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, 08:14:48pm EDT

 
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East Lounge
Oak
Walnut
Maple
Redbud
Sassafras
Persimmon
Dogwood
Charter Room
Georgian Room
State Room East
State Room West
Whittenberger Auditorium
Frangipani Room
Metz Suite
Conference Registration
8:00am - 9:00am
11C: String Band Worlds: Bluegrass, Belonging, and Musical Exchange
8:30am - 10:30am
12C: Beyond Jazz: Cuban Experimentalisms in Gender and Genre
10:45am - 12:15pm
11D: Voicing the Unresolved: Listening at the Thresholds of Life, Death, and History
8:30am - 10:30am
12D: Ethnomusicology and Music Teaching and Learning
10:45am - 12:15pm
11E: Audible Histories: Music, Memory, and Identity Through Film
8:30am - 10:30am
12E: Remapping Listening Publics Across the Global South
10:45am - 12:15pm
11F: The Sonic and Aesthetic Politics of Japanese Anime
8:30am - 10:30am
12F: Materiality and Meaning of Instruments and Instrument-Building in Africa
10:45am - 12:15pm
11G: Sounding In and Beyond Trauma
8:30am - 10:30am
12G: Mediating World Music: Authority, Authenticity, and Musical Tradition in a Global Age
10:45am - 12:15pm
11H: Expressive Defiance: Music, Dance, and Resistance
8:30am - 10:30am
12H: Sonic Encounters: Ritual, Race, and Cultural Pluralism in Peru
10:45am - 12:15pm
11I: Sonic Relations: Music, Community, and Place in China and Beyond
8:30am - 10:30am
12I: Making Home Through Music: Diaspora, Heritage, and Belonging in North America
10:45am - 12:15pm
11J: Improvisation as Archive in Pittsburgh
8:30am - 10:30am
12J: Phantasmatic Geographies of Music, Heritage, and Cultural Lineage Across Eurasia
10:45am - 12:15pm
11B: Listening for Care: Gender, Labor, and Social Reproduction that Sustains Musical Worlds
8:30am - 10:30am
12B: Aquatic Mediations: Toward a “Blue Ethnomusicology”
10:45am - 12:15pm
11K: Sonic Temporalities: Kurdish Music, Media, and the Reimagining of Community
8:30am - 10:30am
12K: Invented Traditions: The Revival of Musical Instruments in Central Asia
10:45am - 12:15pm
11L: Musical Pathways in Taiwan: Indigeneity, Technology, and Tradition
8:30am - 10:30am
12L: Geographies of Auto-Tune: Pitch Correction and Vocal Practice in Global Contexts
10:45am - 12:15pm
11A: Resources in the study and performance of African music in American Academies.
8:30am - 10:30am
12A: Haunted Economies: Ethnomusicology beyond Liberal Democracy
10:45am - 12:15pm
SEM Council
7:00am - 9:00am
SEM Board
8:00am - 12:30pm