Conference Agenda

The Online Program of events for the SEM 2026 Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.

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Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 29th Aug 2026, 08:14:51pm EDT

 
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East Lounge
Oak
Walnut
Maple
Redbud
Sassafras
Persimmon
Dogwood
Charter Room
Distinguished Alumni Room
Georgian Room
State Room East
State Room West
Alumni Hall
Solarium
Whittenberger Auditorium
Frangipani Room
Metz Suite
Conference Registration
7:30am - 5:00pm
01D: Beyond Ethnic Categories: Music, Mediation, and Belonging in China
8:00am - 10:00am
02D: Musical Representations of Indigeneities in Contemporary Japanese Anime
10:45am - 12:15pm
SIG for Musics in and of Europe
12:30pm - 1:30pm
03D: Whose Instrument? The Banjo, Blackness, and the Politics of Cultural Recovery
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04D: Suspending Asian/American Listening
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SIG for Jewish Music
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Sound Studies Section
8:00pm - 10:00pm
01E: Singing imagined futures: Young people, musical arts, and forced displacement
8:00am - 10:00am
02E: Sound, Arts, and Cultural Memory in Mexico
10:45am - 12:15pm
03E: The (De)Growth of Music
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04E: Shame on the Field: How Shame Shapes Field Experiences
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Historical Ethnomusicology Section
7:00pm - 9:00pm
01F: Music, Media, and Power in Puerto Rico
8:00am - 10:00am
02F: Technologies of Witness: Recorded and Digital Sacred Music in American Life
10:45am - 12:15pm
03F: Sonic Publics: Performance, Space, and Belonging in the City
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04F: Sonic Thresholds: Ritual, Empire, and the Performance of Belonging
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Music Analysis and DMG Joint Activity
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Dance, Music, and Gesture Section
8:00pm - 9:00pm
01G: East Asian Tradition, Indigeneity, and Diaspora
8:00am - 10:00am
02G: Unsettlling Soundscapes: Music, Memory, and the Negotiation of Place
10:45am - 12:15pm
Anatolian Ecumene SIG
12:30pm - 1:30pm
03G: Echoes After Empire: Sound Archives and the Post-Imperial Nation-State
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04G: Listening to Medical(ized) Spaces: Sound, Care, and Clinical Ethics
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Asian American Listening Party
7:00pm - 8:00pm
SIG for Music Analysis
8:00pm - 9:00pm
01H: Christian Musicking Across Diverse Worlds
8:00am - 10:00am
02H: American Vocal Worlds: Negotiating Invisible Labor, Community, and Affective Value
10:45am - 12:15pm
SIG for Medical Ethnomusicology
12:30pm - 1:30pm
03H: Beyond Identity Politics: Rethinking Music, Selfhood, and Sonic Ontology in African Musics
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04H: The Social Life of Sound: Justice, Displacement, and Aesthetic Worlds
4:00pm - 5:30pm
01I: Ancestral Frequencies: Sound, Heritage, and Resistance in the Caribbean
8:00am - 10:00am
02I: Sacred Resonance: Music, Authority, and the Making of Christian Worlds in Africa
10:45am - 12:15pm
SIG for Japanese Performing Arts
12:30pm - 1:30pm
03I: Indian Musical Worlds: Lineage, Devotion, and Belonging
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04I: Sonic Citizenship in South America: Music, Gender, and the Politics of Belonging
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Improvisation Section
7:00pm - 9:00pm
01J: Owning Sound: Music and/as Property
8:00am - 10:00am
02J: Building Sound Pedagogies for Collaboration across Boundaries in Music Education
10:45am - 12:15pm
SIG for Ecomusicology
12:30pm - 1:30pm
03J: Multi-Sited Ethnography: Promises and Perils, Politics and Poetics
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04J: Between Sanctuary and Stage: Jewish Music, Identity, and Mediation
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Association for Chinese Music Research
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Ethics Committee
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Chapters Meeting
8:00pm - 9:00pm
01C: Archive and Experimentation across Transnational Arab Cultural Geographies
8:00am - 10:00am
02C: Protest Songs and Musical Resistance
10:45am - 12:15pm
03C: Lyrics in Contention: Song, Power, and Identity in Latin America
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04C: Voicing against Voicelessness: An Ethnomusicology of Voice through Rupture
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Latin American and Caribbean Music Section
8:00pm - 9:00pm
01K: In-group and Expanded Understandings of Diverse Timbre Patterns
8:00am - 10:00am
02K: Answering to Whom? Addressivity and the Creative Act in the Causasus and Central Asia
10:45am - 12:15pm
03K: Sound, Practice, and Power in Thailand
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04K: From Remix to Resistance: Music, Algorithms, and Digital Publics
4:00pm - 5:30pm
International Student Network for Music and Sound Studies Open Meeting
7:00pm - 8:00pm
01L: Radical Jazz Worlds: Improvisation, Spirituality, and Black Musical Creativity
8:00am - 10:00am
02L: Intimate Community Building: Women Making Music Communities Across Asia and Its Diasporas
10:45am - 12:15pm
Past Presidents' Lunch
12:30pm - 1:30pm
03L: Practicing Care and Equity Through Music and Sound
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04L: Unruly Sounds: Noise, Metal, and Cultural Politics
4:00pm - 5:30pm
SIG for Archiving
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Section for the Status of Women
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Welcome Reception
6:00pm - 8:00pm
01B: Communities of Care in Academic and Applied Ethnomusicology
8:00am - 10:00am
02B: Música Urbana as Mediated History: The Role of Genre and Scholars in the Music of Bad Bunny and Rauw Alejandro
10:45am - 12:15pm
03B: Founding Mothers of Ethnomusicology: Looking Back, Looking Forward
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04B: Critical Trans Ethnographies of Music and Sound
4:00pm - 5:30pm
First Timer Reception
5:30pm - 6:30pm
01A: Archiving Ethnomusicology: The American Folklife Center at 50 and the Future of Sound Stewardship
8:00am - 10:00am
Opening Ceremony
10:10am - 10:40am
02A: Innovative Approaches to Public Engagement in Ethnomusicology
10:45am - 12:15pm
03A: Board Sponsored Session
1:45pm - 3:45pm
04A: Intersectional Disruptions: Interrogating Hegemonic Understandings of Musical Talent/Musicality through Disability, d/Deafness, and Race/Ethnicity
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Exhibits
11:00am - 6:00pm
SEM Board
8:00am - 10:00am