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-102 Marquis Level |
| Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 10:00am |
01F: Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia Location: M-102 Chair: Katherine Freeze Wolf Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia Presentations in the Session Pain Beyond Words: Weeping Voice, Linguistic Unintelligibility, and Embodied Suffering in Shia Mourning Rituals in Tehran Plaintive Tunes for Tender Words: Plucked Lutes as Voice Surrogates in Folksong Performance, Tajik Badakhshan Twisting the Vowels: Preverbal Multispecies Communication in the Practice of Mongolian Urtyn duu |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
02F: Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia Location: M-102 Chair: Brian Fairley, University of Pittsburgh Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia Presentations in the Session Language and Song in the Caucasian Borderlands: Nikolai Marr and the Sound of Archaeology Meqamî Kurdî and the Shaping of Musical Identity in Contemporary Kurdistan Between Code-Switching and Kindred Resonances in the Multilingual Polymusicality of a Lived Kurdish Geography |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
03F: The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives Location: M-102 Chair: David Novak The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives Presentations in the Session Unhearing Happy Birthday: A Cassette Deck in the Polish American Kitchen Anarchive in the UK: Tape Collections as Diasporic Recollections Listening in Plain Sight: Kurdish Cassettes and The Absence of Visual History Punjabi Tape Nostalgia in Truck-Borne Obscenity, Village Anomie, and Ethnomusicological History |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
04F: Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India Location: M-102 Chair: Christian Morgan James, Indiana University Bloomington Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India Presentations in the Session Camels, Courts, and Contradictions: Reimagining Gender Performativity in Hindustani Tappa In the Realm of Ecstasy: Sufi Diplomacy at the “Jahan-e-Khusrau” Music Festival One Billion Rising on Stage: The Inclusive Festival as Resource for Feminist Mobilization in Himachal Pradesh |
| Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions Location: M-102 Chair: Donna A Buchanan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions Presentations in the Session Parakalamos Blues vs. Pogonisio Jazz: Musical Creativity and Positionality Among Two Epirote Musicians Mediterraneanist and Balkanist Cosmopolitan Visions at Greek Summer Music Seminars: Two Case Studies in Pedagogy and Performance “A Crisis of Ideas”: Institutional Decay, Creative Stasis, and Musical Identity in Contemporary Bulgarian Folk Music |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
06F: Border(lands) Location: M-102 Presenter: Gavin Douglas, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Presenter: Jesse Aaron Freedman, University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music On the Borders of ‘Music’: A Freshman Music Ontology University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 11:15am - 11:45am Sounding Across and Against Borders at the East German Festival of Political Songs in the Global Cold War University of Rochester - Eastman School of Music 11:45am - 12:15pm Art and Desolation: The Practice of Art in Tbilisi's War-Initiated Communities Dallas International University |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Association for Korean Music Research Location: M-102 |
| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
07F: Hearing Heritage Location: M-102 Presenter: Stephanie George, CUNY Graduate Center Presenter: yang Yao Presenter: Sunhong Kim Presenter: Sara Hopkins, Western Carolina University Listening for India:The Sonic Politics of Hindu Heritage in Indo-Caribbean ‘Madrasi Religion’ CUNY Graduate Center 2:15pm - 2:45pm Reviving Xiansuo Beikao: Historicity, Temporality, and the Construction of Social Strata The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2:45pm - 3:15pm Seoulizing Provincial Sound: Purification, Standardization, and Cultivation in the Aesthetic Practice of the State-driven Korean Folk Instrumental Ensemble University of Michigan 3:15pm - 3:45pm Demonstration Performance by Uweti Tsalagi Dininogisgi, the Cherokee Language Repertory Choir Western Carolina University |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective Location: M-102 Chair: Varshini Narayanan, The University of Chicago South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective Presentations in the Session Guru-Sisya Parampara in the U.S. Diaspora Re-Rooting the Art, Re-Routing the Body: Unlearning to Learn the T. Balasaraswati Dance Tradition in the United States Pathways to Tamil Diaspora Worship through Ragam Education in the U.S. |
| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
SIG for Celtic Music Location: M-102 |
| Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09F: Jazz Stories Location: M-102 Chair: Maurice Restrepo, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Jazz Stories Presentations in the Session Jazz as Storytelling: Musical and Linguistic Metaphoricity in Jazz Looking Back, Moving Forward: Archie Alleyne and Black Placemaking in Toronto Jam Sessions, Vibing, and Hegemonic Masculinity in the New York City Jazz Scene The Women Who Started Jazz: Gonzelle White, Count Basie, and the Variety Stage |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10F: Music and Trauma Location: M-102 Presenter: Zachary Moreau Presenter: Moshe Morad Presenter: Erica Cao Disasters and Mutual Aid: “Band Together” as a Critical Moment of Care Florida State University 11:15am - 11:45am Music and a politics of care: Collaborative songwriting in US social service and community mental health settings Stanford University, San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services 11:45am - 12:15pm The Nova Festival: Exploring the Intersection of Music, Horror, Trauma, and Healing Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Section on the Status of Women Meeting Location: M-102 |
| Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025 | |
| 8:30am - 10:30am |
11F: Exchanges and Transactions Location: M-102 Presenter: Jameson Foster Presenter: Felix Morgenstern, University of Limerick Presenter: Upatyaka Dutta, University of Toronto Presenter: Holly Riley, Middle Tennessee State University Down in the River to Pray: Animist Exchange in Nordic Fiddling University of Colorado Boulder 9:00am - 9:30am Intercultural Transactions: Irish Traditional Music, Nationalism, and Nostalgia in Germany University of Limerick 9:30am - 10:00am Acoustemologies of Labor: Sound, Music, and Survival in the Workplaces of Adivasi Tea Tribes on Assam's Tea Plantations University of Toronto 10:00am - 10:30am Broadway’s Bars and Stars: Celebrity Capitalism and Brand Identity in Country Music Middle Tennessee State University, |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
12F: Voices in Context Location: M-102 Presenter: Hansini Bhasker, Wesleyan University Presenter: Cheuk Ling Yu, University of California San Diego Presenter: Jiyoon Auo, University of Pittsburgh Class(ical) Voice: Evolution and Association of Operatic Vibrato in American Pop Culture Wesleyan University 11:15am - 11:45am Male Voices for Female Fans: A Paradox of Women’s Liberation in Contemporary Japanese Anime Franchises University of California San Diego 11:45am - 12:15pm Listening for Vocal Agency: T’ŭrot’ŭ, Enka, and Yi Nanyŏng’s Negotiation of Colonial Voice University of Pittsburgh, |