MACSEM 2024
The MACSEM conference is a student-centered event (graduate, undergraduate, high school) that aims to create a generative, positive space for intellectual collaboration and growth. The conference features a keynote event with Dr. Roshanak Kheshti, Associate Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley.
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Free Registration here:
Preliminary Schedule
* For abstracts, just click the paper title
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Saturday 13th April
Morning Announcements (9:15am - 9:30am)
Panel 1 (9:30am - 11:00am) - Chair, Tracey Stewart
Sound, Difference and Transience: Intangible Archives. Blacksound. Resistance
Rachel Horner
“Sentint les Falles: Sound and Silence in the Intangible Archive of València’s Falles Festival”
Athaliah Elvis
“Turmoils of the Post-Transatlantic: Navigating the soundscape of race at Bucknell University”
Josie Nunley
“Palestinian Weddings in the Diaspora: Resistance through Music and Dance”
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Panel 2 (11:15am - 12:45pm) - Chair, Rachel Horner
Technology: Videogames. Roboprocesses. Telematic
Reid Orphan
“Esroniet- An Exercise in World Building, Gamelan, and Skyrim Modding”
Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis
“‘Me Against the Algorithm’: Robocritiques in the Music of Emcee Chosan”
Tom Zlabinger & Gareth Smith
“Spirituality in Creating Collaborative Groove Music in Accessible Online Space”
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Lunch (12:45pm - 2:00pm)
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Panel 3 (2:00pm - 4:00pm) - Chair, Nic Vigilante
Collective Vibrations: Shopping Mall Activism. Soundwebs in Space. Massed Publics. Spiritual Warfare
Winnie W. C. Lai
“‘Sing with You’: Sonic Activism and the Echoes of New Values in Hong Kong’s Shopping
Maria Puente Flores, Tinaz Kotval, Sage Liotta, Benjamin Schlaich, Olenka Tsyhankova
“We Are Dealing with Vibration”
Jackson Albert Mann
“The Historical Origin of a ‘Singing Union’”
Cibele Moura
“Encruzilhadas: Sonic and Spiritual Warfare in Brazilian Pentecostalism”
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Panel 4 (4:15pm - 6:00 pm) - Chair, Michael Iyanaga
Music Beyond Sound: Queer Cultural Formations. Visualizing Instruments. Yoruba Storytelling.
Nic Vigilante
“Sounding Gaysian: The Aesthetics of K-Pop in Los Angeles’ QTAPI Nightlife Scene”
Julie Glazer
“Instruments before sound: Visual techniques in the violinmaking workshop and beyond”
Andenuga Juwon
“Mediating the Past and Present: Resuscitating Storytelling and Folk-tunes in Yoruba Communities”
Announcements + 1st day Wrap up (5:45pm - 6:00pm)
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Sunday 14th April
Panel 5 (9:00am-10:30am) - Chair, Siv
Negotiating Music, Identity and the Institutional: Nordic Exceptionalis. Defying Dominance. Nationalist Iranian identity
Waldemar Katttrup
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Rubens de la Corte
Kajwan Ziaoddini
Roundtable (10:45am - 12:15pm) - Chair, Shalini Ayyagari
Margaret Rowley, Miranda Fedock, and Damascus Kafumbe
Quiet Notes from the Field: Embracing Introversion in Ethnomusicology
Keynote (12:45pm - 2:00pm)
Thanks + Wrap up (2:00pm - 2:30pm)
Announcements for the Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize and the Lorna D'Acosta McDaniel Prize
MACSEMÂ PRIZES
PANTALEONI PRIZE COMPETITION
MACSEM awards the Pantaleoni Prize each year to the best graduate student paper/presentation delivered at the annual meeting, as determined by the vote of an ad hoc committee of faculty present at the meeting, appointed by the President. The Pantaleoni Prize was established in 1990 in memory of ethnomusicologist Hewitt Pantaleoni, and carries an award of $50. All graduate student MACSEM presenters are strongly encouraged to enter their papers into the competition.
HOW TO APPLY: Please email a copy of your paper/ presentation (AS DELIVERED) by 11:59 p.m. on Monday April 15, 2024 to miyanaga@wm.edu. Please include in the email subject line: Pantaleoni Prize.
LORNA MCDANIEL PRIZE COMPETITION
MACSEM awards this prize to the best undergraduate student paper/ presentation delivered at the annual meeting, as determined by the vote of an ad hoc committee of faculty present at the meeting, appointed by the President. This prize is named after Lorna McDaniel,
founding president of MACSEM, and carries an award of $50.
HOW TO APPLY: Please email a copy of your paper/ presentation (AS DELIVERED) by 11:59 p.m. on Monday April 15, 2024 to miyanaga@wm.edu. Please include in the email subject line: Lorna McDaniel Prize.