presentations in the Session N/A |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe Location: M-101 Chair: Jacqueline Georgis Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe Presentations in the Session Príncipe Discos and the Sonic Politics of Afro Lisboa Espacio Afro: Music, Community, and the Politics of Belonging in Catalonia Nero a metà, in realtà: Black-Italian Musicians Sounding the Global South |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Texas Reception Location: M-101 |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa Location: M-101 Chair: Charles Lwanga, University of Michigan Panel Title: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa Presentations in the Session Japa Syndrome: The 'Postcolonial Normal', Popular Music, and the Precarities of Youth Social Movements in Fourth Republic Nigeria (1999-) Music and Bobi Wine’s ‘People Power’ Counterpublic in Uganda Musical Publics and Counterpublics in Central Cameroon Sweating the Details: Policy Capture and Protest Music in the 2024 Senegalese Presidential Election |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany Location: M-101 Chair: Ryan Christopher Gourley, University of California, Berkeley Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany Presentations in the Session Broadcasting German-Japanese Relations, Richard Strauss’s 70th Birthday Harbin-Papa, Berlin-Mama? Inter-Axis Record Circulation and Russian Diaspora The Revolution will be Broadcasted: Reimagining Music in Imperial Japan through Inter-Axis Music Learning |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology Location: M-101 |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
SEM Orchestra Location: M-101 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11E: In the Classroom Location: M-101 Presenter: Sumeet Anand Presenter: Robin P. Harris, Dallas International University Presenter: Rubens De La Corte Presenter: Scott Spencer, University of Southern California Hindustani classical music and evolving hybrid pedagogy: Experential recounting and implications for learning and practise Visiting Associate Professor Department of Ethnomusicology Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA 9:00am - 9:30am Integrating Analysis, Embodiment, and Ethnography: A Participatory Approach to Teaching Ethnoarts Dallas International University, 9:30am - 10:00am Reimagining Lutherie Education in Argentina and Brazil: Towards Inclusive, Collective, and Sustainable Frameworks Graduate Center-CUNY 10:00am - 10:30am Digital Humanities in the World Music Classroom: Fostering Peer-Built Diversity and Inclusivity University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12E: Listening to Visual Cultures Location: M-101 Presenter: Melanie Kaye Moseley, University of Pittsburgh Presenter: Kevin Salfen, University of the Incarnate word Statutory Rape and R&B: How a Documentary Influenced the Conviction of R. Kelly University of Pittsburgh 11:15am - 11:45am "Phoenix Fire": From Shinsaku Noh to Film University of the Incarnate Word 11:45am - 12:15pm Collaborative composition approaches for Balinese gamelan on screen and stage Australian National University |