SEM 2023 Annual Meeting
October 19-22, 2023
Ottawa, Ontario
Live-Streaming Schedule

The Society for Ethnomusicology is offering live and archived video-streams of selected sessions from its 2023 Annual Meeting in Ottawa. These streams are provided as part of an effort to increase access, nationally and internationally, to the content of our meeting. Below is a schedule of the video-streamed sessions. All streaming times listed are Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4). Please note that this schedule is subject to change.

SEM gratefully acknowledges Indiana University Bloomington Collaboration Technologies for its assistance providing video-streaming services for our 2023 Annual Meeting.

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Thursday, October 19, 2023

8:00am – 10:00am
1A: The Art of Amplifying Cognitive Reserve through Music and the Health Sciences

Chairs:
 Sean Williams, Evergreen State College
Jayendran Pillay, Wesleyan University

Participants:
Jayendran Pillay, Wesleyan University
Sean Williams, Evergreen State College
Rhonna Schatz, University of Cincinnati
Jennie Gubner, University of Arizona

10:10am-10:40am
Annual Meeting Opening Ceremony

Tomie Hahn, SEM President
Anna Hoefnagels and Judith Klassen, Local Arrangements Committee Co-Chairs

Host Institution Representatives:
Anne Bowker, Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Carleton University
Gordon Smith, Former Vice-Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science, Interim Director of the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Queen’s University
Bianca Gendreau, Senior Director, Research, and Chief Curator, Canadian Museum of History

Barry Sarazin, Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation

10:45am - 12:15pm
2A: Negotiating Identity, Genre, and Representation in Contemporary Country Music

Chair:
Nancy P. Riley, Belmont University

Presentations:

"Radio Programming Practices and the Curation of Canadian Country Music Culture"
Jada Watson, University of Ottawa

"Kelsea Ballerini and Country-Pop in Practice"
Phoebe E. Hughes, Binghamton University (SUNY)
 
“'Reckoning' with Identity Symbols in 21st Century Country Music"
Holly Riley, University of Montana

1:45pm-3:45pm
3A: Unceded and Unsurrendered: Voices, Reflections of Indigenous Musicians in and around Ottawa/Gatineau

Sponsored by the Local Arrangements Committee, Indigenous Music Section, SEM Board, and Portia K. Maultsby Equity and Inclusion Fund.

Facilitator:
Macho Commonda, Algonquin Anishinaabe, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabek First Nation

Participants:
Beverley McKiver, Anishinaabe, Lac Seul First Nation, Treaty 3
Charlotte Qamaniq, Inuk, from Iglulik, Nunavut  
Keith Whiteduck, Algonquin Anishinaabe, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabek First Nation
Mikayla Karonhianonha ("She Protects the Skies") Francis, Wolf Clan, Akwesasne Mohawk First Nation 
Jaime Morse, Otipemisiwak/Nehiyaw (Métis/Cree)

4:00pm-5:30pm
4A: EDIARD in Canada’s Music Industry: Perspectives on Research, Creation, Activism, Advocacy, and Public Education

Sponsored by the Local Arrangements Committee, SEM Board, and Portia K. Maultsby Equity and Inclusion Fund.

Moderator:
Denise Bolduc, Anishinaabe Writer, Director, Curator & Creative Producer

Participants:
Denise Bolduc, Anishinaabe Writer, Director, Curator & Creative Producer
Darrell Bernard, Mi’kmaw Musician, Sons of Membertou
Wendy Bergfeldt, CBC Radio One Host, Nova Scotia
Mark Parselelo, Memorial University
Meghan Forsyth, Memorial University
Sarah Onyango, Community Radio Host & Producer, CHUO 89.1FM, Ottawa
Marcia Ostashewski, Cape Breton University

Friday, October 20, 2023

8:30am-10:30am
5A: Ethnomusicology Now: Relating in/to the Field

Sponsored by SEM Student News and the SEM Board

Chair:
Hannah Snavely, University of California, Riverside

Participants:
Melvin Butler, University of Miami
Sunaina Kale, University of California, Davis
Abigail C. Lindo, University of Florida
Allan Zheng, University of California, Riverside
Lee Veeraraghavan, Tulane University

10:45am-12:15pm
6A: President’s Roundtable: Tell Me a Story—Translating Experience into Ethnography

Sponsored by the SEM Board

Chairs:
Tomie Hahn, SEM President
Martin Daughtry, New York University

Participants:
Jessica Swanston Baker, University of Chicago
Corinna Campbell, Williams College
Yun Emily Wang, Duke University
Damascus Kafumbe, Middlebury College

1:45pm-3:45pm
7A: ICTMD and Its Commitment to Scholarship, Advocacy, and Activism: Reflections on Past, Present, and Future Perspectives

Sponsored by the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance and SEM Board

Chair:
Svanibor Pettan, University of Ljubljana

Participants:
Svanibor Pettan, University of Ljubljana
Samuel Araújo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Catherine Foley, University of Limerick
Jean Ngoya Kidula, University of Georgia
Lonán Ó Briain, University of Nottingham
Marcia Ostashewski, Cape Breton University

Saturday, October 21, 2023

8:30am-10:30am
9A: An Emerging Praxis for Signed Musicking

Chair:
Ely Lyonblum, University of Toronto Faculty of Music

Presentations:

“Experiences of a Research Participant in Two Signed Music Cases: The Black Drum and The Resonance Project”
Jody Cripps, Clemson University

“Ownership in Signed Music”
Pamela Witcher

“Reframing Music: A Deaf Performer’s Perspective”
Dawn Birley

“Signed Music-making, ‘mediating’ and researching: Staying true to your heart”
Anita Small, small LANGUAGE CONNECTIONS

“Impossible Listening”
Ellen Waterman, Carleton University

“Encounters with Audism: Signed Music and Hearing Ethnomusicologists”
Gale Franklin, Carleton University

10:45am-12:15pm
10A: Haudenosaunee Workshop: Native North American Travelling College

Sponsored by the SEM Board, Local Arrangements Committee, and Indigenous Music Section; and by Carleton University, Queen’s University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

1:45PM-3:45PM
SEM 2023 General Membership Meeting

4:15pm-5:45pm
2023 Charles Seeger Lecture: “Listen, Watch Your Step”

Trevor Reed (University of Arizona) and Dylan Robinson (University of British Columbia), with Invited Collaborators

2023 Charles Seeger Lecture Participants:

Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk, Emory University
Dawn Avery, Montgomery College
Sunaina Kale, University of California, Davis
Haliehana Stepetin, University of Alaska Anchorage
Dylan Robinson, University of British Columbia
Trevor Reed, Arizona State University

Sunday, October 22, 2023

8:30am-10:30am
11A: Music, Cultural Identity, and the Mediation of Memory in Asia

Chair:
Russell Skelchy, RILM

Presentations:

“’The rivers ran red’: Historical memory, trauma, and the counterstories of a keroncong musician during the Indonesian mass killing (1965-66)”

Russell Skelchy, RILM

“Tracing the past, shaping the future: Reconstructing the naiyāṇṭi mēḷam Tamil folk music ensemble in globalized Singapore”

Gene Lai, RILM

“Dhikr playback: Memory and media of Uyghur Sufi sounds”

Qian Mu, RILM

Discussion

Deborah Wong, University of California, Riverside

10:45am-12:15pm
12A: Gendered, Queer, Racialized and Feminist European Musical Activisms

Chair:
Leslie Gay, University of Tennessee

Presentations:

“Black Jazz/White Bodies from pre-war Denmark: Music, Race, and the Educational Activism of Astrid Gøssel”

Leslie Gay, University of Tennessee

“Shifting Boundaries: Exploring Queer & National Identity in the Sanremo Festival”

Christopher Pierce, University of Nevada, Reno

“Intersectionality in Bulgarian Chalga: Romani Celebrities Respond to Ethnonationalism”

Carol Silverman, University of Oregon