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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, 08:53:43am EDT
8:00am 01G: Music and War Location: M-103 Presenter: Nathan Russell Huxtable , University of California, RiversidePresenter: Heather MacLachlan , University of DaytonPresenter: Olga Zaitseva-Herz Presenter: Briana Nave , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8:00am - 8:30am “Based on the Spirit of the Empire”: Japanese Military Music and Symbolic Mobility in the Japanese American Incarceration Camps of World War II
Nathan Russell Huxtable
University of California, Riverside
8:30am - 9:00am Musical Propaganda in Myanmar: Army Songs
Heather MacLachlan
University of Dayton,
9:00am - 9:30am Encrypted in Song: Wartime Music as a Medium of Subversive Communication Between Occupied and Free Ukraine
Olga Zaitseva-Herz
University of Alberta
9:30am - 10:00am Uncertain Signs: WWI Musico-therapy and Shell Shock
Briana Nave
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:45am 02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music Location: M-103 Presenter: Hannaneh Akbarpour , Yale UniversityPresenter: Ali Hajmalek Presenter: Hadi Milanloo
10:45am - 11:15am “Dancing to Modernity”: Musical Everydayness and Politics of Womanhood in Pre-and Post-Revolutionary Iran
Hannaneh Akbarpour
Yale University,
11:15am - 11:45am From Silence to Song: Tracing Women’s Ascension in the Qadiriyya Sufi Rituals of Iran
Ali Hajmalek
Boston University
11:45am - 12:15pm Canon Reformation and Rewriting Women’s History in Iranian Music
Hadi Milanloo
University of Toronto
12:30pm SIG for Jewish Music Location: M-103
1:45pm 03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing Location: M-103 Chair: Felicia K. Youngblood , Western Washington University
Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Chair(s): Andrea Shaheen Espinosa (Arizona State University)
Presentations in the Session
N/A
Georgia Curran (University of Sydney)
N/A
Larissa Mulder (The Ohio State University)
N/A
Grijda Spiri (University of California Santa Cruz)
N/A
Felicia K. Youngblood (Western Washington University)
N/A
Chuyi Zhu (University of Michigan)
4:00pm 04G: Island Listening Location: M-103 Presenter: Courtney-Savali Andrews , Oberlin CollegePresenter: Isabella Mahal Ortega
4:00pm - 4:30pm Chronotopic Formulations: The Making of the Music and Musicians in Modern Samoa
Courtney-Savali Andrews
Oberlin College
4:30pm - 5:00pm Excavating Alcina's codiapi: Filipino boat-tutes in the colonial Visayas
Isabella Mahal Ortega
University of Chicago
5:00pm - 5:30pm Girlhood on Stage: Navigating Girls' Ensembles in Trinidad and Tobago’s School Panorama
Stephanie R.H. Espie
University of Pittsburgh
8:00pm Sound Studies Section Keynote Location: M-103
9:00pm Sound Studies Section Business Meeting Location: M-103
8:30am 05G: Queer Worldmaking Location: M-103 Presenter: Charles Hudson Moss , Mercer UniversityPresenter: Dominika Moravcikova , Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles UniversityPresenter: Sarah Cooper Presenter: Brandon Lane Foskett
8:30am - 9:00am Anglo-Catholicism in Atlanta: Musicking Queerness and Neurodivergence in Liturgy
Charles Hudson Moss
Mercer University
9:00am - 9:30am Land of the Rat Kings: Queerness, Romaniness, and Popular Music in the Slovak Periphery
Dominika Moravcikova
Institute of Musicology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University,
9:30am - 10:00am Sounding Transness: ‘Spliced Collage’ and the Co-Creation of Trans and Queer Storyworlds in Drag Performance
Sarah Cooper
University of Bristol
10:00am - 10:30am Hill Country Gay Boy: Topophilia, Queer Embodiment, and Myself in the Music of Sufjan Stevens
Brandon Lane Foskett
University of Texas at Austin
12:30pm SIG for Jazz Location: M-103
1:45pm 07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience Location: M-103 Chair: Shelley Zhang , Rutgers University
Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience
Chair(s): Yun Emily Wang (Duke University)
Presentations in the Session
Asiatic Femininity and the “Yellow Woman” in Western Classical Music
Shelley Zhang (Rutgers University)
Beyond Release
Tomie Hahn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
are we ready?
Lei X Ouyang (Swarthmore College)
No Voice
Deborah Wong (University of California, Riverside)
4:00pm 08G: Studies in Aging Location: M-103 Presenter: Melanie Ptatscheck Presenter: Jeong-in Lee Presenter: Ellen Hebden , Syracuse University
4:00pm - 4:30pm “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)”. An Ethnography of Busking, Well-being, and Aging
Melanie Ptatscheck
New York University
4:30pm - 5:00pm Streaming the Streets: Pumba, Digital Fandom, and the Politics of Aging in South Korea
Jeong-in Lee
University of Southern California
5:00pm - 5:30pm Rejuvenation through Remembering: Sonic care at night clubs for the aging in northern Mozambique
Ellen Hebden
Syracuse University
7:00pm Indigenous Music Section Location: M-103
9:00pm UCLA/UC-Davis Reception Location: M-103
8:30am 09G: Listening for Place Location: M-103 Presenter: Kira Gaillard , University of North Carolina at Chapel HillPresenter: Gale Franklin , Carleton UniversityPresenter: Kai Sze Jessica Fung , Saint Francis UniversityPresenter: William Tallotte , Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université
Straining to Hear Palestine: Al-Khalidi’s Radical Act of Listening During British Mandate
Kira Gaillard
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Listening to White Supremacy: Race, Space and the Canadian Sonic Imaginary
Gale Franklin
Carleton University,
Localism and Nationalism: The Politics of Cantonese Music in Hong Kong
Kai Sze Jessica Fung
Saint Francis University
Silenced voices, resilient sounds: Devadāsī songs in the periya mēḷam temple repertoire
William Tallotte
Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IReMus), CNRS - Sorbonne Université
10:45am 10G: Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America Location: M-103 Chair: Eric Crawford
10:45am - 11:15am Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America
Chair(s): Eric Crawford (Morehouse College)
Presentations in the Session
N/A
Erika Carter (Georgia) , Brenton Jordan (Georgia) , Quintina Carter-Enyi (University of Georgia) , Griffin Lotson (Gullah Commission)
12:30pm Historical Ethnomusicology Section Business Meeting Location: M-103
8:30am 11G: Noise and Silence Location: M-103 Presenter: Tyler Jordan Presenter: Christopher Copley Presenter: Yu Hsuan Liao , Duke UniversityPresenter: Hannah Marie Junco , University of Pennsylvania
8:30am - 9:00am Unsilenced Bodies: Trauma in Queer Noise Music
Tyler Jordan
Duke University
9:00am - 9:30am “The Sound of a Positive Dollar:” The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago’s Street Music Noise Ordinance Debates
Christopher Copley
New York University
9:30am - 10:00am Silencing the Nature: The Aesthetic-moralism and Westernization beyond the mountainous Silence Trail in Taiwan
Yu Hsuan Liao
Ethnomusicology, Department of Music, Duke University
10:00am - 10:30am “Loud and Unnecessary Noise": Drum Circles in Miami Beach as a Space of Socio-Political Dissensus
Hannah Marie Junco
University of Pennsylvania,
