The Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human Symposium asks what recent scholarly critiques of “the human” might bring to the study of music and culture. The two-day event involves students and scholars of actor-network theory, cyborg theory, critical animal studies, sound studies, science and technology studies, ecomusicology, traditional ecological knowledges, and Black feminism. All events are free and open to the public.

April 26-27, 2024
9:30am-5:00pm
IU McCalla

This event is co-sponsored by the College Arts and Humanities Institute, IU Research, Cultural Studies, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Musicology, Journal of Folklore Research, African American and African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, and Anthropology.

Schedule

Friday, April 26th

9:30am
Words of Welcome: Julianne Graper and F722 Students

10am-12:00pm
Panel 1: Deterritorializing the Ethnomusicological Landscape
Chair: Jenna Sears

Indigenous Survivance as Distributed Cognition?: The Musical Technics of Reanimation in Jeremy Dutcher’s Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
Lee Veeraraghavan, Tulane University

Geo-ontologies of Sound: Sonorous Sand, Insidious Violence, and Acoustic Environmentalism in Industrial Japan
Keisuke Yamada, University of Michigan

Accentings, Acoustic Surveillance, and Political Crisis in 2010s Brazil
Leonardo Cardoso, Texas A&M University

Sensory Gameplay, Speculative Autoethnography, and Human-Animal Relations in Digital Games
Kate Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

12:00-2pm Lunch Break

2-3:30pm
Virtual Panel (click to join)
Chair: Julianne Graper

Singing Mice, Human Territories, and Using Sound to Re-think Interspecies Conflict
Rachel Mundy, Rutgers University

Like Mother, Like Daughter: Harmony, Horses and Inheritance at the British Dressage Winter Championships
Jack Harrison, University of Warsaw

‘Seal Boy’ and Indigelogics of TransFormation
Jessica Bissett Perea, University of Washington

3:30-4:30pm Break

4:30-5:30pm
Poetry reading by Maria Hamilton Abegunde
Introduction by chloē Fourte

Saturday, April 27th

9:30-11:30am
Panel 3: Performances Beyond the Human
Chair: Anna C. Romero

Defiant Presences: The Inspired Ecologies of Afrolatine Saints, Divinities, and Ancestors
Solimar Otero, Indiana University Bloomington

Mubuntusic: Theory and Practice of Community-Based Sound Art Creation
James Gordon Williams, University of California Santa Cruz

Disforming Truth: Sylvia Wynter, bell hooks, and Lil’ Kim in Conversation
Judith Rodríguez, Indiana University Bloomington

On Being Human in Ethnomusicology
Julianne Graper, Indiana University Bloomington

11:30am-12:30pm
Edited Volume Planning Discussion

12:30-2pm Lunch Break

2-4pm
Panel 4: Becoming-Musicians
Chair: Robert McCormac

Totem, Memory, or Commodity: Birds, Humans, and the Aural Sphere
Juan Fernando Velásquez, Universidad de Antioquia

The Toots and Booms of Early Prairie Chicken Conservation Management and the Imagined Ecologies of Hunting
Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University

Tuning Species: Listening to Gibbon Conservation’s Sonic/Genetic Refrain
Tyler Yamin, Bucknell University

Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity
Gavin Steingo, Princeton University

4:00-4:30pm Break

4:30-5:30pm
Presentation by students of F722 Ethnomusicology Beyond the Human

5:30-7:00pm Closing Reception