Peer-reviewed
2022 “How to Integrate Global Music History in Our Teaching” (with Gabriel Solis, Andrew Dell’Antonio, Luisa Nardini, Amanda Hsieh, Kunio Hara, Jon Silpayamanant, Andres Amado, Chris Stover), sponsored by Pedagogy study group of the American Musicological Society, at joint national conference with Society for Music Theory and Society for Ethnomusicology (Nov 10-13, New Orleans, LA).
2022 “Global Philosophies of Music” (with co-chair Patrick Nickleson and participants Jessica Bissett Perea, Chris Stover, Brian Barone, Jordan Lenchitz), sponsored by Music and Philosophy study group of the Society for Music Theory, at joint national conference with American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology (Nov 10-13, New Orleans, LA). Paper: “Ji Kang versus Hanslick: On the Politics of Pure Music.”
2022 “Decolonizing East Asia in Music Research and Pedagogy” symposium (with Anna Morcom, Ying Diao, Mu Qian, Mukaddas Mijit, Lijuan Qian, Rachel Harris, Bess Liu, Stephanie Choi, Justin R. Hunter, Ji Yeon Lee, Yang Shuo, Li Huan, Jun Yi Chow, Garrett Groesbeck, He Xuan, Gui Hwan Lee, Makoto Harris Takao, Kim Heesun, Rey Chow, Amanda Hsieh, Kunio Hara, Samuel S. Chan, Noriko Manabe), jointly organized by the Global East Asian Music Research study group of the American Musicological Society, the Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries interest group of the Society for Music Theory, and the following groups of the Society for Ethnomusicology: Association for Chinese Music Research, Association for Korean Music Research, and Japanese Performing Arts, at joint national conference of the three societies (Nov 10-13, New Orleans, LA). Paper: Opening remarks.
2022 “To Queer or Not to Queer?” (with Philip Ewell, Judith Lochhead, Chris Stover, and Vivian Luong) for Queer Resource Group of the Society for Music Theory, at joint national conference with American Musicological Society and Society for Ethnomusicology (Nov 10-13, New Orleans, LA). Paper: “How Not to Talk About Mari Esabel Valverde’s Music: A Trans Indigenous Mexican Composer’s Perspective.”
2021 “Configuring Decolonial and Critical Race Theory for Disciplinary Change: Beyond Conventional Wisdoms in Ethnomusicology” (with Kyra Gaunt, Sean Williams, Jim Sykes, Juan David Rubio Restrepo), roundtable for Society for Ethnomusicology national conference (Oct 28-31, online).
2020 “Provincializing Music Theory: Epistemic Frameworks for the New Comparativism” (with Martin Scherzinger, John Roeder, Amy Bauer, and Catherine Losada), special session for Society for Music Theory at joint national conference with American Musicological Society (Nov 15-8, Minneapolis, MN). Paper: “Global Sonic Genealogy of the Pentatonic Scale.”
2020 “Global Musical Modernisms in Ethnomusicology” (with Alejandro Madrid, Chelsea Burns, Christopher Miller, James McNally, Sergio Ospina Romero), roundtable for Society for Ethnomusicology national conference (Oct 22-25, online).
2020 “Counterframing Music Theory: Minorities and Marginalities,” with co-conveners Chris Stover, Tomoko Deguchi and Anna Wang; respondents Philip Ewell and Yayoi Uno Everett; participants Nathan Lam, Stephen Lett, Priyanka Venkatesh, Dustin Chau, Clare Eng, and Lucy Liu. Joint meeting of SMT Global Interculturalism and Musical Peripheries & SMT Analysis of World Music interest groups of the Society for Music Theory, at joint national conference with American Musicological Society (Nov 7-15, online). Paper: “Posthumanist Music Theory, Or, The End of Absolute Formalism.”
2019 “Reassembling the Bird’s Eye View in Musicology,” panel for American Musicological Society national conference, with James Currie, Daniel Chua, Judith Lochhead, Martin Scherzinger, Gary Tomlinson, and Thomas Irvine (Oct 1 – Nov 3, Boston, MA).
2018 “Performing the Local: The Politics of Parody, Fusion, and Tradition in Singapore,” panel for Society for Ethnomusicology national conference, with Sarah Weiss and Leonardo Garcia Fuenzalida (12-15 Nov, Albuquerque, NM). Paper: “The Performance and Politics of Amateurism in Singaporean Song.”
2017 “Western Music and China: A Chapter in Global Music History,” alternative format session for AMS national conference, with Deng Jia, Hong Ding, Nancy Rao, and Zhu Huanqing (12-15 Nov, Rochester, NY).
2017 “Restructuring Music Historiographies,” panel for SEM national conference, with William D. Buckingham, Jonathan McCollum, and Lonán Ó Briain (26-29 Oct, Denver, Colorado). Paper: “The Professional Era: Historiography of 20th Century Music in China.”
2016 “Rethinking Research on Chinese Music: Perspectives from Within and Outside China,” roundtable for SEM national conference, sponsored by the Association for Chinese Music Research, with Mercedes Dujunco, Frederick Lau, Jonathan Stock, and Chuen-Fung Wong (10-13 Nov, DC).
2015 “Ethnomusicology and Affect Theory: Disciplinary Implications,” roundtable for SEM national conference, sponsored by Sound Studies special interest group, with Luis-Manuel Garcia, Katie Graber, Ian MacMillen, Ali Colleen Neff, and Matthew Sumera (3-6 Dec, Austin, TX).
2015 “Queering Musical Form,” special session for SMT national conference, with Marion Guck, Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Judith Lochhead, and Fred Maus (29 Oct - 1 Nov, St. Louis, MO).
2014 “Global Buddhist Syncretism: Tibet, China, Singapore, California,” panel for SEM national conference, with Jeffrey Cupchik, Yayoi Uno Everett, and Beth Szczepanski (13-16 Nov, Pittsburg, PA). Paper: “Global Cultural Transfer in Singapore.”
2014 “Queer Music Theory: Interrogating Notes of Sexuality,” joint session of alternative format for AMS/SMT national conference, with Naomi Andre, William Cheng, Amy Cimini, James Currie, Roger Mathew Grant, Nadine Hubbs, Kevin Korsyn, and Judith Peraino (6-9 Nov, Milwaukee, MI).
Respondent/panels convened
2020 Respondent for “Posthumanist Musicology and East Asia.” Part of “Mapping Music and East Asia,” American Musicological Society Global East Asian Music Research study group panel, with participants David Novak, Cody Black and Zhang Wenzhuo. Joint national conference with Society for Music Theory (Nov 7-15, online).
2018 Respondent, with Suzanne Cusick, for “Gestural Politics of Movement: New Perspectives on Music and Current Social Issues,” special joint session featuring guest speaker Mel Chen, American Musicological Society & Society for Music Theory national conference (Nov 1-4, San Antonio, TX).
2018 Respondent for “Global East Asian Music Research,” American Musicological Society evening panel at joint national conference with Society for Music Theory, with Thomas Irvine, Noriko Manabe, Hye-Jung Park, Brooke McCorkle, Jungmin Mina Lee, Sheryl Chow, Brent Ferguson, Danielle Osterman, and Yawen Ludden (1-4 Nov, San Antonio, TX).
Study group panels and symposia
2021 “Circulations and Competitions: New Perspectives on Music and Cold War East Asia,” joint panel of American Musicological Society Cold War and Music, and Global East Asian Music Research study groups, with co-chairs Marysol Quevedo and Hannah Hyun Kyong Chang, and participants David Wilson, Hee-sun Kim, and Stephen Johnson (Nov 11-12, 20-1, online).
2019 “Global East Asian Musicology,” AMS Global East Asian Music Research study group panel, with Hannah Chang, Lars Christensen, Kunio Hara, Lester Hu, Thomas Irvine, Bess Liu, Makoto Harris Takao, Helan Yang, Serena Yang (Oct 1 – Nov 3, Boston, MA).
2019 SMT Global New Music interest group business meeting panel, with Ya-Hui Cheng, Tomoko Deguchi, and Barry Wiener (November 7-10, Columbus, OH). Paper: “The Promise of Global Musical Modernism.”
2019 “Vocal Music Across Cultures,” (2 May, Soochow University, Suzhou, China), with keynote Joseph Lam and masterclass by Valentin Lanzrein. Paper: “Introduction to North American/British Research in the Early Romantic German Song Cycle.”
2018 SMT Global New Music interest group business meeting panel, with Navid Bargrizan, Miki Kaneda, Penny Brandt, Joshua Banks Mailman, Antares Boyle, Xie Zhangmin, Ji Yeon Lee, Oksana Nesterenko and Craig B. Parker. Joint meeting with American Musicological Society (November 1-4, San Antonio, TX). Paper: “Joyce Koh’s TAI,”
2017 SMT Queer Resource Group business meeting panel, SMT national conference, “Fred Everett Maus and Queer Music Theory, Retrospective and Prospective,” with Fred Maus, Jenny Olivia Johnson, and Vivian Luong (2-5 Nov, Arlington, VA).
2017 SMT Global New Music interest group business meeting panel, SMT national conference, with Amy Baur, Cheng Yahui, Tomoko Deguchi, Jungmin Lee, Anton Vishio, Barry Wiener (2-5 Nov, Arlington, VA). Paper: “John Sharpley’s Emptiness.”
2017 “Global Connections in Music and China” (Oct 14, Soochow University, Suzhou, China), with keynote by Ye Guohui, and participants Annie Liu, Daniel Wu, Lukas Park, Zhu Huanqing, and Deng Jia. Paper: “Five Questions for Global Music History, with China as a Case Study.”
2016 “Rethinking Chinese Music Research,” (21 Nov, Soochow University, Suzhou, China), with keynote by Xiao Mei, and participants Gisa Jänichen, Tian Fei, Annie Liu, and Lukas Park. Paper: “Rethinking Chinese Difference.”
2015 SMT Queer Resource Group business meeting panel, SMT national conference, with Miriam Piilonen (29 Oct - 1 Nov, St. Louis, MO).
2014 SMT Queer Resource Group business meeting panel, AMS/SMT national conference, with Christopher Culp and Danielle Sofer (6-9 Nov, Milwaukee, MI).