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
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6:00pm
Reg: Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:30am
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9:00pm
Pre-Con: Pre-Conference
6:00pm
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10:00pm
SEM Board

Closed Meeting

Date: Thursday, 23/Oct/2025
7:30am
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5:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
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10:00am
SEM Board

Closed Meeting

01A: Brazil: Nation and its Limits for Music Studies
Location: M-101
01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making
Location: M-102
01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology
Location: M-103
01D: Political Limits of Music and Sound
Location: M-104/105
01E: Historical Soundscapes I
Location: M-106/107
01F: Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia
Location: M-109
01G: Music and War
Location: M-301
01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-302
01I: Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic
Location: M-303
01J: Transnational Soundscapes
Location: M-304
01K: Jazz Futures
Location: L-506/507
01L: Jazz, Collectivity, and Space
Location: L-508
     
10:10am
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10:40am
Opening Ceremony
Location: M-104/105
10:45am
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12:15pm
02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Location: M-101
02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers
Location: M-102
02C: Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America
Location: M-103
02D: Music In/As Culture Wars
Location: M-104/105
02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song
Location: M-106/107
02F: Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia
Location: M-109
02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music
Location: M-301
02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-302
02I: Soundscapes of Worship
Location: M-303
02J: Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa
Location: M-304
02K: Reimagining Belonging through Politics of Sound: Asian/American Artists in Global Popular Music
Location: L-506/507
02L: Intangible Cultural Heritage of Nigeria's Middle Belt
Location: L-508
11:00am
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6:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Registration
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Committee on Labor
Location: M-303
Dance, Music, and Gesture Section Meeting
Location: M-106/107
Ethics Committee
Location: L-504
Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting
Location: L-506/507
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Section Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Past Presidents' Lunch
Location: L-505
SIG for Ecomusicology
Location: M-301
SIG for Japanese Performing Arts
Location: M-109
SIG for Jewish Music
Location: M-103
SIG for Music and Violence
Location: M-302
SIG for Music of the Francophone World
Location: M-304
 
1:45pm
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3:45pm
03A: Who's Music? Essentialism, Appropriation, Investment, Authenticity
Location: M-101
03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures
Location: M-102
03C: Grief and Memory
Location: M-103
03D: Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”
Location: M-104/105
03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora
Location: M-106/107
03F: The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives
Location: M-109
03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Location: M-301
03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-302
03I: Embodiment
Location: M-303
03J: Fieldwork Considerations
Location: M-304
03K: Resounding, Unsilencing, and Amplifying Latin America: Global South Possibilities for Sound Archives in the Global North
Location: L-506/507
03L: New Modes of Resistance and Connection in Popular Music
Location: L-508
4:00pm
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5:30pm
04A: The “New Woman” and Popular Song in World War II China and Japan
Location: M-101
04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context
Location: M-102
04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago
Location: M-103
04D: Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music
Location: M-104/105
04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music
Location: M-106/107
04F: Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India
Location: M-109
04G: Island Listening
Location: M-301
04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-302
04I: Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space
Location: M-303
04J: Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency
Location: M-304
04K: Critical Biographies
Location: L-506/507
04L: Considering Composition(s)
Location: L-508
5:30pm
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6:30pm
First Timer Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
6:00pm
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8:00pm
Welcome Reception
Location: Skyline (10th Floor)
7:00pm
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8:00pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Asian American Listening Party
Location: M-301
International Student Network Meeting
Location: M-303
LACSEM/DMG Community-In-Dialogue Panel
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Publications Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
SIG for Archiving
Location: M-106/107
   
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Improvisation Section Business Meeting
Location: M-302
Religion, Music, and Sound Section Business Meeting
Location: M-304
SIG for Music Analysis
Location: L-506/507
 
8:00pm
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9:00pm
Chapters
Location: L-508
DMG Dance Workshop
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Gertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup
Location: M-101
Sound Studies Section Keynote
Location: M-103

Keynote Speaker: Sidra Lawrence

     
8:00pm
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10:00pm
Association for Chinese Music Research
Location: M-301
9:00pm
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10:00pm
LACSEM/DMG Dance Party w/ DJ
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio
Sound Studies Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103
Date: Friday, 24/Oct/2025
7:30am
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5:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
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6:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am
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10:30am
05A: Music and Trauma
Location: M-101
05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Location: M-102
05C: Historical Soundscapes II
Location: M-103
05D: AI and Ownership
Location: M-104/105
05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies
Location: M-106/107
05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions
Location: M-109
05G: Queer Worldmaking
Location: M-301
05H: International Rap and Hip Hop
Location: M-302
05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures
Location: M-303
05J: Operatic Horizons
Location: M-304
05K: Encounters in Sound Studies
Location: L-506/507
05L: Writing Jazz Encounters: Questions of archives, affect, and transculturation
Location: L-508
10:45am
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12:15pm
06A: President's Roundtable (Board)
Location: M-101
06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music
Location: M-102
06D: Transgressive Terrains
Location: M-104/105
06E: Digital Sounds in Communities
Location: M-106/107
06F: Border(lands)
Location: M-109
06H: Pop Protests
Location: M-302
06I: Queer Temporalities
Location: M-303
06J: Community, Collaboration, and Cohesion
Location: M-304
06K: Black Keywords In Sound
Location: L-506/507
     
12:00pm
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2:30pm
Council Lunch
Location: L-503
12:30pm
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1:30pm
Anatolian Ecumene SIG
Location: M-109
Deafness and Disability Studies SIG
Location: M-101
Education Section Keynote
Location: M-104/105
Journal Editorial Board
Location: L-504
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
Location: M-303
SIG for Jazz
Location: M-103
SIG for Musics in and of Europe
Location: M-106/107
Society for Arab Music Research Meeting
Location: M-301
1:45pm
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3:45pm
07A: ICTMD Panel (Board)
Location: M-101
07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization
Location: M-102
07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
Location: M-103
07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance
Location: M-104/105
07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Location: M-106/107
07F: Hearing Heritage
Location: M-109
07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience
Location: M-301
07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana
Location: M-302
07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections
Location: M-303
07J: Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S.
Location: M-304
07K: Unsettling Settler Colonial Sonic Spaces
Location: L-506/507
07L: Juntas Llorando: Radical Empathy, Collective Mourning, and Singing Grief Across Fronteras in América Latina
Location: L-508
4:00pm
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5:30pm
08A: 08A: BFE Panel (Board)
Location: M-101
08B: Divergent Listening
Location: M-102
08C: Soundscapes of Sports
Location: M-103
08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future
Location: M-104/105
08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe
Location: M-106/107
08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective
Location: M-109
08G: Studies in Aging
Location: M-301
08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
Location: M-302
08I: Collective Convergences
Location: M-303
08J: Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran
Location: M-304
08K: Coloniality and Vocality
Location: L-506/507
08L: New Approaches in Music Studies
Location: L-508
7:00pm
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8:00pm
Association for Korean Music Research
Location: M-101
Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Location: M-104/105
Popular Music Section Meeting
Location: L-508
Society for Arab Music Research Keynote
Location: M-302
7:00pm
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9:00pm
Indigenous Music Section
Location: M-103
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

8:00pm
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9:00pm
Popular Music Section David Sanjek Lecture
Location: L-508
SIG for Celtic Music
Location: M-102
Society for Arab Music Research Mixer
Location: M-302
 
Date: Saturday, 25/Oct/2025
7:30am
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12:00pm
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
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1:00pm
Exhibits
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
8:30am
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10:30am
09A: Historical Sites in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
09B: Organology
Location: M-102
09C: Embodiment
Location: M-103
09D: Discrimination and Violence in the United States
Location: M-104/105
09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa
Location: M-106/107
09F: Jazz Stories
Location: M-109
09G: Listening for Place
Location: M-301
09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-302
09I: Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto
Location: M-303
09J: Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals
Location: M-304
09K: International Musical Entities in the 21st Century: The Impacts of Global and Transnational Flows
Location: L-506/507
09L: Sonic Care Work
Location: L-508
8:30am
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12:15pm
Education Section Workshop
Location: Marquis Ballroom A
10:45am
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12:15pm
10A: Rising Voices Panel
Location: M-101
10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone
Location: M-102
10C: Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms
Location: M-103
10D: Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?
Location: M-104/105
10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany
Location: M-106/107
10F: Generative Collaborations
Location: M-109
10G: Board-Sponsored Panel
Location: M-301
10H: Racialization
Location: M-302
10I: Improvisation and Gestures
Location: M-303
10J: Global Ensembles
Location: M-304
10K: Time Travel, Sonic Portals, and Reclaiming Black Musical Futures
Location: L-506/507
10L: Modes of Storytelling
Location: L-508
12:30pm
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1:30pm
African and African Diaspora Studies Keynote
Location: M-302
Applied Ethnomusicology Section
Location: M-104/105
Diversity Action Committee
Location: L-505
Education Section Business Meeting
Location: Imperial Ballroom A
Historical Ethnomusicology Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103
Investment Advisory Committee
Location: L-504
Rising Voices Student Open Meeting
Location: M-303
Section on the Status of Women Meeting
Location: M-102
SIG for Brazilian Music
Location: M-301
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
Location: M-101
SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia
Location: L-506/507
SIG for Voice Studies
Location: M-304
1:45pm
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3:45pm
General Membership Meeting
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
4:30pm
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5:45pm
Charles Seeger Lecture
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D
6:00pm
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10:00pm
Sounding Board (Sound Studies Section)
Location: M-201 and M-202
7:00pm
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8:00pm
South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting
Location: M-301
7:00pm
-
9:00pm
SEM Orchestra
Location: Imperial Ballroom B
SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring
Location: M-106/107
8:00pm
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9:00pm
South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk
Location: M-301
Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025
7:00am
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9:00am
Council Breakfast
Location: L-504
8:00am
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9:00am
Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration
8:00am
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12:30pm
SEM Board
Location: President's Suite

Closed Meeting

8:30am
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10:30am
11A: Traditional Transformations
Location: M-101
11B: Sounding the Environment
Location: M-102
11C: Drumming Across Cultures
Location: M-103
11D: Interrogating Gender and Identity
Location: M-104/105
11E: In the Classroom
Location: M-106/107
11F: Exchanges and Transactions
Location: M-109
11G: Noise and Silence
Location: M-301
11H: Singing and Spirituality
Location: M-302
11I: Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands
Location: M-303
11J: Sounding Black Musical Histories
Location: M-304
11K: Music and Political Climates
Location: L-506/507
11L: Bridging Musical Pasts and Futures
Location: L-508
10:45am
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12:15pm
12A: Religiosity and/as Celebration
Location: M-101
12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment
Location: M-102
12C: Embodied Knowledge
Location: M-103
12D: Asian Metal Scenes
Location: M-104/105
12E: Listening to Visual Cultures
Location: M-106/107
12F: Voices in Context
Location: M-109
12G: International Student Network Discussion
Location: M-301
12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement
Location: M-302
12I: Games, Play, and Festivals
Location: M-303
12J: Music and Mysticism
Location: M-304
12K: Identity and Preservation
Location: L-506/507
12L: Media and Music
Location: L-508