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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Daily Overview |
| 7:30am - 8:30am |
investment Advisory Committee Location: Charter Room |
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| 7:30am - 12:00pm |
Conference Registration Location: East Lounge |
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| 8:30am - 10:30am |
09A: ICTMD Sponsored Session Location: Whittenberger Auditorium |
09B: Critical Insights for the Study of Music, Sound, and Sport: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy Location: Solarium Critical Insights for the Study of Music, Sound, and Sport: Power, Politics, and Pedagogy |
09C: “Bad Ecomusicology” and Dissident Environmental Affects Location: Georgian Room “Bad Ecomusicology” and Dissident Environmental Affects |
09D: Reflections on the Returning Workshop: For Collections in Need of Communities Location: Oak Reflections on the Returning Workshop: For Collections in Need of Communities |
| 09E: Counterpublics in the Americas: Atmospheres, Ethics, and Resistance Location: Walnut Understanding Outrage: Intersectional Marxism, Punk, and Revolutionary Echoes Florida State University "Play the Fight Riff!": Affect and the Ethics of Moshing in Hardcore Punk University of Michigan “Burn it Down": Folk Punk Performance and Anarchist Action in Washington, D.C. University of Maryland, College Park Surrounding BaianaSystem’s Pirate Ship: Calculated Climax and Synchronized Chaos in Salvador, Brazil Loyola University New Orleans |
09F: Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human Location: Maple Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human Presentations in the Session Interspecies Musicality and the Sentipensante Subject: Rethinking Agency in Human–Bird Sonic Relations Like Mother, Like Daughter: Horses, Inheritance, and Musical Anthropomorphism at the British Dressage Winter Championships Canaries in the laboratory: silent voices of neuroscience On Being Human in Ethnomusicology |
09G: Performing Greece: Media, Communities, and Traditions Location: Redbud My Big Fat Greek Stereotype: The Sonic Production of Greek America on Screen University of Illinois Springfield Víoma and Stylistic Identity in the Festival Music of Greek Pogoni Brown University A Modal Heterotopia in Rebetiko: Performative Responses to Theoretical Incompatibilities Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki |
09H: Reimagining Korean Music: Circulation, Translation, and Transformation Location: Sassafras Reimagining Arirang Across the Border: Musical Circulation and Collaboration Between North and South Korea Asian Music Research Institute of Seoul National University, Beyond Borrowing: The Cultural Epidemiology of Korean Rhythms in Balinese Baleganjur University of British Columbia A hybrid notational system for Korean Buddhist chant and its potential for further applications N/A "Painted Sounds for Western Eyes: Music, Gender, and Ritual in Kim Jun-Geun's Genre Paintings in the Chosŏn Open Port Period (1876–1910)" University of Arizona |
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| 09I: Cantonese Sound and Identity Across the Transnational Cantosphere Location: Persimmon Cantonese Sound and Identity Across the Transnational Cantosphere Presentations in the Session Resisting Assimilation: Gongchepu and Cultural Identity in Early 20th‑Century Cantonese Music “Reclaiming Our Cantonese Childhood”: Navigating Identity Through Traditional Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong Protestant Worship Tracing a Half‑Century of Cantopop in Canada Discussant |
09J: Jazz as Diasporic Formation: Spirituality, Mobility, and Intercultural Exchange Location: Dogwood Jazz as Diasporic Formation: Spirituality, Mobility, and Intercultural Exchange Presentations in the Session Radical “Sankofa-ism”: Ancestral Recall, Spiritual Healing, and African Diasporic Utopianism in the Jazz of Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Sounding the Òrìṣà: Creative Paradox and Diasporic Formation in African Cuban Santería and Jazz Transplanted Prodigy: New African Diasporas, Afro-Fusion and the Career Development of Ghanaian Drummer Paa Kow |
09K: Making Brazil Audible: Sound, Sexuality, and Power Location: State Room East Earwitness Accounts of Sexuality and Other Ethnopornographic Tales Cornell University Bringing Worlds into Being: Ritual Sound and Ontological Practice in Brazilian Umbanda University of North Texas Sonic Dominance during Rio de Janeiro’s Bailes de Corredor: Sovereignty and Masculinity in Contexts of Criminal Governance Habib University, From the Favelas to The World: Anitta and The Internationalization of Brazilian funk University of North Texas, |
09L: Music That Moves: Memory, Protest, and Belonging Across Indian Worlds Location: State Room West Gaao Mere Mann: Indian Senior Citizens and the Repertoire of ‘Old’ Hindi Film Songs Ahmedabad University, My Brother's Keeper: Tabla Provided Grief Therapy for the Performer University of Minnesota, To Move, One Must Be Grounded: Ragamala Dance Company and the Generative Force of Tradition in Diaspora Falcon Heights Meaningful Sounds: Protest Songs of the 2020-2021 Indian Farmer’s Movement University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
Education Section - World Music Pedagogy Workshops Location: Alumni Hall |
Exhibits Location: Frangipani Room |
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| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
10A: Rising Voices Sponsored Session Location: Whittenberger Auditorium |
10B: Enacting Indigenous Sovereignty in Sound Location: Solarium Enacting Indigenous Sovereignty in Sound Presentations in the Session Reconstructing Sonic Practice: Rematriation and Indigenous Futurity among Muisca Communities Replication and Indigenous Sonic Sovereignty in Mesoamerican Archaeological Sound Recording, Notation, and Reshaping Meaning: “Shí Naashá” and Diné Sovereignty |
10C: Present Dynamics in African Music: Liturgy and Pedagogy, Practice and Paradigms Location: Georgian Room Present Dynamics in African Music: Liturgy and Pedagogy, Practice and Paradigms Presentations in the Session Ethnomusicology in South Africa: Beyond the tokenistic inclusion of African Music Liquidating Localities: Christian Contemporary Worship as Cultural Colonialism Hearing Africa in Europe: African Music and Transnational Choral Practices in Germany |
10D: Negotiating Black Musical Life, Faith, and Identity in Educational Spaces Location: Oak Vocalized Style-Shifting: A Sociophonetic Study of HBCU Students Negotiating Faith, Professional Opportunity, and Black Identity through Singing Style UCLA, Church Spaces and Places: Black Voices, Gospel Music, and Placemaking at the University of Virginia University of Virginia, “The Tunnel”: Exploring a Sense of Belonging, Interconnectedness, and Unity Through the Study of an HBCU Marching Band Ritual. Oxford College of Emory University |
| 10E: Doing Ethnomusicology in Times of Crisis: Companions in Conversation Location: Walnut Doing Ethnomusicology in Times of Crisis: Companions in Conversation |
10F: Listening for Silenced Narratives: Sounding Counter-Histories in Latin America Location: Maple Listening for Silenced Narratives: Sounding Counter-Histories in Latin America Presentations in the Session “No Queremos Morir”: Cumbia Norteña Music and Citizen Insecurity in Lima, Perú Música Folclórica and the Recontextualization of 'Traditional' African Music on the Caribbean Coast of Colombia Scrape, Rattle, Tap: Sounding Silence and Blackness Through the Quijada in Son Jarocho |
10G: Under the Lid: The Extra-Musical Skills of Instrument Makers and Technicians Location: Redbud Under the Lid: The Extra-Musical Skills of Instrument Makers and Technicians Presentations in the Session Instruments before Sound: Bringing to Light Violin Makers’ Visual Techniques From Piano to “Piano-Shaped Object”: Piano Technicians and Emotional Labor Sewing Skills, Reframed: Refashioning Women’s Labor at Fender |
10H: Performing Beyond the Machine: Music, Technology, and Creative Communities in East Asia Location: Sassafras Singing Before Deaf Machines: Noraebang, Arbitrary Scoring, and the Poetics of Quantitative Refusal in South Korea Vanderbilt University Performing Rupture in the Soundscape: Community and Aesthetics in Pokémon Glitch Culture Harvard University, Signifying Locality in China’s Age of Technofuturism, Nationalism, and Traditionalism Macau University of Science and Technology, |
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| 10I: Music in Motion: Diaspora, Policy, and Translocal Communities in Germany Location: Persimmon Paper title: New Locations New Sounds: the experiences of Syria refugee musicians in Germany. University of Würzburg, Music exchange and cultural policies between Germany and the Mashreq University of Cologne Who Gets to Be a Composer? Rethinking Musical Authority in Germany and Korea 1: Seoul National University; 2: Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |
10J: Diasporic Asian and Pacific Islander Sound Worlds: Heritage, Identity, and Transnational Imaginaries Location: Dogwood Inside the Installation: Ethnographic Listening in Asian Diasporic Art University of Texas at Austin Hijacking Diaspora: FilAm Popular Songs as Home in the Transnational Imaginary University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Punake in the Diaspora: Cultural Stewardship and the Sounds of Tongan Heritage Across the United States The University of Arizona, |
10K: Forbidden Voices, Resonant Resistance: Music, Gender, and Politics in Iran Location: State Room East Silenced Voices: The Ban on Female Solo Singing in Post-Revolutionary Iran as Political Trauma University of Florida Resonant Resistance: Sonic Agency, Gender, and the Re-sounding of Sacred Spaces in Iran Cornell University Music-making and Shifting Notions of Dissidence in Iran: The case of Shervin University of Virginia |
10L: Sonic Politics in Modern Turkey Location: State Room West Sounding Political Impasse in a World of Authoritarian Turn: Insights from Turkey UC Berkeley Polyphonic Governmentality: Toward a Global Concept History of Çok Seslilik in Modern Turkey Florida State University, “Is This Makam Music?”: Genealogy and Politics of “Aşkın Aldı Benden Beni” in Saygun's Yunus Emre Colorado State University |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Applied Ethnomusicology Section (Online Meeting) |
Association for Korean Music Research Location: Oak |
Diversity Action Committee Location: Distinguished Alumni Room |
Ethnomusicology Editorial Board Location: Charter Room |
| Indigenous Scholars' Lunch Meeting Location: State Room West |
SIG for Organology Location: Sassafras |
SIG for the Music of Iran and Central Asia Location: Maple |
SIG for Voice Studies Location: Persimmon |
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| 1:45pm - 3:45pm |
General Membership Meeting Location: Alumni Hall |
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| 4:30pm - 5:45pm |
Charles Seeger Lecture: Henry Glassie. “Tradition in Place: Photography in Ethnography.“ Location: Alumni Hall |
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| 5:45pm - 7:15pm |
Seeger Lecture Reception Location: Solarium |
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| 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
SIG for Celtic Music Location: Sassafras |
Sound Studies Gaming Session Location: Redbud |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Reception Location: Georgian Room |
Crossroads Section for Difference and Representation Meeting Location: Persimmon |
Florida State University Reception Location: Tudor Room |
Indigenous Music Section Location: Dogwood |
| Religion, Music, and Sound Section Location: Oak |
South Asian Performing Arts Section Location: Maple |
SSW & GSS Speed Mentoring Location: Walnut |
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| 7:15pm - 8:00pm |
Salsa Dancing Workshop Location: Alumni Hall |
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| 8:00pm - 9:00pm |
2026-2027 Program Committee Meeting Location: Distinguished Alumni Room |
SIG for Celtic Music Jam Session Location: Sassafras |
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
SEM Salsa Dance and Jam Location: Alumni Hall |
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