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Conference Time: 26th Aug 2025, 08:52:47pm EDT
 

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
Date: Wednesday, 22/Oct/2025
7:30am - 6:00pmReg: Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:30am - 9:00pmPre-Con: Pre-Conference
6:00pm - 10:00pmSEM Board

Closed Meeting
Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
7:30am - 5:00pmConference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am - 10:00amSEM Board

Closed Meeting
8:00am - 10:00am01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Location: M-101
8:00am - 10:00am01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making
Location: M-102
8:00am - 10:00am01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology
Location: M-103
8:00am - 10:00am01D: Political Limits of Music and Sound
Location: M-104/105
8:00am - 10:00am01E: Historical Soundscapes I
Location: M-106/107
8:00am - 10:00am01F: Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia
Location: M-109
8:00am - 10:00am01G: Music and War
Location: M-301
8:00am - 10:00am01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-302
8:00am - 10:00am01I: Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic
Location: M-303
8:00am - 10:00am01J: Transnational Soundscapes
Location: M-304
8:00am - 10:00am01K: Jazz Futures
Location: L-506/507
8:00am - 10:00am01L: Jazz, Collectivity, and Space
Location: L-508
10:10am - 10:40amOpening Ceremony
Location: M-104/105
10:45am - 12:15pm02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Location: M-101
10:45am - 12:15pm02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers
Location: M-102
10:45am - 12:15pm02C: Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America
Location: M-103
10:45am - 12:15pm02D: Music In/As Culture Wars
Location: M-104/105
10:45am - 12:15pm02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song
Location: M-106/107
10:45am - 12:15pm02F: Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia
Location: M-109
10:45am - 12:15pm02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music
Location: M-301
10:45am - 12:15pm02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-302
10:45am - 12:15pm02I: Soundscapes of Worship
Location: M-303
10:45am - 12:15pm02J: Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa
Location: M-304
10:45am - 12:15pm02K: Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music
Location: L-506/507
10:45am - 12:15pm02L: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt
Location: L-508
11:00am - 6:00pmExhibits
Location: Imperial Registration
12:30pm - 1:30pmCommittee on Labor
Location: M-303
12:30pm - 1:30pmDance, Music, and Gesture Section Meeting
Location: M-106/107
12:30pm - 1:30pmEthics Committee
Location: L-504
12:30pm - 1:30pmGender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting
Location: L-506/507
12:30pm - 1:30pmLatin American and Caribbean Studies Section Meeting
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm - 1:30pmPast Presidents' Lunch
Location: L-505
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Ecomusicology
Location: M-301
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Japanese Performing Arts
Location: M-109
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Jewish Music
Location: M-103
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Music and Violence
Location: M-302
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Music of the Francophone World
Location: M-304
1:45pm - 3:45pm03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity
Location: M-101
1:45pm - 3:45pm03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures
Location: M-102
1:45pm - 3:45pm03C: Grief and Memory
Location: M-103
1:45pm - 3:45pm03D: Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”
Location: M-104/105
1:45pm - 3:45pm03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora
Location: M-106/107
1:45pm - 3:45pm03F: The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives
Location: M-109
1:45pm - 3:45pm03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Location: M-301
1:45pm - 3:45pm03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-302
1:45pm - 3:45pm03I: Embodiment
Location: M-303
1:45pm - 3:45pm03J: Fieldwork Considerations
Location: M-304
1:45pm - 3:45pm03K: Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North
Location: L-506/507
1:45pm - 3:45pm03L: New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music
Location: L-508
4:00pm - 5:30pm04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: M-101
4:00pm - 5:30pm04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context
Location: M-102
4:00pm - 5:30pm04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago
Location: M-103
4:00pm - 5:30pm04D: Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music
Location: M-104/105
4:00pm - 5:30pm04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music
Location: M-106/107
4:00pm - 5:30pm04F: Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India
Location: M-109
4:00pm - 5:30pm04G: Island Listening
Location: M-301
4:00pm - 5:30pm04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-302
4:00pm - 5:30pm04I: Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space
Location: M-303
4:00pm - 5:30pm04J: Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency
Location: M-304
4:00pm - 5:30pm04K: Critical Biographies
Location: L-506/507
4:00pm - 5:30pm04L: Considering Composition(s)
Location: L-508
5:30pm - 6:30pmFirst Timer Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
6:00pm - 8:00pmWelcome Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
7:00pm - 8:00pmAfrican and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105
7:00pm - 8:00pmAsian American Listening Party
Location: M-301
7:00pm - 8:00pmInternational Student Network Meeting
Location: M-303
7:00pm - 8:00pmLACSEM/DMG Community-In-Dialogue Panel
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
7:00pm - 8:00pmPublications Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
7:00pm - 8:00pmSIG for Archiving
Location: M-106/107
7:00pm - 9:00pmImprovisation Section Business Meeting
Location: M-302
7:00pm - 9:00pmReligion, Music, and Sound Section Business Meeting
Location: M-304
7:00pm - 9:00pmSIG for Music Analysis
Location: L-506/507
8:00pm - 9:00pmChapters
Location: L-508
8:00pm - 9:00pmDMG Dance Workshop
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
8:00pm - 9:00pmGertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105
8:00pm - 9:00pmHistorical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup
Location: M-101
8:00pm - 9:00pmSound Studies Section Keynote
Location: M-103

Keynote Speaker: Sidra Lawrence
8:00pm - 10:00pmAssociation for Chinese Music Research
Location: M-301
9:00pm - 10:00pmLACSEM/DMG Dance Party w/ DJ
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
9:00pm - 10:00pmSound Studies Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
7:30am - 5:00pmConference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am - 6:00pmExhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am - 10:30am05A: Music and Trauma
Location: M-101
8:30am - 10:30am05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Location: M-102
8:30am - 10:30am05C: Historical Soundscapes II
Location: M-103
8:30am - 10:30am05D: AI and Ownership
Location: M-104/105
8:30am - 10:30am05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies
Location: M-106/107
8:30am - 10:30am05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions
Location: M-109
8:30am - 10:30am05G: Queer Worldmaking
Location: M-301
8:30am - 10:30am05H: International Rap and Hip Hop
Location: M-302
8:30am - 10:30am05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures
Location: M-303
8:30am - 10:30am05J: Operatic Horizons
Location: M-304
8:30am - 10:30am05K: Encounters in Sound Studies
Location: L-506/507
8:30am - 10:30am05L: Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation
Location: L-508
10:45am - 12:15pm06A: President's Roundtable (Board)
Location: M-101
10:45am - 12:15pm06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music
Location: M-102
10:45am - 12:15pm06D: Transgressive Terrains
Location: M-104/105
10:45am - 12:15pm06E: Digital Sounds in Communities
Location: M-106/107
10:45am - 12:15pm06F: Border(lands)
Location: M-109
10:45am - 12:15pm06H: Pop Protests
Location: M-302
10:45am - 12:15pm06I: Queer Temporalities
Location: M-303
10:45am - 12:15pm06J: Community, Collaboration, and Cohesion
Location: M-304
10:45am - 12:15pm06K: Black Keywords In Sound
Location: L-506/507
12:00pm - 2:30pmCouncil Lunch
Location: L-503
12:30pm - 1:30pmAnatolian Ecumene SIG
Location: M-109
12:30pm - 1:30pmDeafness and Disability Studies SIG
Location: M-101
12:30pm - 1:30pmEducation Section Keynote
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm - 1:30pmJournal Editorial Board
Location: L-504
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
Location: M-303
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Jazz
Location: M-103
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Musics in and of Europe
Location: M-106/107
12:30pm - 1:30pmSociety for Arab Music Research Meeting
Location: M-301
1:45pm - 3:45pm07A: ICTMD Panel (Board)
Location: M-101
1:45pm - 3:45pm07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization
Location: M-102
1:45pm - 3:45pm07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
Location: M-103
1:45pm - 3:45pm07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance
Location: M-104/105
1:45pm - 3:45pm07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Location: M-106/107
1:45pm - 3:45pm07F: Hearing Heritage
Location: M-109
1:45pm - 3:45pm07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience
Location: M-301
1:45pm - 3:45pm07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana
Location: M-302
1:45pm - 3:45pm07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections
Location: M-303
1:45pm - 3:45pm07J: Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S.
Location: M-304
1:45pm - 3:45pm07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces
Location: L-506/507
1:45pm - 3:45pm07L: Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina
Location: L-508
4:00pm - 5:30pm08A: 08A: BFE Panel (Board)
Location: M-101
4:00pm - 5:30pm08B: Divergent Listening
Location: M-102
4:00pm - 5:30pm08C: Soundscapes of Sports
Location: M-103
4:00pm - 5:30pm08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future
Location: M-104/105
4:00pm - 5:30pm08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe
Location: M-106/107
4:00pm - 5:30pm08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective
Location: M-109
4:00pm - 5:30pm08G: Studies in Aging
Location: M-301
4:00pm - 5:30pm08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
Location: M-302
4:00pm - 5:30pm08I: Collective Convergences
Location: M-303
4:00pm - 5:30pm08J: Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran
Location: M-304
4:00pm - 5:30pm08K: Coloniality and Vocality
Location: L-506/507
4:00pm - 5:30pm08L: New Approaches in Music Studies
Location: L-508
7:00pm - 8:00pmAssociation for Korean Music Research
Location: M-101
7:00pm - 8:00pmCrossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Location: M-104/105
7:00pm - 8:00pmPopular Music Section Meeting
Location: L-508
7:00pm - 8:00pmSociety for Arab Music Research Keynote
Location: M-302
7:00pm - 9:00pmIndigenous Music Section
Location: M-103
7:00pm - 9:00pmSociety 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
8:00pm - 9:00pmPopular Music Section David Sanjek Lecture
Location: L-508
8:00pm - 9:00pmSIG for Celtic Music
Location: M-102
8:00pm - 9:00pmSociety for Arab Music Research Mixer
Location: M-302
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
7:30am - 12:00pmConference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am - 1:00pmExhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am - 10:30am09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
8:30am - 10:30am09B: Organology
Location: M-102
8:30am - 10:30am09C: Embodiment
Location: M-103
8:30am - 10:30am09D: Discrimination and Violence in the United States
Location: M-104/105
8:30am - 10:30am09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa
Location: M-106/107
8:30am - 10:30am09F: Jazz Stories
Location: M-109
8:30am - 10:30am09G: Listening for Place
Location: M-301
8:30am - 10:30am09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-302
8:30am - 10:30am09I: Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto
Location: M-303
8:30am - 10:30am09J: Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals
Location: M-304
8:30am - 10:30am09K: International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows
Location: L-506/507
8:30am - 10:30am09L: Sonic Care Work
Location: L-508
8:30am - 12:15pmEducation Section Workshop
Location: Marquis Ballroom A
10:45am - 12:15pm10A: Rising Voices Panel
Location: M-101
10:45am - 12:15pm10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone
Location: M-102
10:45am - 12:15pm10C: Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms
Location: M-103
10:45am - 12:15pm10D: Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?
Location: M-104/105
10:45am - 12:15pm10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany
Location: M-106/107
10:45am - 12:15pm10F: Generative Collaborations
Location: M-109
10:45am - 12:15pm10G: Board-Sponsored Panel
Location: M-301
10:45am - 12:15pm10H: Racialization
Location: M-302
10:45am - 12:15pm10I: Improvisation and Gestures
Location: M-303
10:45am - 12:15pm10J: Global Ensembles
Location: M-304
10:45am - 12:15pm10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures
Location: L-506/507
10:45am - 12:15pm10L: Modes of Storytelling
Location: L-508
12:30pm - 1:30pmAfrican and African Diaspora Studies Keynote
Location: M-302
12:30pm - 1:30pmApplied Ethnomusicology Section
Location: M-104/105
12:30pm - 1:30pmDiversity Action Committee
Location: L-505
12:30pm - 1:30pmEducation Section Business Meeting
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
12:30pm - 1:30pmHistorical Ethnomusicology Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103
12:30pm - 1:30pmInvestment Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
12:30pm - 1:30pmRising Voices Student Open Meeting
Location: M-303
12:30pm - 1:30pmSection on the Status of Women Meeting
Location: M-102
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Brazilian Music
Location: M-301
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia
Location: L-506/507
12:30pm - 1:30pmSIG for Voice Studies
Location: M-304
1:45pm - 3:45pmGeneral Membership Meeting
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
4:30pm - 5:45pmCharles Seeger Lecture
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
6:00pm - 10:00pmSounding Board (Sound Studies Section)
Location: M-201 and M-202
7:00pm - 8:00pmSouth Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting
Location: M-301
7:00pm - 9:00pmSEM Orchestra
Location: Imperial Ballroom B
7:00pm - 9:00pmSSW & GSS Speed Mentoring
Location: M-106/107
8:00pm - 9:00pmSouth Asian Performing Arts Section Talk
Location: M-301
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
7:00am - 9:00amCouncil Breakfast
Location: L-504
8:00am - 9:00amConference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am - 12:30pmSEM Board
Location: President's Suite

Closed Meeting
8:30am - 10:30am11A: Traditional Transformations
Location: M-101
8:30am - 10:30am11B: Sounding the Environment
Location: M-102
8:30am - 10:30am11C: Drumming Across Cultures
Location: M-103
8:30am - 10:30am11D: Interrogating Gender and Identity
Location: M-104/105
8:30am - 10:30am11E: In the Classroom
Location: M-106/107
8:30am - 10:30am11F: Exchanges and Transactions
Location: M-109
8:30am - 10:30am11G: Noise and Silence
Location: M-301
8:30am - 10:30am11H: Singing and Spirituality
Location: M-302
8:30am - 10:30am11I: Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands
Location: M-303
8:30am - 10:30am11J: Sounding Black Musical Histories
Location: M-304
8:30am - 10:30am11K: Music and Political Climates
Location: L-506/507
8:30am - 10:30am11L: Bridging Musical Pasts and Futures
Location: L-508
10:45am - 12:15pm12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration
Location: M-101
10:45am - 12:15pm12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment
Location: M-102
10:45am - 12:15pm12C: Embodied Knowledge
Location: M-103
10:45am - 12:15pm12D: Asian Metal Scenes
Location: M-104/105
10:45am - 12:15pm12E: Listening to Visual Cultures
Location: M-106/107
10:45am - 12:15pm12F: Voices in Context
Location: M-109
10:45am - 12:15pm12G: International Student Network Discussion
Location: M-301
10:45am - 12:15pm12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement
Location: M-302
10:45am - 12:15pm12I: Games, Play, and Festivals
Location: M-303
10:45am - 12:15pm12J: Music and Mysticism
Location: M-304
10:45am - 12:15pm12K: Identity and Preservation
Location: L-506/507
10:45am - 12:15pm12L: Media and Music
Location: L-508