SEM Sound studies Section 2026 Events
Dear all, The SEM Sound Studies Section would like to warmly invite you to participate in our events during the Society’s annual meeting from November 5th to 8th in Indiana University! Please visit the links below for more details! We look forward to seeing you all! Thank you! SEM Sound Studies Section Executive Committee For the workshop, please visit: https://semsoundstudies.wixsite.com/semsoundstudies/post/sem-sound-studios-workshop-2026 For the gaming Session, please visi
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Call for Nominations: Co-Chair & Secretary, 2026-2028.
Dear SEM colleagues, The Section's current co-chair Winnie W․ C․ Lai and secretary Sara Feili will complete their terms in November․ Nominations for the co-chair and secretary positions are now being sought․ Appointments to these two-year terms will take effect in December 2026 after a transition period․ The ideal person to serve as co-chair is a Ph.D. candidate (i.e., ABD status) or junior scholar working on ethnographic research related to the field of sound studies․ An ide
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SEM Sound Studies Workshop 2026
Dear all, The SEM Sound Studies Section will host a workshop, Locating Sound Studies, led by Amy Skjerseth, an assistant professor of popular music at the University of California, Riverside. The workshop will take place from 8 to 9 p.m. in Oak during the SEM 2026 conference in Bloomington, Indiana. Here is Amy’s workshop description: “What is the relationship of sound studies to ethnomusicology, and music studies more broadly: is it a field, a method, a set of overlapping fi
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SEM Sound Studies Gaming Session 2026
Dear SEM members, The SEM Sound Studies Section invites you to attend our first-ever gaming session, “Playing with Sound: How Do You Listen?” on Saturday, November 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. The meeting provides an interactive gaming space that brings together participatory scores, improvisation, role-play, and collaborative sound-making. Through play, we aim to explore how gaming can transform listening into a situated, embodied form of knowledge. Participants will explore inquiry,
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Call for Games: Playing with Sound: How Do You Listen?
Dear SEM members, Greetings! The Sound Studies Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology invites proposals for “Playing with Sound: How Do You Listen?,” an interactive gaming session at the 2026 SEM Annual Meeting that explores listening through play as a situated and embodied form of knowledge (Feld and Brenneis 2004; Pink 2009). Inspired by T. L. Taylor’s argument that ethnography and play share foundations in inquiry, experimentation, embodiment, affect, contingency, and
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CFP: Sound Studies Section Sponsored Panel for SEM 2026
The Sound Studies Section invites applications for panel sponsorship for the upcoming 2026 SEM Annual Meeting , taking place in Bloomington, Indiana, November 5-8. If you have a sound studies-related panel already formed, or are an individual paper looking to join with others to form a panel, please submit abstracts to the Sound Studies Section at semsoundstudies@gmail.com by Wednesday, February 25, 2026 . We will notify selected panels of their status shortly. If you wou
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SEM Sound Studies Section Student Paper Prize 2026
We are now accepting submissions for the Section’s annual Student Paper Award. All students who presented papers on sound studies at the 2025 SEM conference are eligible to apply. Please submit your presented paper and CV to semsoundstudies@gmail.com with the subject line “SEM Sound Studies Section Paper Award 2026” by Wednesday, November 12, 2025 . For more details about the award, please see details here .
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