Conference Agenda

Session Overview

Date: Wednesday, 22/Oct/2025

7:30am
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6:00pm

Reg: Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration

8:00am
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5:00pm

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-301

01B: Musicking through European Migratory Spaces: Gendered, Ethnic, and Racial Place-Making
Location: M-302

01C: Toward a Ghostly Ethnomusicology
Location: M-303

01D: Sounding the Mexican South: Transborder Musics, Economies, and Belonging in the “Nuevo South”
Location: M-304

01E: Historical Soundscapes I
Location: M-101

01F: Feeling the Song and Making Sense of the Non-Verbal In Three Vocal Traditions of Central Eurasia
Location: M-102

01G: Music and War
Location: M-103

01H: Listening to Archives
Location: M-104/105

01I: Music, Climate Change and Extractivism around the Arctic and Antarctic
Location: M-106/107

01J: Transnational Soundscapes
Location: M-109

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-301

10:45am
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12:15pm

02A: Beyond Colonial Legacies: Cultural Identity, Adaptation, and Musical Hybridity in Ghana
Location: M-301

02B: Beyond Venting in the Dressing Room: Abuses of Power, Trauma, and Resistance in the Early Careers of Classical Singers
Location: M-302

02C: Labor and the Job Market
Location: M-303

Sponsored by Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board

02D: Music In/As Culture Wars
Location: M-304

02E: Singing Resistance and Solidarity: Counter-hegemonic Belonging through Jewish Diaspora Language Song
Location: M-101

02F: Revising Boundaries of Language, Song, and Ritual in the Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia
Location: M-102

02G: Female Perspectives in Iranian Music
Location: M-103

02H: Narrations of Black Life
Location: M-104/105

02I: Soundscapes of Worship
Location: M-106/107

02J: Archiving with Indigenous Communities: Perspectives from South Africa
Location: M-109

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

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-301

03B: Afrodiasporic Linguistics and Gestures
Location: M-302

03C: Grief and Memory
Location: M-303

03D: Political Limits of Music and Sound
Location: M-304

03E: Decolonizing “Black” Genre: Navigating Femininity and Queerness in Performance Spaces Across the Diaspora
Location: M-101

03F: The Magnetic Politics of Cassette Archives
Location: M-102

03G: Voicing the Unheard: Lament as Memory, Resistance, and Healing
Location: M-103

03H: Reflections on Sound and Movement in Ethnomusicology
Location: M-104/105

03I: Embodiment
Location: M-106/107

03J: Fieldwork Considerations
Location: M-109

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-301

04B: The ‘Context’ Argument: Three Musical Case Studies in the Instrumentalization of Context
Location: M-302

04C: Musical Networks and Diasporic Communities in Chicago
Location: M-303

04D: Racial Capitalism and the Materiality of Value in Music
Location: M-304

04E: Harmonizing Memory: Archives as Sites of Preservation and Resistance in Black Music
Location: M-101

04F: Gendered Voices and Performative Visions of Transnational North India
Location: M-102

04G: Island Listening
Location: M-103

04H: Digital Media in Iran
Location: M-104/105

04I: Latin American Musical Experimentalisms in Public Space
Location: M-106/107

04J: Architectures of Knowledge: Jewish Music, Heritage, and Minority Agency
Location: M-109

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

“Voices in Motion” LACSEM-DMG Community Dialogue
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio

Eventbrite Page: More Information and Ticket Reservation

African and African Diaspora Studies Meeting
Location: M-104/105

Asian American Listening Party
Location: M-301

International Student Network Meeting
Location: M-303

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

Joint Meeting of SIG for Music Analysis and SIG for Cognitive Ethnomusicology
Location: L-506/507

Religion, Music, and Sound Section Business Meeting
Location: M-304

8:00pm
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9:00pm

“Voices in Motion” DMG Dance Workshop
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio

Eventbrite Page: More Information and Ticket Reservation

Chapters
Location: L-508

Gertrude Robinson Network Meeting
Location: M-104/105

Historical Ethnomusicology Section Meetup
Location: M-101

Sound Studies Section Keynote
Location: M-103

8:00pm
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10:00pm

Association for Chinese Music Research
Location: M-301

9:00pm
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10:00pm

“Voices in Motion” LACSEM-DMG Dance Party
Location: Emory University Performing Arts Studio

Eventbrite Page: More Information and Ticket Reservation

Sound Studies Section Business Meeting
Location: M-103

9:30pm
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11:00pm

JAVEM Film Screening
Location: Limelight Theatre

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
-
10:30am

05A: Academic Freedom Roundtable
Location: M-301

Sponsored by the SEM Board

05B: Participatory Sacred Harp Singing and Discussion on Editing The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition
Location: M-302

05C: Historical Soundscapes II
Location: M-303

05D: AI and Ownership
Location: M-304

05E: Rethinking the Field in African Music Studies
Location: M-101

05F: Cosmopolitan Creativity in the Southern Balkans: Three Contemporary Responses to Folk Music Institutions
Location: M-102

05G: Queer Worldmaking
Location: M-103

05H: International Rap and Hip Hop
Location: M-104/105

05I: Music and the Commons: The Lost Resources and Infrastructures
Location: M-106/107

05J: Operatic Horizons
Location: M-109

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-301

06B: Engaging Citizenship through Musical Communities: Three Different Approaches in Puerto Rican Music
Location: M-302

06D: Transgressive Terrains
Location: M-304

06E: Digital Sounds in Communities
Location: M-101

06F: Border(lands)
Location: M-102

06H: Pop Protests
Location: M-104/105

06I: Queer Temporalities
Location: M-106/107

06J: Community, Collaboration, and Cohesion
Location: M-109

06K: Black Keywords In Sound
Location: L-506/507

11:15am
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12:00pm

Rose Library Tour
Location: Robert W. Woodruff Library

12:30pm
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1:30pm

Anatolian Ecumene SIG
Location: M-109

Association for Korean Music Research
Location: M-102

Deafness and Disability Studies SIG
Location: M-101

Education Section Keynote
Location: M-104/105

Gender and Sexualities Studies Section Open Meeting
Location: M-302

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

12:30pm
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2:30pm

Council Lunch
Location: L-503

1:45pm
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3:45pm

07A: The “Halfie’s” Mental Health: Recentering International Students in the US American Ethnomusicology
Location: M-301

Sponsored by the International Student Network for Music and Sound Studies and the SEM Board

07B: Sound and Sociality in Modern Markets: Three Perspectives on Music and Commoditization
Location: M-302

07C: Reassessing the Musical Legacy of the Ottoman Empire
Location: M-303

07D: Sounding Activism and Resistance
Location: M-304

07E: An Insistent Call and Response: Exploring the work and legacy of Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon
Location: M-101

07F: Hearing Heritage
Location: M-102

07G: Asian/American Women in Performance: Trauma, Erasure, and Resilience
Location: M-103

07H: Film as Ethnography: Reflections from Colombia’s Sibundoy Valley, Hurricane-Ravaged North Carolina, and Bloomington, Indiana
Location: M-104/105

07I: Non-Human and More Than Human Connections
Location: M-106/107

07J: Yogic Traditions and Sacred Sound Practices in the U.S.
Location: M-109

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: BFE Rountable: Who Can Be An Ethnomusicologist?
Location: M-301

Sponsored by the British Forum for Ethnomusicology and the SEM Board

08B: Divergent Listening
Location: M-302

08C: Soundscapes of Sports
Location: M-303

08D: Challenging Capitalist Realism in Ethnomusicology: Sound Praxis for an Anti-Capitalist Future
Location: M-304

08E: Contemporary Black Music in Southern Europe
Location: M-101

08F: South Asian Artistic Pedagogy in Transnational Perspective
Location: M-102

08G: Studies in Aging
Location: M-103

08H: Research tools for ethnomusicology: Navigating bibliography, historiography, and ethnography
Location: M-104/105

08I: Collective Convergences
Location: M-106/107

08J: Sound, Identity, and Resistance: Music and Sonic Practices in Marginalized Communities in Iran
Location: M-109

08K: Coloniality and Vocality
Location: L-506/507

08L: New Approaches in Music Studies
Location: L-508

5:30pm
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6:30pm

British Forum for Ethnomusicology Tea Break

7:00pm
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8:00pm

Popular Music Section Meeting
Location: L-508

Society for Arab Music Research Keynote
Location: M-302

7:00pm
-
9:00pm

Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation
Location: M-104/105

Florida State University (FSU) Reception
Location: M-106/107

Indiana University Reception
Location: M-304

Indigenous Music Section
Location: M-103

New York University Reception
Location: M-301

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

Texas Reception
Location: M-101

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

9:00pm
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11:00pm

UCLA/UC-Davis Reception
Location: M-103

Wesleyan University Reception
Location: L-506/507

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-301

09B: Organology
Location: M-302

09C: Embodiment
Location: M-303

09D: Discrimination and Violence in the United States
Location: M-304

09E: Music and Publics in Emerging Democracies in Africa
Location: M-101

09F: Jazz Stories
Location: M-102

09G: Listening for Place
Location: M-103

09H: Digital Sound and Data
Location: M-104/105

09I: Transnational Perspectives in Música Urbana: Music Production, Style Hybridy, and Cultural Resonance in Contemporary Reggaetón and Reparto
Location: M-106/107

09J: Sonic and Affective Spirituality in Caribbean Music and Rituals
Location: M-109

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: The Current Crisis and the Future of Ethnomusicology
Location: M-301

Alan Burdette (Society for Ethnomusicology), Shannon Garland (University of Pittsburgh), Amelia López López (Indiana University), Alejandrina M. Medina (University of California - San Diego), Gabriel Solis (University of Washington), with Matt Sakakeeny (moderator) (Tulane)

10B: Alliances and Intersections on the Margins of the Sinophone
Location: M-302

10C: Sounding Sufism: Diasporic Approaches to Contemporary Music Forms
Location: M-303

10D: Refugees, Forced-Migration, and Ethnomusicology: What Can We Do?
Location: M-304

10E: Sounding Global Fascism: Inter-Axis Musical Exchange between Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany
Location: M-101

10F: Music and Trauma
Location: M-102

10G: Ring Shout Resilience: How to Sustain Intangible Cultural Heritage in America
Location: M-103

10H: Racialization
Location: M-104/105

10I: Improvisation and Gestures
Location: M-106/107

10J: Global Ensembles
Location: M-109

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
-
5:45pm

Charles Seeger Lecture
Location: Marquis Ballroom C/D

6:00pm
-
10:00pm

Sounding Board (Sound Studies Section)
Location: M-201 and M-202

7:00pm
-
8:00pm

South Asian Performing Arts Section Meeting
Location: M-301

7:00pm
-
9:00pm

SEM Orchestra
Location: M-101

SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring
Location: M-106/107

UNC & Duke Reception
Location: M-304

8:00pm
-
9:00pm

South Asian Performing Arts Section Talk
Location: M-301

9:00pm
-
11:00pm

SEM 2025 Salsa Night
Location: Marquis Ballroom B

University of Chicago/University of Pennsylvania Joint Reception
Location: M-104/105

Date: Sunday, 26/Oct/2025

7:00am
-
9:00am

Council Breakfast
Location: L-504

8:00am
-
9:00am

Conference Registration
Location: Imperial Registration

8:00am
-
12:30pm

SEM Board
Location: President's Suite

Closed Meeting

8:30am
-
10:30am

11A: Traditional Transformations
Location: M-301

11B: Sounding the Environment
Location: M-302

11C: Drumming Across Cultures
Location: M-303

11D: Interrogating Gender and Identity
Location: M-304

11E: In the Classroom
Location: M-101

11F: Exchanges and Transactions
Location: M-102

11G: Noise and Silence
Location: M-103

11H: Singing and Spirituality
Location: M-104/105

11I: Jazz and coloniality in the Netherlands
Location: M-106/107

11J: Sounding Black Musical Histories
Location: M-109

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-301

12B: From Marginalization to Empowerment
Location: M-302

12C: Embodied Knowledge
Location: M-303

12D: Asian Metal Scenes
Location: M-304

12E: Listening to Visual Cultures
Location: M-101

12F: Voices in Context
Location: M-102

12H: Being, Breathing, and Aliveness: Transforming Shared Space through Movement
Location: M-104/105

12I: Games, Play, and Festivals
Location: M-106/107

12J: Music and Mysticism
Location: M-109

12K: Identity and Preservation
Location: L-506/507

12L: Media and Music
Location: L-508