Each session, in addition to its title, has a unique identifier consisting of three components: a Roman numeral, a capital letter, and, in most cases, a number. The Roman numeral refers to the day of the conference (I-VII). The capital letter refers to the time period of one of four sessions held each day: A = early morning, B = late morning, C = early afternoon, and D = late afternoon. The numbers refer to one of the twelve or thirteen sessions held on the same day at the same time, so-called "parallel sessions": 1-13. If there is no number in the session identifier, then it is a plenary session. So, for example, the identifier IIC5 means that the session occurs on the second day of the conference in the early afternoon, and is numbered arbitrarily as 5 of 13 parallel sessions, whereas IIB is a plenary session on the second day in the late morning.

Each session has been identified with a two-letter code that labels which of the six conference themes it fits into:

PG = Music and New Political Geographies in the Turkic-speaking World and Beyond

How have new and emerging political and cultural alliances at the junction of a decision to merge or to choose independence used music to further their geopolitical goals and how have musicians and their audiences resisted new forms of economic and political domination and hegemony through music-making and dancing? 

CM = The Creators of Music and Dance

How do processes of inclusion and exclusion work at the intersection of the body and society? How is the body politic formed by musicking and dancing bodies? How does society use music and dance performances to heal ailing bodies and reintegrate them into society? How do people use their able or (dis)abled bodies to counter social exclusion through music and dance performance? How is the gendered body interpreted and made in music and dance performance? How do minorities, immigrants, and displaced people use their musical and dancing bodies to deal with the power of the mainstream to define their social status?

DB = Music, Dance, the Body, and Society

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SE = Sound Environments: From Natural and Urban Spaces to Personal Listening

How is ethnomusicology responding to developments in the field of sound studies? How might ethnomusicological methods and perspectives contribute to sound studies? How do individuals and communities respond to their sound environments through personal listening choices, the building of new performance venues, the creation of new songs, performance styles, and genres, and the use of new electronic media and listening devices?

VR = Visual Representation of Music Cultures

What methodological and theoretical issues are still prominent in this long-established area of study? On the other hand, how do new electronic visual media affect the transmission of musical and dance knowledge? How do they affect the social life of music and dance in particular societies? How are these new media altering our research methods? How can the visual images in these new media be adequately archived and preserved? How do these new media, and the opportunities they provide for self-expression, alter the balance of representation between researchers and research subjects? What is the relationship between representations of, and the flow of knowledge about, “traditional” and popular musics in these new media?

NR = New Research

Preliminary Conference Programme

(last update: 10 April 2015)