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, 08:18:47pm EDT
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IU Cinema
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Conference Registration
7:30am - 5:00pm
05D: Indigenous Musical Resistance and Representation
8:30am - 10:30am
06D: Repositioning Japanese Musical Subcultures
10:45am - 12:15pm
JAVEM Open Meeting
12:30pm - 1:30pm
African and African Diaspora Section Meeting
7:00pm - 8:00pm
05E: Ensembles and Classrooms: Musical Knowledge in Practice
8:30am - 10:30am
Disability and Deaf Studies SIG
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Gertrude Robinson Network
8:00pm - 9:00pm
05F: John Coltrane and South Africa: A Centennial Meditation
8:30am - 10:30am
06F: Entangled Jewish Pasts: Chronologies, Memory, and Retelling
10:45am - 12:15pm
SIG for Economic Ethnomusicology
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Gender and Sexuality Studies Section
8:00pm - 9:00pm
05G: Digital Music Cultures: Labor, Fandom, and Industry
8:30am - 10:30am
SIG for Music of the Francophone World
12:30pm - 1:30pm
07G: Who Gets Heard? Rap, Identity, and Recognition
1:45pm - 3:45pm
Society for Arab Music Research Business Meeting
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Society for Arab Music Research Keynote
8:00pm - 9:00pm
05H: Affective Vitalities: Gendered Voice, Place, and Un/Belonging
8:30am - 10:30am
07H: Listening as Ontological Practice in More-Than-Human Worlds
1:45pm - 3:45pm
08H: Resonances and Erasures: Sounding Histories of Iran
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Education Section Keynote
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Education Section Business Meeting
8:00pm - 9:00pm
05I: Streets and Soundworlds
8:30am - 10:30am
African and African Diaspora Music Section Keynote
12:30pm - 1:30pm
SIG for Jazz
12:30pm - 1:30pm
07J: Rethinking Instruments: Materiality, Ethics, and Aesthetics
1:45pm - 3:45pm
Popular Music Section Business Meeting
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Popular Music Section David Sanjek Lecture
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Publications Advisory Committee
7:30am - 8:30am
Asian Music Editorial Board Meeting
12:30pm - 1:30pm
05C: Listening Beyond Vulnerability: Music, Care, and Resilience
8:30am - 10:30am
06C: AfroAlt: Theorizing on Blackness, Space, and Place in Popular Music
10:45am - 12:15pm
SEM Council
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Texas Universities Reception
7:00pm - 9:00pm
05K: Unquiet Archives: Sound, Silence, and Contested Memories
8:30am - 10:30am
Rising Voices in Ethnomusicology Student Open Meeting
12:30pm - 1:30pm
07K: Beats and Belonging in Contemporary Music Cultures
1:45pm - 3:45pm
New York University FAS Reception
8:00pm - 10:00pm
Education Section - Day of Ethnomusicology
8:00am - 2:00pm
Square Dance and Contra Dance Workshop
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Square Dance and Contra Dance
7:00pm - 9:00pm
06A: President's Roundtable
10:45am - 12:15pm
08B: BFE Sponsored Panel
4:00pm - 5:30pm
British Forum for Ethnomusicology High Tea
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Indiana University Reception
7:00pm - 9:00pm
05A: International Student Network Sponsored Session
8:30am - 10:30am
06B: Performance, Sustainability, and Ritual in Modern Indonesia
10:45am - 12:15pm
07A: Board Sponsored Session
1:45pm - 3:45pm
Exhibits
8:00am - 2:00pm
JAVEM Film Screening
2:00pm - 5:00pm
SIG for Music and Violence
12:30pm - 1:30pm